I've watched a couple more shows on Tru TV. I don't know that this can be a long term thing for me, but it's interesting at the moment. It's all going to hinge on how long my appetite for chases, crashes, and stupidity holds out. I might get filled up soon or maybe it'll take a few weeks.
They have all these old videos of perps trying to outrun the police. It's insane. You'd think they'd know it's all in vain, that they're going to have even more problems when they eventually get pulled over. Come on, the helicopters are very tenacious. And cops can radio ahead -- they're doing it already -- and they're waiting for you just ahead with spike strips.
On today's episode -- the name escapes me, but it was one of the Most Stupid - Most Daring - Most Outrageous chase shows -- a guy who had murdered his wife was making a run for the Mexico border. The way they were describing it, it sounded like he'd not be charged if he could just make it to Mexico. I've heard of people running for Mexico before but I didn't really think you got off scot free by hitting the Mexican border. As it turned out he didn't make it. They had a helicopter harrassing him from just above the road median, then they put out the spike strips and punctured his front driver's side tire.
Other chases included a guy on a motorcycle going 130 mph through traffic in Los Angeles, actually eluding the police pretty well, except for the helicopter in the sky. That allowed them to keep up with him until it seems he ran out of gas. Then he ran a ways but very soon gave up. There was a kid driving a car who kept slamming into stop signs, road signs, mailboxes, on purpose. They finally got him too when he went into a yard and crashed into something. He left the stop sign wiggling back and forth.
The "Dumbest" show I saw part of last night had some great video of people doing things that really hurt, like windsurfing and the guy flips out of the water on to the rocks then back into the water. Or guys on a couch and skies going down the hill and wiping out. Not just wiping out but flipping end over end till they smacked a berm, then the couch smacked them. The problem with this show is they have a few C list celebrities -- like Tonya Harding and I can't remember who all -- making "funny" observations about how idiotic the people in the videos are. The show would be vastly improved without the observations. So I don't expect I'll be watching many of their "Dumbest" shows. I do like Danny Bonaduce, though. I'm happy he's made a name for himself these days, carved out a show biz niche, and seems to be doing OK. Way to go!
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Operacion Repo
I said in one of my articles that I've been turning over to the Tru channel once in a while. Because of all the crap on TV, this channel seems to have some of the most interesting. If you like the idea of seeing people at their worst, being blown up, being pulled over, doing insane things. It's great, but I'd rather they didn't blur it out anyone someone is fingering someone. You know, the human finger is not something that needs to be blurred out. It's not going to kill us to see it. Walk around town, you see fingers everywhere. Anyway....
I'm not such a constant viewer that I know all their shows, and certainly not when they're on. They seem to be always on, like if this show is on now, it'll be on for the next three or four hours. But that's longer than I watch. One show I discovered last night is called "Operacion Repo." I hope I spelled that right; I think it's a Spanish word. On this show, maybe like it sounds, they're busy repossessing cars and trucks that people have fallen behind making payments on. I only saw close to an hour but it was very interesting.
This would be an interesting job. Of course it could be dangerous, because some of the people out there with cars needing repo'ed are hotheads, nuts. Would I like to do it? Let me say both yes and no on that! I think it'd be cool to go along and maybe scout them out. But to have to confront these hotheads, that might get dicey. The skulking around would be fun, probably till you met someone with a gun who wanted to keep their car.
The episodes had such things as this. A lady with a car to be repo'ed was in a pizza restaurant. They went in and told her they needed to repo her car, so give us the keys. Naturally she's up in arms over it, very upset. I don't know. Are you just supposed to hand your keys to anyone who shows up saying hand me your keys? So it seems like she would have a right to object. Things got more than a little out of hand. The owner of the pizza place just wanted them all gone.
A couple other scenes: They tricked a gardener into telling where his employer's car was hidden. The guy seemed kind of dumb, because they pretended they were talking to the employer on the phone and the employer "told" them it'd be OK. So this idiot falls for that, instead of saying "I need to talk to her myself." One other: A lady had a big estate, gated, locked. And this employee from the repo place climbs over the wall, which seemed OK to me, but it turned out that was against the law. So he was arrested, then the repo owner had to bail him out. Very entertaining.
I'm not such a constant viewer that I know all their shows, and certainly not when they're on. They seem to be always on, like if this show is on now, it'll be on for the next three or four hours. But that's longer than I watch. One show I discovered last night is called "Operacion Repo." I hope I spelled that right; I think it's a Spanish word. On this show, maybe like it sounds, they're busy repossessing cars and trucks that people have fallen behind making payments on. I only saw close to an hour but it was very interesting.
This would be an interesting job. Of course it could be dangerous, because some of the people out there with cars needing repo'ed are hotheads, nuts. Would I like to do it? Let me say both yes and no on that! I think it'd be cool to go along and maybe scout them out. But to have to confront these hotheads, that might get dicey. The skulking around would be fun, probably till you met someone with a gun who wanted to keep their car.
The episodes had such things as this. A lady with a car to be repo'ed was in a pizza restaurant. They went in and told her they needed to repo her car, so give us the keys. Naturally she's up in arms over it, very upset. I don't know. Are you just supposed to hand your keys to anyone who shows up saying hand me your keys? So it seems like she would have a right to object. Things got more than a little out of hand. The owner of the pizza place just wanted them all gone.
A couple other scenes: They tricked a gardener into telling where his employer's car was hidden. The guy seemed kind of dumb, because they pretended they were talking to the employer on the phone and the employer "told" them it'd be OK. So this idiot falls for that, instead of saying "I need to talk to her myself." One other: A lady had a big estate, gated, locked. And this employee from the repo place climbs over the wall, which seemed OK to me, but it turned out that was against the law. So he was arrested, then the repo owner had to bail him out. Very entertaining.
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