I read once that Pat Sajak is the highest paid person in hollywood by hourly rate. They shoot the episodes back to back to back and more than a month's worth of episodes now can be shot in a single day. He makes like 15 million dollars a year for like 10 days of work.

the classic example is when the mark calls the police on the undercover cops doing the sting, and the detective running the sting tells the 911 operators to put the guy on hold indefinitely or orders the beat cops to claim nothing can be done.

it wouldn't matter if it was the USA. "Entrapment", the legal term, doesn't mean when the police set a trap and your dumb ass falls into it. An accurate analogy would be if the police set a trap, grabbed you off the street, hogtied you and then threw you head first into the trap.

it's a resoundingly common misconception. and it's simply bananas how many defense attorneys attempt to argue it, because it never succeeds.

1. we don't see him fly off, i'm not sure he can with all that cargo.
2. swallowing them whole like that i think his plan is to barf them up back at the nest and feed on them over several days.

i just watched aliens a few days ago. i had seen it before of course, but i probably hadn't given it a proper watch in ten years at least. it's pretty weird in that basically no one is strikingly beautiful in it. except maybe michael biehn. it's so great that people look normal in it. especially ripley, and not just that she's not beautiful but that she's not put on display. it's so wonderful. but sad that it's not like that anymore.