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** Tyrion's brother Jaime is guilty of ''a lot'' of things, but he's also undeservedly blamed or hated for a lot that he had no part in (The Red Wedding), or was in reality his most heroic act (killing King Aerys), mostly due to very unfortunate coincidences. Even in ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'', where he has turned a new leaf and become one of the most honest characters in the story, [[ReformedButRejected these will never let him go]].

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** Tyrion's brother [[Characters/ASongOfIceAndFireJaimeLannister Jaime Lannister]] is guilty of ''a lot'' of things, but he's also undeservedly blamed or hated for a lot that he had no part in (The Red Wedding), or was in reality his most heroic act (killing King Aerys), mostly due to very unfortunate coincidences. Even in ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'', where he has turned a new leaf and become one of the most honest characters in the story, [[ReformedButRejected these will never let him go]].
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* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'': When Lestrade easily tracks down a man who mugged him, he thinks Sherlock has already solved the case and covertly nudged him in right direction so that he'd get his groove back as a detective and willingly leave the brownstone and get a job utilizing his skills. The clincher in Lestrade's mind is a feather from one of Sherlock's roosters on the floor in the mugger's house. Far from feeling deflated, Lestrade is pleased to have discovered Sherlock's ruse, and this restores his faith in his own detective skills. Sherlock denies nothing, but later tells Watson he had absolutely nothing to do with it and that the feather must have fallen from Lestrade's clothing. Sherlock stayed quiet because he knew it would get Lestrade out of his funk, and, more importantly, out of the brownstone.
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* On September 5, 1921, SilentFilms comedian Creator/FattyArbuckle was giving a party in a UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco hotel room when actress Virginia Rappe's uterus began to hemorrhage. She died four days later. Arbuckle was charged with murdering her (it's been theorized that her uterus hemorrhaged due to several back alley abortions). Unfortunately for Arbuckle, Mary Pickford's sister-in-law, Olive Thomas, had accidentally ingested a solution of bichloride of mercury on September 5, 1920, and died five days later (Thomas's husband, Jack Pickford, had syphilis. Bichloride of mercury was then commonly used as a topical treatment for the sores). The fact that Rappe fell ill on the one-year anniversary of Thomas's accidental poisoning did not go unnoticed by the MoralGuardians of the time. The scandalous deaths of Rappe, Thomas and several other silent film stars in the early 1920s were among the factors that led to the adoption of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode in the 1930s.

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* On September 5, 1921, SilentFilms comedian Creator/FattyArbuckle was giving a party in a UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco hotel room when actress Virginia Rappe's uterus began to hemorrhage. She died four days later. Arbuckle was charged with murdering her (it's been theorized that her uterus hemorrhaged due to several back alley abortions). Unfortunately for Arbuckle, Mary Pickford's sister-in-law, Olive Thomas, had accidentally ingested a solution of bichloride of mercury on September 5, 1920, and died five days later (Thomas's husband, Jack Pickford, was said to have had syphilis. Bichloride of mercury was then commonly used as a topical treatment for the sores).sores. In another [[https://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/you-dont-know-jack-a-second-take-on-jack-pickford-part-iii/ Guilt By Coincidence]], it was also a common household disinfectant; Jack may not have had syphilis). The fact that Rappe fell ill on the one-year anniversary of Thomas's accidental poisoning did not go unnoticed by the MoralGuardians of the time. The scandalous deaths of Rappe, Thomas and several other silent film stars in the early 1920s were among the factors that led to the adoption of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode in the 1930s.

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Moved Second Hand Stories entry to Real Life folder, as it was discussing production rather than the documentary itself


* Justified in an episode of ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' -- Josh not only resembles the Theater Thug, he was hired to play the criminal on "America's Most Wanted". Is it any wonder people kept trying to get him arrested?
* There was a TV Show on PBS a while back about thrift stores and other ways to get cool used stuff. To start the journey, the show's hosts bought a retired ambulance on eBay to cart their findings around in. Several weeks into production, some terrorists stole an ambulance. Within a month, they had been pulled over by, interrogated by, and gotten signed statements from troopers in at least three states attesting that it was not these guys. Not that any of the troopers believed the previous ones, of course.

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* Justified in an episode of ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' -- Josh not only resembles the Theater Thug, he was hired to play the criminal on "America's ''America's Most Wanted". Wanted''. Is it any wonder people kept trying to get him arrested?
* There was a TV Show on PBS a while back about thrift stores and other ways to get cool used stuff. To start the journey, the show's hosts bought a retired ambulance on eBay to cart their findings around in. Several weeks into production, some terrorists stole an ambulance. Within a month, they had been pulled over by, interrogated by, and gotten signed statements from troopers in at least three states attesting that it was not these guys. Not that any of the troopers believed the previous ones, of course.
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* For the documentary ''Second Hand Stories'', hosts Cristopher Wilcha and John Freyer bought a retired ambulance on eBay to cart their findings around in. Several weeks into production, some terrorists stole an ambulance. Within a month, they had been pulled over by, interrogated by, and gotten signed statements from troopers in at least three states attesting that they were not the same people as the ambulance thieves, not that any of the troopers believed the previous ones.

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