It's not like the movies or tv or books

[CharleyH]

Not making light of the following situation, I just find it intriguing. Has anyone else ever been surprised by the workings of real life, as opposed to what we see, hear and read? It doesn't have to be as extreme as this. It is a curiosity, though. SEX INCLUDED!

A fascinating, albeit sad event occurred in my neighborhood last night - not that I live in a terrible place, of course it's not Beverly Hills either. It was - and no offence to the stranger who was killed - from a writerly perspective, interesting, and the events that occurred were nothing like the movies.

Now, I have seen shootings before, but none on the scale of this. Perhaps it was because other shootings were of and by known suspects. Anyhow, what happened was that one street over, a guy was (innocently or not, I do not know) riding his bike, and was subsequently shot down. Whether the assailant is known is also beyond me, and whether they knew each other, or it was random, we have not been informed.

Anyhow, I was surprised by a number of details. First off, the cops did not say anything when I walked through. Yet, 45 minutes later when O walked through, they stopped him and did not let him pass until 1am, which was 3 hours later. Second, the police blocked off several streets. Third, the area blocked by tape was an enormous, well, bigger than I would expect, square footage. There was not just one scent dog, but about 3 per area, and I was curious as to what those dogs would be smelling a scent of? (Dunno, I am guessing gun residue, smoke, whatever). People were allowed in the area for a while, coming out of their apartments and houses, and all within the tape. And camera crews were allowed close to the area, closer than I suspected. I was also surprised to see a Cdn version of a Swat team - LOL - I half expected Bobbies - surrounding one house at the end of my street, and yet, no one was caught.

Today, there is stilla HUGE police presence, which I do not recall from another thing I saw, and I mean police in teams of three with marked and unmarked cars everywhere, and cops on bikes and such. Also, having just been canvassed, I half, though not naively, expected at least two police, yet only one came with pad and paper taking our names and details down.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

You're watching too much CSI.



I suspect drug dealing gone bad, move to the states and be my bitch.

 

[CharleyH]

You're watching too much CSI.



I suspect drug dealing gone bad, move to the states and be my bitch.

LOL. A drug dealer on a bike. Now there is something truly Canadian! I got my own bitch to worry about, plus, with new legislations, I am certain you will be on your knees and begging soon enough, and I am sure Sher would agree

(better put my question up front - you people have ADD- lol - no offence)

 

[ABSTRUSE]

LOL. A drug dealer on a bike. Now there is something truly Canadian! I got my own bitch to worry about, plus, with new legislations, I am certain you will be on your knees and begging soon enough, and I am sure Sher would agree

(better put my question up front - you people have ADD- lol - no offence)

It must be Canadian because our drug dealers drive Escalades and Navigators.

If it was a random shooting I doubt they would be scrutinizing so much, then again I don't know what Canadian police procedure is either.

Was he a younger person? race?

 

[CharleyH]

Well, they let me through, white chick carrying a quart of milk. They did not let O through, black guy carring make-up. LOL

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Well, they let me through, white chick carrying a quart of milk. They did not let O through, black guy carring make-up. LOL

He should have pretended he was a crime scene investigator and was going to dust for prints....stupid O.

Is there one of those chalk outlines in your street? That's my next career move, I wonder if it requires schooling?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

From what I have seen so far of Canadian streets, there is no time for a chalk outline.

The DB* sinks too quickly into a pothole.










* Just proving that I can get CSI, too.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

One of the biggest things that TV inures us to is the amount of genuine confusion inherent in real life. Cops get a call of a shooting and arrive on the scene and they really don't know what the fuck is happening: who's who or what happened. Usually no one else does either, but everyone thinks they do and they all start talking at once. Someone tells them it was a drive-by, someone else that it was an execution by paramilitaries, someone else that it was a jealous girlfriend or an accident.

I suspect that in your case, after initially sorting things out, which might have easily taken 2-3 hours, they might have suspected that the killer was still in the area hiding, hence the dogs and the high security.

You watch things on TV, and you know what's going on. You think how stupid the cops or killlers are, how they screw things up and make stupid mistakes, but of course, that's TV. In real life we all blunder around without a clue.

 

[CharleyH]

From what I have seen so far of Canadian streets, there is no time for a chalk outline.

The DB* sinks too quickly into a pothole.







* Just proving that I can get CSI, too.

LOL, so you have heard, or been! So true, so true.

 

[LadyJeanne]

I live upstairs from a mini-dealer. He's a decent kid, and mostly deals in green sweaters, but sometimes it's white lingerie and extra socks (that's dealer code).

The cops showed up one day camouflaged as UPS guys, complete with brown truck and a package in hand. Upon entering the premises, searching the place and finding only a small green sweater, they returned the sweater to his girlfriend and took him to the station. A couple hours later, he was back home and back in business with a warning from the cops to stick to green sweaters and leave the rest of the wardrobe alone.

