Why do characters on tv...

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always run to see what happened when they here a gunshot?

[CountDeMoney]

The black ones don't.

[MadImmortalMan]

Thread over. 

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The black ones don't.

False. I've seen more than enough black people on Law & Order run towards gunshots.  I pegged it as unrealistic.

[CountDeMoney]

The black ones don't.

False. I've seen more than enough black people on Law & Order run towards gunshots.  I pegged it as unrealistic.

That's because the only black people on Law & Order are the cops.  Talk about fiction writing.

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That's because the only black people on Law & Order are the cops.  Talk about fiction writing.

Law & Order loves to explore the lives of black people in fictional places with whimsical names like Harlem, The Bronx and Queens. An often repeated scene is some black minister declaring how the cops would be trying harder if it was a dead white kid/woman.

[CountDeMoney]

That's because the only black people on Law & Order are the cops.  Talk about fiction writing.

Law & Order loves to explore the lives of black people in fictional places with whimsical names like Harlem, The Bronx and Queens. An often repeated scene is some black minister declaring how the cops would be trying harder if it was a dead white kid/woman.

I dunno, I often lose that track of that stuff to Munch's ocassional anti-Republican pot shots.  But I do so love that Ice T.  So glad he's got work.

And yes, this just in: cops will always work harder for dead white kids/women.  It's just the way it is.

[viper37]

always run to see what happened when they here a gunshot?

in tv shows, every one has a gun, where as in reality, 25% of the US population owns 200% of the guns

[garbon]

I dunno, I often lose that track of that stuff to Munch's ocassional anti-Republican pot shots.  But I do so love that Ice T.  So glad he's got work.

Were you a fan of Homicide: Life On The Street?

[CountDeMoney]

I dunno, I often lose that track of that stuff to Munch's ocassional anti-Republican pot shots.  But I do so love that Ice T.  So glad he's got work.

Were you a fan of Homicide: Life On The Street?

[Strix]

In Rochester they don't do anything when they hear gunshots. It's normal everyday sounds to them.

[Eddie Teach]

always run to see what happened when they here a gunshot?

Usually the characters in that situation are cops, soldiers or adventurers.

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Dead bodies are cool.

[Capetan Mihali]

I loved "Homicide" but I've never felt like watching "The Wire." 

In Philadelphia, I never went running towards gunshots, which were infrequent in my neighborhood, but all the time in West Phillly.

But when those flashing lights would show up on my block, I'd hid behind the curtains and watch.  One time they were coming for my next door neighbor.  I happened to be up and sipping heavily on vermouth when the middle brother went crazy... hearing through the walls, I think it had to do with milk expiration dates... next thing the two other brothers were restraining him against the fence to the alley, while he howled like a loon... and I wandered out to my concrete back lot and asked "Is everything alright here?"  One brother said "No!  Call the cops!"  I debated this for a little while, but the cops were there soon enough.  By then, all my roommates had been woken up from the screaming and lights, and we laid low.

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Actually, I always went out on the balcony whenever there gunshots from the now-defunct dance club across the street.  At least I did, till I got indirectly maced from fifty feet away.