Rare Gun? or Why CSI is Stupid

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I normally don't watch CSI unless there's just nothing else on. Last night that was the case so I tuned into CSI Miami.

At one point the blonde was trying to identify a gun by it's sound when cocked (yeah - right - maybe - not likely). Anyway she did ID a revolver. The guy doing the cocking showed her the weapon and told her it was a Ruger GP-100.

She immediately stated that the GP-100 was a rare gun.

***! Just one more inaninity to come out of that show and why I don't watch it. Things like dark labs, DNA and fingerprint matches that come back in 15 minutes and many other BS things the show does just irritate me to no end.

Any other gun related rediculousness concerning CSI you can think of...
 
The episode in the first season(I think),where it was a cheap 22 revolver that "double fired" because the cylinder had so much endplay it allowed it to float enough to allow one of the rounds not in line with the chamber to fire.

Supposedly it had misfired and when it was rotated to fire the next round,it went off at the same time.

I thought this was incredibly stupid.Why not call a hang fire since this is Miami and the humidty could cause this if the bullet got cocked a little in the case at some point(The gun was stored in a car console also).

I just calked it up to typical Hollywood liberal "all guns are bad,but we really need to get rid of Saterday Night Specials".I was expecting to see another SNS law brought up soon thereafter.
 
I saw it, noticed that, and noted the stupidity to my wife.

Later we were watching a show on the Discovery science channel about a genetic issue. they were running DNA on several people and said that the results took weeks or months. I said to my wife that they should send the samples to CSI: Miami. They get DNA results while the suspect waits in the fancy interrogation room. :neener:
 
When this episode first aired in May there was a thread about the rare Ruger GP-100. All I can say is that I own a Ruger GP-100. I plan on selling it in a couple of years when the market is peaking. Figure I'll be able to send the kids to college. :)
 
Ah, the *MAGIC* of Hollowood...

My current fave is on the show "Numbers," when an FBI agent holds up a handful of 9mm shell casings from a crime scene, casts a knowing look at his coworker, and proclaims, "These are from a Steyr...that's a pretty rare gun. I'll bet it's our guys!" To which his partner replies, "Yep, gotta be!!"

The weapon in question was a Steyr TMP...which IS a lesser-known weapon. But I don't find anything unusual in reading about its cycling or ejection mechanics, and for the life of me, I can't imagine how they pulled ballistics matching evidence so fast, in the street, from a CASING!!

:scrutiny:

The odd thing is, colleges are reporting a dramatic upsurge in people's interest in forensics and chemical analysis majors. No one seems to realize that for every interesting case, you deal with about a hundred 'Identify this horrifying specimen of bodily fluid/waste" samples. I have a friend doing forensics for Dallas County, and she has only a very few interesting tales to relate about her work. Heck, I seem to find more interesting things in my inmates' cells!!
 
Hey...

The only reason I watch the show is because of the blond :evil: She can say anything she wants :D
 
I saw an episode of CSI once, where they had found the body of a man who had died in his appartment, with no obvious cause of death. They eventually worked out that:

* The man was a murderer.
* He had shot and killed another person in his (the murderer's) appartment.
* The bullet had passed through the victim, entered a partition wall, and lodged in a water pipe.
* Over time, the leaking water + the bloody bullet had lead to some sort of mould growing inside the partition wall.
* This mould produced spores, which entered the murderer's lungs.
* Because the murderer was taking steroids, his immune system was suppressed, and could not prevent a fungal infection taking root in his lungs.
* This infection eventually killed him.
 
I find it remarkable that so many people who "never watch" this stupid show are able to give details about so many different episodes. Now there is a scientific marvel!

pax

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. -- Groucho Marx
 
I think one of the dumbest ones I have watched, well other than the super uzi or mac 10 (I can't remember which one it was) boat drive by shooting at a party where the 9mm rounds had the same penetration capabilities of 120mm cannon.

