Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman celebrating the awesomeness of magnets.
One of the reasons I am such a fan of Breaking Bad is the fact that so much of the show is what I like to call “Planning a caper”. As in, making crime plans.
While 99% of the capers shown on the show are things I would never, ever, not in a million years attempt, there are two local capers I would consider planning, if I were at all inclined towards being a criminal.
Of course, the fact that I am sharing them here tells you everything you need to know about whether I would actually do any of these things. I’d need a personality transplant, plus, installation of a more criminal bent of mind, plus, for one of the capers, I would need to be more physically fit.
If I could commit a caper, these are the ones I would attempt.
Caper One
Within 2km of where I live, there is a field where they do athletics. They have a speaker system there. It is very, very loud. Starting around 8am on weekend mornings, an announcer starts making announcements. This goes on all day. One of the two regular announcers has taken to calling the races, like you’d hear if you were watching a horse race. It is disturbing to everyone who lives within earshot. That is a lot of people!
To fix this, I would need to plan a caper. It would likely involve “casing the joint” first – then some climbing of fences in the middle of the night – never going to happen! – and then, if possible, the cutting and removal of speaker wires. Sadly, my feeling is this would not disrupt the noise for very long.
Caper Two
They installed a new roundabout here recently. It is the only roundabout in town where you can turn right from two lanes. The amount of times I have seen someone nearly get themselves killed turning right from the left lane..
One day someone will get killed there, and then I’m gonna kick myself for not actually going ahead with this caper – which would involve going out in the dead of night and painting the turn right arrow out with black paint. Like this –
I’m thinking summer would be the better time to do this particular caper so that the paint would dry faster, however, there are some major problems with this – most problematic would be the fact that the roundabout is on a high traffic road, even in the middle of the night. I’d need some witches hats, and maybe a yellow flashing light, a high vis vest, and a ute type vehicle.
The Breaking Bad Caper
So what is the 1% of caper from Breaking Bad that I would attempt? Magnets. In the first episode of the 5th season, a laptop has been impounded by the police as evidence. That laptop happens to contain some incriminating evidence, so Walt, Jesse and Mike plan a caper. And thanks to Sony posting two videos on youtube, you don’t have to watch the whole show to see it. Here is a discussion of the possible caper –
Here is a test of the caper, which features one of the most epic Mike Ehrmantraut lines of all time, including Miller time.
And here is the actual caper itself. The music makes this all the better.
Perhaps you’re telling us in order to get help planning this caper? Do I need to plan to send a cake with a file in it to your local prison?
Maybe you could pop over and help me carry the ladder around to climb over the fences? :) I wonder if that would give away that I am about to do a caper, carrying a ladder around the streets at 4am.. lol :)
Love that magnet caper.
It was only surpassed by the Train Heist caper in my mind as the best caper on Breaking Bad, ever. ;)
I’m always planning these type of things. Setting neighbours houses on fire, things like that!
One I actually did recently was unplug a display in Myer that was singing a barbie song at me, over and over and over and over and over… Horrid. I sauntered past, saw where it was plugged in and flicked the switch. No one batted an eyelid when the music and lights all disappeared. They were probably sick of it too!!
I have trouble with loud sound streams in stores. ;) I can handle a little background music but loud and intrusive audio causes my mind trains to stop in their tracks.. I would probably have looked for a way to flick that switch as well.