Antacid jailbreak: The premise has all sorts of logistical problems they touched on but didn't solve, such as hiding the tablets, getting the plastic put up, getting the water to the tablets, not suffocating, etc. I'm wondering how the inmate could survive the crushing pressure. Ah, and it turns out he couldn't. On top of which, as is so often the case in myths like these, the pressure just escaped out the first point of rupture rather than actually breaking the whole thing apart. The bottom of the door blew out, but the lock remained intact. Even if the inmate had been superhumanly durable and survived the pressure and lack of oxygen, he wouldn't have gotten out.
But it is pretty impressive how much force the gas pressure can exert, and quite interesting about the distributed load. The key, of course, is that pressure is force
per square inch, so the more sq. in. you add, the bigger the force gets for the same pressure.
Driving in pitch darkness: A totally unsurprising result, and there's not much to say about it. This is a very dangerous thing to do. Still, I wouldn't put it past smugglers to try it, since criminals are not exactly play-it-safe types, or particularly smart. (I hear they're also a superstitious, cowardly lot.)
I'm finding Jessi to be merely adequate. She's okay, but kind of generic. She doesn't quite project the same kind of distinctive personality and wit that make Kari so much fun. I don't know, hopefully once she gets more used to being part of the team, she'll find her voice.
I love how -in an atempt to be Politicaly Correct- whenever they test "border myths" (like the Border Slingshot) they use Canadians.
Because there's
so many Canadians trying to smuggle maple syrup over the broders and generating this myth.
The show's popular with kids. It's shown in classrooms. Naturally they're not going to talk about drug smuggling.
