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DC Police SUV Hits Bumblebee at 'Transformer 3' Filming in DC
MyFoxDC.com ^
| October 12, 2010
| Fox 5 News
Posted on 10/13/2010 12:38:31 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
A D.C. Police SUV was involved in a wreck at the filming of "Transformers 3" in Washington D.C.
While the movie was filming a car chase scene on 3rd Street and Maryland Ave in southwest D.C., the police SUV collides with a yellow Chevy Camaro, which in the movie series is known as the character Bumblebee.
The police SUV was not supposed to be there and the wreck itself was not scripted.
The police officer driving the SUV is a 25-year veteran senior explosive ordnance technician. He was taken to a local hospital and sustained minor injuries.
Law enforcement sources tell FOX 5 that he was driving to a call for a suspicious package incident nearby and was using a different radio channel than the police officers who were securing the perimeter for the movie.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdc.com ...
TOPICS: Local News; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bumblebee; cop; dc; donutwatch; transformers
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The police officer driving the SUV is probably fortunate that Optimus Prime did not show up at the scene of the accident and retaliate for hitting Bumblebee.
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
I wonder if they might use that in the film, lol.
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posted on
10/13/2010 12:40:54 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Those darn rampaging SUV’s. First it’s moose and now this.
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posted on
10/13/2010 12:43:24 PM PDT
by
ReneeLynn
(Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Did the SUV have the inscription “To punish and enslave” ?
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posted on
10/13/2010 12:44:03 PM PDT
by
ak267
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Rules don't apply to cops.
They can go anywhere they want, anytime they want.
You got a problem with that?
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posted on
10/13/2010 12:55:02 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Good thing it did not happened during "Ghostbusters II" filming
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posted on
10/13/2010 12:56:27 PM PDT
by
greatdefender
(If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Its a public street. The movie car ran into the side of the cop who was on his way to a call.
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:11:13 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: cripplecreek
Its a public street. The movie car ran into the side of the cop who was on his way to a call. RTFA. The street was closed.
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:14:46 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Movie making is a legitimate reason for closing a public street?
Sounds like the clowns in Oakland Michigan who decided they had the right to declare the street a gun free zone during their street fair.
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:18:06 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: cripplecreek
Movie making is a legitimate reason for closing a public street? According to the police it is. They're the ones who were "guarding the perimeter" that the SUV-driving cop ignored.
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:22:53 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Rules don't apply to cops.
They can go anywhere they want, anytime they want.
You got a problem with that?
As long as it's outside of private property, then NO there should be no problem whatsoever. If an officer has got to get to a hot call then let that officer get there any way he possibly needs too......as long as it doesn't involve someone's private property (house, garage, closed business, etc).
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:25:14 PM PDT
by
brent13a
(You're a Great American! NO you're a Great American! NO NO NO YOU'RE a Great American! Nooo.....WTF?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
So that cop WAS acting stupidly
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:26:07 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sounds like the ones who screwed up were the guys who were supposed to be guarding the perimiter. If it was a lefitimate emergency, shooting should have stopped. I would assume everyone driving had radios.
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:27:30 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Aye carumba! Mi hermano!
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:28:32 PM PDT
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Islam is a violent and tyrannical political ideology and has nothing to do with "religion".)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Bummer.
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:29:19 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media. There are Wars and Rumors of War.)
To: cripplecreek
I would assume everyone driving had radios. He was on the wrong frequency, Kenneth.
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:36:52 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:38:17 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: al baby
I saw the clip. Why were the drivers of the bumblebee so anxious to cover it up? So that people wouldn’t know the car disintigrates like crystal when it’s in an accident?
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:45:48 PM PDT
by
LouAvul
To: LouAvul
I thought that was kinda funny too
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posted on
10/13/2010 1:48:39 PM PDT
by
al baby
(Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
What is the carbon footprint of a movie production?
Why are good liberal film makers using SUVs in a movie in the first place? Tsk, tsk, they should be ashamed of themselves.
And what about that carbon footprint? Why are they filming chase scenes, using gas and other resources? Can’t they do it the carbon friendly way, with computer graphics?
And what’s with the violent movies also? Good liberals believe in peace and love and celebrations of diversity, not violence. Even staged make believe violence is verboten to the liberals.
Why don’t we hear more from liberals in the entertainment business about the high carbon, high violence, stereotyping of women in movies, etc.???????
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