Man Blames Discovery Show for Wife's Death

[The Straight Story]

Man Blames Discovery Show for Wife's Death

DENVER (CN) - Discovery Channel killed the wife of a "reality" TV star with botched explosions on the firing range of their gun store during the show's opening sequence, the man claims in court.

Melvin Bernstein sued Discovery Communications and Anthropic Productions in Federal Court, for the death of his wife Terry Flanell. Their daughter, Melanie Flanell-Bernstein, also is a plaintiff.

Discovery planned to make the couple the subjects of a reality series called "Brothers in Arms," depicting their life as owners and operators of Dragon Man, a gun store and firing range in Colorado Springs. The gun store advertises itself on its Internet home page as "the most exciting place in Colorado."

&quot T)he filming of the entire pilot took place at this location," the complaint states.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/06/17/58553.htm

[NYC_SKP]

1. Discovery Channel really screwed this one up, it seems.

"When the pyrotechnic devices malfunctioned, they shot like missiles toward the five Dragon Man personnel, and one of the devices struck Terry Flanell, killing her instantly.'
Bernstein told the Colorado Springs Gazette that his wife was killed by smoke bombs.
The pipe bombs "went right through her body, she didn't suffer or nothing. She just dropped," Bernstein told the Gazette the day after the accident.

They failed, too, to use authorized devices, trained personnel, and didn't get permits, according to the complaint.

[geek tragedy]

2. "according to the complaint" is always an important proviso. nt

[jollyreaper2112]

3. well

On the bright side, that's one less reality show out there. If only the same thing could have happened with Honey Boo-Boo, maybe the mother getting killed in a freak BBQ accident.

Yeah, I know, they're as much victims as the audience that watches them. The real criminals are the faceless executives profiting from all this. But god damn it, do they have to help lower the standards for the rest of us?