Scene: A busy highway on a steamy, sultry Hollywood, Broward County, Florida, midnight. Traffic is still bustling as if in the City That Never Sleeps, highbeam headlights of hundreds of cars fly at top speed beneath gigantic streetlamps illuminating the black, starless tropical night sky.
A woman is driving. Her car comes to a stop at a streetlight glowing Red. After a moment, Streetlight flickers to Green. Suddenly, without warning, BAM, KERBOOM, CRUNCH, the woman’s car is rear-ended. The woman jolts, startled, confused. Camera pans to reveal a police cruiser rammed like a lover against the back fender of the woman’s car. Officer gets out of patrol car and approaches the window of the car he’s just rammed.
Officer Rearend: You ok, Ma’am?
Woman: O, hi Officer. I’m ok, I was just on a beer party!
Officer Rearend: Is that so? Please step out of the vehicle and blow into this.
Woman: Whuh, blow what?
Officer Rearend takes Woman and seats her inside the back of his cruiser as two additional patrol cars pull up behind the vehicular embrace, bringing the total number of officers to five. They huddle.
Officer One (gesturing his hands into a video frame and scanning the scene): Okay, I’m thinking cat. I’m thinking cat, I’m thinking leaping. I’m thinking cat leaping ferociously through the car window in slow motion. Definitely slow-mo. For dramatic effect. People like that sort of thing.
Officer Two: You’re the expert!
Officer One: Look, I don’t want to fake anything, I don’t want anything to look fake, ok, not ever. Because that’s wrong. But it’s such a double-edged sword, you know. I mean, you’re stopped at a light, the light goes green, and you need the cat. The cat has to jump out the window. You know, because it could be a kid. A kid jumping out the window would be perfect . . . Ok, I’m going to do the narrative, I know how I’m going to word this.
Officer Two: You’re the expert!
Officer Rearend: Sounds good to me, guys!
Officer One (slapping Officer Rearend and Officer Two on the back): We are always on the same page. That’s why we get along so well. We are good. We are good.
TLC (The Learning Channel) has been advertising a new reality show. It’s called “Police Women of Broward County.” In the trailer, one of the Police Women declare “It’s always a good time to use a taser!” Yahoo! Let’s go git us some citizens to taser! Them there TLC camera men will put it on the TeeVee for us all to watch later!
Maybe TLC can run “Police Women of Broward County” as a double feature with “Police Men of Hollywood.”
Police violating the civil rights of the citizens they are sworn to protect is the hot new thing on film in Broward County, Florida. Any why shouldn’t it be? It offers numerous opportunities for creativity on the job. Don’t all people desire more creativity in their careers? Just because someone is a police officer doesn’t mean he doesn’t have creative urges, too. And how often does the average worker get the chance to really feel enthusiasm for his duties? Tasers provide an impetus for that enthusiasm. Tasers are dramatic. “What Is Drama?,” TNT (Turner Network Television, home to quadrillions of Law and Order reruns) is fond of asking. Drama is Tasers. Drama is cats leaping from car windows. Drama is framing civilians for car crashes caused by cops.
A double feature on television. Sounds good. Sounds a lot safer to stay home and watch these officers on television than to go out and risk encountering them, their tasers, and their creativity in person.
See the video and a full report at: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/ 2009/07/hollywood_police_walt_disney_case.php.
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In News commentary, Political commentary on August 2, 2009 at 2:55 amScene: A busy highway on a steamy, sultry Hollywood, Broward County, Florida, midnight. Traffic is still bustling as if in the City That Never Sleeps, highbeam headlights of hundreds of cars fly at top speed beneath gigantic streetlamps illuminating the black, starless tropical night sky.
A woman is driving. Her car comes to a stop at a streetlight glowing Red. After a moment, Streetlight flickers to Green. Suddenly, without warning, BAM, KERBOOM, CRUNCH, the woman’s car is rear-ended. The woman jolts, startled, confused. Camera pans to reveal a police cruiser rammed like a lover against the back fender of the woman’s car. Officer gets out of patrol car and approaches the window of the car he’s just rammed.
Officer Rearend: You ok, Ma’am?
Woman: O, hi Officer. I’m ok, I was just on a beer party!
Officer Rearend: Is that so? Please step out of the vehicle and blow into this.
Woman: Whuh, blow what?
Officer Rearend takes Woman and seats her inside the back of his cruiser as two additional patrol cars pull up behind the vehicular embrace, bringing the total number of officers to five. They huddle.
Officer One (gesturing his hands into a video frame and scanning the scene): Okay, I’m thinking cat. I’m thinking cat, I’m thinking leaping. I’m thinking cat leaping ferociously through the car window in slow motion. Definitely slow-mo. For dramatic effect. People like that sort of thing.
Officer Two: You’re the expert!
Officer One: Look, I don’t want to fake anything, I don’t want anything to look fake, ok, not ever. Because that’s wrong. But it’s such a double-edged sword, you know. I mean, you’re stopped at a light, the light goes green, and you need the cat. The cat has to jump out the window. You know, because it could be a kid. A kid jumping out the window would be perfect . . . Ok, I’m going to do the narrative, I know how I’m going to word this.
Officer Two: You’re the expert!
Officer Rearend: Sounds good to me, guys!
Officer One (slapping Officer Rearend and Officer Two on the back): We are always on the same page. That’s why we get along so well. We are good. We are good.
TLC (The Learning Channel) has been advertising a new reality show. It’s called “Police Women of Broward County.” In the trailer, one of the Police Women declare “It’s always a good time to use a taser!” Yahoo! Let’s go git us some citizens to taser! Them there TLC camera men will put it on the TeeVee for us all to watch later!
Maybe TLC can run “Police Women of Broward County” as a double feature with “Police Men of Hollywood.”
Police violating the civil rights of the citizens they are sworn to protect is the hot new thing on film in Broward County, Florida. Any why shouldn’t it be? It offers numerous opportunities for creativity on the job. Don’t all people desire more creativity in their careers? Just because someone is a police officer doesn’t mean he doesn’t have creative urges, too. And how often does the average worker get the chance to really feel enthusiasm for his duties? Tasers provide an impetus for that enthusiasm. Tasers are dramatic. “What Is Drama?,” TNT (Turner Network Television, home to quadrillions of Law and Order reruns) is fond of asking. Drama is Tasers. Drama is cats leaping from car windows. Drama is framing civilians for car crashes caused by cops.
A double feature on television. Sounds good. Sounds a lot safer to stay home and watch these officers on television than to go out and risk encountering them, their tasers, and their creativity in person.
See the video and a full report at: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/ 2009/07/hollywood_police_walt_disney_case.php.
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