# Hundreds of local tv station meteorologists are being laid off **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [January 22, 2025, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250 "2025-01-22T13:01:49Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 48
### Author: ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven) #### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250/48 "2025-01-23T00:28:08Z")
Or any of these “feel-good” stories. We do have an ongoing story from my local area that I have been following; it’s about a teenager with bone cancer who has entered hospice because all treatments have failed, and when word got out in the exotic-car community that he liked them, they have taken him for rides in them, and even organized a drive-by parade by his house last weekend. A benefactor (IIRC Make-a-Wish) even flew him to a national car show in Atlanta shortly after the news broke. Skydiving is on his bucket list, although he’s a minor and I’m not sure he could do that anyway. > [@Autistic child has birthday party, nobody comes, police department saves the day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/autistic-child-has-birthday-party-nobody-comes-police-department-saves-the-day/768553): > > I swear, I hear at least one of these stories a week. I’m starting to think that some parents (OK, mothers) of kids with autism, or other special needs, are setting this up so they can get a free party and a gift grab for their kid, and some sympathetic TV coverage too. And it’s always the police who show up, and often pay for the parties out of their own pockets. The latest one from my area involved renting an entire paintball facility for the child, his family, and the police and their fami… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hundreds-of-local-tv-station-meteorologists-are-being-laid-off/1013250)._