Join Date: May 2009

Smile.Your.Under.Arrest - Operation.Fashion.Show


The Fox Reality Channel is one of the most addictive substances on the planet. You don't tune in with any expectation of entertainment value or enlightening philosophical knowledge that will help you understand the universe and all of its foilbles.
It's the broadcast equivalent of a really bad cold sore, the kind you know deep down will only go away if you just leave it alone. But the longer you leave it be, the more you can hear it calling your name, begging you to touch it, asking you to fondle it, pleading with you to lick it like a drunken prom date.
Every time my remote fumbles past the FRC in search of something worth watching, it's hard not to stop in and see just how low they can sink to grab your attention. My mind always asks the same question when I dare to poke the reality show behemoth with a stick during its slumber: 'Just how low can the network that created Cops, World's Wildest Police Chases, and When Animals Attack 2 go?' As it turns out, pretty damn low as evidenced by Smile...You're Under Arrest.
The show aims to be a Punk'd cross-bred with America's Most Wanted in that it hopes to do a little right by doing a little wrong. Actors and producers team up with a sheriff's office -- in this case, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office led by the infamous Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- to trick wanted criminals into showing up at staged events, where they will be arrested by undercover officers.
The pranks are pretty unimaginative and dull. One episode features the cast of four staging a fake fashion show with the victims being used as amateur fashion models in their 'Average Guy' line of clothing. The cast members take their characters completely over the top, particularly the hip hop, sideways-cap-sporting fashion designer who would get a 'Tone it down' from Vanilla Ice. The overacting is more cringe-worthy than watching your dog being autopsied.
They take the dupes through the motions, getting him or her to say various embarrassing and ironic catchphrases that should have tipped them off that they were about to be busted. Then, just as they lower the boom, they have two uniformed deputies place them in handcuffs and haul them away, with cameras capturing their flushed facial expressions. So, even if you don't feel the shame of getting off on their misfortune, you have to sit through whole minutes of dreck just for five seconds of surprised humiliation, leaving your id frustrated and blue by the end of the show.
The sickest part of the show isn't the trickery they use to dupe the warrant dodgers into getting pinched. It's the way they justify such mind-blowingly bad television with the illusion of doing a good deed. Sandwiched between the pranks are footage of the actors and the sheriff talking about the good their show is accomplishing. They talk about how good their work makes them feel, helping the deputies do their job and get people who waste tax dollars by not showing up to court and causing harm to the general public off the streets.
It's a thin, weak and wussy way of protecting the show from public scrutiny and giving it carte blanche to turn law enforcement into their three-ring circus of *censored**censored**censored**censored*.
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Joseph M. Arpaio, America’s Toughest Sheriff ! He has a new reality show called “Smile You’re Under Arrest.” Beginning December 27, 2008…persons with outstanding warrants are tricked into presenting themselves for arrest.The series will trick individuals with outstanding warrants into thinking they’re being awarded with prizes or money ,when in fact the police are waiting to arrest them. It premiers December 27th at 4PM on the Fox Reality channel.
Just in case you have been in a cave and haven’t heard of him, he is undoubtedly America’s toughest sheriff. Some of the outrageous changes he made in the Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix, Arizona was to erect Tent City Jail. It was started in 1993. He got some surplus military tents.
Sheriff Joe decided he would not release any inmates due to jail overcrowding, and housed sentenced inmates in the tents.It seemed a good idea! Currently The Tent City Jail can hold up to 2,000 inmates which houses both men and women.
Some of the more outrageous and comical changes he did included prisoners having to live without smoking, coffee and pornographic magazines! If you think that’s bad they have to eat bologna sandwiches. Now here’s the really fun stuff. The most famous of course is, he issues pink boxer shorts and pink handcuffs. He also has no tolerance for dead beat parents. Another cost effective measure he instituted to save us taxpayers money, was to eliminate salt and pepper from the jail (at a purported taxpayer savings of $20,000/year). You either love or hate this guy but hey I kinda like him. I don’t care what his detractors say about him. Now if you think all of that is bad wait til you hear this, he banned inmates from possessing “sexually explicit material” including Playboy magazine. Female officers complained that inmates openly masturbated while viewing them, or harassed the officers by comparing their anatomy to the nude photos in the publications. The ban was challenged on First Amendment
Now there is no doubt Sheriff Joe is tough but in all fairness he has a program called ‘Hard Knocks High’ which is the only approved high school program of any American Jail. Another jail program, is called ALPHA it is aimed solely at getting inmates away from drug abuse.
In 2007 Joe started his own radio station KJOE, which broadcasts classical music, opera, Frank Sinatra hits, obscenity-free patriotic music, and educational programming !
If we had more law enforcement people thinking like Joe, this world would be a better place, In fact he is just who we need to straighten out Congress and get our Federal Budget in order !