Polite Dissent

There’s something about this show that just grabs my attention. It’s like a car wreck (no joke intended) — you just can’t look away. I think it’s the grainy video and the over-earnest narration that gets me. Whenever I’m flipping through the channels and come upon this on Spike TV (where it’s apparently the only show they have, other than that over-dubbed bizarre Japanese gameshow), I find myself watching for the next 45-minutes.

The good-always-defeats-evil part of me wished they would tell what the ultimate sentence (if there was one) of the people involved was. The last show I watched had a 17 year-old girl who was pulled over for speeding/DUI who got out of her hand-cuffs, commandeered a police squad car and then played bumper-car for the next twenty minutes. I would love to know what happened to her.

And why does the copter pilot always have the same voice, no matter what part of the country the video is from? And why does he always say “narrowly missed an accident” when the two cars were at least half a block apart?