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* Call me a pedant, but in the season 1 episode Friends and lovers, the friend of a victim says he has a spider bite, and when it's looked at Grissom remarks "That's no insect bite". Surely any forensic scientist (or 10 year old) knows a spider isn't an insect.▼
▲* Call me a pedant, but in the season 1 episode Friends and lovers, the friend of a victim says he has a spider bite, and when it's looked at Grissom remarks "That's no insect bite". Surely any forensic scientist (or 10 year old)knows a spider isn't an insect.
** Well, they might not, or they might just not care enough. But Grissom is a bug expert, so that still counts.
** Similar quibble: At the beginning of "Suckers", Grissom pulls the dummy from the pool, and remarks with surprise that "This is not a crime scene". But the initial report of the incident was that an electrical cable had fallen and killed someone, meaning it'd never been considered a crime scene in the first place, merely an ''accident'' scene.
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**** ''Law & Order'' doesn't do this, but it ''does'' often have high-ranking members of the District Attorney's office doing police-style investigations, which is nearly as unrealistic.
***** Yeah, but L&O also generally lampshades that the first few times an ADA does it, with quite a lot of people including the main detectives asking 'Why are you here?' and generally wanting said ADA to go away. Unrealistic, yes, but possible if you've got an ADA who has free time and no life like the ones on the show.
** Also, that's a bit snarky and basically untrue. On the original series, the CSI team members ''never'' arrest
*** In real life, CSIs are scientists, not police officers, and would not be involved in interviews or anything more in-depth than analysing crime scenes, bodies and related objects, and passing that information over to the homicide detectives before moving on to the next crime scene. They would be called into court to testify as to the relevance and usefulness of the evidence, though.
**** Actually, that varies from city to city; here in Toronto, where this troper lives, the Scene of Crime Unit is composed almost ''entirely'' of officers trained in evidence recovery.
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* Why do CSI's and Police Officers freak out so often when someone is carrying (just carrying, not brandishing) a gun? As far as The Other Wiki says, licensed concealed carry is perfectly legal in Nevada.
** Because if you can see it it's not concealed carry.
*** Doesn't matter. Nevada is a 'shall issue' state with open carry laws. You can have a gun on your hip in plain sight and wander down the street in full view, going from bank to bank. This troper is more infuriated by the question, "You got a registration for this gun?" habitually asked by the Detective (whatever his name is). I'm waiting for the reply, "No, because THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GUN REGISTRATION, ASSHAT!" A license to carry a concealed firearm does not register or license the firearm itself. My CPL allows me to carry anything in my personal
** This Troper was talking about scenes where the concealed gun became visible, e.g. a shoulder holster came into view because the CSIs could look under someones jacket.
** Also, just because something is ''legal'' doesn't mean they have to ''like it.'' (Hell, that's This Troper's entire attitude toward guns)
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** They did use the name of the Rampart, which is a real casino, though the fictional version was imploded in season 7.
* It's a minor [[Idiot Ball]] moment but still bugged me in its sheer pointlessness: in a season 1 episode, the team finds a head that's apparently been clumsily hacked off with an axe. Catherine says it looks like a crime of passion. "You really think a woman did this?" Grissom asks skeptically - because, uh, no crime of passion's ever been committed by a jealous husband? And gay people don't exist? (As it turns out the victim ''was'' gay, and was killed by his ex, so Catherine was right and they would have been on the right track much earlier if they'd made the blindingly obvious connection between "crime of passion" and "probably not a female killer" rather than acting like those two are mutually exclusive.)
* A lot of things about the sub-plot of "Unleashed" were just confusing. Here's what I have to ask about:
** If Maria was 8 1/2 months pregnant, and the episode takes place in April, then she must have got pregnant in July. So did they meet somewhere prior to Homecoming? And did Maria know full well that the guy was going to impregnate her, or did she just have sex with him unaware of what could have happened? He just admitted that he impregnated her, but she might have wanted to go through with it.
** And I may have heard this wrong, but {{spoiler|'''11 million views in 18 hours?!?!?!''' I did the math, and that's 10,185 views a minute. How did they make a video that they edited to make a cheerleader look like she was calling herself a "whore" that global? And they attached Maria's e-mail and cell number to the description?!?}} Seriously, ridiculous doesn't even begin to describe it. And yes, I know this is television, but I don't think anything that has happened in real life has ever touched that much.
** People who just don't like cheerleaders, believe they're all the stereotypical high school cheerleaders, and they find a video where one of them supposedly calls herself a "whore"? Yeah, they may get all over that.
** For that matter, was their plan {{spoiler|to let Maria get bombarded when she was closer to her due date?}}
** [[Humans Are
** How could she have gone so long without her mother ever discovering her pregnancy? And why didn't she try to get her mother to help her at any point throughout all this??
*** You'd be surprised at how easy it is to hide your pregnancy. As to why she never told her mother? Probably because she was afraid her mother would yell at her.
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* Exactly what kind of legal consequences did Ray Langston get for killing Nate Haskell? I can't imagine that he would be prosecuted for murder, since any DA who tried to press charges against Langston would probably end up in very hot water with his constituents. Even if Langston was charged, I could just as easily see the families of Haskell's victims pooling their resources to hire the CSI universe's equivalent of F. Lee Bailey to defend him, or being acquitted by the jury simply as a matter of principle through [[wikipedia:Jury Nullification#United States|jury nullification.]] I wouldn't be surprised if there were even people phoning the Las Vegas Mayor's office demanding that he give Langston the key to the city or something like that. What exactly happened to Langston after he killed Haskell?
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