World's slowest car chase
Americans may not "do" irony as I understand it, but they certainly do great comedy. For example, I'm currently watching a 10-15mph car chase in San Pedro on abc that has been going on for the last half hour. I can't stop laughing! The newsreaders are commentating on whether the driver is "DUI" (driving under influence), and seriously speculating if the driver is looking for a safe place to ditch the car and run. They're even recommending that viewers stay in their homes in case the driver goes loopy or decides to turn this into a high-speed chase. Come on guys! Do you really have to big-up everything? Is this such a slow news day that you have to devote at least 20 minutes of news time to the world's slowest car chase?
(And as I'm about to post this, there's breaking news that the vehicle concerned has been involved in a pursuit before that lasted 4 hours. Oh my... We're in for the long haul, eh?)
Update: I give up! It's been 30 minutes. The only reason I was on abc was to check out the local news, and there was the promise of some preview of Saddam Hussein's trial. Bloody CBS has the damn car chase instead of real news as well. A flip to NBC gives... a news report on the effectiveness (or rather, lack of) of antibacterial handsoap. These local news stations must love car chases; it gives their newscasters/readers a chance to just blether on and on. Fed up now. Guess it's back to CNN.
posted by akatsukira @ 23:05
2 Comments:
la loves its car chases, it does. they usually try to stay with it for an hour or so, then cut back to the grand (or usually completely anti-climactic) finale. there used to be this very, very la-centric show called "it's like, you know..." and there was a whole episode devoted to how los angelenos are devoted to car chase coverage. fabulous.
i guess they're going to be a major feature of my evening viewings... then again, there are SO many channels here...
what annoyed me about the car chase was that they completely scrapped the news to show it. for 30 minutes! ok, i was riveted too. but only because i could not believe my eyes...
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