Wannabe Policemen
A rare occurance happened last night - I watched [some of] A Current Affair.
It’s no secret that ACA and Today Tonight are my two most loathed TV programs, bar none. But last night, the TV was on channel 9, and it just stayed on as I was interneting in front of it. And as the program started up I was sucked into watching the first story: it was a story where Ben Fordham went “undercover” as a hitman and they filmed a man ordering a hit on a male escort.
It was incredible to watch. Video here. [Should be on the front page for a while - titled "Special Investigation: Murder Mayor" - go the alliteration.] But it was only after they’d filmed all this, gone undercover, got all the evidence, pretended they were detectives, that they handed everything over to the police - yesterday afternoon, only a couple of hours before the show was due to go to air! My worry is, how long ago was it all filmed? No doubt they waited so long to take it to the police cos they were worried about their exlcusivity getting away from them.
They seriously acted like they were police:
- Ben Fordham loved saying he was “undercover” [I think he said it about 6 or 7 times in the one story, to camera, and then to different people that he was talking to] But Ben Fordham has been on TV for many years - what was to stop the guy that was ordering the hit from recognising him, and potentially killing him? Cos sunglasses aren’t the world’s greatest disguise.
- And they went and found the guy who the hit was ordered on and took him to a hotel and put him in hiding. And yes, ACA’s witness protection is just as good as the police’s, no one’s gonna find him! Nup, cos I’m sure that the ACA office is very tight and no information is ever leaked from there, is it?
Incredibly stupid if you ask me.
All that evidence that they gathered is inadmissable in court anyway, I think, cos it was obtained without a warrant. I may be wrong.
But there’s a good chance that ACA did far more damage than good. Actually, I think there’s a very, very good chance they did more damage than good. Either way, that was a one off - I’m not watching ACA again.
