One of the perks of my job is that when a police chase gets going good, there’s usually a satellite feed on it in no time. While those at home might just catch “cut-ins” or :15 of highlights later on, I get to watch it live. This has led to some so-so endings, to a guy getting shot by the cops as he tried to flee, a guy squaring off trying to fist fight a cop, and any number of flips, rolls and crashes to put some life into the work day.<\/p>\n
In the past three days, Texas has blessed us with two good ones. <\/p>\n
Friday, a guy robbed a dry cleaner in Houston and put on quite the impressive driving display<\/a> (the video package with the annoying reporter doesn’t do it justice, really) before splashing down in a creek two or so hours later.<\/p>\n Today, a guy stole a couple cars, then took a woman and her semi hostage, and made her drive through Dallas<\/a> for hours on end with no front tires. From the reports that he was suicidal and “not going to come out voluntarily”, it’s a miracle this woman (and her dog) got out alive. Twenty bucks has her on Oprah for November’s sweeps.<\/p>\n ***** Thanks to Jeanne in the original post’s comments for that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the perks of my job is that when a police chase gets going good, there’s usually a satellite feed on it in no time. While those at home might just catch “cut-ins” or :15 of highlights later on, I get to watch it live. This has led to some so-so endings, to a … Continue reading The boys in the newsroom have a running bet<\/span>
\nAnd we’ve finally had a mystery solved<\/a>. Apparently, the “stick of butter” Sesame Street sketch was<\/em> a girl<\/a>, but there was a similar “remembering” sketch that was a little boy<\/a> (complete with pimp-type character that may or may not be Isaac Hayes). <\/p>\n