Can Falk steer rookies in the world of crime down the path of justice? Will he be forced off the road of crime-fighting by a spindly motorized bicycle? What’s that smell? Listen to find out!

Watching the Defectives, episode 104 of This Gun in My Hand, was mentored by Rob Northrup. This episode and all others are available on Youtube with automatically-generated closed captions of dialog. Visit http://ThisGuninMyHand.blogspot.com for credits, show notes, archives, and to buy my books, such as Little Heist in the Big Woods and Other Revisionist Atrocities. What keeps you from turning to crime? This Gun in My Hand!

Show Notes:
1. Citations Needed podcast on the exaggeration of the modern “organized shoplifting racket”:
https://citationsneeded.medium.com/news-brief-organized-crime-shoplifting-epidemic-panic-hits-san-francisco-media-b044c0f78bfa

2. The Olympics first added women’s shot put in 1948.

3. My maternal grandmother’s middle name was “Ederle,” named after the first woman known to swim solo across the English Channel. Is this the equivalent of naming your kid Khaleesi or Anakin?

Credits:
The opening and middle transitional music clips were from The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950), and the closing music was from Killer Bait (1949), both films in the public domain. Most of the music and sound effects used in the episode are modified or incomplete versions of the originals.

Sound Effect Title: Park ambience - mostly birds
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Mafon2/sounds/274175/#

Sound Effect Title: footsteps cellar.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/gecop/sounds/545030/

Sound Effect Title: Heels on Pavement.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/B.Harkins/sounds/683658/

Music Title: Flight of the Carpenter Bee
By Steven Arntson
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://archive.org/details/Bildungsroman-7512

Sound Effect Title: Mount Moganshan Insect Chorus
By: RTB45
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/325321/
Insect chorus recorded one summer evening, Mount Moganshan, Zhejiang Provence, People's Republic of China

Sound Effect Title: Car_motor_Sound.m4a
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/Blizzard123/sounds/504633/#

Sound Effect Title: motorcycle throaty pull away medium speed smooth Gaza 2016.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/kyles/sounds/406387/

Sound Effect Title: Squeaky Car Door
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/coltures/sounds/262325/#

Sound Effect Title: Car_Stop_Breaks_Screech_Engine-Rev_by-monnie101.mp4.WAV
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/monnie101/sounds/58150/

Sound Effect Title: audi a4 b8 20tdi update engine set1 idle acceleration early gear shifting mono.wav
By Soundholder
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/Soundholder/sounds/425397/

Sound Effect Title: R03-19-Old Auto Tire Skid.wav
License: Public Domain
https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/481668/

Sound Effect Title: Bike Falling on Concrete.wav
By plivesey
License: Creative Commons Sampling+
https://freesound.org/s/78960/

The image accompanying this episode is a modified detail of a panel from the public domain comic book Hot Rods And Racing Cars, Number 32 (October 1957), pencils by Bill Molno, inks by Sal Trapani.