CSI Miami Question
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To continue the discussion on CSI:Miami, did anyone see the episode last night? It was even more unbelievable than the one last week.
A lady shooter is apparently target practicing in her back yard in Miami (improbability no. 1). She polices her bullets, not her brass (improbability no. 2). Then, during a hurricane, [only] one of the bullets sitting on a table [and nothing else including the bullet bucket or the table] outside her house gets pushed by the wind through a glass door and goes completely through her neck, killing her. Come on writers! Get real!
Besides all that, if you look up the definition of melodramatic in the dictionary, you'll find a picture of David Caruso. But that's a whole different discussion topic.
A lady shooter is apparently target practicing in her back yard in Miami (improbability no. 1). She polices her bullets, not her brass (improbability no. 2). Then, during a hurricane, [only] one of the bullets sitting on a table [and nothing else including the bullet bucket or the table] outside her house gets pushed by the wind through a glass door and goes completely through her neck, killing her. Come on writers! Get real!
Besides all that, if you look up the definition of melodramatic in the dictionary, you'll find a picture of David Caruso. But that's a whole different discussion topic.
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Have you seen her flinch when shes firing on the range and the camera is in front of her?
She looks like she is scared to death of guns.BluesBear
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Yeah but here shooting isn't as bad as the old Charlie's Angels intro.
They were on the firing line and they'd fire the blank and then jerk their hand up to indicate recoil.
I'd sure love to find one of those ½ second recoil delay gizmos.
They were on the firing line and they'd fire the blank and then jerk their hand up to indicate recoil.
I'd sure love to find one of those ½ second recoil delay gizmos.
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Mal H
I actually saw the episode .
I kept thinking they worked backwards, from the victim being shot...now lets find a plot to make it fit.
I understand we now have CSI Syndrome , juries "expect" all this stuff in court. so busy over analyzing to hear/ pay atten to the case presented.
Older shows a bit more believable, Perry Mason, Ironsides, Mikey Spillane
...didn't have the high tech, did have shoe leather. Dollar pocket watch under a tire and you knew when the BG left.
I actually saw the episode .
I kept thinking they worked backwards, from the victim being shot...now lets find a plot to make it fit.
I understand we now have CSI Syndrome , juries "expect" all this stuff in court. so busy over analyzing to hear/ pay atten to the case presented.
Older shows a bit more believable, Perry Mason, Ironsides, Mikey Spillane
...didn't have the high tech, did have shoe leather. Dollar pocket watch under a tire and you knew when the BG left.ScottsGT
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Mal H,
I know it sounds crazy, the bullet thrown by the hurricane, but I rode out Hugo 15 years ago. Those storms can do some CRAZY things. It might be a stretch on the truth, but I would not count it out. I found outdoor BILLBOARDS miles from where they were built. I saw rocks blown off of rooftops of buildings that made a car look like it was blasted with buckshot. On a funny note with Hugo, my wife worked at a hospital in downtown Charleston. The Doc's all parked their Porches, 'benzes and BMW's in the parking garage on the upper floors. With the windows rolled up tight. Barometric pressure dropped, and the windows blew out! Then to make the situation even funnier, the SCNG was called in for security. I used to tease the guard members in downtown, while dropping my wife off for work, about carrying the M-16's without magazines and still having the blank firing devices attached to the end of the barrel! They got to know me REAL quick. But they really appreciated it when I would bring them coffee.
I know it sounds crazy, the bullet thrown by the hurricane, but I rode out Hugo 15 years ago. Those storms can do some CRAZY things. It might be a stretch on the truth, but I would not count it out. I found outdoor BILLBOARDS miles from where they were built. I saw rocks blown off of rooftops of buildings that made a car look like it was blasted with buckshot. On a funny note with Hugo, my wife worked at a hospital in downtown Charleston. The Doc's all parked their Porches, 'benzes and BMW's in the parking garage on the upper floors. With the windows rolled up tight. Barometric pressure dropped, and the windows blew out! Then to make the situation even funnier, the SCNG was called in for security. I used to tease the guard members in downtown, while dropping my wife off for work, about carrying the M-16's without magazines and still having the blank firing devices attached to the end of the barrel! They got to know me REAL quick. But they really appreciated it when I would bring them coffee.
ScottsGT - You're right about hurricanes causing some real damage with small objects being thrown about. The problem with that particular episode is that only one bullet got caught by the wind; was accelerated enough in 20 to 30 feet to go through a human; and it was the only object that was thrown through the window among many other objects with a lot more surface area in her backyard! Even if the bullet was instantaneously accelerated (an impossibility) to the wind speed stated on the show (145 MPH), it would have been going roughly 212 fps. Who knows what the vel would be after crashing through the thick plate glass door.
I think re1973 got it right. The writers had the plot, but needed to dream up an explanation for it, no matter how ridiculous it was.
I think re1973 got it right. The writers had the plot, but needed to dream up an explanation for it, no matter how ridiculous it was.
I'd say that even most shooters flinch the first couple of rounds on the line, especially if they haven't shot in a while. It takes me a minute or two to quit being jumpy when I first go to the range, and I've got quite a bit of shooting under my belt and have no more than the normal respect for firearms.
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True, Mal. they shoud have tossed all the rounds at her to make it a little more realistic. Of course they would have been looking for some machinegun toting nut and not the ex husband. On a side note, I saw photos of the aftermath of a tornado that took the roof off of a house, knocked all the photos off the walls, and did not even touch the china and crystal and even the napkins on the dinner table. Nature is a strange animal!
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