Tru TV

I don't watch much TV, but I like to have it going when I'm eating. However long that takes. My normal channels are the news channels, except Fox, which I don't watch.

Lately I've been turning it over to Tru TV and alternating between it and Discovery. Tru TV has a lot of cops shows. Those are OK, but the real exciting stuff are the shows called "Most Shocking" and stuff like that. Where insane stuff is happening and they just happen to have it on video.

There are plenty of cop videos, like where the perp goes nuts during an arrest or trying to avoid an arrest. One thing I've noticed is that police car videos are hardly ever in the focus. It seems like they'd work on the video technology and clear things up a bit.

Some of the Most Shocking stuff is pretty shocking, like an Alzheimer's patient driving a car on the wrong side of a busy freeway. You know it's already past, and they don't seem to show videos where people got killed. But still you think, I'd hate to see that guy coming at me.

Today there was one where a lottery winner was cashing in his ticket at the convenience store and a truck came barreling through the wall, just missing the guy by about a foot. There was another convenience store -- gas station place -- where someone fell asleep and here they come, wiping out a gas pump, then into the store. Everyone looks terrified, which is exactly what you'd feel like.

As for the "Cops" show, the show that goes by that name, it has its moments. Some of it's pretty boring, since they're just documenting actual police shifts. They zero in on some guy, they get him arrested, but he's not arrested for much. One of the ones tonight, he had honked his horn in a residential area and that was disturbance of the peace. Hardly exciting enough to bother us with, but they did bash out his driver's side window. That's a high price to pay for honking your horn, but he really should have pulled over when they turned on the lights.