Bad Blood
We were at a park this evening where we were going to have family pictures taken by a friend. We were standing with the boys while our friend was talking to someone when all of a sudden a two men came running out of a building. Just at that moment, five or six guys came galloping up on horseback and shot them both several times. No kidding. The two men went flying and landed on the ground while we stared wide-eyed wondering what to tell the boys who had just witnessed these two men get shot.
Oh yea, I guess I should mention that the place our friend had taken us was being used tonight (unbeknownst to us) as a movie set by the local public television station which is filming a movie called Bad Blood about the Kansas-Missouri border war back around the civil war. We told the boys that they were making a movie and that's why there were lots of people dressed in pioneer clothing and riding around on horseback. We really were shocked when we heard someone yell "action" only to witness a "double homicide", civil war style. I told the boys right away that it was just pretend and that no one got hurt, that it was for a movie. It was still kind of weird, though, seeing someone get "shot" right before your eyes. Especially when they did the scene another three or four times.
I suggested we ask if we could borrow costumes so our family pictures looked like the antique photos you can have taken at amusement parks, but Jenny wouldn't go for it. You can check out the website for the movie at http://www.kcpt.org/badblood .
4 Comments:
I'm stunned just from reading that! Your boys are going to need post-traumatic family picture taking therapy!
That would freak me out! I guess it is good the boys saw the men get up and act it out all over again- probably helped them to understand it wasn't real.
I wonder if this week they'll start acting this out and shooting each other?
This summer at one of the dams our agency manages in Colorado a film crew was filming a scene in a picnic area that had something to do with a "drug deal gone bad." Someone nearby was watching and thought it to be real and called 911. The sheriffs department came fast. Since the film crew did not have a permit and had not bothered to tell anytjogn they were just filming, the deputies also thought it was the "real thing" and came within an inch of opening fire on the bad guys. The film crew was fined for filming without a permit. They said the deputies "overreacted."
So if we watch the movie, are we going to see a family dressed in modern clothing, with shocked looks on their faces, in the background of that scene?
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