rant · moment 12 of 21

Fantasy Shootout Ending and the Anchors' Reaction

from 146 - Small Town Girl · #146

3 min

Tim fantasizes about the chase ending in a Bonnie-and-Clyde-style shootout and imagines the Fox 11 anchors' absurd narration if the girlfriend had turned on police or gotten intimate with the driver mid-chase.

In this bit7 moments
  • Fox 11 anchors frame the woman as victim while she's shooting with her boyfriend like Mr. and Mrs. Smith
  • Tim notes police are guardians of a property-owning class while anchors nervously verify she's now the one shooting
  • Anchors try to rationalize her firing at police as possibly having a good reason they can't quite articulate
  • Tim imagines the woman must be impressed after her boyfriend evaded cops for three hours and jokes she'd be attracted to him
  • If he beat her and then escaped the entire LAPD, she'd want to sleep with him by hour three of the chase
  • Tim fantasizes about news anchors narrating the woman straddling the driver and having sex with him during the pursuit
  • Anchors cautiously describing what looks like her kissing him, calling it probably a defensive maneuver to slow him down

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