Simply enough, do you think that you could possibly make national news in the next fifteen minutes? If so, what would you do?
Damn!
I KNEW I should have bought that uzi…
sigh, probably not… :wally
Sure…
…furiously dialing up Oprah to see if she will come visit my sister’s kids in school…
Drive my car into the gate of a nearby military base, steal a gun from a guard and get gunned down in 30 seconds.
Hmm…
Maybe after lunch…
No fair! With only fifteen minutes, you’re pretty much limiting us to killing sprees. Not having a gun, I must weasel my way into neighbors apartments and batter them unconcious so I can search for a gun. Only then could I get the big numbers that would attract the major networks.
Shooters have a big advantage.
And maybe a few folks sitting in the control rooms of chemical or nuclear plants, refineries, power generators… nah, even these would take more than 15 minutes.
Ya gotta give us more time.
Screw it, I’m going for international news…I’d like to somehow convince the entire nation of China to jump at the same time. Near a major fault line, if possible. 
Too easy… Jog past a security checkpoint at a major airport while shouting something about Allah.
Call the NBC newsroom claiming to be a member of an Arab terrorist organization and tell them about the bomb you have planted in their studio.
Don’t know if it will make it on the news in 15 minutes or less, but it will make it on the news and will take you less than 15 minutes to do.
I don’t condone this 
Colin
Hmm, 15 to make NATIONAL news, eh?
Local news would be simpler, just drive your car off of a highway into a river or some such thing, but national?
I’m gonna say killing spree is all I’ve really got. Start with the other occupants of the house, then do something creative. Run some people down with a car, then go into a house and bludgeon people with a can of Sprite or some such thing. That’d get you on the news alright.
LC
Of course, the other way I could get on national news would be to simply emerge from my home for a moment and wave to the huge crowds of adoring fans and the members of the international press that are huddled beneath my opulent balcony waiting for such a moment.
LC
Palve and I have gone over this a few times, usually while there are events going on in the town. Sitting here at the computer in my house I am limited… But while those events (parades, small concerts etc… ) are going on the possibilitys are far greater.
I just want to do things to make people wonder.
I’d wait for a church concert in the center of the park, then I’d paint my body red and bike naked with a cat duct taped to my back into the middle of the crowd.
The painting of myself and the duct taping of a cat to myself should take 10 min max, and the trip down the hill by Palve’s place into the crowd should take about 2. (and that park is right next to the police station )
I’d say that would make national news… Some filler before a commercial break, the little space in the newspaper (at least in this town) that has the odd national news, stuff that’s strange and only a paragraph or so in length.
But alas sitting here at my computer my options are limited. I’d go with the killing spree.
Can I be your adoring fan, Lucki? 
John Paul, is that you?
I’m currently in my office one block away from the White House – I’m sure if I charged the gates, esp. if I had a pair of scissors, it’d make the news after they gunned me down.
–CLiffy
I’d probably just announce another federal interest rate cut. And honestly folks, all I’ve got in this briefcase is a bunch of nudie mags.
Simple. I’d call Allison or Wendy over at the national bureau of the network I work for, and ask if they can throw my name up on the crawl for the 24-hour station.
Withdraw all the money from the bank, borrow even more, change it into low-denomination bills and drop them from a high building?
Not the killer bit of news, but I might get a short mention at least. But, it takes more than 15 mins I’m afraid :mad:
Is there any act of kindness or goodness aside from giving away boat loads of money that would get you that 15 minutes?
I wonder. The really sad, sad part is that I can’t think of any.
I guess it’s just back to handcuffs and handgrenades.
Sorry. I cannot.
Yeah, pretty simple acctually. Wait for the next OC Transpo bus, highjack it. Drive up and into the hill and wait for all the politicians to come running out.