Adebisi
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Better Call Saul
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Enzee
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I was wondering though.. technically Saul didn't 'falsify' evidence, cause all the previous tapes were 'stolen'. He just showed them a new video of the same content that the dude makes for his 'patron'.
edit: or rather, that's how he could have played it off if asked. If he specifically said one of the old tapes were recovered, and then showed them that, yes he was falsifying evidence.
edit: or rather, that's how he could have played it off if asked. If he specifically said one of the old tapes were recovered, and then showed them that, yes he was falsifying evidence.
Cantatus
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My impression was that he was passing it off as one of the old tapes to back up the story.
Ambiturner
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Still pretty iffy. The entire case was based on his baseball cards, the tapes were never reported stolen and the police had no actual case relating to them
Khane
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That was the point, they weren't reported stolen because they were private and hidden and the matter was being handled personally. Or that was the lie he sold the police as to what was in the hidden stash they were so interested in.
I enjoyed the scene, but it was kinda stupid, funny but stupid. The guy acts nervous around cops and has a hole in his floorboards. Would the cops really go after him past the first interview? Couldn't Saul just be like 'fuck off you have nothing.' I guess it's better to have him completely off the police's radar since Mike is involved and he might want to keep dealing drugs but the whole scene seemed a little excessive in order to get some laughs.
popsicledeath
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They saw an otherwise boring guy have a ridiculously expensive and gaudy Hummer when responding to a burglary call where none of the normal things were missing that would be taken if it was a random job. It seemed like a targeted hit by professionals. Then, they see the junk strewn about is cleared by the couch, check it out, finding a pretty deliberate hiding place that was either found by the professional robbers or its contents moved or checked on before police got to the scene. So they make a few phone calls to the very nervous and bumbling idiot in question. Because, as very clearly explained by Mike, a former police officer who pegged exactly what was going on, they correctly suspected something was fishy and hoped they could call in said bumbling buffoon and get him to crack under the pressure, leading them to again what by all appearances wasn't a random meth-head robbery but something done by professionals of one sort or another. It's not like they started a task force or staked out the place for weeks on some random, unsupported hunch. Not exactly exaggerated Hollywood fantasy in any of that.
Arden
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"Evidence" isn't "evidence" until a crime has been committed. If there are no charges (Indictment, criminal accusation, etc), there is no "evidence." Saul and his client are free to make all the videos they want with relative impunity up until the point that charges are levied. There are other crimes associated with obstructing an investigation, but not "falsifying evidence."
popsicledeath
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Yes, I recommend everyone, especially lawyers, do this. If the police start investigating, lie to them and produce false not-necessarily-evidence-yet to hinder the investigation and see how far arguing the semantics of when evidence becomes evidence will get you.
Ambiturner
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What investigation? If you report your car stolen and the police ask if you've ever been with a prostitute or hit your wife, you are under no obligation to be truthful to them.
Noodleface
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He's stealing from his company right? I wonder if his company has police investigating and when they saw his gaudy hummer and when his stuff was stolen started to piece together.
I have no idea. I just know the guy playing him is awesome and nailing it.
I have no idea. I just know the guy playing him is awesome and nailing it.
opiate82
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I'm really think some people around these forums can't enjoy any TV show ever. I can just see them sitting there watching the episode now- "WTF is this shit?! That would be obstructing justice not falsifying evidence. Fuck this show, if they can't get this shit right I'm out!"
I thought the squat-cobbler was easily the best scene on TV so far this year.
I thought the squat-cobbler was easily the best scene on TV so far this year.
Ambiturner
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popsicledeath
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Except that's not at all similar to what happened in the show. I'm gonna go ahead and say items removed from a hiding place accessed after a house was tossed in a case where the cops are called out by a victim very nervous who inexplicably has an expensive Hummer in the driveway is just a little bit more connected than reporting your car stolen and police asking if you've ever hit your wife.
BrutulTM
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Some people, nerds especially, can't resist the urge to "well actually" everything they see in an attempt to make themselves feel smart and simultaneously make everyone hate being around them.