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Originally Posted by Rob Pincus
I assume you guys are still watching... This past week's episode was our strongest yet, I think.... dealing with convenience store/public space robbery.
There are a few more shoes left this season and we are already working on the next version of TBD, which starts airing in July!
-RJP
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Rob,
Yes, I'm still watching, I usually DVR the shows. I had a few backlogged, the two on carjacking and the first one really hit home. I was out with my pop last weekend and we stopped at CVS on Saturday evening. I was waiting in the car (passenger side, he drove) making some phone calls and when he came out, two thug-sounding guys passed by the back of the car as he was opening the door and asked him specifically, "Hey, man, you got seventy-five cents?" He told them, "Sorry, no I don't," which they didn't seem to like and asked him again and he said no and proceded to get in. The guys moved on, but my alarm bells were ringing, maybe because of their persistence.
Pop thought I was being paranoid, then I see the "interview" process on the show and it validated my gut reaction, even down to how the guy reacted when the "victim" on the show refused him.
Along the lines of paramedic's suggestion, I was thinking of what about an "after-the-event" episode. Just about every show about personal defense on TV shows how to prepare and carry out a defensive plan, but only make mention of what will happen or what to do after a defensive event. One of the questions I have banging around the emptiness of my skull is, "Should I disarm someone who I've just shot because s/he broke into my house wielding a weapon?" I was mulling that over this morning, then I was talking to a deputy who relayed a story from a while ago about a highway patrolman who got into a scuffle with someone he'd pulled over. The suspect pulled a .22 and the officer fired his whole cylinder of .357 silvertips into the suspects chest. The officer stepped over the "body" to reload and was shot through the arm and the round went through his heart and lungs, killing him in .45 seconds. The suspect managed to live.