tv Right This Minute ABC March 2, 2012 4:00pm-4:30pm EST
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>> this story has got it all, a love triangle, a rescue, and a guy who vows to go down in a blaze of gunfire. it's the old airborne trip on a couple of duffers on the golf course. >> see the full on flippout that landed some old guys in jail. japanese workers destress there. now we go inside. >> a cat cafe. >> hear about the crackdown that could keep tokyo businessmen from -- >> having a drink, petting a cat. >> it's all fun and games until the cops show up. >> just a joke. we're not taking any money. >> now chp is taking this guy's money big-time. we begin our show today with the story behind dash-cam footage nick has for us. >> newly released dash-cam shows the end to what police call a
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love triangle. a sheriff's deputy unmarked pickup truck and the deputy behind his truck sees an suv speeding down the road. watch what happens. the sheriff jumps out of the way. >> he's not moving. stay where you are. >> they are not sure if the driver is alive or dead. they call in s.w.a.t. >> it's police. let me see your hands. >> after an hour standoff, they realize the man inside is dead. we see brennan accused of killing his neighbor earlier in the day because he thought miller was having an affair with his estranged wife. he kills his neighbor, drives 150 miles to this area, moore next next, where his wife is staying, gets in an argument with her and leaves. she immediately calls police. police come and pick her up to take her to a safe spot. brannon returns and that's where this chase ends. she's in the police car. you can hear her.
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>> that's your suv? that's him. >> that's my ex. >> he obviously knew that and that's probably why he rammed his car against the truck. >> it's unclear if brannon knew his wife was in the police car. >> the truck. the truck. >> police say, he's not stopping. that's when he rams into the truck. police investigation says brannon shot himself. they are not saying whether any of their bullets actually killed brannon. >> knowing that he did have a gun and he had already caused some harm to the officers' cars, i can understand why they would feel it necessary to open fire. >> police! erer serious politicalsaying issue attached to this and a lot of people are upset. this is in tokyo, japan. what you're looking at is a cat cafe.
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these are very real places people frequent in tokyo. you go into this cafe. for $4 you can get a drink. for $12 you can spend an hour with a cat. >> what? >> very popular with japanese businessmen who come to these cat cafes at night to spend an hour with a furry friend because they don't have time or space for a pet in their own lives. >> but why is this political? >> there's a new law set to go in effect on june 1st that only allows the display of animals between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., thus prohibiting these all night or late hour cat cafes from happening. but according to a lot of reports, if you go into any of these cat cafes after 8:00 p.m., there will be up to 10 businessmen hanging out after work having a drink, petting a cat. >> i mean, there's so many
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things i could say. >> listen what one of the cat cafe managers has to say about law prlt everybody knows cats are happy in the evening with big, cute eyes. i can't understand why the guys at the top are ignoring that. it's really strange. >> what are they worried about? what about after 8:00? >> they are worried about the cats aren't get enough rest. >> is there a madam cat on the floor where all other cats are getting paid. >> a house of ill repute for cats. >> a cat bordello. why can't they get this own cat. that way they haven't petted a cat every other dude has petted. think about the germs. >> what kind of social diseases are these cats carrying. >> you could wear rubber gloves. >> practice safe petting. >> safe petting at the cat cafe.
