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?

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

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

and they wonder why kids are killing each other!

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

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...

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

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

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.

more suicides in 3D?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*sigh*

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

methinks you misinterpret...

you thinks?

well, when my feelings let me...

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

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

SHIVERS!!!

I started this topic, little did I know.

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

No darkness lurking here!

Just great depths! Great name for a topic though.

Yep, the name rocks.

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.

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.

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.

That stinks.

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

i can say that now that i'm living here, we get to watch this stuff all the time. one guy even led police to his house. like, what did he think, home was base like in the game of tag? *laugh*

we've got a pursuit going on right now! nothing exciting going on but the news is concentrating on this thing....the guy's getting away but being careful in the process...very weird.

How often do you have these in LA, daily? It's a pretty common occurence isn't it?

very common. only some do they choose to air the whole thing. anyway, they only showed an hour of this, the guy turned himself in after another hour on the lam!

i just don't wanna be on the road in the middle of one of these.

Exactly! But there is no off-hours on the freeways. Perhaps they need to construct a dead end (sorry!)

*LAUGH* the best time, i think, is in the wee hours of the morning (like 2 AM) but then you have to contend with the drunks and strung out. still, i have encountered mostly courteous folks. but nearly got run over this morning (and i drive a suburban and this little tinted car tried to pull into my lane with me right next to him--please tell me how he didn't see me--windows too dark?)