Tonight they advertised that you can watch reruns online now. I enjoy hearing the stories of all the dumb asses who get locked up.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/videos/player.html?channel=60850&category=60666

5/7/2009 2:24:52 AM

entertainment?

5/7/2009 2:28:15 AM

I clicked this thread in high hopes of seeing a live feed of a Seiko behind bars in an Afghani cell.

5/7/2009 3:59:14 AM

you'd probably lock up a broad in your basement

5/7/2009 6:59:03 AM

^ lol.

5/7/2009 8:17:16 AM

^^LOL!

5/7/2009 12:37:15 PM

^^^ parody thread ITT

5/7/2009 12:38:17 PM

WOW! Did anyone else just watch tonights episode? The cops put the wrong name with the wrong finger prints, but then discovered their mistake. They then kept the guy locked up because they wanted to save their face and not admit they made a mistake.

I don't think I will ever travel to Indonesia.

5/13/2009 11:05:37 PM

I just watched the India episode online. They deserved to be locked up after taking a ride with someone they didn't know.

7/21/2009 3:23:59 PM

who is watch and why did he lock up a broad online

7/21/2009 3:25:55 PM

^It looks like they have some good episodes coming up this summer. The Sierra Leone episode should be interesting. There is no info about it online, but I will asume it has to do with the Civil War which I did a research paper for in HI 479.

7/21/2009 3:40:44 PM

interesting show, but each episode is about half an hour longer than it should be

7/21/2009 3:40:58 PM

^Yeh they like to drag it out. I'm actually getting into watching "Escaped" and "I Shouldn't Be Alive." I think it was "I Shouldn't Be Alive" that did an episode on Jonestown. The episodes of "Escaped" that I have watched were both about men capturing women to be used as sex slaves which is pretty sick.

7/21/2009 3:44:27 PM

good link btw, i wish 'taboo' was online

7/21/2009 4:57:11 PM

did you see the one where the anthropologist eats a big heaping helping of people-stew to "broaden his horizons"
i think that sums up our current scientific culture pretty succinctly

7/21/2009 5:22:35 PM

Not an entirely new concept:

7/21/2009 5:25:30 PM

check out my cat

[Edited on July 21, 2009 at 5:30 PM. Reason : donde esta el sanitario]

7/21/2009 5:29:34 PM

Well tonights episode was interesting. The lady didn't even know she was smuggling drugs because her friend cut her bag open to hide cocaine in it and then glued it back together. I'm looking forward to next weeks Sierra Leone episode. I did my research paper for HI 479 on the civil war in that country. The trailer online mentioned how the British soldier is confronted by the RUF. For those who don't know, the RUF was the rebel group that tried to take over the diamond mines and control the country during the Civil War.

[Edited on July 30, 2009 at 2:13 AM. Reason : .]

7/30/2009 2:05:54 AM

WOW! I knew the RUF chopped off Africans arms and legs, but I didn't realize they skinned UN soldiers and believed that eating a brave persons head would make them brave.

8/5/2009 11:04:56 PM

this show reinforced my hatred of the UN

8/5/2009 11:06:09 PM

^Yeh I can't believe their soldiers weren't allowed to have guns when everyone who lived in the town had an AK-47. Then they wouldn't even attempt a rescue mission when they had a chance.

8/5/2009 11:15:12 PM

Same old, same old tonight. Two Bronx, NY Lesbians got locked up for doing a drug run in Jamaica.

8/13/2009 1:16:22 AM

"Do something with it!" What a dumbass!

9/10/2009 2:03:19 AM

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"^Yeh I can't believe their soldiers weren't allowed to have guns when everyone who lived in the town had an AK-47. Then they wouldn't even attempt a rescue mission when they had a chance."

UN is useless.

9/10/2009 11:01:56 AM

did you see that special on mercenary forces? 60-90 mercs held back thousands of bloodthristy tribesmen for a year and a half and then the UN did one of their "hey guise lets hold a meeting" things, banned them from operating, moved in their thousands of "peacekeeping forces".
Then they got a few of their guys kidnapped, tortured and killed and then ran the fuck out of the country and let one of the largest and by far fastest moving genocide in history happen.

WHOOPS

but we'll continue to fund the UN because the US pees sitting down nowadays

9/10/2009 11:09:10 AM

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"The lady didn't even know she was smuggling drugs because her friend cut her bag open to hide cocaine in it and then glued it back together. "

I saw that episode. If I was that lady's husband it would be the worst dilemma ever. I'd have a really hard time not making that guy disappear permanently. I was just watching it.

9/10/2009 11:10:21 AM

^In reality though, most of these people deserved what happened to them. Why would anyone fly from England to Ecuador to try to help someone and then hang around when the person starts acting strange?

There is no reason to go into an area run by terrorist in Iraq when you know the US military is about to blow it up.

Why would you ever want to travel to any 3rd world country like Uganda with so many loonies in Africa?

You shouldn't take any sort of job in Africa that doesn't allow you to carry your own weapons when you are dealing with groups like the RUF.

