This happened last Monday morning, but seeing all these posts jogged the memory.
8am monday morning we get a call out to a police station. some one has tipped off the local stations that a murder suspect is to be brought in for questioning. We roll up all the normal faces are there...
Then we notice one station's news crew & link truck is missing. We see the cops leave on their way to get the "suspect" followed by laughter from one of the crews.
It seems the missing crew & link truck has gone directly to the suspects house!
Much hilarity is bounded around as we imagine that stations crimre reporter standing in front of the house doing a piece to camera, doing his big arm gesturing "in this house murder suspect xyz is sleeping we are expecting dectives from wxyz station to arrive here shortly to arrest & question the man"
Now what do you suppose the odds were he looked out of the window, had a few cogs go around & decide to bug out for a while.
Needless to say our man was "out" when the police arrived.
Did the detectives give us a sour look when they arrived back empty handed? you bet your ass they did. Were we standing around looking angelic? damn right, we were not the ones outside of the house.
Will some-one get a size ten planted squarely up their posteriour? probably yes.
Ahhh another fun day doing news...