Alec Baldwin Rust trial to begin this week

[postman]

Would you take the chance of putting those in a gun, pointing it at an innocent woman, and pulling the trigger?

If I was an actor, and a trained, licensed and certified prop master loaded the gun for the scene , then YES.

No different than I would get on an airplane that was maintained by FAA certified mechanics, without inspecting the plane for myself.

 

[the watcher]

Real or fake?

Let me see the primer end and the other side of the case and I will tell you. IF he had checked the cylinder and loads and still couldn't tell he shouldn't have fired. Hollywood crap notwithstanding he didn't exercise reasonable care. He assumed too much, like you're assuming.

 

[postman]

i saw a few hand grenades in that movie and never noticed they were marked as props.

does the blue handle indicate gas or armor piercing or something?

The military uses blue to indicate inert or practice munitions. Whether hand grenades or artillery shells.

 

[rampart]

If I was an actor, and a trained, licensed and certified prop master loaded the gun for the scene , then YES.

No different than I would get on an airplane that was maintained by FAA certified mechanics, without inspecting the plane for myself.

if i was a marine. if a trained certified mos armorer warrant officer handed me a gun i would check the chamber and magazine and check the safety.

 

[postman]

Let me see the primer end and the other side of the case and I will tell you. IF he had checked the cylinder and loads and still couldn't tell he shouldn't have fired. Hollywood crap notwithstanding he didn't exercise reasonable care. He assumed too much, like you're assuming.

What about when Chuck Norris pulled the pin on a hand grenade?
If he couldn't tell, should he have refused to do the scene.
That would have made for a very short movie career.

Should Sylvester Stallone have refused to shoot the explosive arrow in Rambo?

In your world actors would be pointing their fingers at each other and going "Bang, Bang, you're dead !!!"

 

[postman]

if i was a marine. if a trained certified mos armorer warrant officer handed me a gun i would check the chamber and magazine and check the safety.

Would you verify the head spacing? Or do you leave the important stuff to somebody else?

 

[marvin martian]

If I was an actor, and a trained, licensed and certified prop master loaded the gun for the scene , then YES.

No different than I would get on an airplane that was maintained by FAA certified mechanics, without inspecting the plane for myself.

Then you're just as careless and stupid as Alec Baldwin, and you too would deserve to be in jail.

You two could be cellies, and jerk off to Trump pictures together.

 

[rampart]

The military uses blue to indicate inert or practice munitions. Whether hand grenades or artillery shells.

yes. i have seen blue 5" rounds and they were inert but that might not work on film.

 

[postman]

Then you're just as careless and stupid as Alec Baldwin, and you too would deserve to be in jail.

You two could be cellies, and jerk off to Trump pictures together.

Then I take it, you inspect the commercial airliner, before you get on the plane?

 

[marvin martian]

Then I take it, you inspect the commercial airliner, before you get on the plane?

If I'm the pilot, absolutely.

You wouldn't.

 

[the watcher]

You are getting worked up on hypotheticals without thinking it through If you were the driver of a vehicle and someone told you the train isn't coming and you drove on to the tracks anyway, you might be technically at fault, but the responsibility would be shared, just like with Mr. Baldwin. He didn't exercise due diligence, you can't waive responsibility.

 

[Blaster]

GUILTY!

 

[postman]

If I'm the pilot, absolutely.

You wouldn't.

I'm talking as a passenger.

Just like Alec Baldwin was just a passenger on the movie set. You had a prop master, who like the pilot, was the one trained and certified and responsible, to do the inspection.

 

[postman]

You are getting worked up on hypotheticals without thinking it through If you were the driver of a vehicle and someone told you the train isn't coming and you drove on to the tracks anyway, you might be technically at fault, but the responsibility would be shared, just like with Mr. Baldwin. He didn't exercise due diligence, you can't waive responsibility.

John Lithgow was handed an atomic bomb in the movie The Manhattan Project.

Slim Pickens rode a hydrogen bomb in Dr. Strangeove

 

[protectionist]

I really don't have a lot of sympathy for the guy, after his negative portrayls of Trump, in Saturday Night Live. With this situation though, we all would have to have been involved in a major movie like this, to really know how things are done, and what is generally expected of people.

Looking from the outside as best as we can see, it looks like he's not guilty of anything more than just handling a movie prop that somebody else didnt set up properly. And didnt that person already get convicted of something ?

 

[the watcher]

The trial is live on the law and order channel. As usual, the defense is trying to stir up the mud so bad with film industry toadies that the jury may very well convict Chuck Norris before it's over. At stake is the right in Merica to make snuff films.

 

[JoeB131]

This thread aged like milk!

 

[there4eyeM]

As was apparent to some of us from the start, this incident has been dealt with as it should have been; thrown out.