Bombay Beach
man:
The American West is big.You'd think there was plenty of
room here, wouldn't you,
for all who needed room?
conditions too crowded
and they spread out.
For this is the story of the
"miracle sea in the desert,"
the Salton Sea.
formed by accident
back in 1905,
when the Colorado River
ran wild over manmade dikes.
A sea in the desert, with its
white sandy beaches, it's--
The Salton Sea,
the new recreational capital
of the world.
The future is now.
And you-- you have been present
at the birth of a city.
man:
Love is a combinationof several things:
trust, caring, honesty--
which honesty
is the biggest thing.
And I'll just bet
my bottom dollar,
it was beautiful to you
to see your dad give your mom
a hug and a kiss.
If you see love
between your parents,
even if it's just once
in awhile,
that would
install love in you.
If you don't, you're gonna be
a long, lonesome dude
in a far away place.
The desert
is very unforgiving.
It has no mercy on anybody
or anyone.
To live on it, you have to
improvise in order to survive.
Whoo!
Where's the dead bird?
boy:
Right there.Look inside this,
while he's right here.
Ew!
Listen, you want
a piece of gum?
boy:
Sarah, will you pass memy chips?
I really love those.
Ooh!
Ooh!
Ooh!
We're gonna have to
climb over here.
woman:
You were groundedfor one week for throwing rocks
at another child.
You were fighting on the bus
and you threw a rock
Remember that?
And you hit her in the head
and made her bleed?
- boy:
Was it her?- woman:
Mm-hmm.I thought that was William
'cause his head was bleeding.
There was more than one.
There was three,
actually.
- I know what this is for.
- What?
Because this is
for the cut.
This thing is for cookies.
- Yeah.
- And the white ones.
This one is to--
it's Ritalin.
What this one does--
Is you know when you
run around a lot,
and you can't stop moving,
and you're very hyper?
This is supposed to make you
where you don't do that.
- Calms you down.
- Is that new, Mom?
No, that's not new.
He's been taking that for
almost two years.
And this one,
Resveratrol, is for--
Crazy?
No, you're not crazy,
sweetie.
Don't ever think
you're crazy, okay?
kids:
Happy Birthday,dear Benny...
Make a wish!
boy:
Benny,what'd you wish for?
I wished for Mom and Dad
to love me all year long.
girl:
Bubbles, woo-hoo!- Are you ready?
- Yeah.
- Are you ready?
- No.
Yes!
Let's get it on!
Bring it, bring it!
- Bring it!
- woman:
Okay, you ready?More!
man:
I left homewhen I was 13.
My father told me,
many years ago,
"The harder you work,
the richer you will die."
"Is richness what you have
learned, by experience,
or the amount of dollars
you can get in the bank?"
Around a lot of the places in
the Southwest part
of the country here,
the Indian reservation
for the cigarettes.
So they sell 'em a little
cheaper.
So if you buy them there,
you can bootleg a few of them
and make a few pennies profit.
Well, you might say,
well, that's illegal.
You'd have to figure out a way,
at your golden age,
to support yourself,
at least partially.
Where's your master, huh?
Hey, Justin?
No, I don't.
woman:
Like I said, I haven'tseen him since Wednesday.
Well, that'll be the last
f***ing bill he gets on me.
I got a damned near $300
phone bill this month.
The desert has
a lot of poor people.
For different reasons,
they are poor.
They wanna bum a cigarette.
Why bum?
Why damn, for a quarter,
I'd sell 'em one.
Sometimes I wonder where
my next meal is coming from.
I've been that way
all my life.
But I sure enjoyed it.
# I been a #
# Moonshiner #
# For 17 long years #
# On whiskey and beer #
# God bless them
pretty women #
# I wish they was mine #
# As sweet as #
# The dew on the vine #
Ooh.
We're goin' off-road
golf cartin' driving.
Left turn!
- man:
Watch out for that hole!- I got this!
- I got-- I got...
- I told you.
I got it.
Shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo, shoo,
shoo, shoo, shoo...
- Man, let me drive.
- Nope.
This is the other
bar right here.
- Uh, it's open.
- I know.
Could I see the-- the menu?
A cheeseburger and onion rings,
and a hamburger and fries.
Will you tell him
to get up, dude?
- What happened?
- Some f***ing d*ckhead.
Could've been-- might've been
just a common mistake.
No one lookin'
or whatever and--
He just kept going?
He hit you?
Both--
Most people do.
Did he...
What the hell?
What's hurting?
Your back or your arm?
It's all sides,
f***ed up.
- Can you move your leg?
- The leg, too?
No, that's fine.
- It's just your shoul--
- My shoulder and my arm.
Mm, his sh*t is broke,
see it?
It's something.
It'll heal.
It'll heal.
You need to go to the doctor
or something.
You need to get up.
But if you want to lay down,
just lay down.
Don't get up,
just lay down.
- Yeah, sure, man.
- You just gonna stay here?
But please don't--
We're not, we're not,
we're not.
I don't want
nobody botherin' nothin'.
- All right.
- All right.
- I'll handle it.
- You're-- you're okay?
- You're all right?
- Yeah, thank you very much.
- All right then.
- Yeah, all right.
I'll remember your face,
probably.
All right.
And it's not funny juice.
man:
His arm is broken,can you see it?
woman:
Probably.His arm-- arm right here
is broke.
I'm not gonna touch--
Is your arm broken?
Above his elbow, look at it.
Right here?
You gotta go in the hospital now
and get it looked at.
I'll take care of it.
You need to go to the hospital,
seriously, to get a--
If it starts bleeding
inside, you'll bleed to death.
Thank God.
I thought I wasn't
gonna like it out here.
But it's better than LA,
to me.
boy:
Eight, nine,15, 17, 18, 30.
- boy:
I'm not ready!- Here I come or not.
- Whoa.
- How do I get down?
Hey, how did you get
all the way up there?
What the--?
How'd he get up there?
( screaming )
Go back there and look,
your happy face...
Benny, Mom's playing--
- Turn the light on!
- Come on.
Aah!
- I wasn't ready!
- No, you were--
- One, two...
- Hurry up and run!
man:
You can't use a flashlight,that's not hide-and-seek.
boy:
Ten, nine, eight, seven,six, five, four, three,
two, one.
man:
KSWT, TV 13 Weekend News.Sheriff's deputies recovered
the explosives and ammunition
in an island home.
Police first
responded to the home
to investigate
a child-neglect case
and found deplorable conditions
inside the home,
along with explosives.
Authorities arrested the couple
who lived there,
Michael and Pamela Parrish.
They say it's the largest
illegal-ammunition find
ever in Niland.
The Parrish Family
liked to play Army.
FBI attempted to get 'em
as terrorists.
You gotta remember
this is one year after 9/11.
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