# Tonight's TV news headlines **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667 "2010-05-25T03:09:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/21 "2010-05-26T11:44:00Z")
Fire that killed a mother and young child. The interview was with the girl (about 14) who was on the school bus with the other daughter in the family when that daughter got a phone call from her father telling her there had been a fire. Lead story on the news in the six-largest city in the country. This was on what used to be, at least, the top station in this market, which I stopped watching many years ago when their top two stories one night were 1) guy punched his pregnant girlfriend in the stomach and she had a miscarriage and 2) some kid was out riding his tricycle on the sidewalk and someone pushed him over. ETA: The reason I saw that last night was it’s the ABC affiliate, I’d been watching _Dancing with the Stars_, and I wasn’t fast enough grabbing the remote. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/22 "2010-05-26T11:47:58Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > On out local NBC station tonight, and they actually said, “We have two BIG stories tonight…” […] > > The other was a black bear caught on video in the nearby town of Waunakee. [I think I saw that story…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo) ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/23 "2010-05-26T13:02:40Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > “28 year old grandma goes missing.” She was probably abducted by a pedophile. Our local news the other night. Local big wig looks to have killed his mistress (or maybe just his girlfriend/ex girlfriend). How did the local tv station lead the story? “Murder, the worst form of domestic abuse” Really? I did not know that. Maybe being shoved into a commercial sized sausage grinder alive was in the final running or sumptin. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/24 "2010-05-26T13:39:41Z")
The sheriff’s department has evidently purchased a tank. Awesome! There was a driveby, but nobody got hurt. At all. We are so hard up that we’re buying old school buses from Kentucky. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/25 "2010-05-26T13:54:30Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > Jamaica Mayhem Band name, band name, BAND NAME. > [@Zsofia](#): > > The sheriff’s department has evidently purchased a tank. Awesome! > > There was a driveby, but nobody got hurt. At all. Just for a minute I thought you were saying there was a drive-by involving a tank. _That_ probably would have been news. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/26 "2010-05-26T14:25:55Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > The sheriff’s department has evidently purchased a tank. Awesome!.. Part of the new community relations initiative? Kee-rist. Do you have a lot of compounds that need storming? Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/27 "2010-05-26T15:53:47Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Part of the new community relations initiative? > > Kee-rist. Do you have a lot of compounds that need storming? Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The tank’s name is “The Peacemaker”. The news website offers this tantalizing quote: ““They are trained to be observant of what building they are going to look at pulling up,” said SRT instructor Lt. Ricky Ezzell.” ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/28 "2010-05-26T16:20:59Z")
A school bus driver made pornographic movies with a 7 y.o. boy; The obstruction of justice trial connected to the murder of Robert Wone; What dangerous behavior by teens every parent should know about (Fox affiliate); ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/29 "2010-05-26T16:51:02Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > The tank’s name is “The Peacemaker”. The news website offers this tantalizing quote: ““They are trained to be observant of what building they are going to look at pulling up,” said SRT instructor Lt. Ricky Ezzell.” I did a little searching around, and it looks like they’ve had this thing for at least a couple of years. It is a modified M113 armored personnel carrier, which isn’t quite as crazy as a tank, but the 50 caliber belt-fed gun on it is pretty over the top. [A story with a pic here](http://jalopnik.com/5044539/rambo-p-coltrane-south-carolina-sheriff-invests-in-apc-armed-with-50+cal-machine-gun). ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/30 "2010-05-26T17:00:14Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > 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 When I lived in San Diego, the weather announcer once said something along the line of, Same as yesterday, I’ll be back when something changes. We’ve had many bear stories over the last couple weeks. One was hit by a truck on the freeway, one was captured and [hard released](http://youtube.com/watch?v=BFo_WvjJWHA), two more were seen several times but never caught and the last was caught and released in the deep forest. We also have murder and mayhem stories. I prefer the bears, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/31 "2010-05-26T17:48:37Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I did a little searching around, and it looks like they’ve had this thing for at least a couple of years. It is a modified M113 armored personnel carrier, which isn’t quite as crazy as a tank, but the 50 caliber belt-fed gun on it is pretty over the top. [A story with a pic here](http://jalopnik.com/5044539/rambo-p-coltrane-south-carolina-sheriff-invests-in-apc-armed-with-50+cal-machine-gun). Interesting - the story on WIS acted like they just got it. According to the news, it was donated. (By whom? The Ladies’ Auxiliary?) Lott’s okay, though. Seems to pretty much have his shit together, as far as Southern sheriffs go. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/32 "2010-05-26T19:50:12Z")
Wait, it’s news that there might be a cougar in Athens County, OH? From what I’ve seen of the terrain around there, it’d be bigger news if there _weren’t_ cougars in the woods around there. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/33 "2010-05-26T19:53:33Z")
They’re talking about suburban housewives who have some mileage on them. They’re all over the place, EXCEPT in the woods. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667.md?page=1)