ImHere

Some of you guys must live in very quiet places...our local news is always brimming over.

Pimpbot

Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the country, but they still have to dig up useless news from all corners of the map. Maybe that has something to do with most local news channels having 1hr 30mins of news from 5pm and then another hour or 30 minute slot between 9 and 10.30pm. Don't even get me started on how they go overboard when it sprinkles with rain!. And who knew, it gets hot here in the summer.

ladylisa

My local news station prioritizes like so;

1. Local Residents are out raged at rising property taxes (Rich area)

2. Oprah Winfrey got refused from entering a jewellery store in France (celebrity)

3. Two Men were gunned down in the 14th block of North Street (poor people)

gruffbrown

LOL I always love the way they prioritise air crashes by which nationalities were on board

'An airliner crashed today near Beijing, killing 1 american on board, the rest were Chinese, so what the hell'

Dimsie

On the front page of our local daily yesterday "Rodeo seeks queen contestants"............LOL! Can't you just see 'em?

sibsie

We live on the family farm and a few months ago a Harvard Professor of Econ got caught stealing manure. He was arrested and is going to trial and since then we've had a stream of journos popping in. The story was on Jay Leno and even made the London Times.

fatbrit

We'll tell you how after the break!

No you effing won't cos I'll have channel surfed by then...

Lion in Winter

One of those supply side economists no doubt.

Ray

Exciting days news here too


HUDSON - A 39-year-old man was arrested Wednesday, accused of stealing dirt.

About $60,000 worth.

Lawrence Paul Roark managed Dirtworks of Central Florida. Sheriff's officials say he took dump truck loads of another man's dirt last year and hauled it off to developments in Tarpon Springs.

It's really sand, not dirt, says Edward Kovach, who owns the land it was taken from. "It's good sand. It's better than sand you have on the beach."

Kovach of Dunedin is a retired doctor who dabbles in real estate. He bought the property on New York Avenue in 2002, he says, for its dirt.

"This actually was a mound of dirt," Kovach said Thursday. "You're talking three feet above the level of the road."

He planned to use it for fill on another property he owns. One day last year, he drove by to check on his dirt.

"I looked, and I couldn't believe it," said Kovach, 70. "All my dirt was gone. There was a big pit."

sibsie

Sounds like a whole dirt / manure crime cartel has opened up.

Lothianlad

It's not just the American media who have loopy reports. A paper here in Edinburgh reported on an incident involving a group of local Chinese guys fighting with each other after a minor accident between two of their cars. The article was headlined: Chinese in Car Clash.

dbark

We always try to find the most ridiculous local paper headline. Our favourite to date was "Man Arrested On Porch Wearing Only His Boxers". It turns out the police had cause to arrest him and when he answered his door, was wearing his boxers. And??

Our second favourite headline was about an incident over July 4th weekend last year. It read "Woman Driving Naked" - apparently a 56-year-old woman had been celebrating Independence Day and was driving around unclothed.

ScotsmanInTexas

That I understand, I find clothes so restricting. What I'm looking for is one of those Scooby Doo vans with the smoked glass windows and then it's off with the trolleys and hard on the gas!

ScousePete

Whatever turns you on

dbj1000

Sadly I can't find the movie now, but a couple of weeks back I saw police footage of a slow-speed car chase that had gone on for over 2 hours, with up to 10 police cars chasing a pickup truck that had refused to stop for a minor traffic violation.

Only when they finally shot out the guy's tires and threatened to shoot the driver if he didn't get out of the truck did they find that it was a middle-aged man wearing women's lingerie (thong, suspenders and all) who was too embarrassed to stop (and slightly drunk).

Silly sod will probably do time in jail for this sad little crime!