Thursday, 12 April 2007

TV Show: Con

So, I left the tv on after family guy and got this. A dude named Skylar is a professional conman and gets and entire ski resort shut down to record his fake boyband's music clip. So, he and his friends get a whole free day of skiing, just for pretending to be a boyband and do a (frankly terrible) fake add for california tourism at the end.

This is classified as reality tv, and I gotta ask the question - isn't this actually theft? Sure, they post a 2 second warning at the end and quote: "The producers have reimbursed persons for the value of some goods & services. Viewers are reminded that CON is only the first syllable of CONSEQUENCES". But, really, these guys got a ski mountain shut down for AN ENTIRE DAY! While that is an amazing effort, to actually go through with it and then just "partially reimburse" someone, or in this case what would be thousands of dollars of business is criminal, is incredibly selfish and conceited.

So, to be honest, I don't know whether to be amazed or appalled.