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World's Scariest Special Effects Editing

I'm not sure how long those police video shows have been on now, the ones that have actual police footage from cruisers and helicopters of people running from the police. I would say about 10 years now? When they first came out, they were really interesting. I guess that's because for the first couple of years they were working with probably about 20 years worth of video, and able to use the cream of the crop.

But now you watch the show and it's just a watered down version of what it once was, probably because they ran out of decent footage and have had to resort to the use of the crap that never made it into the earlier shows.

That doesn't so much bother me, you can't have all great footage when you've used a lot of the best stuff so far. What really annoyed me one night was a sudden realization about "World's Wildest Police Chases". As I was watching, I realized that the helicopter guy's voice sounded just like the voice of a sheriff involved in a chase in Georgia from previous footage on the same show.

This is because nearly every sound on that show is added in. This is something they didn't do when they first started making the show. I find the 'added' tire squealing, sirens, and crashing noises to be irritating, but that's not the worst of it. The worst of it is when the show adds in the voices of cops to the video. No cop in his right mind says something like "Okay, there he goes, he's crossing traffic, WOAH HE GOT CLOSE THERE, he just came back into my lane" and on and on, they don't give a running commentary over the police radio like that, they never do.

I guess what I'm trying to say here is that the show doesn't need all that extra gobbledeegoop to make it work, it does well enough on it's own. Adding in fake asinine sirens and 'officer narration' is just the same as lying about what is going on in the first place. Heck, who knows, maybe those are actually blood thirsty goblins driving those police cars and it's the innocent humans trying to get away from them. What? It could happen!!

Oh, one more related note, Paul Stojanovich, a former producer of COPS who produced World's Wildest Police chases, fell off a cliff while his fiancé was taking his picture and he died. Talk about wierd... do you think his fiancé has a video of it? World's Wildest Cliff Accidents, coming to a television near you.