Live from LA, it's suicide on the freeway!

~terry Sat, May 2, 1998 (13:58) seed

They just has a live broadcast of a freeway suicide in LA, with closeup shots of someones head being blow off as they popped off a shotgun. We are at the point where everyone must know everything that's going on as it happens. Both a new low in journalism and a taste of the future. 38 new of

~terry Sat, May 2, 1998 (14:06) #1

One of the busiest LA interchanges was held up for an hour, costing S Cal economy well into 7 figures. They cut away from a kids cartoon show to show it, the four year olds needed to see this obviously! The guy did it because he was opposed to HMOs, and if you're in LA, the best way to get attention is to get in a freeway chase (a la OJ). The HMO refused to pay his Viagra subscription, one rumor has it. So the kiddies go from happy smurfland to blood and brains all over. Not pretty is it?

~Wolf Sat, May 2, 1998 (15:02) #2

that's disgusting. who needs to see that anyway, kids or adults.....geez!

~terry Sat, May 2, 1998 (15:45) #3

It's the new way, everyone sees everything with no discrimination. Sad indeed.

~Wolf Sat, May 2, 1998 (16:37) #4

and they wonder why kids are killing each other!

~ratthing Sat, May 2, 1998 (20:17) #5

i sometimes think that the news media nowadays is living by that old saying, "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission."

~autumn Sat, May 2, 1998 (20:19) #6

And why people are getting rid of their TV sets! (a' la stacey) If I want to read the Nat'l Enquirer I'll buy one in the supermarket check-out line...

~Wolf Sun, May 3, 1998 (00:11) #7

hey, we got rid of j. springer here, so.......

~stacey Mon, May 4, 1998 (14:09) #8

wow Paul, I had no idea journalism (generalization) had sunk that low. Is this sweeps week or something?

~terry Mon, May 4, 1998 (16:31) #9

Next week is, there are about a dozen programs that will be broadcast in 3d, you'll need glasses. Details will be posted in the tv conference.

~stacey Tue, May 5, 1998 (13:53) #10

more suicides in 3D?

~KitchenManager Sat, May 9, 1998 (15:33) #11

I'd watch that...not sure I'd want my kids to watch, though...

~riette Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (23:06) #12

Hope it gives you the fright of your life, muffin!

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (05:05) #13

You're mad at me, aren't you?

~riette Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (14:39) #14

Would I call you muffin if I were mad at you?

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (17:28) #15

That would imply that I knew if you liked muffins or not...

~riette Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (18:10) #16

I eat muffins by the hundreds - what does that imply?

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (18:12) #17

that I really need to watch being around you warm and covered in butter?

~riette Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (18:14) #18

Sure as he��! Raw, cold, warm, buttery, jammy, crumbly, hard, soft, puffy - you just watch it, babe!

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (18:16) #19

uhoh...I'm usually all of those at once...

~riette Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (18:26) #20

yum yum! That's why you're so irresistable . . . Come here, let me taste ya!

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (18:41) #21

*sigh*

~riette Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (18:49) #22

That sure says it all - don't worry, I won't come near you.

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (19:47) #23

methinks you misinterpret...

~riette Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (21:45) #24

you thinks?

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (21:52) #25

well, when my feelings let me...

~riette Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (22:06) #26

�eyebrow� Pretty sharp. Wer, could you tell me please why you created this topic? Don't you find it kinda eerie here?

~KitchenManager Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (22:47) #27

didn't create it...just play around in it...kinda like a cemetery...

~riette Sun, Jul 5, 1998 (06:49) #28

SHIVERS!!!

~terry Sun, Jul 5, 1998 (11:23) #29

I started this topic, little did I know.

~riette Sun, Jul 5, 1998 (22:36) #30

YOU?! Little did we all know what depth and darkness lurked within our Spring King.

~terry Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (14:46) #31

No darkness lurking here!

~riette Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (17:42) #32

Just great depths! Great name for a topic though.

~terry Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (17:55) #33

Yep, the name rocks.

~stacey Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (18:46) #34

Riette... unfortunatly (IMHO) the name springs from a real live TV broadcast of a man's successful suicide attempt. Guess the video media thought the suspense was worth capturing live and when the distraught (for lack of a real insightful word) decided to follow through, the gory scene was broadcast all around the country. the name has merit, but i don't believe the broadcast did.

~riette Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (21:34) #35

WHAT?! They put a person's suicide on TV?!!?!?!?! What kind of a sick thing is that to do?! And what kind of people watch that?!?! God help us.

~terry Tue, Jul 7, 1998 (00:35) #36

LA people, a lot of 'em kids. Because they interuppted a kids tv show to bring you a live suicide. This is America, honey, the land of OJ, and Monica, and the Truman show. It's gotten, in some parts, where people demand all the news, no matter how obscene, as it happens. We been Simpsonized.

~riette Tue, Jul 7, 1998 (06:38) #37

That stinks.

~terry Wed, Nov 11, 1998 (12:55) #38

According to the always-amusing News Blues site http://www.newsblues.com the situation isn't good at all in LA: http://www.newsblues.com/Stations/kabc.htm