If you smoke marijuana - Dragnet 1967 (1967) Discussion

[–] joshwor1 10 years ago

In real life people forget about their babies just because they get distracted with normal activities like running errands, going to work, talking on the phone, etc., and so their baby ends up dying in the back of the car..... Statistically, this happens once every eight minutes. So, maybe not so far-fetched.

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[–] jackgriffin1-1 10 years ago

They didn't show a baby dying because parents were running errands. They blamed marijuana. Mentalities like this are the reason that pot is still illegal in most parts of the US 50 years later.

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[–] Lordfogg 10 years ago

The reason marijuana is illegal in the U.S. is because legalizing it would cripple the pharmaceutical business.

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[–] cynic2all 10 years ago

Yeah, whatever happens in Dragnet is intended to mean it will be true in all such circumstances. By that reasoning....

if you invite a buddy home to watch a game, a burglar will try to break into your neighbor's house.

if you release a juvenile offender on a misdemeanor assault charge, he will threaten a party with a hand grenade.

any man who insists on being addressed as "Mr.____" will rob everyone he knows blind without scruples.

if a baby Jesus statue is stolen from a church, a little boy will bring it back in a red wagon.

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[–] montgomerydou55 10 years ago

If I were to see your ink cartridge I would probably find a skull and crossbones.
Lay off Dragnet.

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[–] cynic2all 10 years ago

I don't know what you mean by that, but I'm a big fan of Dragnet, just making fun of the reasoning in the OP.

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[–] montgomerydou55 10 years ago

That's like saying:
If you invite admiring citizens to line up and shake hands, one will hide a gun in a fake bandage and shoot you point-blank. (President McKinley)
If you wake up kind of late on a Sunday morning in December, and you think of Christmas approaching, a squadron of enemy planes will bomb your naval base. (Pearl Harbor)
If you sell guns in a surplus store on an arterial street, a band of extremists will get some of the guns and start a shootout with the police. (SLA and Patty Hearst)
If you fail to slow down when you hear a siren and see flashing red and blue lights, you will be pulled over and hit over the head with nightsticks, eventually causing a major series of riots. (Rodney King)

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[–] bmister-35191 10 years ago

This episode was a missed opportunity. It would have been believable if the drug was heroin or alcohol. That would have sent a strong message.
Using marijuana makes this episode a laughable period piece. Jack Webb looks like very naieve shill for police propaganda. Go smoke another carton Joe. How did that work out for you?

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[–] ck1-5 10 years ago

It would have helped their credibility if they had used an actual baby in the tub; the "dead" girl in the tub looked old enough to me to have not just laid face first in the water and drowned.

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[–] cataclysm1071 9 years ago

Agreed. Jack Webb's addiction to good ol legal cigs and booze killed him at a relatively young age of 60 something...I am not a user of weed and don't particularly care for it personally...but I have never heard of it killing the amount of people that cigarettes and alcohol do.

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[–] montgomerydou55 9 years ago

I could have done that once...about that time my stepfather's niece and her husband left me in charge of their seven-month-old baby daughter. I almost missed seeing the little girl work a nut loose from the hardware on her playpen and swallow it. I promptly upended her and smacked her between the shoulder blades; the nut fell out of her mouth. Otherwise she might have spent the last forty-five years in a pine box.

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[–] emjee-1 10 years ago

"The story you have just seen IS TRUE..."

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