• '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    So here I was, minding my own business, reading a book (Children of Hope by David Feintuch) when I suddenly hear a bunch of sirens zooming down my quiet, suburban street.  Okay, so it’s not the best neighborhood, but still, usually it’s just a squad car with lights on if ANYTHING happens (and even then, it’s just some way ward youth being brought home courtesy of the police department.)

    So here I am, reading my book when the sirens blare down.  Now of course, I’m sitting in my window watching the scene as an ambulance, two fire trucks (why is it always two and not one???  You ever notice that?) and about half a dozen squad cars (some marked, a couple unmarked but with lights) across the street.

    Well, parking’s rather horrible in my neighborhood, too many teenagers with too many cars, so there’s almost never a good spot to park, you know?  And to top it off, half the street (my side of the road) is no parking at all times!

    So I’m standing there, leaning out my window in a nightshirt (because it’s bloody hot and I don’t want to run the AC when the sun goes down, you know?)  And this idiot NBC Channel 5 News van parks right at the end of my drive way!  The nerve!  Not along the curb in front of my lawn, literally parks at the end of my drive blocking me in!

    So I yell to the girl who gets out (obviously the reporter since she wasn’t in jeans and a t-shirt and looked like she could understand at least rudimentary English, though after the conversation, I began to have my doubts, believe you me!)  “Hey, you can’t park there!”

    Her reply???  “We’re media.” As if that settled that, and she went back to primping and primming for the camera.

    “Yeah, but you’re blocking my drive way.  You can’t park there!” I called down again.  Kinda intrigued as to what made her think she was above the law and more important than anyone else in the world?

    She looked up at me, took a glance at the drink I had in my hand, and repeated (slowly, guess she thought I might be drunk or slow) “It’s okay, We’re the media.”  Such attitude!

    “Yea, well I don’t care if you’re the second coming, you bloody well cannot park in front of my garage.  I will have you towed!”

    “We’re a new organization, ma’am.  We’re the press.  We can park where we want.”  This from the prissy looking child who appeared to have just graduated at the bottom of his class from some 3rd rate party school, in a tweed jacket and jeans, yelling around his cell phone (why he didn’t just graft the d@mn thing to his ear I’ll never know.)

    “Ahem.  Let me be perfectly clear.” I reiterated in my best attempt at a matronly/drill sergeant-ish voice. “If you do not move that van I will have you towed.  You cannot block my garage. I need to be able to pull my car out of my driveway.”

    Obviously this was more than the lady reporter could handle.  “But you don’t understand, ma’am!  This is a breaking story!”

    I guess that was true.  Too bad for them while they were off reporting the breaking story, H&H Towing was busy taking their van.


    edit Fixed a typo (comming to coming) which was bothering me.


  • You should have told her your a doctor and needed to get to the Hospital at any time because your on your lunch break and were on call duty and if she interfered from your care of patients in intensive care by any delay in your ability to leave, then she would be sued.

  • '19 Moderator

    Good job jen, though, It would be a better story with pictures….


  • +1 for Jen.  Thank you for doing your part.  :-D  I don’t know as my wife would have stopped there she may also have written a letter to the editor.  :| On second thought they are the media also so she may have keyed their van.  8-)

    LT

  • '19 Moderator

    lol, my wife would have ripped them two new asses…


  • You did very well. +1 karma to you


  • But which picture?  The media van being towed?  Or Jen with an adult beverage and a night shirt leaning out the window and letting them have it?
    :evil:


  • Would have been a better story if it had actually happened to you :

    "“Let me be clear.” I said, in my best cranky local drunk voice, “I will have you towed. You cannot block my garage. I need to be able to pull my car out of my driveway. There’s a chance…” and here I dropped my voice just a bit, and held my drink aloft, “…there’s a chance I may need to step out for some ice.”

    • This is Rob Long with Martini Shot on KCRW.

    http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma080730paparazzi

    What, did you think no one would google this? It took me about five seconds to find: media, van, driveway, towed, drink.

    Gotcha! :evil:

  • '19 Moderator

    @ncscswitch:

    But which picture?  The media van being towed?  Or Jen with an adult beverage and a night shirt leaning out the window and letting them have it?
    :evil:

    You know mw to well my friend…

    Jen: shame on you for giving me mental images of something that didn’t happen :-P

  • '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    Yea, Smacktard, because nothing ever could happen twice?

    Sigh…next thing that’ll happen is I’ll say I spun out on the snow and Smacktard’s going to say it didn’t happen to me and come up with some paparazzi story of someone famous spinning out in the snow.

    When you’re blinded with hate…I feel sorry for you Smacktard.  Luckily, most people on the site are adults.

    It did happen, it was NBC Channel 5 News in Chicago, they were almost towed by H&H Towing, though they did have a representative there to finally move their van once the tow truck showed up.

    I don’t know if it was reported.  Honestly, they were more interested in my Neighbor across the street having a medical emergency or some such thing. (Sorry, I don’t want NBC News, I watch ABC and BBC and neither carrier covered the story.)


  • You’re actually denying this? ROFL!

    So, let’s see…. On July 30th, you and Rob Long both have the exact same experience of a news van blocking your driveway. You also both write it down in nearly identical language (one part you actually copied and pasted entirely):

    @Cmdr:

    " “We’re media.” As if that settled that, and she went back to primping and primming for the camera."

    “We’re media,” she said, as if that settled that, and went back to her powdering and primping."

    http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma080730paparazzi

    @Cmdr:

    “It’s okay, We’re the media.”

    “It’s okay. We’re media.”

    http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma080730paparazzi

    *** If you’ll notice, even the italics are identical (have to clink on the link to see italics)

    @Cmdr:

    “We’re a new organization, ma’am.  We’re the press.  We can park where we want.”

    “We’re a news organization, sir. We’re press. We can park where we want.”

    http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/ma/ma080730paparazzi

    This is a straight copy-and-paste. You didn’t even try to disguise it.
    Edit: Ah, not exactly a straight copy-and-paste. You switched “ma’am” with “sir”.

    As if that weren’t enough, you also edited your “account” this morning and removed a whole line of dialogue: “…there’s a chance I may need to step out for some ice.”

    Don’t you have a history of doing this sort of thing? You would have been better off passing the whole thing off as a joke.


  • I concur.  The “ice” line was indeed removed since I first read this.

    I will of course add that this is not the first time that a cut and paste job has been confirmed with this poster; and likely will not be the last.  Old habits die hard.


  • I was just about to ask what the breaking story was…


  • @ncscswitch:

    I concur.  The “ice” line was indeed removed since I first read this.

    I will of course add that this is not the first time that a cut and paste job has been confirmed with this poster; and likely will not be the last.  Old habits die hard.

    In this case it seems they are immortal.

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