Murder charge after cyclists death

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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,416
    Greg66 wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    What about vehicular manslaughter? This, again, may be straight from an episode of CSI. I do like that show...

    Stop it. Stop it now.

    Bloody CSI, mutter mutter, miranda rights, mutter mutter...

    Doesn't it ever strike you as ever so slightly implausible that they can resolve a blurry reflection that isn't really in the original photograph so well they end up with something that wouldn't look out of place in a professional studio photographer's portfolio?

    Or that they have a magic spray that identifies blood/semen/tissue fluid? Or that they do all their work to a loud musical backing track? Or that the entire state of Florida has the colour turned up to 11? Or that David Caruso has three acting faces (puzzled, concerned, victorious) and the only way to tell them apart is to work out what direction he's looking in and what he's doing with his sunglasses?

    etc.

    And breathe...

    Don't forget that there are absolutely no ugly people in Miami according to CSI. Also, I swear some episodes are colour co-ordinated, with everyone wearing, say, something orange.
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Continuing the slightly off-topic CSI topic, they were talking yesterday on BBC Radio 4 about the reduction in death sentences being passed in the USA, and in particular in Texas. Part of the reason for this, it seems, is that programmes such as CSI had led to a higher expectation (and understanding) of forensic evidence from jurors.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Greg66 wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    What about vehicular manslaughter? This, again, may be straight from an episode of CSI. I do like that show...

    Stop it. Stop it now.

    Bloody CSI, mutter mutter, miranda rights, mutter mutter...

    Doesn't it ever strike you as ever so slightly implausible that they can resolve a blurry reflection that isn't really in the original photograph so well they end up with something that wouldn't look out of place in a professional studio photographer's portfolio?

    Or that they have a magic spray that identifies blood/semen/tissue fluid? Or that they do all their work to a loud musical backing track? Or that the entire state of Florida has the colour turned up to 11? Or that David Caruso has three acting faces (puzzled, concerned, victorious) and the only way to tell them apart is to work out what direction he's looking in and what he's doing with his sunglasses?

    etc.

    And breathe...

    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    Now, now... I have to say I've actually stopped watching the Miami one as it's simply too outlandish and annoys me for the reasons above and more. For example, is David Caruso, ostensibly the head of a laboratory, really the only policeman in all of Miami (Dade)? He seems to have to do EVERYTHING. Like, they need a guy to bazooka someone in a helicopter. Who you gonna call? David Caruso!

    I do like the Vegas one (CSI:CSI) and CSI:NY though. Yes, it's unrealistic. No, you can't enhance a photo like that, of course not. There are many other things too - e.g. why are scientists interviewing suspects? It's also odd how someone in the main cast of characters has exactly the specialist knowledge of classical music/greek mythology/ancient runes required to solve a case... Every case.

    But hey, I don't mind, suspension of disbelief, innit. I only watch that and House and documentaries about very deep bits of the sea. And House is arguably just as bad, if for different reasons.
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  • Big Wib
    Big Wib Posts: 363
    lost_in_thought wrote:

    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    Now, now... I have to say I've actually stopped watching the Miami one as it's simply too outlandish and annoys me for the reasons above and more. For example, is David Caruso, ostensibly the head of a laboratory, really the only policeman in all of Miami (Dade)? He seems to have to do EVERYTHING. Like, they need a guy to bazooka someone in a helicopter. Who you gonna call? David Caruso!

    I do like the Vegas one (CSI:CSI) and CSI:NY though. Yes, it's unrealistic. No, you can't enhance a photo like that, of course not. There are many other things too - e.g. why are scientists interviewing suspects? It's also odd how someone in the main cast of characters has exactly the specialist knowledge of classical music/greek mythology/ancient runes required to solve a case... Every case.

    But hey, I don't mind, suspension of disbelief, innit. I only watch that and House and documentaries about very deep bits of the sea. And House is arguably just as bad, if for different reasons.

    I've never watched the Miami one as for some reason it has never been on when I've been idly flicking through the channels but have got mildly addicted to CSI:CSI & NCIS as they both have characters in them. CSI:NY will do at a push but is more likely to irritate for some reason.

    but they're wonderful as a series to follow because i find i don't care if I only catch the last 20 minutes or if the one I'm watching now is severals seasons before or after the last one I saw. Oh yes and thinking is definitely not required
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Stopped watching CSI after Grissom left. Does watching Numbers make me a geek ?
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Greg66 wrote:

    Or that David Caruso has three acting faces (puzzled, concerned, victorious) and the only way to tell them apart is to work out what direction he's looking in and what he's doing with his sunglasses?

    etc.

    And breathe...

    PML!!!

    awesome dude.

    I actually love CSI/CSI NY, and am quite capable of suspending belief/not using it as a legal text book, but.. man.... I had to stop watching Miami, because of how dire Caruso is.

    They really jumped the shark when he and Delgado bugg3red off to brazil to kill the guy who killed the sister/wife.
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Jay dubbleU wrote:
    Stopped watching CSI after Grissom left. Does watching Numbers make me a geek ?

    1) Have found Langstom a good replacement, and still enjoy it.
    2) yes - but I like numbers too, so - hello, fellow geek!
  • Pokerface
    Pokerface Posts: 7,960
    rjsterry wrote:
    Don't forget that there are absolutely no ugly people in Miami according to CSI. Also, I swear some episodes are colour co-ordinated, with everyone wearing, say, something orange.


