Is what you see on "reality-based" TV real or illusion? Is a camcorder recording a real scene or a staged one, and how can you tell?
Recently I saw "Police Videos" on FOX TV. In one of the scenes was, IMHO (and without official verification), several Special Forces-type (or SWAT, or whatever) law enforcement folks taking out a "suspect" (for all crime-doers on this show are called "suspects" until proven guilty) from a hijacked red bus. The bus looked almost ultra modern, as if new in New Yorl City or some other metropolis, ostensibly American. Yet, according to the show, the videotape of this hijacking and subsequent take down was from Krasnodar, Russia.
Krasnodar is near the Black Sea, close to the Caucasas Mountains, on route to Georgia. It is a well-known industrial-transportation city. I wonder if it is also a tourist-trap designed for American dollars. Why? Because prominent in the video of these Special Forces types taking out a lone crazed individual who had hijacked a very modern looking bus--the bus was huge, okay?--smack in the middle of a Russian industrial city, was a STOP sign.
This STOP sign was a typical American red-octagonal sign with the word "STOP" on it--in English! In English alphabet!
As everyone knows, Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet. Even if the word "stop" was "stop" in Russian and not some other word, the sign would not say "STOP" but "CTOR" (actually, the "R" would be turned around, but this keyboard is set to the english alphabet, and the Russian letter "P" means "R"--remember the USSR in Russian was "CCCP", with the P standing for the Russian word for Republic?).
So, was this video actually set in the States? Was the whole thing staged? If it was indeed set in Krasnodar, Russia, was it staged, with some ignorant filmaker using an American "STOP" sign instead of a Russian one?
And another thing--why is it almost all those "Police Videos" have the same scenery--it's nighttime, on a narrow tree-lined country road, two-laned road, with mostly Southern locations (I know for a fact that I've seen at least three videos from a place called "Conelly, South Carolina"--or do they keep showing the same ones over and over--making it a necessity for FOX to order staged events in places like Russia?)
Finally, another cop video show, "America's Most Wanted" recently had the captures of eight Texas convicts, all violent felons" caught on video tape. Interesting. But is it possible that all of the videos were staged events for FOX a-la "Running Man", and that the criminals had been caught earlier?
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