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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / November 2007Neighborhood Excitement! [OT]
So I'm sitting here the other day, playing Bubbels, with the local news on in the background. The announcer's voice suddenly breaks into my consciousness, by mentioning an intersection in town that just happens to be *mine*. I look up to see a building that looks a lot like mine, with a *car* in it. "OMG!!!! WTH!!!!!!" I go running downstairs, belatedly realizing that, um, I heard no CRASH. So it can't be us -- can it? Well, there's no car sticking in our front door, which is good. Cats are snoozing on the couch, which is even better. So I grab my cane and jacket and wander outside. And see nothing. Except a lone helicopter, flying away. Could I have been misinformed? By the local news -- nahhhhhhhh. I go up to the cross street mentioned, and look both ways (I was always taught to "look both ways before crossing"). And don't see a think out of the ordinary. Shrugging my shoulders, I go back inside. DH is next door with the neighbors. The phone rings, and he tells me to look the *other* way. Oh! It's about a block and a half away from us, not right at the intersection. Thanks, local TV news, for nearly giving me a heart attack. Pictures at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabracat/sets/72157602885652193/ Film at 11:00. Ginger-lyn  SignatureHome Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~summer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) > Thanks, local TV news, for nearly giving me a heart attack. Local TV news did that to my mum! Saturday night and for some reason the BNP on their way to a football match got chased off by the police- oh how unreasoable! The police chasing off neo-Nazi's! The ended up in a tavern called the "Little Driver" where the landlord of the time was happy to serve them. Soon the pub was packed with them, the police were outside and the police were surrounded by news people in case anything happened We live opposite the "Little Driver". From our point of view it was a pain because a couple of friends who had just popped round when they left the police told them to go back inside so we had company longer than either side wanted. So we sat looking out over the scene while Dave wondered if it got out of hand, could we charge a cameraman to come up and film from our windows, they'd have had an excellent view Anyway eventually the BNP and the police and the film crews dispersed the next morning I was sitting in the living room drinking coffee and the phone rang- it was my mum she'd switched on the local news and the headline was "BNP invade Bow pub" and she said "Isn't that near where you live?" and I said "Opposite" Another earful for moving to a bad area ensued (My mum tended to try and ignore the fact my dad was born about 5 minutes from where I live) Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >> Thanks, local TV news, for nearly giving me a heart attack. > Local TV news did that to my mum! [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > headline was "BNP invade Bow pub" and she said "Isn't that near where > you live?" and I said "Opposite" (shudder). I used to visit Bow occasionally as I had friends there. It's the kind of place just about nobody would want to visit unless they were trying to build up a portfolio of Magnum-style photojournalism. It's a kind of toxic waste dump for English prejudices. I've been in a pub in the area that may even have been the Little Driver, when I needed to wait for somebody - it had a stand-up comic with a terrible toupee delivering neo-Nazi racist jokes who was obviously a regular act and had the audience lapping it up. I have never seen anything like that anywhere else, not even when living in the solidly Orange part of Glasgow that used to be the stamping ground of the Fascist gangster "King Billy" Fullerton. I certainly wouldn't let a cat outside there - if it was black or looked foreign it would get set on fire. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 >(shudder). I used to visit Bow occasionally as I had friends there. >It's the kind of place just about nobody would want to visit unless >they were trying to build up a portfolio of Magnum-style photojournalism. >It's a kind of toxic waste dump for English prejudices. It's improved a lot! There's still a few pockets of prejudice but since the majority of the population is now Asian its dying a welcome death I've been in >a pub in the area that may even have been the Little Driver, when I >needed to wait for somebody - it had a stand-up comic with a terrible >toupee delivering neo-Nazi racist jokes That sounds like the Driver...but even that's now cleaned it's act up! >I certainly wouldn't let a cat outside there - if it was black or >looked foreign it would get set on fire. I don't let the cats out because I live on a main road Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > Thanks, local TV news, for nearly giving me a heart attack. > Pictures at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabracat/sets/72157602885652193/ My goodness! Was the driver hurt? How about anyone in the house? Those people must be pretty freaked out! I think if a car crashed into your building, you *would* have heard it, and maybe even felt it. Still, I can imagine, just hearing your intersection named on the news would give you a scare! Joyce > So I'm sitting here the other day, playing Bubbels, with the local > news on in the background. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Ginger-lyn Whenever I've seen a news report where I've known about things first hand they've got their facts wrong, sometimes completely wrong. SignatureAdrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk >> So I'm sitting here the other day, playing Bubbels, with the local >> news on in the background. [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > Whenever I've seen a news report where I've known about things first > hand they've got their facts wrong, sometimes completely wrong. This is also my experience. I have even seen myself misquoted. Maybe it is just the "first tier" reporters but they sure don't seem to be the brightest bulbs on the tree. Andy >>> So I'm sitting here the other day, playing Bubbels, with the local >>> news on in the background. [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > > Andy When I had a house fire back in 2002, one local TV station showed a brief clip of the fire, with the statement that the fire had been caused by stacking boxes too close to the heater. This was about a day before the fire marshal's report, which was that the fire had been caused by electrical problems in the wall. Naturally, the TV station did not air a correction. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria "John F. Eldredge" <john@jfeldredge.com> wrote in > When I had a house fire back in 2002, one local TV station showed a > brief clip of the fire, with the statement that the fire had been > caused by stacking boxes too close to the heater. This was about a > day before the fire marshal's report, which was that the fire had been > caused by electrical problems in the wall. Naturally, the TV station > did not air a correction. yep, and there is nothing you can do about it. Andy >> Whenever I've seen a news report where I've known about things first >> hand they've got their facts wrong, sometimes completely wrong. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Andy I think the funniest incident of this type involved my ex-husband, who at one time worked for a homeless shelter and was a homeless and anti-poverty activist. This absolutely horrible journalist (I had a run-in with her later) interviewed him, he carefully gave her information and his name, and we watched the news that night. Up on the screen flashed a stranger, an elderly African-American man, commenting on the rally. Superimposed over him was my husband's name. We laughed until we nearly peed ourselves. Ginger-lyn SignatureHome Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~summer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) >>> Whenever I've seen a news report where I've known about things first >>> hand they've got their facts wrong, sometimes completely wrong. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Ginger-lyn The fourth estate; you gotta love them. Andy ... > Oh! It's about a block and a half away from us, not right at the > intersection. > > Thanks, local TV news, for nearly giving me a heart attack. > Ginger-lyn I am usually impressed if they get the right state. Andy > So I'm sitting here the other day, playing Bubbels, with the local news > on in the background. > > The announcer's voice suddenly breaks into my consciousness, by > mentioning an intersection in town that just happens to be *mine*. I > look up to see a building that looks a lot like mine, with a *car* in it. LOL! Ginger-lynn, your life is rarely boring! Julie >> So I'm sitting here the other day, playing Bubbels, with the local news >> on in the background. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > LOL! Ginger-lynn, your life is rarely boring! > Julie Ain't that the truth! I've learned to never, ever say out loud "I'm bored". Things tend to happen if I do! Or even if I don't . . . . Ginger-lyn SignatureHome Pages: http://www.moonsummer.com http://www.angelfire.com/folk/glsummer (homepage & cats) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~summer/index.htm (genealogy) http://www.movieanimals.bravehost.com/ (The Violence Against Animals in Movies Website) |
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