Using an AED on a patient with a stopped heart will do nothing. Asystole is a non-shockable “rhythm.” An AED (Automatic/Automated External Defibrillator) is only effective at shocking a heart to attempt to get it to revert to normal rhythm. It’s ineffective on a stopped heart,
Also, in my 8+ years as an EMT, I can count the number of patients that have had CPR performed on them and lived. It’s in single digits. Generally, unless you witness the person going down, CPR will be started too late to be effective.
If I figured out who the killer was, I would not confront them alone in an isolated place. I’d call the cops.
Evan Hunter once remarked to his wife: If I die, don’t call the snoopy next door lady who is always finding bodies and solving mysteries. Call the cops." This idea led to his creation of the 87th Precient mysteries under the nom de plum of Ed McBain.
Similarly, if you win at poker in real life, it’s probably with something simple like a pair or two pair. And if by some extreme chance in real life your first four cards are the KQJ10 of diamonds, you’re not hoping for the Ace of Diamonds. You’re hoping for any ace or 9 to complete the straight, or any diamond to complete the flush, or any KQJ10 to complete the pair, or for your opponent to have no hand and nothing higher than a Q. If you win at poker in a movie, it’s always a royal flush. Movie poker skill consists in being really good at luck.
Speaking of, I doubt cities dramatically go dark block by block (“Chunk! Chunk!”) when the power station goes offline.
My old college dorm elevator had a stop button. It also had an alarm that would ring when it was stopped. I think students would try to stop it either for nookie or else just to “see what it does” because you’d heard the alarm fairly often, especially in the beginning of the semester when the building had new residents.
Although this does happen on some betacam machines I’ve used, but yeah not on regular VCRs.
When looking through binoculars, the image you see is not in a figure eight shape, it’s a circle. This one is really annoying because unlike say, knocking someone unconscious or blowing up a car, who hasn’t looked through binoculars at some point in their life?! You *know *you don’t see two circles!
I always roll my eyes when one character calls another character and says, “turn on the TV”. The call recipient invariably turns the TV on and it’s not only tuned to the correct channel for the news broadcast, but the story is just now beginning. Most markets have several local stations, as well as the normal four news channels, and yet the one that’s needed pops up immediately… and they’ve been holding the related news story for just the right moment.
I don’t get why this, and the parking tropes, and the drive time tropes, upset people. Of course it isn’t real. Real is BORING, especially when one is trying to tell a story in 43 minutes (or 2 hours in the case of a movie). Seconds on screen matter, and no one wants to wait while the new smart plasma TV and cable box boot up, unless it is plot related. No one wants to watch people circle blocks in NYC looking for parking then walking blocks to get where one really wants to go in a 22 minute sitcom. Some things need to be let go for the sake of expediency in moving the plot.
Actually, I’m ‘with’ a lot of this thread. The stuff about elevators and (lack of) concussions shown in TV and movies (and let’s not even mention CSI stuff) just promotes ignorance versus being done just to shave time.
And another thing: I love the movie Point Break (the original, not the utter crap fest remake) but at the end of the movie when Johnny Utah jumps out of the plane without a parachute with the intent of catching up to Bodi, who has already jumped, is the most improbable thing ever.
You can’t fall faster than someone else and catch up to them - they would’ve both maintained the same free fall speed until a parachute was pulled.
Are you sure about that? Things only fall at the same speed in a vacuum. If one jumper maximises air resistance, and the other streamlines, then they will fall at different speeds, won’t they?
I’ll concede you do have a point. One is artistic license - to keep a story moving, or to maintain suspense - and the other is just being wrong about something. I suppose getting the suspect to admit everything, including elaborating to fill in the blanks, falls somewhere in the middle.
Yeah, and I would think that a guy wearing a parachute pack will have more wind resistance than someone who doesn’t. Now, steering yourself and intersecting with the first jumper seems pretty farfetched for a novice.
A nice touch in “Rounders” was that the protagonist wins the climactic hand by flopping a fairly ordinary straight. Nothing fancy about it; he plays 8-9 suited, flops 6-7-10 rainbow, and the turn and river are total bricks. It’s a much more likely scenario for someone to completely stack the other guy than the usual “hit a straight flush on the river” nonsense.
