Bill Lumbergh: Ahh, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in on Sunday, too...
Posted on 06/01/2003 7:06:07 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE
NEVER FORGET
...Six years ago our Hero LAPD Officers saved a North Hollywood neighborhood from further harm during a Terrorist Bank Robbery Shootout that resulted in the Deaths of the 2 heavily armed Shooters...
...after ..44 Minutes.. of nothing but combat that was as real as anything seen during the Vietnam War.
.."44 MINUTES".. airs tonight at 8pm PDT on the Special Effects Cable TV Movie Channel ..'Fx'.. dramatizing the Event.
...The same Civil Rights Attorney STEPHAN YAGMAN, who sued the U.S. Government on behalf of the Al Qaeda Prisoners at our Guantamino Base in Cuba after the Attacks on US on September 11, 2001, also sued these life-saving LAPD Officers on behalf of one of the North Hollywood Bank Shooters who died on the scene.
...Att. STEPHAN YAGMAN, who has been suspended twice from practicing Law in New York and California for his stealing from his clients, also has his own Farm in CASTRO's Communist Cuba, by his own public admission immediately following his being suspended from practicing Law for a 2nd Time, this time in California.
...I wonder if .."44 MINUTES".. will be sharing this with us on National TV..?
Signed:..ALOHA RONNIE / Vet-North Hollywood Bank Shootout Anniversary on Scene Ceremonies honoring our Lifesaving LAPD and LAFD Heroes
NEVER FORGET
FYI, FX is a Fox channel, not a Special Effects Cable TV Movie Channel
To which the gun shop owner should have replied, "Good thing for you, they can, or you'd be sh*t outta luck right about now, wouldn't you?"
And let us never forget that the Hollywood gun store to which the LAPD turned in order to get adequate weaponry was repaid its generosity by getting shut down by the Kalifornia government two years ago.
Seems that Kalifornia passed enough draconian anti-gun laws that the gun store could no longer remain solvent. The Liberals hailed the closure, of course.
Nevermind that the LAPD's butt would have been swiss cheese had it not been for the arsenal at that "oh so horrible" gun store in Hollywood...
-Jay
High Incident was terrific. Too bad ABC stuck it in the 8 o'clock time slot on Thursdays, opposite Friends. It never had a chance. And that final episode, the NoHo shootout finale, was just amazing. Infinitely better than 44 Minutes.
Also, you're getting Blair Underwood confused with Mario Van Peeples -- who starred in another great, ill-fated cop series, Michael Mann's Robbery Homicide Division (cancelled last year by CBS, but still showing in reruns on USA Network).
I would say it was damn good for the good guys there *was* a well stocked gun store near by.
Bill Lumbergh: Ahh, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask you to come in on Sunday, too...
A couple of years ago, I worked on a pilot for Fox, and had some dealings with some of their "executives". One of their favorites was a gal whose claim to fame was that she'd staged news coverage for another network. Most of the rest of the group was cut from the same mold. I kept wondering if Rupert actually knew these people were working for him. From the looks of the "slant" on "44 minutes", they're still there.
Although I watched the incident live while listening to the LAPD radio system at the same time, I didn't tape the coverage, so I have only memory to rely on. I'd be interested in your observations about the most obvious disparities you spotted.
What stood out to me was primarily the sort of time distortions that happen in the course of trying to turn a real-life event into a dramatic piece, and they involved:
1. The number of units on scene when the duo first exited was much lower than depicted.
2. The firefight at the bank, and at the end, played-out far faster than depicted, with the time between SWAT crashing the car and Emil going down being just seconds.
3. SWAT was there sooner than depicted.
4. Instead of being a whiney ditz, the RTO in question did one of the most amazing dispatching jobs in history, at times actually taking command to try to bring order to the chaos. There were actually several RTO's involved, and a number of them were recongnized for their performance
5. The B&B guns were actually were scene sooner and some were employed.
And finally: Probably the greatest distortion was inadvertent and due to the problems that come from just trying to frame an interesting shot. In the course of doing so, the distances involved were thrown off. These guys were in what would be a perfect defensive position, with clear fields of fire and a lot of open space with little or no cover. The combination of the loss of that perspective and the dimishment of intensity caused by the time-stretching involved really watered-down just how intense an experience it was. Almost all the second-guessing messages on this thread are based on the fictional depiction, and most of them would not have been posted had their authors lived through the actual experience.
What think you?
While I agree in principle, there are a few problems.
First off, the Hippocratic Oath makes no mention of the patient's status as criminal or victim.
Secondly, without a conviction (and you know how long that takes) there are no criminals there at the scene. Sure, there may be reasonable suspicion that one or more people are Bad Guys, but again without a conviction they're to be considered innocent. I'm a big fan of due process...
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