CSI: Almost dropped her off the couch

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My girlfriend was watching CSI the other night and she almost fell off the couch from laughing. A Jerico 941 (baby eagle) was used in a crime and the gun lab determined that "These are so rare that only someone in the Isreali police force or Mossad would have one", and thus solved the case. She laughed because she has one and as far as I know:what: has no affiliation with Mossad.
 
My wife won't let me stay in the room when CSI comes on.
I try hard to be quiet, but...... :barf:
Denis
 
Another case a while back was "solved" by the bullet from one of only two .45ACP HK USP in Nevada led to the suspect -- a cop!

Hard to believe, but its fiction for your entertainment, not an encyclopedia to fill you up with facts.

--wally.
 
But when the gun is carried by Academy Sports you would think that they would not be considered "rare". Now that I think about it I have only seen the polymer subcompacts there and she has a full size steel frame, maybe she is Mossad.
 
I haven't forgiven CSI Miami since I saw:

One episode had a guy use a Krinkov to basically clear a room of competitors. They found cases and commented that those were "Special" Steel-cased rounds so it must be a professional....

Does that mean I get to now call myself an "Operator?" I got some Wolf.


In another, a girl was shot with a .308 bolt action from a hotel balcony. From the bullet, it was determined that it was a .308-- a "Sniper" round.

So now I find that I am a Professional Operator AND a sniper. Whitetail Deer should fear me.


-- John
 
Hi Yes,

You have to remember that programs like CSI only need to convince city people they know what they are talking about. I stopped watching long ago due to 'explanations' of certain lab operations. Same with L&O, my favorite hobby now is to calculate how many laws 'Walker Texas Ranger' breaks in any one episode.

Selena
 
I'll go you one better. We were shopping for security cameras for work, and the salesman told me that his sales dropped to 50% due to the fact that his systems won't do what you can do with the video surveillance systems you see on CSI, and potential customers were looking for something that you could blow up 500% and eliminate pixilations. Worst part is, they would not believe him when he explained the magic of Hollywood!
 
Since when does a television show, designed for entertaining the masses, supposed to be technically correct about everything?

This isnot directed at the first poster, but the rest of you. Calm down and enjoy the show.
 
Ok, here is my deal. My mother teaches forensic medicine AKA "CSI stuff". There have been some juries that won't convict obvious thugs because there isn't CSI type evidence presented. Along the lines of "well they said he shot him and have grainy surveillance footage, but they don't have a cool exact match to his gun by doing that thing I saw on CSI". Real CSIs can't afford half of the stuff on the show.
 
Its not just TV and movies, either.

I just finished up The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum (the only time I can say that the movies were better than the books) and throughout the entire trilogy there are suppressed revolvers EVERYWHERE! It was maddening. Usually I can ignore the largely irrelevant technical mistakes and just keep going with the story, but 1) the story was terrible and 2) I was almost completely sure that every suppressed weapon in the book had been a revolver. Finally, right near the end of the final book, Ludlum pulls out this gem: a nifty secret spy gun that the KGB had, the "Graz Burya, unique in that it is the only automatic known that can accept a silencer"
 
The best one for me is where Cali (sp?) IDed the gun by the sound of drawing
the hammer back. It was one of those rare GP100.

My field of study is Biotech so I have to call BS a lot. I've done the genetic
match test with far more biological material than they sometimes use and
still failed to make a match at times. Granted it was not a 7 figure lab but
there is no such thing as a hour turn around time.
 
TV show are most of the time wrong in there gun facts that why I stopped watching CSI and many others. but at lest we have one show that is a 100% true walker taxes ranger I not care what you say its true Chuck Norris can do that because he is chuck Norris and the laws of physics do not apply

(But I would check you phone bill for any numbers to Israel:scrutiny: :D )
 
Well I watch CSI, CSI Miami, and CSI New Yark, just for the entertainment. I know it's hollywierd and none of it's true. I do get a kick out of some of the "camera" crap. you just can't do that for the most part. Some of the more expensive software programs WILL clear up an image but nothing like you see on the shows.

I found the one show really funny when this crook killed 2 people and then "altered" the barrel (a hardened piece of steel) with a stupid screwdriver. Yea Right.
 
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