Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:40:52 +0000, "Marcus L. Rowland"
<forgottenfutures@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>There's something like it in Stirling's _The Peshewar(?sp) Lancers_ too. 
>Terrorists choose a REALLY bad crowd to attack.

Wonderful sequence in "Hill Street Blues" when a couple of random
thugs decide to stick up a small diner near the Hill.  I forget
exactly *why* the cops had taken the joint over - some sort of sting -
but the bad boys find themselves looking at about seven or eight
hideout guns in the hands of all the "customers" and the "short order
cook" - including a shotgun that came out from under the coat of the
"win" sleeping it off in the doorway next door".

OTOH, in the (more or less) Real World there was the hapless fellow
who (allo unknowing) attempted to rob the bank right around the corner
from the local FBI Field Office - at lunchtime on payday.

And, from the "Trivia" section for the film "Leon" ("The
Professional") on IMDB:

"During the filming involving all of the police cars on the street, a
man ran from a store he had just robbed. When he encountered the movie
set by accident, he saw all of the "police" and gave himself up to a
bunch of uniformed extras."