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Jul. 23rd, 2006 12:11 pmAh, the joys of television.
Mom and dad had the TV on CNN (either yesterday or day before) and they started showing live coverage of this guy who robbed a laundromat, then led the cops on a chase, went off-road, and ended up door-deep in water in a culvert.
And they kept repeating the same things over and over and over, and kept the coverage live, to the point that even when they went to a different story, the view of the truck was up in the corner of the screen, just in case. When they went back to the full-screen, it was very obvious that the reporters were trying their hardest to fill time with chatter, because wow did they let slip some dumb-sounding stuff.
Reporter: "He can see out the front and sides but not the back, so. . ."
Chris: "Unless he looks out the back window of the truck."
Me: "Just watch, the guy has one of those little TVs in there and he's checking out this coverage."
Reporter: (as a policeman snakes through the grass to take up position in front of the truck) "Now, if you'll look to the right corner of your screen--"
Mom: "Don't chance telling the guy where the cops are, idiot!"
Reporter: *pauses* "Umm . . . anyway, here's the footage of him driving into the culvert. . ."
(Mom and I have a suspicion that the standoff expert they were talking to earlier told her to can it)
Dad: (after we channel-flipped for a while and came back to the same repeated words and live coverage at least ten minutes later) "This is not a national story. They're just keeping it live because they hope this guy'll start shooting at the cops."
And then mom switched it to the Food Network, and all was well. ;-)
Mom and dad had the TV on CNN (either yesterday or day before) and they started showing live coverage of this guy who robbed a laundromat, then led the cops on a chase, went off-road, and ended up door-deep in water in a culvert.
And they kept repeating the same things over and over and over, and kept the coverage live, to the point that even when they went to a different story, the view of the truck was up in the corner of the screen, just in case. When they went back to the full-screen, it was very obvious that the reporters were trying their hardest to fill time with chatter, because wow did they let slip some dumb-sounding stuff.
Reporter: "He can see out the front and sides but not the back, so. . ."
Chris: "Unless he looks out the back window of the truck."
Me: "Just watch, the guy has one of those little TVs in there and he's checking out this coverage."
Reporter: (as a policeman snakes through the grass to take up position in front of the truck) "Now, if you'll look to the right corner of your screen--"
Mom: "Don't chance telling the guy where the cops are, idiot!"
Reporter: *pauses* "Umm . . . anyway, here's the footage of him driving into the culvert. . ."
(Mom and I have a suspicion that the standoff expert they were talking to earlier told her to can it)
Dad: (after we channel-flipped for a while and came back to the same repeated words and live coverage at least ten minutes later) "This is not a national story. They're just keeping it live because they hope this guy'll start shooting at the cops."
And then mom switched it to the Food Network, and all was well. ;-)