The undercover UPS part was cool, and I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised that they don't care so much about green sweaters here in SF, but still...it was hardly the 'War on Drugs' I'd been led to believe.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Not making light of the following situation, I just find it intriguing. Has anyone else ever been surprised by the workings of real life, as opposed to what we see, hear and read? It doesn't have to be as extreme as this. It is a curiosity, though. SEX INCLUDED!

I can't really complain, personally, but we have the most common example of the clash of reality with its lionised version right here at Literotica: porn.

In 99% of the cases, could anything like the stuff we write or read here really happen?

Not you. Shut up.

 

[LadyJeanne]

I can't really complain, personally, but we have the most common example of the clash of reality with its lionised version right here at Literotica: porn.

In 99% of the cases, could anything like the stuff we write or read here really happen?

Not you. Shut up.

Everything I've written, except for one, is mostly true and mostly did really happen.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . In 99% of the cases, could anything like the stuff we write or read here really happen?. . .

If I had to be letter perfect in six Shakespearian Tragedies at the same time, I too would go bonkers.

Yes, I have been groped in a public bus — not quite so enjoyably as in my story.

And I would like to patronize a Sex Shop like the one I featured in my Winter Holiday entry.

That’s almost fifty percent like RL

 

[shereads]

Halliburton. Conspiracy. Duh.


Next?

Not making light of the following situation, I just find it intriguing. Has anyone else ever been surprised by the workings of real life, as opposed to what we see, hear and read? It doesn't have to be as extreme as this. It is a curiosity, though. SEX INCLUDED!

A fascinating, albeit sad event occurred in my neighborhood last night - not that I live in a terrible place, of course it's not Beverly Hills either. It was - and no offence to the stranger who was killed - from a writerly perspective, interesting, and the events that occurred were nothing like the movies.

Now, I have seen shootings before, but none on the scale of this. Perhaps it was because other shootings were of and by known suspects. Anyhow, what happened was that one street over, a guy was (innocently or not, I do not know) riding his bike, and was subsequently shot down. Whether the assailant is known is also beyond me, and whether they knew each other, or it was random, we have not been informed.

Anyhow, I was surprised by a number of details. First off, the cops did not say anything when I walked through. Yet, 45 minutes later when O walked through, they stopped him and did not let him pass until 1am, which was 3 hours later. Second, the police blocked off several streets. Third, the area blocked by tape was an enormous, well, bigger than I would expect, square footage. There was not just one scent dog, but about 3 per area, and I was curious as to what those dogs would be smelling a scent of? (Dunno, I am guessing gun residue, smoke, whatever). People were allowed in the area for a while, coming out of their apartments and houses, and all within the tape. And camera crews were allowed close to the area, closer than I suspected. I was also surprised to see a Cdn version of a Swat team - LOL - I half expected Bobbies - surrounding one house at the end of my street, and yet, no one was caught.

Today, there is stilla HUGE police presence, which I do not recall from another thing I saw, and I mean police in teams of three with marked and unmarked cars everywhere, and cops on bikes and such. Also, having just been canvassed, I half, though not naively, expected at least two police, yet only one came with pad and paper taking our names and details down.

 

[CharleyH]

One of the biggest things that TV inures us to is the amount of genuine confusion inherent in real life. Cops get a call of a shooting and arrive on the scene and they really don't know what the fuck is happening: who's who or what happened. Usually no one else does either, but everyone thinks they do and they all start talking at once. Someone tells them it was a drive-by, someone else that it was an execution by paramilitaries, someone else that it was a jealous girlfriend or an accident.

I suspect that in your case, after initially sorting things out, which might have easily taken 2-3 hours, they might have suspected that the killer was still in the area hiding, hence the dogs and the high security.

You watch things on TV, and you know what's going on. You think how stupid the cops or killlers are, how they screw things up and make stupid mistakes, but of course, that's TV. In real life we all blunder around without a clue.

I am not naive really, yet we do get a lot of US news and info along with culture, all of which is, quite frankly, constructed, I know.

I was truly surprised about the amount of police prescence, the number of dogs, the fact they let me pass and 45 minutes later did not let a black guy pass. I find that particularly ... intriguing. Is it prejudicial, is it profiling?

I understood last nights high security, and yet am surprised about todays high security.

Yes. SO MANY rubber kneckers. I was talked to by three strangers as I passed, wondering what was up. I am guilty, myself, for asking someone. Human nature. Interesting. Abhorred, and yet curious.

Off on a conversation now: Kind of like porn in a way. I read an intriguing article yesterday about a porn star, who was giving advice to wannabe porn stars. She said, get a good lawyer, and be prepared for death threats. The link? How did the death threatening individuals (she said 10 a month calling her a slut, whore etc. that wants to put her out of her slutdom) know she was a porn star?

Abhorred and yet getting off?

 

[CharleyH]

I can't really complain, personally, but we have the most common example of the clash of reality with its lionised version right here at Literotica: porn.

In 99% of the cases, could anything like the stuff we write or read here really happen?

