scriggle

News "teaser" during the last commercial break of the 9pm show ......

Chick: "Some amazing video just in to NBC5: a massive tornado spinning out of control destroying everything in its path."
Dude: "Plus an unwelcome surprise in your driveway ... your wheels and tires gone. The new crime wave coming up at ten."

Not 3 minutes later .....

Dude: "You've got to see this amazing video of a powerful twister threatening homes and drivers passing by."
Chick: "Plus, women worried after a vicious attack on a popular north texas jogging trail. The warning you can't afford to miss when the news starts in 30 seconds."

Now, I don't typically watch the news because of lead-ins like the ones above. However, I thought I'd see if those stories had anything to them. Here's the long and short of it.

Tornado Story -
OK, this massive/powerful/devastating twister happened near Arnett, Oklahoma. Which IS near the Texas border ... the Texas panhandle, which isn't anywhere near Fort Worth or Dallas. Plus, there were no major injuries or anything like that AND the area the tornado went through was mostly farm type land. They had the lead weatherman from our local station reviewing the video giving us a blow by blow as to what we were seeing, as if this was the first tornado ever seen on video. Oh wait, I lied ... a tree did get uprooted and landed in a field, so sorry for the incorrect info. But really, it wasn't something that was on the way to harm anyone in the viewing area, nobody was really hurt, and it was over by the time they showed it to us. So please, explain to me, why? Why, why, why? Why so much stupid drama?

Wheels/Tires Theft Story -
If you don't want your wheels/tires (or anything for that matter) stolen off your car when its sitting in your driveway ... maybe you should put your car in the garage. Ya think? Of course I realize that we should be able to leave our cars in the driveway, and leave the door unlocked, etc and be able to feel safe that we won't get robbed but c'mon. Unless you've been asleep or in a cave for the past 50ish years you should really realize that that is just not how it works anymore. And to top it all of ... the news dude closed the story with this quote: "We don't have any numbers on how many wheels and tires are being stolen off cars, because that is not a specific statistic that police usually track." Nice.

Vicious Attack Story -
This was actually a legit story, a woman was walking home at 8:30pm from work down a wooded jogging path, alone. Wait, isn't this a bad horror movie? Anyway. A man grabbed her off the path and stabbed her until she screamed and he was scared off. This begs the question, why didn't she scream earlier? If that's all it was going to take to scare this guy off ... I think I'd have been screaming from the get go! I mean, if you are going to walk home, alone, on a wooded jogging path, with little lighting, when its getting dark, in a large city ... you should be prepared to scream at any moment. Now, I don't mean to make light of anything that happened to this lady and I'm really sorry she was attacked, but c'mon, let's use our brains ladies. Plus, as the news chick said in closing "none of her wounds were severe". So, there ya go.

I'm pretty sure my ban on watching the local news on TV is standing.

Labels: irks

Posted by scriggle on Friday, May 4, 2007 at 10:58 PM | Permalink