Lessons From "The A Team" Week! When starting your evil, corrupt empire, always make sure you own a helicopter for chasing vigilantes
Ah yes...we all love The A Team. That crack commando unit wrongly imprisoned for robbing a Hanoi bank. They survived in the Los Angeles underground living as Soldiers of Fortune helping people when nobody else could.
Indeed. Over the course of the TV Show, there were many lessons to be learned. Unfortunately, I was too young to really appreciate them during the years the show was on the air. However, thanks to the magic of Netflix, I'm now able to reap the rewards after the fact. The lessons these modern-day Robin Hoods have to teach have survived the test of time and remain invaluable to this day. Today's lesson is actually for the villains among the Readership here...and that is to always own a helicopter.
Most of us already do, actually.
That's good. As it turned out in the series, nearly every episode featured a small gang of corrupt villains, headed by a mastermind who would invariable underestimate The A Team's abilities. Not to worry, though, because they could always fall back on the line "Get to the chopper!"
Of course, not sure why, but none of these guys ever used the chopper to simply fly out of harms way...they would always use the helicopters to chase after cars on the ground and shoot at them with automatic rifles with badly misaligned scopes. (I'm assuming the sights were misaligned simply because they never seemed to hit anything. EVER!)
On more than a few occasions, The A Team managed to procure a chopper of their own, resulting in a thrilling aerial chase which ended with the bad guys' helicopter landing and the pilot being punched by Murdock. None of this would be possible (or necessary, I guess) if the corrupt gang didn't have a higher than average probability of owning a chopper in the first place.
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