Crime Drama Comes To Life - Maday Arrested

18 September, 2009

I sometimes wonder if career criminals glean any of their real-life inspiration from televised dramas. We have a great assortment of them these days, from 24, to Amercia's Most Wanted, Cops, the forensic drama Bones, and several more. I know my family loves the variety we're able to view on Dish TV! There is something enticing about the way that TV and the silver screen romanticize the lives and sordid acts of the criminal mind. It’s not like public fascination with seedy sorts is anything new; look at the acclaim and aura of mystery that surrounded Jesse James and Billy the Kid way back in the wild west.

Some of today’s events are pretty wild, too. Seasoned bank robber Robert Maday was caught in West Chicago today after a high-speed chase. In a VW Jetta that he’d hijacked earlier in the morning, Maday’s attempted race to freedom ended in a crash that landed him in an ambulance. A crowd of several dozen onlookers cheered the capture.

One witness stated that the scene "…was like a movie when the cops came out…"

I'll bet most of us would prefer to keep our crime drama on the television, versus being in the middle of a firsthand altercation. The latter is far more frightening.