Monday, December 4, 2017

The Operatives tv series (again)


 Well I caught another episode of the Operatives tv show today, they were in Costa Rica chasing illegal gold miners.
 Where do I start... this group of supposedly ex military (I have my doubts) are out in the jungle. Well, first obviously none of them have ever seen a jungle before. There they are following a stream and they run out of water as they underestimated the distance they could cover. Now anyone who has actually been in the jungle will tell you that time and distance mean nothing, it could take you two hours to cover half a mile, it could take you ten minutes, or all day!
 Add in the fact that despite being in a stream they had no water purification tablets or filters so they had to drink the unfiltered stream water, the last straw for me was watching them sitting on the jungle floor, thats a no-no, you always sit on your pack or anything except the floor. The floor is covered in stinging biting things..
 Then the cameraman fell and broke the camera so they called it a halt, even though theres footage of the cameraman there with the broken camera getting up after his fall, so obviously they have another camera.
 While this is happening a second group are planning on using a paramotor ( motorized parachute  sort of a hang glider) Except... none of them have ever flown one before, oh they did read the manual and watch a video on how to do it, needless to say after loads of attempts they end up crashing before finally one of them gets off the ground.

 These are supposed to be the professionals?????  Hell you'd be better off with half a dozen old ladies from the local Woman's Institute.

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