NPR: Thank Goodness No One Important Was Hurt!

Thank Goodness No One Important Was Hurt!

Most of the time, spokespeople respond to the media in a very careful, guarded way. But every once in a while, you run across someone who doesn't beat around the bush. For instance, Reuters reported Monday that 11 people were injured in Berlin while shooting Tom Cruise's new film about a plot to assassinate Hitler. They fell from a truck when it rounded a corner and the side panel gave way.

"We have no findings to suggest anyone famous was involved in the accident," a police spokesman told the media, giving everyone what they really wanted to know and showing that extras in movies are called that for a reason -- because you can always get extra extras if they, well, fall off a truck.

11:09 AM ET | 08-21-2007 | permalink

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"...you can always get extra extras if they, well, fall off a truck." Yaahh ha ha ha! Good one! Another reason I give money to NPR.

Sent by Gerold Thomas | 12:20 PM ET | 08-21-2007

About as relevant as a hit and run by motorized wheel chair, both strike me as quite funny. You gotta love it, kind'a like a key stone cops maneuver gone bad...

I too love and suppport NPR for just this reason, it's not healthy to take life too serious, what is will be, with or without extras.

Sent by geeman | 6:06 PM ET | 02-05-2008

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