shoot ‘em up
There was a murderous rampage in Salt Lake City on Tuesday night. Some guy wearing a trench coat and carrying a shotgun, a handgun, and loaded up with ammo (how original is this genius?) walked into Trolley Square and started shooting at innocent little consumers. 5 dead, many more wounded, and the shooter was killed by police. This is tragic, this is horrible. But how did it affect me?
I’m glad you asked.
Anyone who reads this crappy blog knows that I have no love whatsoever for television news. Well, that night just reminded me of why I feel that way. I was watching some show (it was a guilty pleasure program and I am not going to say what it was) and every commercial break they were there, on the scene, showing cop cars, people standing around, even though they had absolutely nothing new to say about the tragedy. At one point they even panned the camera up into a window and said “What you are looking at now are people actually standing in line waiting to give their statements to police!”
Really. How fucking fascinating. Thank God above that you people are there to report the news and share such earth shaking details with me. At least they didn’t break into the show to bring me shit like that.