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everybody knows you've got to be quite on the golf course. don't talk. that's why a group of teenagers thought it would be funny to take an air horn to the ninth hole at the shacountry club in florida. they messed with the wrong pair. in seconds -- >> going to leap the fence. >> these guys aren't happy. they come over with metal golf ball retriever things. at first it looks like they steal the shirt and try to put it up in the tree. >> what in the world. >> so they put the kid's shirt up in the tree. these two 71-year-old men begin
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beating this teenager with the metal golf ball saver poles. >> they aren't beating him. they are showing him a lesson. >> that's not what the cops thought. these two men were arrested. the mother of one of these kids called police. these two men were arrested and charged with cruelty to a child. >> come on. that is so not fair. >> in the youtube video, in the description they say, yeah, it was a stupid prank. but beating our friend with golf ball retrievers hard enough to break them wasn't right. it's like these guys forgot they were kids at one point. see what our facebook fans think. was this just a harmless prank or should these guys have been arrested for this? go to facebook.com/"right this minute." >> he has perfect sight but he's google to go blind 30 days voluntarily to raise awareness
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for people with vision disorders. >> for 30 days i thought why not get the experience of what it would be like to be blind. >> his mom lost her vision in a fall. he's her lifelong to get out and experience life. >> we go to the breslin center. i may not see the basketball but when they cheer, it's exciting. >> he thought i'm going to see what my mom goes through and raise awareness. >> first 10 days i'll have tunnel vision new york city peripheral vision on either side. >> next 10 days no central vision. final 10 days he'll be in complete blindness. >> i will be going to the gym. i will be going around town. i told my friends i need people who will take me out every day. i need to go out. >> to tell us how the first day went we have brian lane joining us via skype from detroit. what's it like on day one. >> it's been scary. i did take the mask or briefly when i went to the bank. i kind of looked like a bank
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robber. i have more empathy for what my mom goes through or what people go through. >> i would think you would get headaches not being able to see suddenly. >> it hasn't begin me headaches. most pain is where i run into things. >> do you think you'll get to the point you're frustrated and bail. >> i have been frustrated, i won't lie. my mom can't take her mask off ever. i'm trying to keep in mind the people that go through this every day. >> what do you hope to achieve with the experience? >> one of the things i hope to achieve, getting the general public to understand there's lots of different degrees of blindness. hopefully i raise awareness and raise a lot of money. i have trouble making friends. >> a movie about bullies and what kind of things can happen in schools. here about the internet campaign to make sure kids see it and why
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welcome back to the show. don't forget to check in at rightthisminute.com. great videos all day long. >> there's a movie set to come out this month that has a lot of people talking. >> a tragic situation. >> perkins boy, 11 years old, believed to have been desperate enough to take his own life. >> this is the official trailer for a documentary movie called "bully." it was directed by lee hirsch. the production company behind it is winestein company. currently the eeaa has given this movie an r rating. >> why? >> their reasoning for the r
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rating is language and the scene of violence. it follows five students and their families over the course of one entire school year. so everything that you're seeing, it's not like it's hollywood violence. these are the real images of the lives of people. >> the people that really should be seeing it, the kids in school, aren't going to be able to see it because it's r rated. >> here is what happened on february 3rd lee hirsch and winestein company unsuccessfully appealed the r rating. but one teenager in michigan, a 17 yearly, decided to start sending a petition to change.org to try to get the rating of this movie changed. so far she's already gotten over 150,000 signatures. >> i'm sure it's going to be a process to get that rating change but i'm really glad this movie it out there and people are talking about it, because it's an issue that really has to hit home. people have to see it. >> on the other side of the coin, the national association
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of theater owners surveyed parents. they say parents say they don't necessarily want their young kids to hear this language or see these images. >> no expert parent but any expert who thinks their child is going to learn language from this movie, there's something wrong. >> if you want to see the entire documentary, we'll put it on our website, rightthisminute.com. in this show we love free videos. the latest one by mediocre films in los angeles. >> hi. i make a decent living. >> so in this video, greg simpson decided to beg on the corner of an exit of the freeway but it's a little unconventional. has signs that read will work for $150,000 a year plus medical and dental. not bad. need change for $100. >> i like his signs. they are very authentic. obviously the blackboard with black permanent marker, like
