I tend to gravitate toward TV shows that have stupid people doing stupid things and either getting hurt or getting caught by the police.  I also enjoy the shows where the police have to chase the idiot bad guys in cars, on foot, snow shoes, whatever.  The problem I have is always at the end of the chase: the bad guys are still alive and taken into custody.

WTF!?  (That's for the pansies reading this.  Otherwise I would have written WHAT THE FUCK!?)

A guy drives down the road doing 90 with his infant child dangling out the window.  The police finally catch him.  He resists arrest, is subdued, placed in a squad car, and taken to booking.  Is there some reason they didn't just shoot this asshole and put him out of our misery?

Some dude on drugs stabs his estranged wife and is chased by the authorities.  He loses control of his car, careens into a phone pole, and the car bursts into flames.  And what do the police do?  What they are trained to do: brave the danger and save this worthless fuck.

This reminds me of the Fourth of July a few days ago.  This numbskull at the marina had some fireworks he was lighting.  He stood OVER one as he lit it.  No, he didn't get hurt.  But I found myself wondering: if he had been hurt would the rest of the crowd have thought less of me as I laughed demoniacally while dancing around his crisping, twitching body?

Sorry.  Odd tangent.

I just think the law has a few flaws.  I would make changes... 

• Police should be able to beat the crap out of people that make the cops chase them.
• If some criminals are in danger of death: fuck 'em.  Let 'em die.  More air for the rest of us.
• If some fool wants to jump off a bridge to his death: push him.  It'll be a lesson for all those other knucklefucks who are just making a "cry for help."  Besides, fish gotta eat.

I got a special set of rules for other types of criminals.  But that is for another blog.  (I still hate that word.)