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100 things I learned from watching S.W.A.T.

posted 15 years ago by glennwatts2003
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OK, I'll start this one off:

1 - LAPD is sponsored by Dr Pepper

2 - You can get a knife through aiport security if you say it was a present from your Father

3 - If your car has a broken tail light (it always will if you are trying not to be noticed by the police) the police will always pull you over and demand to see your id

4 - If the SWAT team has screwed up recently, the obvious thing to do is put together a new elite SWAT team

5 - Elite SWAT teams should always contain 5 members - preferably including some who have history/bad blood, a good looking woman, a rapper who can't run properly and a traitor - oh, and also include the disgraced former SWAT team member whos screw up led to the creation of the elite team

6 - The best person to head up this team is a retired guy who you hate

7 - If you disagree with the choice of the team, back down immediately

8 - If your girlfriend is packing her bags to leave you - don't ask why, just kiss her on the forehead and do a training montage

9 - Baddies are always foreign

10 - The media will not only repeatedly show the bad guy offering to pay $100,000,000 to anyone who will free him, but also repeatedly confirm the fact that he is definitely good for the money

[–] Gregboy55 15 years ago

11. Even tho its clear that ratting out your partner will get you back on swat immedietly, spending 6 months in the cage will still make you look suspicious..

[–] Gregboy55 15 years ago

12. once you help the rich guy escape, collect your money and become a international fugitive, your number 1 thing on the to do list will be to get lakers courtside seats.

[–] daniellawhead 15 years ago

Hilarious!! Where's the other 90 things you learned??

[–] Nizzemancer-1 13 years ago

The way these threads work is that everyone fill in as many as they can think of.

Light travels faster than sound,
that's why people seem bright,
until you hear them.

[–] tyshimah3 14 years ago

a rapper who can't run properly? really? hmmm.. he ran just FINE to me.

13. Forget that your shift's been over for 12 hours... What the hell? Mount up!

14. Don't beat someone so badly that you can't get a rematch.

**Michael.JACKSON**

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[–] blood_summit 14 years ago

20. Bankrobbers will always be constantly in a rage/panic/both spectacularly incompetent (i.e; shouting "shut up I'm thinking!") in comparison to the professional SWAT team despite being armed to the teeth and having had plenty of planning time and resources.

21. The best way to blow a gate off it's hinges is with a mine as no other cutting tools are practical.

[–] go-yankees 13 years ago

16. Michelle Rodriguez hates when kids play with hoola hoops (anyone catch that part??)

I just watched that part - are you referring to how she walked right in front of that girl that was doing a hoola hoop twirl? It was like she was told a stage direction and did it without considering her surroundings.

[–] toky-world 14 years ago

22. A limo catches up with a Learjet no problem.

23. A limo gets special armor against exploded vehicles and bullets if main characters are on board.

24. Spite the fact that you can use explosives to block their persuit, or use it in an ambush. It is mean to not give them a chance.

25. It is not idiotic to send every available unit to the airport and not issue a city-wide APB on inusual activity or Gamble.

26. It is very american to send a motorcade through the main streets of LA, spite the fact you know there are people trying to liberate. That does not endanger civilians at all.

27. You can sue the PD spite the fact that SWAT saved your sorry *ss. I guess fleshwound is more unacceptable than a bullet in the head shot by criminals. You could totally get millons.

[–] toky-world 14 years ago

28. nobody ever reads the swat board lol

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[–] JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies 14 years ago

The one thing I learned was "S.W.A.T. is an excellent film". It's too bad the receipts weren't better, because I would have loved sequels.

http://www.rateyourmusic.com/~JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies

[–] ffnogoodnik 14 years ago

29. A bank robber can be shooting an automatic weapon outside the bank without any protective gear for his head and the sniper will not fire until the robber gets into a vehicle

30. The bank robbers can be surrounded by cops have two of their men outside shooting and one of the robbers inside will yell "send out a body to show them we are serious" LOL

sig: I'm actually thinking he should thank Jack, then Cole, then maybe me.

[–] firefightinfonz 14 years ago

31. (This should have been number one) It is completely okay for a group of the most respected and elite of police officers to go out drinking all night and then drive home. This annoyed me more then anything else in the film, that it would advocate driving home after drinking (they're all obviously drunk, all of them are acting silly or "slurring.") in a film where the story line revolves around the most respectable and elite of police officers. Epic fail.

