This show has great potential, but apparently is determined to waste it by showing some "arrests" of people going out of their way to do ignorant things to get themselves arrested just to call attention to themselves. And it looks like this show, at least in some of their clips, is already gunning to become the A&E TV version of the Jackass movies. Much to their discredit.
For instance "Golf Streaker" is a segment that is a follow up of a man who disrupted a golf tournament by not really streaking it, since he was wearing a swimsuit of some type (& that doesn't count (it's only streaking if you're nude)), was followed up on by the producers who found it somehow and is now being interviewed for the show to brag about it. The problem is of course that when you do a program that mixes in legitimate arrests with these juvenile frat boy show offs, it encourages more people to go out of their way to do ever increasingly stupid, dangerous and eventually always tragic things for the attention. Especially when you feed into this fools ego so much.
Then to give a segment to two supposed "daredevils" who illegally climbed to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge and only received a small fine and community service (when they should've served a minimum of 6 months to a year in a serious jail and at least a $20k+ fine) is the very height of irresponsibility on behalf of the producers! They did handstands and hung over the sides! Are they really so stupid as to not understand the liability they're leaving themselves open to, morally if not legally, when someone dies by them glorifying these ignorant acts? Don't forget the tragedy that happened after the football movie "The Program" came out. And no, a legal disclaimer doesn't wash the blood off from your hands in the least.
There are always going to be people like these morons and the truth is that there really should be an actual first degree federal felony law against being show off jerks like them that gets these idiots actual serious jail time, a very heavy fine or at the very least bring back the wooden stocks in the public square and let people throw rotten vegetables at them. Just to try to discourage them and idiots who'd do the same.
But it doesn't help when a movie like Jackass or a show like this comes along encouraging intellectual pygmies to do stupid human crimes just to get noticed. They already have extreme Narcissism and Borderline Personality Disorders. Don't inflict them on the rest of us just for your ratings and income. It just brings these very dangerous clowns out of the woodwork vying for attention and desperate to do anything to get on the show and I can absolutely guarantee you that someone WILL get hurt or even worse before it ends if you encourage these kinds of overaged little boys.
Here's wishing you many unhappy lawsuits unless you dump these type of segments. They actually kill do people.
Now episode 11 has a failed rapper featured who held up traffic on an LA freeway for hours for an extremely dangerous publicity stunt that the ignorant producers of this show decided to amplify which likely will result in someone else trying something more dangerous and potentially dying which means this show will be completely responsible for that death. Remember The Jenny Jones Show morons? This idiot was let off lightly when he needed to be showering in San Quintin for at least a year. When a viewer dies because this program showcases idiots like this (and there is zero doubt someone will) I hope the producers of this show get sued into bankruptcy. And also get criminally prosecuted for manslaughter for their depraved indifference to human life. That actually is a real crime and they're blatantly committing it every time they feature segments like these. They're the ones who deserve prison.
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