Posted by
Dave in Nevada on Saturday, December 13, 2008 12:23:39 PM
Here are a few examples of things that
I see in the media or television that I find annoying. Please feel free to comment on your favorites.
“Would-be burglar”
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-etmustopb5955749dec08,0,3086165.story
If someone broke into a home he is a burglar. Just because
he didn’t come away with anything doesn’t mean he isn’t a burglar.
“Casings”
Television show, reporters, even cops get this one wrong.
You’ve heard them. They say: “We found empty casings in the bedroom.” They are
not casings, they are cases.
“Arsenal/Armory”
This is another one that the MSM likes to use. “The police
found an arsenal in his home.” They are referring to the guns. My dictionary
defines armories as arsenals and arsenals as places where firearms are made or
kept. A rifle, a shotgun and two pistols do not an arsenal make. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/armory
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arsenal
"Bullets"
How about when the CSI guys dig a bullet out of a wall and declare that the bullet was fired from a 9mm Sig-Sauer. Don't you love that? Anyone want to comment on how many different guns or calibers use the same bullets?
"Silencers"
As much as I enjoy NCIS, I cringe when I hear Abby say:
“You can tell the bullet came from a gun with a silencer because of the
striations the silencer made on the bullet.” ARRRRGH! I won’t even bother about
the use of the word “silencer.” Well, maybe I’ll just say I like; “Sound
Reduction System.”
Bullets don’t come into contact with the sound reduction
system. That would be bad if it did. Before you ask, yes, I have fired several
suppressed firearms and I own a suppressor for a .22 pistol. They are legal in Nevada, you know.
Bloopers
Of course we all love it when the character in a TV show opens the cylinder of a double action revolver and spins it and we hear it click several times as it is spinning.
Continuity problems are always fun. A character is shown from the front then the rear and then the front again and his gun is cocked, then it isn't then it is.
I always love it when I hear a 1911 style handgun click several times to indicate that the character has run out of ammo and the slide is in battery.
"Knives"
I dislike watching a
person on a TV show throw a knife from an unknown distance at a person and kill
the person, instantly. Do you have any idea how hard it is to learn to throw a
throwing knife, a knife designed for throwing? It ain’t easy.
I would love to hear of two verified accounts in which
someone actually killed another person with a thrown knife in combat.
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/SHARP-ASSORTMENT_Fixed-Blade-Knife_W0QQfsubZ18115277
Thanks to Bond’s House of Cutlery, Las Vegas, Nevada, my favorite knife store.