    Actually - that is true. Each episode is purposely over-saturated with colour and clothing/sets ARE colour-coordinated. Most people just don't notice it.
  • monkeydan
    monkeydan Posts: 95
    Two things:

    CSI is a fictional television program.

    A friend just returned from Miami Beach and there are apparently no ugly people there in real life.
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  • John Stevenson
    John Stevenson Posts: 962
    And don't forget that the geniuses on the CSI teams can find clues the police utterly missed despite having a team of SOCOs go over the place inch by inch, but can never find the light switches!
    John Stevenson
  • Eau Rouge
    Eau Rouge Posts: 1,118
    John Stevenson wrote:
    And don't forget that the geniuses on the CSI teams can find clues the police utterly missed despite having a team of SOCOs go over the place inch by inch, but can never find the light switches!

    psst: The CSI guys are the SOCO guys, different names for the same role. They can't find the light switches because their offices all have thermo-motion detectors that are able to predict when people will be entering a room and turn the lights on enough time before they get there so they have already warmed up. ;)
  • John Stevenson
    John Stevenson Posts: 962
    Same role, different names in the real world, but not in the CSI universe where the lab-based characters always wander in after the scene has already been examined by lowlier SOCOs.

    Anyway whatever you call them, they don't seem to know that the light switch is at shoulder height by the door FFS!

    :)
    John Stevenson
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    SOCO?

    Isn't that what Southern Comfort tried to convince us all to call their lame-arse drink?

    SoCo for everyone?

    :x
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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    SOCO?

    Isn't that what Southern Comfort tried to convince us all to call their lame-ars* drink?

    SoCo for everyone?

    :x

    Scene Of Crime Officers. Geezers in white paper suits who turn up to look for evidence at a crime scene.

    I suppose SOCO together with their labs (some of whom are outsourced) are the British equivalent of CSI.... Or will be until the inevitable next re-branding/reshuffle of public service.

    Anyway, yes please, love one. :)
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  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    Greg66 wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    What about vehicular manslaughter? This, again, may be straight from an episode of CSI. I do like that show...

    Stop it. Stop it now.

    Bloody CSI, mutter mutter, miranda rights, mutter mutter...

    Doesn't it ever strike you as ever so slightly implausible that they can resolve a blurry reflection that isn't really in the original photograph so well they end up with something that wouldn't look out of place in a professional studio photographer's portfolio?

    Or that they have a magic spray that identifies blood/semen/tissue fluid?     Or that they do all their work to a loud musical backing track? Or that the entire state of Florida has the colour turned up to 11?Or that David Caruso has three acting faces (puzzled, concerned, victorious) and the only way to tell them apart is to work out what direction he's looking in and what he's doing with his sunglasses?

    etc.

    And breathe...

    I loathe that f*ing programme for the false impression it creates.

    stitching a viable fingerprint together from 12 lift buttons or identifying the murderer from the reflection in the iris of someones eye in a photograph and the fact that the computer does all of the hard work before popping up with name address and colour of underpants they were wearing at the time.

    however this stuff does actually exist, its called Luminol, it's blisteringly expensive. The amount that they liberally squirt round scenes could pay my annual salary in most episodes. It's not used an awful lot in CSI Reality

    The ginger equivalent of teak.     I think you give him too much credit, always looking like he's badly constipated and living his entire life at 3/4 speed doesn't cut it as acting for me.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    shouldbeinbed wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    What about vehicular manslaughter? This, again, may be straight from an episode of CSI. I do like that show...

    Stop it. Stop it now.

    Bloody CSI, mutter mutter, miranda rights, mutter mutter...

    Doesn't it ever strike you as ever so slightly implausible that they can resolve a blurry reflection that isn't really in the original photograph so well they end up with something that wouldn't look out of place in a professional studio photographer's portfolio?

    Or that they have a magic spray that identifies blood/semen/tissue fluid?     Or that they do all their work to a loud musical backing track? Or that the entire state of Florida has the colour turned up to 11?Or that David Caruso has three acting faces (puzzled, concerned, victorious) and the only way to tell them apart is to work out what direction he's looking in and what he's doing with his sunglasses?

    etc.

    And breathe...

    I loathe that f*ing programme for the false impression it creates.

    stitching a viable fingerprint together from 12 lift buttons or identifying the murderer from the reflection in the iris of someones eye in a photograph and the fact that the computer does all of the hard work before popping up with name address and colour of underpants they were wearing at the time.

    however this stuff does actually exist, its called Luminol, it's blisteringly expensive. The amount that they liberally squirt round scenes could pay my annual salary in most episodes. It's not used an awful lot in CSI Reality

    The ginger equivalent of teak.     I think you give him too much credit, always looking like he's badly constipated and living his entire life at 3/4 speed doesn't cut it as acting for me.

    :lol::lol:

    It does concern me that people might think you can do the things in your first paragraph... I kind of presume people will realise it's fictional!

    However, I'm interested to note an element of truth there... Bless them. I'm sure it's all CGI, rather than real Luminol...
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  • MadammeMarie
    MadammeMarie Posts: 621
    monkeydan wrote:
    A friend just returned from Miami Beach and there are apparently no ugly people there in real life.

    So true! I was there in 2000 and felt the same.

    Also, stopped watching the CSI Miami, it just got ridiculous and I can't stand the annoying voice of the blonde one. Did she have her lips done, by the way?

    Only watch the NY one. Love Gary Sinise!
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Holy thread resurrection, Batman! (Scroll through it)

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    :lol::lol:
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    absolute quality.....

    although the final pun would have worked better coming from grissom.

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