Justifiable legal murder?
richard
In the hollywood version of NCIS, Jethro Gibbs and company are out chasing
down the kidnapper of an agent's "daughter".
The perp is after some highly restricted computer program owned by the
pentagon.
In the final scenes, Jethro is seen chasing after the perp who now also the
agent as a hostage. During the footchase his eye is cut from a broken
glass. Perp is chased onto a city bus.
Being barely able to focus, he determines he has no clear shot at the perp.
His choice? He shoots the hostage 3 times and kills her.
In my personal opinion, this is cold blooded murder. They're on a bus in a
confined space. Where is the perp gonna go? Why not wait it out?
In real life, the DA should hang this guy's ass royally. Hollywood makes it
look like NCIS agents are above the law. When ever they are questioned and
interogated like criminals, they are always exonherated in some way.
Deadrat
news:x3el9pz3r4s$.1j1rt3jp...@40tude.net:
I'm only gonna say this once: it's a TV show.
You gotta get out more.
richard
No really?
> You gotta get out more.
yah yah.
richard
> On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:10:48 -0600, Deadrat <a...@b.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm only gonna say this once: it's a TV show.
>
> No, it's richard. Unfortunately, you'll have to end up saying it a
> million times before it ever anywhere near sinks in/
>
>>You gotta get out more.
>
> Indeed. Sitting in a motel all day watching TV. Wow.
>
You should talk. You sit at a desk all day at work doing what?
Mouthing off on usenet. You go home and do it more.
> Over in another group he frequents (unfortunately), he mentions how he
> watches episodes of Mythbusters, and "these clowns claim to be
> stuntmen" - he's said this over and over and over, and every time, a
> dozen people have told him that nowhere do the Mythbusters ever claim
> to be stuntmen.
>
> He doesn't get it.
I call them clowns because they can't figure out the simplest hollywood
special effects. Yet they claim to "have years of experience".
Like how does a bus jump a fifty foot gap on a bridge under construction?
Even though there is a video available of the actual stunt filmed by the
actual driver, they have to go through all kinds of crap to duplicate it
and get nearly the same real results. Then claim it can't be done for real.
No shit sherlock.
The one idiot can't figure out how come his "rocket" car exploded like a
bomb. Well duh, when you make a bomb, that's what you get, idiot.
Kent Wills
>Just wondering what the real life law would say to this scenario.
>In the hollywood version of NCIS, Jethro Gibbs and company are out chasing
>down the kidnapper of an agent's "daughter".
>The perp is after some highly restricted computer program owned by the
>pentagon.
>
>In the final scenes, Jethro is seen chasing after the perp who now also the
>agent as a hostage. During the footchase his eye is cut from a broken
>glass. Perp is chased onto a city bus.
>
>Being barely able to focus, he determines he has no clear shot at the perp.
>His choice? He shoots the hostage 3 times and kills her.
>
>In my personal opinion, this is cold blooded murder. They're on a bus in a
>confined space. Where is the perp gonna go? Why not wait it out?
>
>In real life, the DA should hang this guy's ass royally. Hollywood makes it
>look like NCIS agents are above the law.
It's FICTION, Richard.
>When ever they are questioned and
>interogated like criminals, they are always exonherated in some way.
I've tried to explain to you that what you see on TV isn't
reality. Actual laws and such can be, and often are, suspended on such
shows for the sake of entertainment.
If NCIS were real life (I know there are departments like NCIS)
the shooting would be investigated. If the shooting was good, then
life would go on. If not, the officer would face the same
consequences as anyone else.
--
"Sometimes I think the Time Lord live too long."
-- The Doctor in 'The End of Time' Part two