Not you. Shut up.

Just raised it in my long about way

 

[CharleyH]

Yes, I have been groped in a public bus — not quite so enjoyably as in my story.

And I would like to patronize a Sex Shop like the one I featured in my Winter Holiday entry.

RL

Oh but proudly, you patronize

 

[CharleyH]

Halliburton.


Next?

You MUST be American, your spelling is atrocious. Are you sure?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Off on a conversation now: Kind of like porn in a way. I read an intriguing article yesterday about a porn star, who was giving advice to wannabe porn stars. She said, get a good lawyer, and be prepared for death threats. The link? How did the death threatening individuals (she said 10 a month calling her a slut, whore etc. that wants to put her out of her slutdom) know she was a porn star?

Abhorred and yet getting off?

That reminds me of an episode from when I was very young, maybe in the 3rd grade.

There was maybe a change in the direction of programming of one of the TV channels towards the most dangerously artsy, and the 1976 Japanese borderline pornographic movie "Ai no Corrida" (Realm of the Senses) directed by Nagisa Oshima was aired one night, at around 10:30 PM, on open channel.

(No, I didn't see it, you pervs. I was in 3rd grade)

There was some controversy and a lot of talk about it the following day(s), and one of the most audible voices against the movie and it having been shown on TV was from a catholic archbishop or cardinal whose name I don't recall. He claimed that the perversions so crudely displayed on the movie were so disturbing that they made him physically sick, made him want to throw up. That reaction is still talked of today, with unconcealed irony: if it made him that sick, why did he keep watching?

 

[CharleyH]

That reminds me of an episode from when I was very young, maybe in the 3rd grade.

There was maybe a change in the direction of programming of one of the TV channels towards the most dangerously artsy, and the 1976 Japanese borderline pornographic movie "Ai no Corrida" (Realm of the Senses) directed by Nagisa Oshima was aired one night, at around 10:30 PM, on open channel.

(No, I didn't see it, you pervs. I was in 3rd grade)

There was some controversy and a lot of talk about it the following day(s), and one of the most audible voices against the movie and it having been shown on TV was from a catholic archbishop or cardinal whose name I don't recall. He claimed that the perversions so crudely displayed on the movie were so disturbing that they made him physically sick, made him want to throw up. That reaction is still talked of today, with unconcealed irony: if it made him that sick, why did he keep watching?

Oh I SAW it And compared to SALO by Passolini? Pfft. Yes and so, are anti-porn zealots of the "OH - MY - GOD" discust type? Both were banned in the states. WHERE IS PERDITA, when I need her?

Death threats? Example: I am a porn star, (who was it? Bi-Brittney or something who beat out Tera Patrick AND Jenna Jameson et al in an internet dual). Not the best looking chick, but had the most marketing, apparently. Anyhow point ... She gets death threats. Um, for what? Being in porn?

Off on tangent now: What is the difference in female/male eyes between being a female porn star and a male porn star? Example: If one, or the other and recognizable, as in we know what they do, came to a party of yours, what would the reaction be? REALLY, cuz you could all say bring it on, but really!

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Off on tangent now: What is the difference in female/male eyes between being a female porn star and a male porn star? Example: If one, or the other and recognizable, as in we know what they do, came to a party of yours, what would the reaction be? REALLY, cuz you could all say bring it on, but really!

That would be an interesting sociological experiment.

I think the stereotypically expected reactions would been a certain loathing the female from the women in the party and a discrete admiration of the male from the men. I kind of doubt the stereotype would hold water with this bunch, though.

 

[CharleyH]

That would be an interesting sociological experiment.

I think the stereotypically expected reactions would been a certain loathing the female from the women in the party and a discrete admiration of the male from the men. I kind of doubt the stereotype would hold water with this bunch, though.

Maybe it would. I think people let go here, which is cool, but faced with a porn star. or even porn person?

Quite frankly porn people are the best checked disease free - getting sidetracked by IM - people. So a guy has an 11 inch cock, and a girl has a take it pussy. Is the girl a slut? A whore? Lets bring it to RL. A guy fucks two hundred women, and a girl fucks a hundred. Who is the slut?

 

[rgraham666]

Maybe it would. I think people let go here, which is cool, but faced with a porn star. or even porn person?

Quite frankly porn people are the best checked disease free - getting sidetracked by IM - people. So a guy has an 11 inch cock, and a girl has a take it pussy. Is the girl a slut? A whore? Lets bring it to RL. A guy fucks two hundred women, and a girl fucks a hundred. Who is the slut?

Hey, if I get to fuck two hundred women, you can call me any goddamn thing you want.

 

[CharleyH]

Hey, if I get to fuck two hundred women, you can call me any goddamn thing you want.

HA! I bet Yet thread die why? AT LEAST RG is positive

 

[rgraham666]

HA! I bet Yet thread die why? AT LEAST RG is positive

Hey! You said you wouldn't tell anyone!