[–] Loodgookin 10 years ago

I notice this a lot in TV programs and movies.

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[–] toky-world 14 years ago

lol I never really caught that. 100% true.

I guess they're trying to appeal younger crowds for being cool (and idiots).

An officer would know that DUI is not tolerated. Nevermind that they are elite group. Any regular cop would know better.

[–] corek1949 14 years ago

32. Even if you have only one bullet in your gun and have a really bad hand wound when your ex-buddy stabbed a knife through it, you should discard the bullet and go against your ex-buddy mano o mano, and not shoot said ex-buddy in the knee cap to teach him not to stab you through the hand.

[–] txinvestigator 14 years ago

Wow, so many of you are so far off on so many of those..............

[–] Burning_Sosobra 10 years ago

Not necessarily. I have an old college drinking buddy that's a cop and he got pulled over for a DUI while on a camping trip. So cops drink and drive and make stupid mistakes, just like the rest of us. I've never gotten a DUI before personally, but a few friends of mine have, including the cop obviously.

Well don't just do something, stand there!

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[–] shogun917 14 years ago

A police captain can mistake a Beretta 92 and a Tec 9... both handguns, for an AK 47 rifle.

[–] simpleenuff 14 years ago

33 - Sometimes doing the right thing, isn't doing the right thing.

[–] darksoulnohope 14 years ago

34 - A semi-professionally executed (cept for that guy with the shopping cart firing the HK-5 at cops out in the open) snatch and grab operation of approximately 25 or so gangsters which kills one SWAT officer, somehow magically disappears all but 3 of them whom get easily captured or killed when the lead gangster realizes they've been had.

(seriously, the gangsters were able to get a force of two truck loads of gangsters which blocked in the motorcade and did some pretty good cover fire which pinned down the SWAT there and that gang also used smoke grenades for cover. One shot out two LAW rocket launchers which successfully destroyed two cruisers and further trapped the officers inside that were left. Then in the conclusion without any edits of what happened to the other gangsters, all that were left were three of them!?! Great video editing! If this was real life, all those policemen (including the SWAT team) would unfortunately be dead (they were outnumbered and outgunned) even though they never would have gotten the prisoner due to it being a ruse)

[–] dodgers_devotee 14 years ago

35. It is possible to obtain a LAPD officer's uniform and car to break out your criminal boss from a LASD prisoner's bus.

36. It's possible for a Leerjet to land and take off from the 6th Street Bridge in Downtown Los Angeles.

You've wasted 5-10 seconds of your time reading this signature I've posted.

[–] tHe_cRacKfOx 14 years ago

37. all swat team members have to share a code name involving a number with "David" tagged on the end
38. surprisingly, wading around in a sewer makes you smell like sh!t
39. even though you have been a member of one of the most elte military units in the world you are stll a bit of a mavarick, prone to being unpredictable and head strong.

my best mate ran off with my wife...
i don't 'alf miss 'im

[–] Democracy_is_Intransitive 14 years ago

Cops that drink french champagne are impressive.

It's apparently very hard to find baby sitters in the LA area.

Financing the development of polish penetrator may be an excellent investment opportunity

The proper police procedure for running through a parade is to remove your baton and twirl it about artfully in your palm.

Halle Berry is hire-able as a yoga instructor for a price lower then 16 million dollars.

Bad Thai-food is an acceptable excuse for tardiness.

[–] mattibamcky 13 years ago

46. We should remind Michelle Rodriguez to buy some shares in kevlar.

[–] infiniteknot 13 years ago

47. Hondo does look like I.A. to Sanchez.

[–] Mykel_13 12 years ago

The proper police procedure for running through a parade is to remove your baton and twirl it about artfully in your palm.

Lmfao!! I noticed this during the movie and thought 'wtf???'

Paper... snow.... A GHOST!!

[–] Loodgookin 10 years ago

I picked up on that too, was like dude, you are still way too far away to worry about having you baton out. The hell were they thinking. I believe he was still holding it out after the guy had been caught.

[–] carpet_seller 13 years ago

48. I can do an application form whilst not watching, and by the end of the film didn't miss anything.

49. A SWAT team sargent will just sit there and ask "So what are you going to do now?" whilst watching one of his crew who has gone over to the dark side holding a gun to his head to commit suicide.

50. When setting a trip grenade on a trap door, always leave enough slack in the wire to enable your enemies to open the door slightly and cut the wire.