The movie. Towards the end, the cops who were tasked with watching Guy trail him to the amusement park. Is there any justification, in the universe of the movie, for the one cop to take out his pistol, on a crowded midway, and try to shoot him? He wasn’t going anywhere. And that’s when the carny running the carrousel gets shot and killed. No tears were shed for him. It would have been great if the runaway carrousel, when it collapsed, had killed the cop as well as Bruno.
None at all. It’s like when Bert the cop takes a shot at crazy George in Pottersville and manages to not hit a person while he shoots out a letter in the sign.
It was a weird time.
Yes, it was pretty stupid of the cop, since Guy was shouting at Bruno very loudly at the time, and was running towards Bruno and the carousel. But I’m sure he got a stern talking-to from his gruff but soft-hearted superior officer, the next day back in the office.