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FAKE

posted 17 years ago by skiceless
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this show is 100% fake(albeit, rather entertaining). there is not one police station ANYWHERE that would give celebrities, or anyone for that matter, a loaded weapon with minimal training. there is no way they would be able to insure that. the tazer training was FAKE. i've been tazered, and you don't act like that. and the firearm training? they were no more than 6 feet away from the target. are you kidding me? what if latoya or wee-man got shot? or what if they overreacted and shot someone? and all the situations seem staged, whether it is actual crimes being committed, and after their arrest, they let the celebrites re-"arrest" them, or the crimes themselves are staged. i mean, come on, the first bust that latoya had to do with that large man? no way she would be able to subdue him. and wee-man? who would listen to him? you could just kick him the head. or easily outrun him.

but, the show is funny as hell.

[–] karabearblu 17 years ago

I'm also another Muncie resident, and we had a domestic case (that Eric Estrada was on) across the street from my house and everything that happened was definitely not fake. Of course it seemed a little crazy with the cameras and crew. Not in relation to the weapon stuff that is discussed below, but no part of what happened was fake.

[–] jdmotorsprts2002 17 years ago

I am a reserve deputy and was lucky that I got to go to reserve academy but many people since i have been there have been put out on the road after a 5 day inservice, so I think the show isnt fake, I think there are quite a few deparments around the country that will put anyone out there that is willing to do the job

[–] BLutz3504 17 years ago

For the record, I live in Muncie and go to school at Ball State... and this town is a *beep* past campus. So the criminals I HIGHLY doubt are fake because that's how Muncie rolls. So I for one don't think it's fake at all, and I found it hilarious that it depicts Muncie in an accurate way, that being a piece of crap town.

[–] FaithNoBungle 17 years ago

this show isnt fake. you're an idiot

[–] billybob_111 16 years ago

It was very real. I worked with them when they were here on the Muncie Police force. They were hired on as Reserve officers. that's why they were never without another police officer. They went thru the same things that any other person would if they were a reserved officer.
People can say what they want. You didn't see all the training and classes they took while they were here in Muncie.
Granted most of them wouldn't even get on the force without the help of the show. But face it folks they were real officers doing a real job.

[–] Codeman7193 16 years ago

I know the cop that worked with Wee Man, and I know one of the criminals that was on armed and famous so dont *beep* with me bitch cause i know its real

Oh and they didnt go through minimal training they went through about 1 and 1/2 years of training

[–] Spartan10 15 years ago

No, no they didn't.

[–] soupphysics 14 years ago

I am not going into if they were real cops or not.

But many situations were scripted and fake and I can prove this.

They come to a building where an alarm has started. They are sneaking around a corner, but the camera is already around the corner to show them coming from the other side. They open the door to go into the building, and we see this from inside the building.

Again and again we see situations where they switch between different camera angles during one conversation/situation. It's supposed to be continuous, but from some camera angles, you would have seen the other cameras in the picture if they were there. That means they did the same situation several times, filmed from different angles.

[–] Spartan10 14 years ago

Yes indeed. What more than likely happened was the professional police officers would, during an alarm call, clear the building first and then once it was secured, they would film the celebrity actors clearing it. That or they were running short of dispatch calls and coordinated things with local businesses.