CSI Miami- Flawed?

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Enlisting in the Army ruined most action movies/shows for me.
Becoming a LEO afterwords ruined most cops shows.
My wife works in the medical field so hospital shows are out. . . .

Now all that's left is the History Channel and Food Network. :eek:
 
I understand that hollywood screws up alot of the time when it comes to dealing with firearms. I even understand that alot of their screwups paint us in a negative light. But is it really reasonable to expect them to know everything about every subject they film? How many movies do we see about cops getting into shootouts every day on the job? Most cops go their entire careers without ever getting involved in a line of duty shooting. Also, anybody who has seen action in a time of war will tell you that hollywood doesn't even come close to the real thing.
 
"Enlisting in the Army ruined most action movies/shows for me.
Becoming a LEO afterwords ruined most cops shows.
My wife works in the medical field so hospital shows are out. . . .

Now all that's left is the History Channel and Food Network.:eek: "

I dispatched police, fire, and ems for 28 years, wife's a nurse, and my dad
retired from the Army a CWO4. I really screwed myself for enjoying any halfways serious entertainment.
I watch too much History Channel, Discovery Channel, Military Channel, and so on, and the wife (in my opinion) watches too much Food Network and HGTV. Some days, if I see Alton Brown or another Flip This House.....:banghead:
 
I've only seen a few CSI Miami's. Its ok entertainment. I've seen many more of the original Las Vegas ones. In my area (san antonio texas) between the 3 of them, it seems like reruns of one or the other is on every evening 7 days a week.

After a hard day of accounting, its not bad to come home, flop in my chair, and watch an old original CSI.

don't watch much TV. Last great show to me was seinfeld. I'm just waiting for NBA season to start up.... go spurs go !!

edit: these days, I prefer the animated stuff.... Family Guy, Futurama...
 
After I said I actually enjoyed the show, I'm really starting to see how lame the lines are in the program now, especially Carusso's. So over dramatic at stating the obvious.

NCIS and The Unit both are much better than the CSI stuff to me.
 
The best mistake I caught was on CSI:NY where a technician recovered a bullet from a crime scene and says, "Man, this guy got shot with a 41 millimeter."
I had to rewind to make sure I heard it right. Can you imagine? A bullet 1.6 inches big tearing through you? Ouch.
 
Would it really be that hard for the program producers to hire someone who knows firearms to test their scripts for authenticity?
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what is sad is that they probally do hire someone who "knows" ;)
 
I just want to add my voice to the chorus of those who worry about the inaccurate gun data on TV.

Most folks who watch TV don't know the difference. This is how all the anti-gun information gets acceptance in public forums. All the BS stories about "Black Talon" bullets, "cop killer bullets", this stuff is presented on TV and then is accepted as fact by the public. The anti-gun groups then start their campains against "assualt weapons", "cop killer bullets", "black Talon" bullets, etc and the public says; yea, I saw that on TV thats right we don't need anymore assualt weapons!

The violent TV shows that we all have grown to love are turning the uninformed against gun owners. They see this stuff on TV and think it is happening all the time on the streets and then they vote. This is one reason we are seeing so many nutty, BS laws being passed all over the country.

I do think some of this is liberal Hollywood working to "educate" TV land that guns are not good for America.
 
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The best mistake I caught was on CSI:NY where a technician recovered a bullet from a crime scene and says, "Man, this guy got shot with a 41 millimeter."
I had to rewind to make sure I heard it right. Can you imagine? A bullet 1.6 inches big tearing through you? Ouch.
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I remember seeing that episode. When I heard that, I turned to my wife and pointed out that the victim in question must have been killed with a punt gun....

And the "terror" of the Cornershot units being in Miami... :banghead: Apparently Glocks become hyperaccurate high-powered magnum sniper rifles when placed in a plastic frame with a camera attached.... :rolleyes:

Caruso's acting has killed more productions than a Hummer full of Mala Noches...

CSI: Miami is the TJ Hooker of the 21st Century....
 
I saw a documentary from a trial lawyer that said the "CSI effect" is now a common term in the practice. It means where the jury has watched so much CSI shows that they expect prosecutors to come out with perpetrator's DNA extracted from the gut of a squirrel that incidentally passed a pickup truck that was parked near the crime scene 3 months prior to the killing. Or a picture of the perpetrator's face caught from an ATM camera 3 miles away that was put through some magical computers to produce clarity unmatched by spy satellites. Then when most of the trial is based on witnesses and testimony ,as most trials are, they refuse to convict due to lacking evidence :scrutiny:.
 
Its that patriarchal leftard attitude where they're telling you what to do because they know whats good for you. That tire thing is a great analogy for another inanimate object we have experience with.
 
Its that patriarchal leftard attitude where they're telling you what to do because they know whats good for you. That tire thing is a great analogy for another inanimate object we have experience with.
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As opposed to that patriarchal rightard attitude where they're telling you what to do because they know what's good for you. That War on Drugs thing is a great analogy for other inanimate objects with which we have experience.
 
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That War on Drugs thing is a great analogy for other inanimate objects with which we have experience.
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Not a fair comparison. One is a controled substance and is illegal to posses. Street tires are fully legal to own.
 
The only difference between the two statist parties is which inanimate objects they want to keep from you. How difficult do you really think it would be for them to designate these tires as not street-legal?
 
CSI MIami is reminding me more and more of the old Miami Vice show from years ago. It's getting old.

24 and Jack Bauer has got me spoiled.
 
First off, it is only a TV show.
It is not meant to be accurate. It is for entertainment purposes only. On one episode, they also said that a Ruger GP100 is a rare gun.:what: And the blond girl(I think her character name is Callie). Could tell the Ruger from all of the other revolvers by listening to the sound of the cylinder as it turned. (I call BS on that too.) :scrutiny:
But as I stated, movies and TV aren't meant to be accurate. They are meant to be entertaining.:cool:
They would probably go broke if they hired experts on every subject that they cover.:uhoh:
 
I think the best part of all of the CSI shows is how the scene is assumed to be sterile before the crime was committed. If they find a hair on the floor of a motel room it is obviously the perp's. (Couldn't possibly be from any of the 1000 or so prior occupants of the room.) Same with any piece of paper laying on the ground near a crime scene or fingerprints in an elevator. Custodial services in LV, NY, and Miami must be a heck of a lot better than what I typically see.
 
I spent a pleasant evening ridiculing CSI: Miami last night. It was a re-run, but the gist was that one CSI was at a bank for a Scenario 217A (masked crooks with Tec-9's come in and begin shooting people and things). The CSI draws his weapon and kills one crook, and the rest retreat.

In the ensuing investigation, the CSI -- a police officer who shot a criminal during a shootout -- is not only standing around jawing with his buds, but is participating in the investigation of the crime scene.

Now, I don't know much about police procedure, but it occurs to me that in an officer-involved shooting, he would likely be back at HQ being interviewed by IA and counselors and what have you, and for damn sure not be participating in the investigation of a crime scene in which he was one of the individuals involved.
 
Even the Military Channel sometimes gets it wrong. I once heard that the F86 Sabre was armed with three 50MM guns. The real armament was generally six 50CAL guns.
 
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