Re: Yesterday's 23:00 news report from CA

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

>It was a short broadcast yesterday with a bird's eye footage from a
>helicopter.
>Some criminal was doing his getaway in what appeared to be a stolen grey
>V8. Two
>police cruisers finally caught him and one of the cops broadsided the Audi.

hmm.  Good taste but not much in the way of brains.


>The dude was apprehended a few metres later by .... some stocky homeowner
>whose
>backyard he tried to traverse while running away from the cops.

$20 says the homeowner was watching the chase on TV, saw his house, and ran
outside :)

>Did anyone else see it? LA guys?
As I've said sooo many times, "Only in California could..."

Riots, mudslides, earthquakes, OJ, bank-robber-gun-wars, police chases
every day(complete with helicopters)...seems like california is turning
into the movies it produces...


Brett

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Brett Dikeman
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Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt.  Qui annus est?
Te audire non possum.  Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
Ita, scio hunc 'sig file' veterem fieri.
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