Idiotic things that only happens in films

Patrick T said:
Yeah. They make little test kits that you put a very small amount of the suspected substance in and break the vial inside. It reacts and changes color if certain narcotics are present.

"Your Honor, I then ingested some of the controlled substance" wouldn't go over very well in court.
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..."no sir...I didn't inhale"
 
Someone with a gun is hiding in the backseat, but the person getting into the driver's seat doesn't see them when they get into the car
 
Horror films:

White girl hears weird sounds in the corridor geuss what she walks towards it and doesnt get killed its a pigeon of sorts !

Black guy hears weirds sounds in the corridor geuss what he starts acting like scared white girl and gets killed !
 
DM_Rider... LOL! AWESOME! This whole thread is great.

Perfect 10 dumps handsome rich guy to be with dorky poor loser.
 
PDR said:
Someone with a gun is hiding in the backseat, but the person getting into the driver's seat doesn't see them when they get into the car
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When the star of a movie walks past a tv thats on, there is always a news story that pertains to the plot on the screen.

One for the sound people:
Any time someone walks up to a podium the mic will always feedback for a moment.
 
Another one relevant to the Dark Knight...People can vanish noiselessly after a character has looked away for a few seconds, nowhere to be seen.
 
Richard J. Johnson said:
3. Almost every punch to face of the nameless baddies is a knock out blow.
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Another one I hate related to this : good guy (lets call him 'Jack Bauer' for discussion purposes) disables bad guy with a sleeper/choke hold, and presto - lights out in 2.3 seconds ..... Come on!
 
agcohn said:
Well that is very possible, and is caused by cutting off the blood to the brain
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not quite, complete bilateral carotid occlusion requires much longer than a few for loss of consciousess

the only caveat to that is if the person was hypoxemic to begin with (maybe from a prolonged struggle before)

the other possibility is vasal-vagal reaction - but even that wouldn't cause LOC in seconds, and would even be slower than complete bilateral carotid occlusion
 
PDR said:
not quite, complete bilateral carotid occlusion requires much longer than a few for loss of consciousess

the only caveat to that is if the person was hypoxemic to begin with (maybe from a prolonged struggle before)

the other possibility is vasal-vagal reaction - but even that wouldn't cause LOC in seconds, and would even be slower than complete bilateral carotid occlusion
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Well, it's not literally 2 seconds, but it is a matter of seconds, as opposed to minutes like an airway choke hold.
 
agcohn said:
Well, it's not literally 2 seconds, but it is a matter of seconds, as opposed to minutes like an airway choke hold.
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Didn't any of you guys see the girl fight on Tosh.0? Two chicks (appear about senior-junior in high school) get in a fight on a playground... well... after some rapid-fire unceremonious slap-fest... suddenly the girl who DIDN'T start it... gets the other girl in a choke-out submission hold... headlock... arched back... well... at that point I'd say it took less then 4 seconds before that other chick was OUT COLD. She dropped like a sack of potatoes. This one was NOT fake (she slid across the cement ON her FACE). Choke-hold KO in "seconds"... proven.
 
MattinSTL said:
Didn't any of you guys see the girl fight on Tosh.0? Two chicks (appear about senior-junior in high school) get in a fight on a playground... well... after some rapid-fire unceremonious slap-fest... suddenly the girl who DIDN'T start it... gets the other girl in a choke-out submission hold... headlock... arched back... well... at that point I'd say it took less then 4 seconds before that other chick was OUT COLD. She dropped like a sack of potatoes. This one was NOT fake (she slid across the cement ON her FACE). Choke-hold KO in "seconds"... proven.
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Chick fight! yeah post the URL :)

But seriously, they have done controlled human tests in the past (back in the day when ethics were less of an issue... LOL ) and the average was more like 10-15 seconds for a LVNR hold. Not like 2-3 seconds that you see in the movies. 10-15 seconds on a willing subject. An ex-marine super soldier won't be lying still for the good guy to choke him . As for your girl example... hey it's a chick... :)


Here is a reference
http://books.google.ca/books?id=JdtgE0eHTL4C&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309&dq=choke+hold+human+volunteers&source=bl&ots=TcmhmXLRoa&sig=aQG0nv6H7fGPiO40Y6vbY_PszvQ&hl=en&ei=WL7UTML4LYjmsQPYzoyOCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=choke%20hold%20human%20volunteers&f=false
 
Another stupid one is when good guy fights off a dozen+ bad guys, but them come at him 1 or 2 at a time. WTF? Did they all flunk Villan school ?
 
PDR... I'll admit that this isn't a controlled human test, but here you go:

http://www.comedycentral.com/tosh.0/2010/01/13/in-this-weeks-show-12/

Click the first vid... I counted one-one-thousand, etc. and stopped counting when the video pauses for commentary... and it still seems that the choke-out took place in less then 6 seconds... but whatever... even though we're blasting a great thread OT... I had to answer the "prove it" request for a url. For ALL the fake vids people post on here and talk about, as I roll my eyes thinking, "you guys can't tell that's FAKE?"... no chick pushes her face across a slab of cement like this. Again... choked out... in "seconds". Sorry to contradict all that science :)

Not saying you can vulcan grip an unexpected victim out in 2-3 seconds... but a sleeper hold in 6 or so seconds? There, you just saw it.
 
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