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News & ArtsThursday, January 19, 2012
Media Snow Brings Out the Best in Us
Posted by Dominic Holden on Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:34 PM
Yesterday afternoon, KING-5's Meg Coyle was reporting live from the base of Queen Anne hill, where sledders were joyfully careening down the hill, and she suggested they be careful and wear a helmet. All of a sudden, a woman bursts into the frame, blaming Coyle for cops shutting down the hill to sledders and being a "total killjoy." Then the anchor responds with a pithy "Wah wah wah."
Which raises the question:
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Poor wittle white girl, her day swedding, mid week while everyone else works, been ruined? Of course, being a good wittle liberal, she'd probably be the first to get a personal injury lawyer and sue when she gets smacked by someone in an SUV.
Always funny watching nanny state liberals get upset when it's their life styles that get affected.
Poor wittle white girl, her day swedding, mid week while everyone else works, been ruined? Of course, being a good wittle liberal, she'd probably be the first to get a personal injury lawyer and sue when she gets smacked by someone in an SUV.
Always funny watching nanny state liberals get upset when it's their life styles that get affected.
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Please tell me that woman got fired for skipping work. If there isn't a hilariously ironic ending to that, I just want to move.
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@2: Are you playing Conservative Buzzword Bingo? Because if you had just mentioned "Obamacare" during your incoherent blathering, I would've had 5 in a row!
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I'm surprised she had time to go talk to the news reporter when she could have been over by the railing dropping more bags of garbage onto the freeway.
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@3 a lot of people can't drive to work in this weather, and the buses aren't doing so well either. So make like a tree and get out of here.
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The woman complaining about the reporter is a rude idiot. Maybe she should visit the 19 year old who hit her head on rocks and was knocked unconscious while sledding in Ravenna and is now in the hospital.
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Yes, I'm sure the cops followed the reporters to the scene of illegal activity, and only shut it down BECAUSE it was being reported.
Personal responsibility, anyone? Innertube lady isn't using hers.
Personal responsibility, anyone? Innertube lady isn't using hers.
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If we would just let TV reporters carry firearms, that situation could have been resolved quickly - and there would be very few repeats.
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@7 I knew I'd find you here FNARF dissing the sledder! Every November your neighbors can hear you railing behind your door and mumbling as you walk down the street, "I've got to stop Christmas from coming!" Lighten up man. Go do the polar bear plunge or something. Go out right NOW and have a snowball fight with some children, or even just random people on the street!
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My mom used to work at Children's Hospital and almost every winter she'd come home with a story of a kid she'd seen who'd been out sledding and scalped him/herself on the license plate of a parked car. I hope that's what happens to Annoying Killjoy Lady.
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Wah wah wah guy (totally don't remember his name even though I see him every day at 5pm) was annoying but I still voted for "killjoy" sledding lady.
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@14, I can't, I'm still recovering from a brutal two hours on the highways today. I've had enough snow for now.
As for Christmas, I love it, as it allows me to put up my giant illuminated animatronic diorama of Santa Claus writhing on the Cross, and spray the neighborhood children with a jet of hot pork blood when they come to the door caroling. While wearing my black leather Speedo and a goat's head mask. Now THAT'S a goddamn good time.
As for Christmas, I love it, as it allows me to put up my giant illuminated animatronic diorama of Santa Claus writhing on the Cross, and spray the neighborhood children with a jet of hot pork blood when they come to the door caroling. While wearing my black leather Speedo and a goat's head mask. Now THAT'S a goddamn good time.
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Antisledapalooza! Seattle Street Sledding(TM) is not about being safe. It's about grabbing your laundry basket, spraying it with PAM, and throwing yourself down the hill. Danger and hurt can happen any time and any where! Sledding is about your inner 6 year old. Dennis Bounds is an asshole.
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Dennis Bounds the anchor is awesome and should get a medal that was the perfect response.
That lady was annoying as hell.
That lady was annoying as hell.
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Angry Innertube Lady got serious first-world problems there. Poor little 13-year-old girl, trapped inside a 30-year-old woman.
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@20 -- When you do, remember to tape a shiny trinket under a bathroom drawer for her; it's part of the game, and we like keeping her happy.
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I loathe people who use phraes like "Thank you for ruining this". It is so passive-aggressive and oozes false politeness. That woman apparently worked herself up to that bit of self-righteous indignation and her tight-assed tone says it all. What a deluded cow.
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@ 29, I think it's more sarcastic than passive aggressive. She's point-blank accusing the reporter of ruining the fun, which isn't very passive.
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Well, however you'd describe it, she's a fucking moron. The news ruined your tradition by showing up and reporting on it? Like they don't show the same goddamn story every time this happens? Like the cops didn't know about it until the news showed up? God damn, you're stupid.
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Man. You people who are logging your sentiments of the inner tubing girl are exactly the kind of people I can't stand about Seattle. You CAN have FREE OF CHARGE fun sometimes. I skateboarded, hell, we all skateboarded growing up, on into our 20s and shit and never wore a fucking helmet. I rode my bike to school -- never wore a helmet. Nobody did. You people are those who have essentially made it "illegal" to be a parent and permit your kids riding their bike to school, lest you get turned in to CPS.
I mean really. When was the last time you even saw a kid riding his or her own bike anymore and exploring the world around him/her on his/her own? I'm thinking a decade or so as for myself. Put 'em on Ritalin, I say! That should knock this aberrant kids wanting to be kids behavior out of 'em.
This media/safety industry is what's ruining life and I would have voted for that had it been listed. Though this inner tubing woman is not obviously a child, she hearkens back to when you just did shit and told people to fuck off like you should have. Now it's all tsked tsked.
I mean really. When was the last time you even saw a kid riding his or her own bike anymore and exploring the world around him/her on his/her own? I'm thinking a decade or so as for myself. Put 'em on Ritalin, I say! That should knock this aberrant kids wanting to be kids behavior out of 'em.
This media/safety industry is what's ruining life and I would have voted for that had it been listed. Though this inner tubing woman is not obviously a child, she hearkens back to when you just did shit and told people to fuck off like you should have. Now it's all tsked tsked.
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@27 It's a first-world problem because those of us living in the so-called third world do shit like this all the time. I spent New Years dumping gasoline on effigies filled with firecrackers, lighting them on fire then jumping over them. So did the rest of the city, including children, old ladies and police officers. Americans used to know how to have fun too but now it's more fashionable to live in a state of perpetual fear and anxiety.
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@31 The use "thank you" is sarcastic but it is passive-aggressive because she doesn't say "screw you". She is hiding her complaint behind false politeness. I give her points for speaking up but Seattleites just aren't that good at confrontation.
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@33, I have no problem with sledding or with having fun free of charge or letting kids explore their world. Where does "acting like an entitled child and mouthing off to the wrong people when your expectations aren't met" fit into that?
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