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what we see on the streets. did anybody give him a tip? >> he didn't get a tip, nick. what he got was a citation. he's spotted by chp. >> this is just a joke. we're not taking any money or anything like that. oh, i'm sorry. >> apparently standing where he was standing is a misdemeanor. >> the sign is fake. pursuant to the penal code, it's illegal on the property. >> do not enter. oh, i thought that was for cars. >> the sign says do not enter. >> used for cars. >> you like that? i thought it was pretty funny, but i just didn't want you guys to get hurt. >> interesting. he could have easily said, all right, guys. funny what you're doing but you've got to go. >> this chp was very serious
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about doing his job, cited them with over $400 of citations. he's hoping this video goes viral to help pay for citation. has he a paypal for people who want to help pay with donations. >> i had cops stop and say what are you doing, but this the first time i got a citation. real or fake with matt dreidel. what will your word be? that's tomorrow on "right this minute." >> hook 'em up and head down the hill on your trike. >> some guys never grow up. >> like you? a ride some guys would like, grown up or not. a ride, no
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new zealand, who this is their fun. this is what they do for fun. they drift down the hill. >> they are sort of drifting. >> it is being shot by our good friend devon graham. ♪ >> these are like grown up big wheels. looks they are spinning around and around, go down hills, get towed by a van. >> bare foot. >> those are feet of steel. that is really brave. >> barely missed that van in the opposite direction the other way. >> these are definitely not closed rooms. >> it's funny to see these tricks on what is virtually a hot wheel. it seems a little off because you watch it. it's so cool. >> what kind of tires are those? those look like toilet paper rolls, giant toilet paper rolls. >> i was wondering. i watched behind the scenes
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footage devon posted. doesn't say anything about what they are using real wheels, they burn through them pretty quickly because they are sliding through the pavement. you want to see the entire video go to rightthisminute.com and catch behind the scenes video there, too. dog prepares his own bed. this is a guy who went in through the drive-through window at this coffee shop. >> looks like after business
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hours, looks empty in there. >> does look empty. you see him run to the back of the shop. this robber grabs an undisclosed amount of money, runs out. manages to lock up the window and a few minutes later, dude returns. he's knocking on the door again because he forgot his hat. >> wait. he just went in and robbed the joint and then decided to come back and say, pardon me, my hat fell off. >> maybe it was a lucky hat. maybe it was a successful robbery. if i'm going to keep this up, i'll need my lucky hat. can you give that back, please. >> unfortunately the guy is at large. he released the video in the hopes somebody will recognize him and call the police. >> i would love to know the thought process. i'm just going to -- >> hey, remember me from five seconds ago. >> remember i just robbed you.
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wonder if i could get my hat back. >> left it over there by the open safe i just broke into. if you could go back in time and give yourself a message, what would you say to yourself? >> oh, boy. >> these people know, and they are talking law school. >> everything. >> everything. >> the funny takeoff wn on the keyboard.
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coolest ever. >> dear 16-year-old me. >> dear 16-year-old me. >> that captain of the football team you're in love with is now the assistant night manager at den denny's. >> this was made at the students at university of calgary law school and some professors. they talk in the beginning about things they did when they were 16 and how they shouldn't have done it. then they started talking about law school and had some advice about that decision. >> law school. those aren't friendly words. >> everything. >> everything. >> your social life. >> your family life. >> your entire life. >> that school made mama drink so she can get to sleep at night. >> did she just say law school makes mama drink so she can get to sleep at night? >> she did. >> is this an ad? why did they make this. >> they were trying to be humorous talking about law
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school. when they did it, they issued a disclaimer saying this is a takeoff of dear 16-year-old me, which was a video talking about melanoma. they said we don't in any way want to make light of the fact melanoma is dangerous and it makes you sick but they wanted to do something fun about law school. >> definitely makes me glad i didn't go to law school. >> you'll throw your best friend under the bus so you can get a summer job at a law firm. >> i think i figure out what i would tell the 16-year-old me. i'd tell the 16-year-old me to in vent a social network where people could connect with friends and post photos on the internet. >> that's going to do it for this edition of "right this minute." we have one more video for you. it's footage of a hang gliding trip from santa barbara to six flag magic mountain, a 63 mile trip. again, all on a hang glider. enjoy, and we'll see you next time.
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