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[eleneariel]

Yesterday I spent my entire lunch hour watching a car chase on Fox News.

*facepalm*

Talk about a wasted hour. Some idiot in a white minivan in California, followed (very slowly) by five police cars. And I was utterly facinated even though it was 60 minutes of ariel footage of this van going...and going...and going...and commentators saying things like,

"Well, Bob, the suspect may be armed or he may not be, we just don't know."

"This chase has been going on at 70 miles an hour....and 45 miles an hour...and 20 miles and hour...and sometimes 0."

And, the best of all:

"What do you think is going on in the suspect's mind?"

Dude. Who cares? And yet I watched in case someething exciting might happen--especially after they put it on a ten second delay so that if he killed himself it wouldn't be on live television.

Oh yay.

Edit: I finally found out how it ended. From foxnews.com:

A man suspected of attempted kidnapping was captured Tuesday after a freeway chase and standoff that ended when sheriff's deputies tossed a grenade into his van and a police dog dragged him from the smoke-filled vehicle.

Man. Why couldn't that have happened while I was watching?

Comments

[ex-blackswa.livejournal.com]

You cracked me up.

I can't believe what they show live on American television!

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I can't either. That's what we get for having so many 24/7 news stations, I guess. There's only so much real news out there. =)

And there must be enough people out there with nothing better to do...

[ex-blackswa.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's nice to lose yourself in someone else's life for a moment...

[kellchecker.livejournal.com]

So did anything end up happening? ;-)

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Nope. Now I'm dying to know how it ended--I had to go back to work before he did anything--but it wasn't newsworthy enough to mention on the internet that I can find even though they spend HOURS COVERING IT ON LIVE TELEVISION.

[savetheolives.livejournal.com]

Lol. Must've been a slow news day.

[melyndie.livejournal.com]

Haha! That's funny how you missed the "best" part. ;-)

So they show CA car chases over there? How weird! They show them on our TV all the time, but why would they show them nationally?? What a way to encourage criminals--they give them the attention they want.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

I don't think CNN was covering it, but Fox sure spent a lot of time on it. I think it even bumped the Michael Jackson coverage ("Still no decision, Mike...tell me, what do you think is going on in the minds of the juriors right now?") for a while.

[lost-romanov.livejournal.com]

i watched that same car chase while folding laundry for at least an hour and a half. i didn't even check to see if something else was on. oh, how i waste my summer...

[butterbobbin.livejournal.com]

I just read this to Dan and laughed until I cried.