While channel surfing earlier today, I got stuck on CNN and its hypnotic news ticker. Honestly, they could just get rid of those pundits and show the ticker, it’s hard to stop once you’ve started. One particularly hilarious item caught my eye. I am absolutely not making this up, I definitely saw it on the CNN ticker: “Albuquerque, N.M. police officer reprimanded after using police helicopter to make doughnut run”. I laughed and called my dad into the room, and we watched the ticker for another few minutes, but didn’t see that item. No biggie.
I thought that the Dopers might enjoy that story, so I went to cnn.com to get a link and…I can’t find it. Went to a couple Albuquerque newspapers, no mention. New York Times, nada. After all this, I went to Snopes, but they don’t have anything either.
So what is this? A CNN ticker writer’s joke? A seriously underreported amusing escapade? Did anyone else see this ticker item?