Wondering out of the city in India with someone you really don't know has kidnapping written all over it.

White people look different than the people who live in Central and South America. Airport security is probably going to keep their eye on you just because of that.

The only people I really feel bad for were the people on the Philippines and Chechnya episodes.

9/14/2009 12:35:20 AM

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"There is no reason to go into an area run by terrorist in Iraq when you know the US military is about to blow it up. Why would you ever want to travel to any 3rd world country like Uganda with so many loonies in Africa? You shouldn't take any sort of job in Africa that doesn't allow you to carry your own weapons when you are dealing with groups like the RUF. Wondering out of the city in India with someone you really don't know has kidnapping written all over it."

yes we should just sit at home so nothing ever bad happens to us. who cares about journalism? we don't need stories. people should definitely NOT go to third world countries. that is just dumb. especially white people in africa. didn't anyone ever tell them they'd get aids?

and wondering out of the city in india - that is definitely crazy because i don't even know what that is!

9/14/2009 12:39:34 AM

^You have a point, but I have no pitty for war zone reporters when they die. It was their choice to go over there. If I had to go to a war zone, I would want to be in the military, so at least I had something with me to shoot back at the terrorist, if they started to mess with me.

9/14/2009 12:49:10 AM

people paralyzed by fear ITT

9/14/2009 12:51:15 AM

I don't really watch the show, because most of the "victims" were taking incredibly stupid risks doing blatantly illegal things--they deserved what they got, in most cases.

9/14/2009 12:52:26 AM

^ i think that is what B4C just said

9/14/2009 12:54:15 AM

^^Oh I agree, but for some reason I still find it interesting. I do feel bad for the people who were captured by terrorist when they weren't even in a part of the world that was considered unsafe. The one that really sucked was the guy who was locked up for 11 years because the police didn't want to admit that they arrested the wrong guy for drug smuggling.

[Edited on September 14, 2009 at 12:56 AM. Reason : .]

9/14/2009 12:56:19 AM

how do you pick and choose who you have compassion for. nobody deserves torture.

9/14/2009 12:59:38 AM

^I agree, but most of the people were either doing drug runs, or putting themselves in dangerous situations. Like I said, I felt bad for the people who were captured while on vacation in parts of the world that were considered safe at the time.

9/14/2009 1:06:53 AM

i don't get why you wouldn't feel bad for people in parts of the world captured/kidnapped even if it was unsafe.

not all of africa is a warzone, p.s.

and some people choose to go places and do things in the hopes of benefitting others/humanity/to learn/etc

obviously the drug smugglers are retarded though i still don't think a lot of them "got what they deserved." making a really idiotic mistake like that doesn't really warrant, in my opinion, being locked up for an unjustifiable number of years in violent, desolate conditions without many of the safeguards offered by our admittedly broken justice system (that apparently many people take for granted).

yes, i get that is why you don't do stupid things in foreign countries. but people are stupid and a lot of countries have much worse justice systems than ours (corruption, lack of due process, etc). i mean we call it justice but is it really when the punishment is not so proportional to the crime?

i mean we face some similar problems here with the war on drugs - yes lets lock up the pot smokers with the hardcore criminals. that will solve everything! that is an obviously oversimplified example but i think that, especially in the US, people need to figure out what it is they want prison to do. is it to rehabilitate? reduce recidivism? or just remove criminals from society for a period of time?

[Edited on September 14, 2009 at 1:08 AM. Reason : .]

9/14/2009 1:07:13 AM

Anyway, next week will be nothing new. I read that it is about a drug smuggler from the USA being locked up in Brazil.

9/14/2009 1:10:03 AM

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"^You have a point, but I have no pitty for war zone reporters when they die. It was their choice to go over there. If I had to go to a war zone, I would want to be in the military, so at least I had something with me to shoot back at the terrorist, if they started to mess with me. "

CARLFACE.

You really are completely oblivious.

9/14/2009 1:10:43 AM

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"i don't get why you wouldn't feel bad for people in parts of the world captured/kidnapped even if it was unsafe."

Well I do to some degree, but anyone that is smuggling things should step back before they do it and think about what could happen to them. When I watch I do wonder what extreme would I go to to make money, if I was in a bind.

9/14/2009 12:07:49 PM

You're a moron.

9/14/2009 6:18:07 PM

^I know you are but what am I?

9/14/2009 11:28:39 PM

So I don't get it. Tonight was a new episode. The guy telling the story was from the state of Washington, stole cars in his home town, and was locked up in Washington. How is that abroad? Shouldn't he have saved his story for a show called "Locked up in my home state?"

6/5/2013 11:29:58 PM

You know, there's a Washington in China...

6/5/2013 11:51:48 PM

^Does it have a town called Spokane that is almost all white people who speak English?

6/5/2013 11:54:25 PM

Where? China? I don't think so. Maybe, though.

6/6/2013 12:00:15 AM

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"I clicked this thread in high hopes of seeing a live feed of a Seiko behind bars in an Afghani cell."

6/6/2013 12:47:52 AM