Have you ever been really close to a newsworthy event?

[nanette1985]

One of my former neighbors has been in the news for a couple years. I knew the family well. and I know a lot about the kid's situation. It's nothing like what's been reported in the news. They've gotten it really wrong. It's so bizarre to listen to all the stuff that these fancy commentators are yammering about. I'm certainly not going to talk about this to any news people.

Anyone else ever experience this?

 

[SirStev0]

Go on...

 

[SirStev0]

Also, I feel a good amount of the public realizes the news is all incendiary bullshit and completely fucking horrible.
With that said, the vast majority of the public loves a good scandal and can't help themselves but to fall for gossip.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I knew someone who was murdered in a drug deal gone wrong... The newsmedia was actually fairly spot-on for the details and his bio.

 

[FoBoT]

only tornadoes

 

[Onita]

Yes, a few.

 

[rcpratt]

This kid that I went to college with and was study buddies with in freshman year and who also grew up near my hometown has been in the news lately. His mother was murdered, possibly by her husband. There are affairs, sex dungeons, and the hit was done by a borderline retarded (literally) employee of the husbands, allegedly. It's getting quite the media attention.

I don't know anything about it and haven't spoken to him regarding it, though. But it is a bit odd to see.

 

[sixone]

News outlets are not in the business of educating you. They are in the business of selling advertisements, and they will do anything they can to get you to to watch.

Journalism is dead.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

I was maybe 5.
There was a suspected body buried across the street on some property that had been abandoned for many years.
I used to play in that empty house all the time. Even though I was told not to. Glad I did didn't step or fall on any of those many nails sticking out everywhere.

So this guy pointed them in direction of this property. Tore the house down. Destroyed all the land digging around trying to find this corpse & never found it. After several months they gave up & was revealed that there wasn't really a body there.

I was briefly on the news in the background. And I also got to sit in the news van. It was cool.

 

[JulesMaximus]

L.A. Riots back in 1992. We lived just north of LAX off the 405 freeway and my wife worked in Century City. I drove up LaCienega on day 2 to pick her up from work through an area that was being looted.

 

[Joseph F]

I was in the news once...

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Does being a journalist count?

 

[Printer Bandit]

One of my former neighbors has been in the news for a couple years. I knew the family well. and I know a lot about the kid's situation. It's nothing like what's been reported in the news. They've gotten it really wrong. It's so bizarre to listen to all the stuff that these fancy commentators are yammering about. I'm certainly not going to talk about this to any news people.

Anyone else ever experience this?

 

[Narse]

I was in downtown Atlanta working in a loft when the bombing at Olympics.

 

[waggy]

only tornadoes

same.

though when i was younger i lived in Portland Or when mt. saint helens went off.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Some, biggest one in recent history is the June 1st, 2011 Tornado that destroyed a large portion of the populated area of my town in W. Mass....

 

[lokiju]

Not overly news worthy IMO but a kid I went to school with was on "The Real World" and my uncle who is a cop down in FL who basically transports people to an from a court room. He's been on TLC a few times in clips about crimes that made the news when those shows are showing clips of either the trail or verdict.

He's had to tackle a number of people after a sentence comes down that gives them basically nothing to live for. Like life or death sentences for example.

 

[WelshBloke]

One of my former neighbors has been in the news for a couple years. I knew the family well. and I know a lot about the kid's situation. It's nothing like what's been reported in the news. They've gotten it really wrong. It's so bizarre to listen to all the stuff that these fancy commentators are yammering about. I'm certainly not going to talk about this to any news people.

Anyone else ever experience this?

What that strange unsatisfied feeling that you get when someone is being vague and non specific in a conversation?

Why yes...I think I know how that feels. :hmm:

 

[KaOTiK]

A close friend in high school won the lottery, a really big one at the time (think it was around 35 mil). It became a big issue because my friend we will call him Steve, was going out with one of his families closest friends and his dad asked Steve to get him a quick pick for lotto before heading home. Steve was only 17 at the time so he asked the family friend to buy it for him and he does with no problems. Well ends up they win the lotto off that ticket and the family friend turns around and sues them saying it was his since he bought it because Steve wasn't of legal age. Steve's family was pretty shocked because this guy had been close to their family for like 10+ years almost and they treated him like a son helping him out. They would have taken care of him for life and given him plenty of money as well. They ended up settling out of court and Steve's family got 24million of the 35.

It was a big mess when it was happening and lasted for a little while, news were all over Steve's house and making up all kinds of BS stories from "sources" close to the family.

 

[nanette1985]

What that strange unsatisfied feeling that you get when someone is being vague and non specific in a conversation?

Why yes...I think I know how that feels. :hmm:

Sorry. There's some things that need to be kept private. Otherwise I'd give more details.

 

[Ben90]

I knew and went to highschool with the kid that shot Gabrielle Giffords.

 

[Nohr]

The Columbia shuttle broke up over my head (Nacogdoches, TX), I still remember hearing it. There were bits and pieces of debris scattered around town including in my apartment parking lot. Cops were parked in their cars near the fallen pieces guarding them until they could be picked up.

 

[Red Squirrel]

There was a murder in my city once, it was in the news for at least a year. It did not really happen that close to where I lived though but it was in my city.

 

[AreaCode707]

The FDA shutting down the Estrella Family Creamery in Washington. The news was absolute and utter bullshit, but that's partially because the FDA lied through their teeth both in legal and press statements.

It was pretty horrible to watch such a great family get dragged through the mud mercilessly and repeatedly.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I saw Quiton Rampage Jackson have his mental breakdown and run away from the police on the 55 freeway down in Newport.

Had a friend that was a part of a scandal in school.

Few gang murders down the street but nothing too big like a serial murder.