RETURN OF HEADLINE NEWS! — by Steve Nadis
Sorry for the prolonged absence. I played “Mr. Mom” this week while my wife was out of town on a business trip. That and a big work deadline left me little time for my most important job: combing the papers in search of the perfect story. I found it in Monday’s Boston Globe–a few days late, but this one was well worth the wait. Filed in the “New England in brief” section, it reads: ‘MAN BITTEN BY NEIGHBOR’S DOG.” What an original story, I thought. In all my years of reading the paper from cover to cover, I’ve never seen anything like it. Sure, I’ve seen the usual “Man bites dog” story, which are a dime-a-dozen. But “man bitten by dog,” now there’s an original twist. Which is why it caught my fancy.
I’ve been so inspired by this find, in fact, that I plan to contact my local TV news station and suggest the possibility of their running the occasional “bad weather” (flooded basement, flooded city street, etc.) story or maybe something having to do with a burning building. (I can already see the accompanying headline in the newspaper.) But nah, forget it. What a crazy idea. They’d never go for it, not in a million years…
I think MAN BITTEN BY NEIGHBOR’S BLOG would have been a lot more interesting. But, of course, it would have to be a blog with teeth–like this one, for example.
HAHAHAHAHA at Gatemouth……….he’s so witty. I’m just not worthy.
You’re right, WFW. I only write these trifles to elicit even better comments.
Here in NJ, dogs must be on a leash or fenced in, so how did he get bitten? In NJ, it WOULD be news. The owner would probably be fined, the dog put down, the “victim” would be filing a lawsuit. The neighborhood would be divided, half protesting the dog’s fate, half protesting the owner keeping a vicious animal. The evening news would be all over it. There would be huge headlines in the local paper.
Maybe we should keep blogs on a leash or fenced in, too. Then, if someone got bitten by one, we could have the blog put down. Or the blogger. Think what a wonderful world wide web it would be then.
Hi Roses — Thanks for injecting the NJ perspective. (I won’t cheapen the discussion by asking ‘what exit?’.) Maybe the story has more legs than I thought.
And Gatemouth, your ideas as usual merit further consideration. I certainly like the idea about “putting blogs down,” though I might not feel the same way when this one gets euthanized.