Don't Always Believe the TV Reporters!

There was a fire north of us this week that brought the big-city TV crews and choppers to town. One station doing a live update with a reporter in the news van via mobile phone on his way to the site while showing footage from the chopper.

We were watching and heard the reporter say he was coming from the south (he gave the incorrect Interstate he had taken, too!) and that he could see the smoke (lie, lie, lie). Then he said he was at a certain intersection and that an ambulance just passed him. That intersection was one block south of us and we could not see the smoke, so we knew he was not telling the truth! We watched him drive by telling his lies!

As a sidenote.... why, oh why, do the reporters interview the most stupid redneck people they can find when there's a big story???? I think that even in the middle of Beverly Hills.... they would find someone to fit that description to interview.....