Sounds like someone wishes for an unmarked truck...
Egad, no. We have a couple unpainted trucks and let me tell you, it's a huge invitation for EVERYONE to come up and ask what station we're from.
I'd say 1 in 10 people who come up to us wanting us to do a story actually pan out with something tangible. That's just us, but that's about our average. We listen every time. I'd say 5 out of the 10 are usually when we're live from the police station, and we may as just put one of those number dispensers outside the van and set up a winding line like at Disneyland. And out of those 5, 4.5 are usually how the police aren't doing what they're supposed to, or the police are being too tough on them or thier family.
I was tempted to do this the other day with some numbnuts walking behind our interview with a police PIO of all people, flashing gang signs, but once I saw a reporter live on the air start after one of these idiots behind her saying "You want to be on TV so bad, come here, come here," and of course they ran away.
Almost forgot the guy who showed up the other night at our van, rambling on about how he knew where they took the dead cows (Doing the beef recall story) asked us if we wanted some weed, actually gave us some Salvia, smoked a half a pack of cigarettes standing at the side door. Then mentioned he lived 100 miles away and was just driving by...
Oh yes.. the horns. I just don't get it, when the average person watches the news every night, how often do we use shots of people honking thier F'ing horns? I agree, if my lotto numbers pan out, I''m going to start driving around to people's places of business, dinner engaements, weddings, funerals, graduations, with a horn off an Union Pacific locomotive and see how they like it.
