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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:19 PM
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Poll question: What's your favorite local news clip
Sorry I'm bored.
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:21 PM
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1. I like the Weather Apocalypse.
This is Milwaukee.

It snows here.

And yet -- if snow's in the forecast, they're in full-on apocalypse mode, with reporters checking in from New Berlin, Port Washington and "the East Side" (if there's going to be more than 4 inches and thus parking will be disrupted) or "the South Side."
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:54 PM
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5. We get that too in the Twin Cities
We also get it during routine thunderstorms.
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AllegroRondo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:51 PM
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2. Shots of anonymous large rear ends walking
Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 04:52 PM by AllegroRondo
*latest fad diet - does it work?*


I can just see someone telling a friend "hey, I saw you on TV last night!"
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:53 PM
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3. Shot of Pharmacists counting pills: Drug had been recalled.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:54 PM
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4. Shots of obese people from the neck down.
Because you know one of them is going to see that clip.
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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 08:46 AM
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9. forgot about that....so true
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:58 PM
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6. Great list- Mine is the stock "Mine tragedy" shot, it is a drug tunnel
I kid you not. The local NBC station (Richmond Va) used it for all the recent coal mine tragedies. I was sitting there and saw it and backed up the digital TV feed and yep sure enough it was a shot of a dirt tunnel with a wire running into it with one bare lightbulb hanging there.

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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 08:45 AM
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8. Now that's cutting edge reporting.....Not!
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 08:58 AM
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11. Another-The "Circuit City guy"
a few years ago they had a massive one day firing at Circuit City. Basically they had cardborad boxes and tissues positioned all over the place and they took groups of people into meeting rooms and fired either the whole department or actually told some people they were fired and others to stay. As you can imagine is was very stressful.

Well the local TV crews got wind of it and ran out to set up for the reporting. They all were kept at a distance but they all got a shot of this one young guy walking out carrying one single cardboard box. Everytime that day was alluded to on any local station that guy was on air again so that everyone could see him and know that he was fired. He thus became known as "The Circuit City guy".
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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:01 AM
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13. I remember that event, but not the single guy with box.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:59 PM
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7. *Shot of cheerleaders screaming 'Woohoo!'*
A high school football game was played.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 08:47 AM
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10. I am particularly fond of "Traffic Cam" shots..."Traffic is moving
along I-75 at a steady pace..." *** cue chopper sounds***
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ContraBass Black Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 09:07 AM
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12. Police line strung across DC neighborhood
Capitol or Washington Monument rises in background

"Violent tragedy/Drug deal"
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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 10:02 AM
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14. people smoking cigarettes
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