Still, the closer those folks come to getting rich without actually putting in the long hours learning a trade or studying at a university, the more we like to watch them and dream that we might also one day find pirate treasure in an abandoned storage locker.
So you might actually be disappointed to hear that some of the treasure-hunting reality shows like Storage Wars aren't reality — they're scripted and staged and, yes, totally fake. And sometimes we get remarkable insight into the whole process of fakery, thanks to a disgruntled employee who is suing the network. As long as everyone involved with a reality show keeps their mouths shut, we can all continue to exist in the blissful state of ignorance that allows us to believe that what we're seeing is real.
After all, "reality" is right there in the name of the genre, so we must be looking at real life, right? Then someone like Dave Hester comes along and wrecks it for everyone. Hester alleged wrongful termination, unfair business practices, breach of contract, and that oh by the way, television audience, everything you see on the show is faker than a suspiciously shiny treasure chest sitting in a storage locker. Now there's always been speculation that Storage Wars and pretty much every other reality television program, ever is totally fake , but when a reality star actually comes forward and says so on an actual legal document, well, it's kind of hard to keep living in that blissful state of ignorance.
The show's producers are kind of used to the accusations — the summer before Dave Hester filed his lawsuit, executive producer Thom Beers defended the show during a panel discussion sponsored by the National Geographic Channel.
And come on, folks, lying in the presence of National Geographic is like lying to Mother Nature herself. When one of the panelists said something about the rumors that the containers on Storage Wars were "salted," Beers said, "Nope. I can honestly tell you that the stuff found in those containers are found in storage containers. But let's reserve judgment for now. Anyway, Beers goes on to say that they might have 20 or 30 auctions and occasionally they'll just sort of combine their finds into one locker so they don't have to film all the lockers individually.
That's not exactly "salting," but it isn't exactly reality, either. But it does say something about how the Storage Wars producers are willing to bend the truth, and if they're happy to do it a little bit, how do we know where they might draw the line?
We don't. This isn't really the same kind of fake, exactly, and really if you were going to complain about famous people getting plastic surgery, you'd have to implicate pretty much everyone in Hollywood.
But according to Business Insider , Hester's lawsuit weirdly called out this particular act of Storage Wars fakery, too: "Nearly every aspect of the Series is faked, even down to the plastic surgery that one of the female cast members underwent in order to create more 'sex appeal' for the show.
That particular accusation led everyone to start speculating about who exactly took one for the team by going under the knife. There are really only two candidates — one is a bidder, and the other helps run the auctions. So that does seem like kind of a low blow. Storage Wars might be fake and one or more of the female stars might have had plastic surgery, but it seems like you've got plenty of ammunition against the network without having to drag the other cast members into it.
Before the stars of Storage Wars can find treasure among the cardboard and Rubbermaid, there first must be an auction. And the auction has to be fun and exciting, or viewers will just go, "Forget this I'm going to watch Better Call Saul. There's some other lesser fakery related to the Storage Wars auctions, such as when the cameras follow cast members as they leave before the end of the auction, presumably to inspect the contents of the locker they just bought — even though the winning bidder usually isn't allowed to see the inside of the locker until the day after the auction.
That does keep the action moving along but still Read times. He and the obnoxious auctioneer are going on about how they're real pewter and everything and they take one out of the package still in its plastic bag and It's a Mechwarrior Darkage Rifleman. True TV indeed! Good news is the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show an immediate latency of So if you're thirty or over you're laughing.
Worst case scenario you miss out on a few rounds of canasta, plus you've forwarded the cause of science by three centuries. I punch those numbers into my calculator, it makes a happy face. Quote from: Liam's Ghost on 09 June , Musei Yuuchi Special Ops Battalion. I'd expect them to at least know the difference between a pewter and a plastic figurine, even if they haven't got the slightest idea of what game they're from.
But the acting is not proffessionally good. I watch storage hunter but now Iv stopped watching bcos of heavy D. Why is he like that? Is he mentally ill? My kids are terrified after watching that. Get him off the show!! First of all Storage is fairly new to this country, we dont have auctions like the US style, they are mostly sold online or ebay ,,.
Iv been to s of auctions, and you dont get just 3 people standing there theirs loads of people all milling about behind the few that are bidding.. Plus iv never ever seen security at an auction ,,. Im not even going to go on about lots being hidden by a piece of cloth or a tarp WTF is that all about. Storage hunters is opgezet zo zag ik een aflevering waarbij ze zogezegd een echte vlammenwerper uit de 2 de wereldoorlog hadden dat model kon ik nergens terug vinden en het handvat was gelijk dat van een hogedruk reiniger ook de toevoer leidingen waren van deze tijd en over de vlammen gesproken de vlammen werper met napalm geeft een veel hevigere vlam met na branden die op de show was duidelijk een korte gas vlam.
The tarps, always tarps covering somthing in a locked dry room, whit no sunlicht. No reason to put somthing under a tarp? Not to mention that the rude bald presentor dude always exatly knows what a sertain object is and what its worth. And not one locker whit just normal broken household stuff ore some trashbags whit old newspapers and other useles stuff one normely whould trow in there. Probably because your as thick as 2 short planks Demion r ,if your spelling is anything thing to go by!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Which brings us back to Storage Hunters: UK, the newest kid on the block. But how much of it is real?
Following the auction, the winning buyer must then sort through the contents of each unit, deciding what items can be sold for a profit, and which ones should be thrown out.
Occasionally, the buyers manage to find some truly valuable items, from priceless artwork to original antiques. However, the most exciting aspect of the show was often the confrontations between the groups of buyers and the often-tense moments when they would become embroiled in bidding wars over the juiciest storage units. Ultimately, it went on to spawn a host of specials and spinoffs.
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