Live from LA, it's suicide on the freeway!
Topic 17 · 45 responses · archived october 2000
~terry
Sat, May 2, 1998 (09:58)
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.
~terry
Sat, May 2, 1998 (10:06)
#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 (11:02)
#2
that's disgusting. who needs to see that anyway, kids or adults.....geez!
~terry
Sat, May 2, 1998 (11:45)
#3
It's the new way, everyone sees everything with no discrimination.
Sad indeed.
~Wolf
Sat, May 2, 1998 (12:37)
#4
and they wonder why kids are killing each other!
~ratthing
Sat, May 2, 1998 (16:17)
#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 (16:19)
#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
Sat, May 2, 1998 (20:11)
#7
hey, we got rid of j. springer here, so.......
~stacey
Mon, May 4, 1998 (10:09)
#8
wow Paul, I had no idea journalism (generalization) had sunk that low. Is this sweeps week or something?
~terry
Mon, May 4, 1998 (12:31)
#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 (09:53)
#10
more suicides in 3D?
~KitchenManager
Sat, May 9, 1998 (11:33)
#11
I'd watch that...not sure I'd want my kids
to watch, though...
~riette
Fri, Jul 3, 1998 (19:06)
#12
Hope it gives you the fright of your life, muffin!
~KitchenManager
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (01:05)
#13
You're mad at me, aren't you?
~riette
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (10:39)
#14
Would I call you muffin if I were mad at you?
~KitchenManager
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (13:28)
#15
That would imply that I knew if you liked muffins or not...
~riette
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (14:10)
#16
I eat muffins by the hundreds - what does that imply?
~KitchenManager
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (14:12)
#17
that I really need to watch being around you warm and covered in butter?
~riette
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (14:14)
#18
Sure as he��!
Raw, cold, warm, buttery, jammy, crumbly, hard, soft, puffy - you just watch it, babe!
~KitchenManager
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (14:16)
#19
uhoh...I'm usually all of those at once...
~riette
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (14:26)
#20
yum yum! That's why you're so irresistable . . .
Come here, let me taste ya!
~KitchenManager
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (14:41)
#21
*sigh*
~riette
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (14:49)
#22
That sure says it all - don't worry, I won't come near you.
~KitchenManager
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (15:47)
#23
methinks you misinterpret...
~riette
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (17:45)
#24
you thinks?
~KitchenManager
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (17:52)
#25
well, when my feelings let me...
~riette
Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (18:06)
#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 (18:47)
#27
didn't create it...just play around in it...kinda like a cemetery...
~riette
Sun, Jul 5, 1998 (02:49)
#28
SHIVERS!!!
~terry
Sun, Jul 5, 1998 (07:23)
#29
I started this topic, little did I know.
~riette
Sun, Jul 5, 1998 (18:36)
#30
YOU?!
Little did we all know what depth and darkness lurked within our Spring King.
~terry
Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (10:46)
#31
No darkness lurking here!
~riette
Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (13:42)
#32
Just great depths!
Great name for a topic though.
~terry
Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (13:55)
#33
Yep, the name rocks.
~stacey
Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (14:46)
#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 (17:34)
#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
Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (20:35)
#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 (02:38)
#37
That stinks.
~terry
Wed, Nov 11, 1998 (07:55)
#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
~wolf
Tue, Apr 2, 2002 (12:53)
#39
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*
~wolf
Thu, Apr 11, 2002 (20:13)
#40
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.
~terry
Fri, Apr 12, 2002 (06:43)
#41
How often do you have these in LA, daily? It's a pretty common occurence isn't it?
~wolf
Mon, Apr 15, 2002 (18:14)
#42
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!
~wolf
Mon, Apr 15, 2002 (18:14)
#43
i just don't wanna be on the road in the middle of one of these.
~MarciaH
Mon, Apr 15, 2002 (21:40)
#44
Exactly! But there is no off-hours on the freeways. Perhaps they need to construct a dead end (sorry!)
~wolf
Mon, Apr 15, 2002 (22:10)
#45
*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?)