To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (724261 ) 7/3/2013 4:59:20 PM From: Bilow Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574767 Hi J_F_Shepard; Re: "How is it that Zim's blood remained on his face and the back of his head, but didn't remain on Martin's hand's??? " (1) When you hit someone, the blood comes *after* you hit them, not at the moment of the strike. I know this from careful observation. By the way, it also applies to knife cuts. A knife blade only gets a lot of blood on it when you leave it in the wound. When you first make a cut, the wound is almost bloodless. And for the case of a fist causing a nose bleed, there's no blood at all on the fist. The blood comes from inside the nostrils, not the surface, and doesn't appear until you stand up. Thus blood could have been formed on Zimmerman's face when he stood up, but not on Trayvon's fists when Zimmerman was lying down. (2) The classic place they look for blood on hands is under the fingernails. If blood doesn't get under the fingernails, you don't find it. (3) Even if small amounts of Zimmerman's blood did end up on Martin's hands, his hands and Zimmerman's face did not experience the same conditions. -- Carl P.S. I've always been disappointed by Hollywood depictions of death and bleeding and I suspect that their errors give people incorrect understanding of what really happens when you cut someone up. Their "dead bodies" look like people sleeping and their bleeding is almost never even close to realistic. It's like they candy-coat the violence that they sell to the public. An example is the big splashes of blood that come off when people's arms are cut off in the movie on the Spartans, "300". Life isn't like that. Blood does not splash when you cut someone's arm off like you just broke a balloon. Blood gets pumped out *after* the arm is cut off. You can see the heartbeat in the pattern of how far the blood goes. If you have no experience seeing real bleeding, watch this is a good video: US Military test of clotting agent:youtube.com