# I'm rewatching every episode of Columbo

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**Created:** [October 27, 2021, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-rewatching-every-episode-of-columbo/953309 "2021-10-27T12:45:36Z")\
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> Columbo says 'there’s no way you’d assume this witness was blind unless you had been there to see the actual blind brother pass you as you walked away from the murder site!"

That makes no damn sense! Let’s see Columbo try THAT in court.

And it reminds me of the Laurence Harvey episode, where LH killed a guy by pushing him into an industrial shredder. It was supposed to look like an accident.

But the machine had a safety stop, so the guy lived, for a while. Columbo says the machinery makes a lot of noise, so only a deaf person, such as LH’s character, would assume that the machine kept running and walk away. A hearing person would have went back to see why it stopped, and I assume be sure he was dead.

But, if it had actually been an accident, then the crime scene would have been exactly the same! Poor Laurence, not only stuck with a weak episode, but with a wired hearing aid the size of a transistor radio.

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