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* Also from ''[[CSI]]'', Sara's inability to practice basic survival techniques in the season 8 premiere, even after years as a CSI when she should have either gotten a brief lecture as a part of bonus job training or learned the basics after she encountered someone who died while hiking in the wilderness, like the guy Grissom found while searching for Sara.
* Another one from CSI: using ''silica'' as [[GPS Evidence]]. You know, the second most common molecule on the ''planet''. It's quartz dust, people!
* From ''[[CSI New York]]'', the episode centered around [[Second Life]]. Sure, the episode had about every [[Pac -Man Fever|inaccurate gaming trope]] ([[They Just Didn't Care|despite help from the game's developers]]); but the real [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Wall Banger]] was when the perp got away. First of all, she was so desperate to get away that she shot an innocent bystander and then leaped down a garbage chute. Yet, in the shot between those, we see her walking calmly down a flight of stairs at a clipped stride because she's in six-inch heels. Wouldn't she have yanked her footwear off to go faster? Despite that hobbled pace, she still manages to outrun the police, who didn't take that long to see that the bystander was safe. Bad [[Video Game]] portrayals in a videogame episode is one thing; the final chase following slasher flick physics is something else.
** Another one from that episode -- the chase scene that happens ''in [[Second Life]]''. If you don't want to talk to someone online, log out, or, better yet, ''don't respond.'' Why did he direct his avatar to run, and why did the police chase after him?
* Another monumental one from ''New York'': in the Season 6 episode "Redemptio", Hawkes is trapped in a prison while his nemesis, Shane Casey, is about to escape while disguised as a cop. Mac, from the safety of NYPD HQ, warns him that SWAT will storm the place in 10 minutes. Hawkes himself has help in another inmate who armed himself with a drain pipe. When the latter catches up to Casey, he ''tackles him'' and the two wrestle their way out to the courtyard, where the SWAT sees a policeman assailed by an inmate. ''Then'' said inmate takes out the pipe (which he should've attacked Casey with in the first place) and is shot dead by the force. Hawkes comes running out a few moments later, dressed in a convict's uniform, but instead of submitting immediately to SWAT and stating his identity so he has ''some'' credibility, he immediately starts ranting and raving about "That man is not an officer!" while Casey walks away happily and escapes. Oh, and the rest of the CSI team? Not only did they ALL stay at headquarters, not one of them had the foresight to tell the SWAT captain that Hawkes was dressed as an inmate, ''which they all knew at the time''. (At least they can be excused for not telling SWAT that that Casey was impersonating an officer, because Hawkes himself never told them even when he had his phone in hand.)
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