The Shaw Report: Blind Freddy Could See It Was Humphrey

Alec Baldwin is back in court again and Lisa is perplexed by the US legal system, aren't we all? Plus - a rather interesting case in California has come to light - it involves a Rolls Royce and a man in a bear suit.. tune in to hear the whole story. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
The sure Report. Six years on from the tragic shooting
of cinematographer Helena Hutchins on the set of that Alec
Baldwin movie rust A, Los Angeles, Superior Court judges ruled
that a civil lawsuit against Baldwin filed by a crew
member alleging negligence, will proceed to trial later this year.

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Sergey Svetnoy, who served as a gaffer on set, alleged
as he experienced emotional distress due to the incident in
which a gun Baldwin was holding fired off a live round,
resulting in the death of Hutchins and injuries to the
director Joel Souza. The judge allowed Spetnoi's claims for punitive damages, negligence,
and intentional infliction of emotional distress to go forward, but

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dismissed his assault claim as stating there's no evidence Baldwin
intended to harm anyone. Baldwin's always maintained he was unaware
the revolver contained a live bullet and that he pulled
the trigger. His involuntary man charge was dismissed nearly two
years ago. But of course this is how civil action
goes down in the US. It can drag on for
years and years, and I've never understood it because if

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you're found not guilty or whatever by court, and you know,
you think of the O. J. Simpson case. Did it
but the court found O J. Not guilty? But then
the family was able to sue him for basically causing
the death of in a civil case. It's like, but
he's been found not guilty, So how does how does

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it work in the true levels of the law. It's
so bizarre and it can drag on for years and years,
and I'm I've I feel a bit sorry for Alec
Baldwin with all of I mean, it was a horrible
it was a horrible tragedy. I think it's because he's
the responsibility, even if he didn't physically do yes. But
it's now, you know, dragging into six years on. So

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it has been confirmed a sequel to Top Gun Maverick
is officially in development, with Tom Cruise set to return.
He can't be flying there. He's got to be behind
the desk this time, does he? Maverick? Mitchell? Do you
think you'll be hanging from aeroplanes and things? Again? He
is a method actor. I will give him that, you know,
I'm not a Tom Cruise fan, but he doesn't. He will.

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He will climb out on the wing of a plane
for you won't see his own daughter, but he will
climb out on the wing of a plane. It's going
to be called Top Gun three. All they've got all
out there. They're saving the good stuff for the script.
Top Gun Maverick had significant commercial success, grossing one point
five billion dollars. Quo now that's us Buckerooni's too, wouldn't

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you go back for a third man? Will? It was
the highest grossing film of Tom Cruise's career. Another Day,
Another story that you just can't make up. In California,
three people have been sentenced to one hundred and eighty
days in jail for felony insurance fraud related to a
scheme involving damaged cars and a dodgy bear. Cost State

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investigators launched Operation bear Claw after a claim reported that
a bear had gone berserk inside a Rolls Royce that
had sort of broken into and damaged it. There was
CCTV of the incident, and the scheme was uncovered when
investigators noticed that the bear in the video moved in
ways very similar to a human, leading to suspicions about

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the authenticity of the attacks. I mean blown. Freddy could
see it look like Humphrey, but they brought a biologist
on board to indeed confirm the bear was just a
bloke in a bear suit. Two more claims involving luxury
cars and bear attacks were then uncovered, leading to the
discovery of said bear costume with fake clause. In the

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suspect's home. There was a chair as well. It's a
bear with a coat hanger, as if