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Couldn't Rocky have phoned in an anonymous tip about blind man?

posted 8 years ago by JJett131313
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i don't see how the cops wouldn't have searched the ENTIRE basement/house and found proof that the kidnapped girl had been there (her blood would have been all over where she was shot/killed) but wouldn't Rocky, once in Cali, have phoned in an anonymous tip revealing more about the fact this blind guy had kidnapped the rich girl and had impregnated her, etc. etc? Rocky (and her fellow scummy thieve friends) wasn't a likable person per se but i would hope she would have tipped off authorities about the blind man so that he wouldn't be able to kidnap/rape/impregnate anyone else again.

[–] C_h_r_i_s_t_o_p_h_e_r 8 years ago

Yeah there's many many problems with the plot in this movie if you think about it. The biggest one for me is how the police never bothered to check for the kidnapped girl at the blind mans house. He'd obviously be the number 1 suspect. I feel like this plot hole could've easily been explained too. Maybe the blind man could've said a line about how the girl was supposed to be moving far away to _________ when he abducted her and no one suspects a thing. Or something similar to that would've at least made more sense. Also how would he even kidnap her in the first place with his disability. Oh well I still found it a solid film even despite all the problems.

[–] JJett131313 8 years ago

that's a good point! i thought it was sort of pushing credulity that he's dragging her slowly down the street in the opening scene. i understand most of those houses were empty/abandoned but there was NO ONE at all in any nearby location/houses that would see this slow/blind/creepy man dragging an unconscious woman down the middle of the street?

[–] Darkdemonqueen 8 years ago

In Detroit it's like that.... There are entire neighborhoods that have been abandoned and that no lives in or goes near. I found it harder to believe the police got there so fast. I heard their response times to some of those bad neighborhoods in Detroit can take up to an hour or more.

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[–] king_of_bob 8 years ago

Nope. We're explicitly told that nobody lives in the neighborhood. His is the only occupied house in the area. That's why his house seemed like such a good target. They didn't have to worry about being seen because nobody but the blind guy lives there and the police don't patrol the area for that exact reason.

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[–] king_of_bob 8 years ago

The problem with your problem is that it's based on the assumption that police can just enter and search a persons home. They cannot. There needs to be evidence of his involvement before a judge will sign a search warrant for his house. The fact that he would probably be the prime suspect isn't evidence.

And IF a judge did sign off on a warrant without sufficient evidence everything the police find in that search is inadmissible in court.

Even with his alarm going off at the end. He doesn't have to let the police search his house, since there's no apparent evidence of a crime from the outside. He could just say he hit the wrong button because he's blind and the police go away.

Also how would he even kidnap her in the first place with his disability. Oh well I still found it a solid film even despite all the problems.

Given how capable he is shown to be in the movie, I don't think kidnapping her is entirely out of the realm of possibility.

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[–] rubycalaberXX 8 years ago

there was an understanding between them at the end that he wont mention there was a third thief who got money and she wont mention the girl and vice versa since both dont want to go to prison

[–] king_of_bob 8 years ago

An anonymous tip isn't nearly enough to secure a search warrant for the house. So no. It would have done absolutely nothing. Police can't just walk into your house and search it because someone gives them a tip. They need actual evidence first before a judge will sign off on a search warrant.

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