Anyways on the other side of the coin there was one where 2 guys are poaching pumas guy sets rifle against chair dog discharges rifle into guys neck at point blank range... .308 bullet is lodged in mans neck.

So according to CSI 9mm fired at range of say 50 yards is far better at penetrateing than .308 fired at point blank range to the neck no less.
 
I want to know why the CSI characters never turn on the lights at an indoor crime scene. WTH? If you are in a house/building, turn on the flappin lights. Or do you like wandering around in the dark, passing by evidence your cool little flashlight never settles on?

Got to love Hollyweird :banghead:
 
I saw an episode of a show, I think it was crossing jordan, where after pulling a bullet out of a body they guy says "this is from a 1911" to which the woman looking over his shoulder replies "thats a gun used exclusively by federal agents" :banghead:
 
All that nonsense with the Ruger is one of those things that make it hard to watch Hollywood's garbage. Sometimes the producers and the studios care about trying to get it right so we get a movie like HEAT where the guns are handled well. However, most of the time they care more about the ambiance of mood lighting than the real life details. When that occurs, we get what we got from CSI: MIAMI.

Don’t forget the guy who is giving you CSI is the guy who gave you such other believable entertainment like the TV show COLD CASE. Of course, a smart mouthed Barbie doll detective can routinely solve cases, that have baffled her male colleagues for years, in 7 days or less. And CON AIR was an accurate depiction of how the U.S. Marshals handle prisoner transfers. You have to suspend disbelief (turn off your brain) to watch most of the stuff that is coming out of Hollywood.

One of my friends who was a career military officer used to love watching JAG. On that show the commanding officer was a SEAL (because "action guys" really aspire to become Former Action Guys), the lead male character was a fighter pilot (who had a vision problem that kept him in the Law until the script demanded he fly) and his partner was the youngest (and hottest looking) female Marine Lt. Col. I have ever seen. -In the words of my friend "It was the best comedy on TV."
 
I admit watching it with the wife. I swallowed my tongue every time they pulled some kind of hollywood gun "magic" like the above mentioned Ruger GP-100. Or the only handguns with polygonal rifling are Glocks or HK USP.........The meat bullet episode really made me stop watching it.

Guy is shot, no bullet recovered. Turns out the killer used a meat bullet made out of ground beef. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

That was enough for me.
 
Hey...

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The only reason I watch the show is because of the blond She can say anything she wants


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Ground beef? Wow.
Though I still believe ice bullets are still a bit possible...maybe not huge bullets with high power loads over hundreds of yards.
But a light power 9mm, or smaller...and made with COMPACTED SNOW. Which I remember reading was a lot stronger than frozen water.

But ground beef?

"Yes, we have the blood report on the victim. Male Caucasion, blood type A, part cow."
 
I saw an episode where they found out where a stray bullet came from because it penertrated only 6" whenits suppose to penertrate 12"

it also hit at a straight angle....hows that happen if it fell? of they figured out the lady fell against a table and was laying flat when the bullet penertated her.

oh and to find out how far away the bullet was? test the 9mm catridge at full power into ballastic gel, then 1/2 power than 30% 20% etc. i think they had a 30g bullet or something like that.

and then they figured out how far that bullet could go and made a circle on a map of all the houses that it could of come from.... :rolleyes:

the show sucks in the reality department...the chick is attractive though.

Chad
 
The series is full of people who just have to say simething even if it's something stupid, they must know some of my relatatives. :D
 
"The Dukes of Hazzard" was the top rated show in america for how many years? Nobody watched that either.
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Hey I watched that when I was a kid. But I only watched it because of Daisy Duke. :evil:
 
I like it.

It's very entertaining. It's not supposed to be 'real'...it's a TV show.

Have you ever been to a real crime lab? I have. There were no cute crime lab hotties running around...just supervisors and bored, homely, overweight people slowly going about their jobs.
 
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