(rewind to Sunday, 4/29/07, mid-afternoon)
Was sent out on a VOSOT, had to wait 20 minutes for my reporter to go find a shirt that went better with his jeans (thought to myself "why didn't you put that shirt on in the first place?")...
Arrived at VOSOT, got call from newsroom saying an officer had been shot in the arm and to go there, but they still wanted us to shoot the VOSOT first. Brilliant.
After shooting the free advertisement, started heading to the cop shooting, when the scanner starts going nuts about a shooting at the Ward Parkway Mall. Race to the mall, and soon realize this isn't just another shooting, some wackjob has gone through the mall shooting anyone and anything in sight.
And the kicker is the mall is two blocks from my house.
Oh, and that VOSOT never made air. awesome.