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Where the hell are the police!?!?!?

posted 16 years ago by Vassili17
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Seriously. They blow a huge hole in the middle of an LA street. Drive like maniacs. Shoot guns all over the place. And not one single cop shows up. You don't even hear a single siren.
Also at the beginning when Theron's character is driving her Mini Cooper through the streets, she goes about 100000 miles per hour over the speed limit passes in a no passing zone and does a freaky slide turn in front of oncoming traffic into a parallel parking spot. Not a single LAPD officer seems to notice this.
I mean there's a certain degree of this i can take but this was just ridiculous.

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[–] taffy_turner 16 years ago

Well first of all it's only a stupid film and a bad one at that.

As for the original/real/proper/classic Mini Cooper that Theron's character drives, well considering it's size (yes real Minis are meant to be very small, unlike the fat German BMW fake versions that appeared in this film) and so perhaps it's size and agility fell beneath the average Cops radar?

If she'd been driving a 59' Cadillac or something equally huge and Titanic like, then perhaps they wouldn't have failed to respond?

Okay I'm just being obtuse and yes she'd have got pulled over. Although being a leggy blonde would probably mean she'd get let off with a stern talking too and an exchange of phone numbers?

Plus the Cops would probably want to know all about the delights of the original proper British Mini, since chances are they'd never seen one before because America resisted it along with The Beatles (and no, not the VW variety).

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[–] TinyTophat 16 years ago

Also...

Where are the subway turnstiles? How could they drive through the whole subway system without going through turnstiles?

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[–] Vladimir_Horowitz 15 years ago

Lol, nobody cares about Mini Coopers, dude. ESPECIALLY cops. You really think a police officer is going to pull over one of these silly lookin' things and start asking questions about it?

"Whoa, this thing is SMALL! I never seen one of THESE buggers before! Anyway...license and registration."

Haha, no. Americans like to laugh at European oddities, but we're not exactly impressed by them...sorry.

[–] taffy_turner 15 years ago

Lol, nobody cares about Mini Coopers, dude. ESPECIALLY cops. You really think a police officer is going to pull over one of these silly lookin' things and start asking questions about it?

"Whoa, this thing is SMALL! I never seen one of THESE buggers before! Anyway...license and registration."

Haha, no. Americans like to laugh at European oddities, but we're not exactly impressed by them...sorry.

Well the BMW variety is a very silly car. But the British original (as designed by the late Alec Issigonis) was one of the most influential cars ever created.

Plus it won the Monte Carlo Rally 4 times outright and was the first truly classless cars.

Oh and lots of American celebrities owned original Mini Coopers, like Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen and Mike Nesmith (of The Monkees) for starters. At least they knew a great little car when they saw one.

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[–] tub64128 16 years ago

stuck in traffic obviously

[–] mayank_t2 16 years ago

[q]stuck in traffic obviously[/q]

lol, good answer.

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[–] gnome-5 15 years ago

I think the Napster says that, by hacking the traffic system, he'll be able to tie up the police. Presumably he's also routing the minis around the spots where the police are tied up, so we never see them.

"Also at the beginning when Theron's character is driving her Mini Cooper through the streets, she goes about 100000 miles per hour over the speed limit passes in a no passing zone and does a freaky slide turn in front of oncoming traffic into a parallel parking spot. Not a single LAPD officer seems to notice this."

This is appropriate, because she isn't in Los Angeles at that point, she's in Philadelphia.

[–] LegacyOfFear 15 years ago

"Also at the beginning when Theron's character is driving her Mini Cooper through the streets, she goes about 100000 miles per hour over the speed limit passes in a no passing zone and does a freaky slide turn in front of oncoming traffic into a parallel parking spot. Not a single LAPD officer seems to notice this."

This is appropriate, because she isn't in Los Angeles at that point, she's in Philadelphia.

Good spotting! lmao I bet the OP feels a bit stink about that haha

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[–] vince4953529 15 years ago

The police are too busy issuing speeding at jaywalking tickets.