and so it goes part II

Another day, another $MUMBLE dollars. At work, gas prices are WAY UP. $!@@#$!@!! I have another project now, so my plans to become an evil overlord of engineering progress. There was a pretty gruesome murder on Friday last week. A little girl's headless body was found at a local park. Police combed the park and the surrounding areas all friday and saturday and sunday. They couldn't find the head. They used sniffer dogs, but no head. That's bad, the investigation continues. Tuesday, man "knows there is something out there" and walks into the woods and 150 feet from where her body lay, "finds" her head in a bag. Now, here's the shitty part. Instead of calling the cops, he calls Fox4 News and has them film him PRODDING THE BAG WITH A STICK, and saying cheezy shit like "lots of flies... it feels like a head". THEN they call the cops. I wanted the cops to shoot him and the reporters. That's just fucking wrong. Instead of going to the police to help them, instead of preserving the scene where the head was found, instead of doing the decent thing, he called the news crews. My cynical self says it was to make sure he got the reward money. I want him arrested for obstruction of justice. I want the news crew arrested for obstruction of justice. I want the community who has been "banding together" to find the killer to villify this idiot for not going straight to the police with his find. I want the killer caught and sent to the chamber. I don't want to see the footage of this precious childs head being prodded with a stick endlessly on the news. This is the latest and the most heinous incarnation of the disturbing trend of "news as entertainment" that continues to make US mainstream media a joke. If this trend doesn't stop by someone smacking this idiot and the news media HARD, then the national joke gets bigger and less funny. There, I have ranted. I don't feel better, but it's something.