On out local NBC station tonight, and they actually said, “We have two BIG stories tonight…”
One was a local resident who wrestled with a burglar, but the burglar got away.
The other was a black bear caught on video in the nearby town of Waunakee.
If you care for details (and really, who would?): nbc15.com
These were the lead stories tonight. What’s big in your town?
What? No coverage of Lindsey Lohan showing up in court in LA…ELEVEN MINUTES LATE!!! Is this the end of days, or what?
I’ll bet the was the lead story on all the LA local channels. If she’d been attacked by a bear, we would have carried it here.
Our local stations are from Washington DC… So we get murder, mayhem, and politics.
Christ, I can’t believe it… no bears???
No bears, but: Is There A Cougar In Athens County?
Nikki Haley, Tea Party candidate for governor and Sarah Palin buddy, may have had an affair with some blogger.
Some guy who wants to preserve slave cabins is sleeping in slave cabins.
Somebody robbed a bingo parlor and made off with an unspecified amount of money.
“Kershaw County man shoots intruder on a hunch” - ?
Well, he just wanted to wound the guy and figured his hunch was the safest place to shoot him.
Ottawa firefighters help to battle a blaze in Gatineau.
Search for missing swimmer ends grimly
IED blast kills Canadian soldier in Afghanistan
We’ve had a few coyotes running around New York in the last few weeks. Most of them have been caught but released in wooded areas. But the story was on the news and the expert had this to say, “That might work out, or it might not.”
Okay.
Headlines from today’s Arab News;
Raped maid to be repatriated
Government eyes 12,600 jobs for women
Kidney patients to be treated in small towns, villages
and of course:
Israel’s dirty secret is out
I’d pay big money to see the following after the titles of a news show:
Announcer: News Center 13, with your hosts Jim Walcott and Karen Mitchell
[music fades]
Jim: Fuck it, we got nothing. See you tomorrow!
[music rises, studio lights go out]
Announcer: We now join “Wheel of Fortune”, already in progress
Lester Says UPP’s Move Toward Electoral Reform Illegal
Jamaica Mayhem
Ministry of Education executes plan to train all teachers by 2013
The really hot story though comes on the letters page: The traffic light saga
Where are you from? Do they just hire teachers off the street?
Local news the other night: “Researchers have created life in the laboratory. But first, we go to the airport, where they are moving a plane into a field for students to work on.” And they go on for five minutes about this dead airplane, and I’m squirming in my chair wondering “WTF, THEY CREATED LIFE??? SHOW THAT YOU IDIOTS!!!”
Turns out the life creation thing was overblown quite a bit…
“Tonight: We met her before her facelift. Tonight, the after photos. A special report next on Fox 47.”
Antigua in the West Indies - scary eh? You can become an assistant, then end up teaching the class - this would be primary schools - 4-11 year olds.
This was in the “Breaking News” in the Times-Picayune a couple of months ago and got some mention on all the TV news too:
“Man robs convenience store, flees with nearly $200 worth of cigarettes”.
Wow, that’s a huge haul. 4 cartons! He must’ve needed a truck to carry them away.
Or maybe he stole the generic cigarettes and got away with 7 cartons…but who the hell steals generic cigarettes?
“28 year old grandma goes missing.”
“Hickville” school district teachers get .5% pay hikes again.