What's your favorite local news clip

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Sorry I'm bored.

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1. I like the Weather Apocalypse.

This is Milwaukee.

It snows here.

And yet -- if snow's in the forecast, they're in full-on apocalypse mode, with reporters checking in from New Berlin, Port Washington and "the East Side" (if there's going to be more than 4 inches and thus parking will be disrupted) or "the South Side."

[KitchenWitch]

5. We get that too in the Twin Cities

We also get it during routine thunderstorms.

[AllegroRondo]

2. Shots of anonymous large rear ends walking

*latest fad diet - does it work?*


I can just see someone telling a friend "hey, I saw you on TV last night!"

[KitchenWitch]

3. Shot of Pharmacists counting pills: Drug had been recalled.

[Fenris]

4. Shots of obese people from the neck down.

Because you know one of them is going to see that clip.

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9. forgot about that....so true

[underpants]

6. Great list- Mine is the stock "Mine tragedy" shot, it is a drug tunnel

I kid you not. The local NBC station (Richmond Va) used it for all the recent coal mine tragedies. I was sitting there and saw it and backed up the digital TV feed and yep sure enough it was a shot of a dirt tunnel with a wire running into it with one bare lightbulb hanging there.

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8. Now that's cutting edge reporting.....Not!

[underpants]

11. Another-The "Circuit City guy"

a few years ago they had a massive one day firing at Circuit City. Basically they had cardborad boxes and tissues positioned all over the place and they took groups of people into meeting rooms and fired either the whole department or actually told some people they were fired and others to stay. As you can imagine is was very stressful.

Well the local TV crews got wind of it and ran out to set up for the reporting. They all were kept at a distance but they all got a shot of this one young guy walking out carrying one single cardboard box. Everytime that day was alluded to on any local station that guy was on air again so that everyone could see him and know that he was fired. He thus became known as "The Circuit City guy".

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13. I remember that event, but not the single guy with box.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. *Shot of cheerleaders screaming 'Woohoo!'*

A high school football game was played.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. I am particularly fond of "Traffic Cam" shots..."Traffic is moving

along I-75 at a steady pace..." *** cue chopper sounds***

[ContraBass Black]

12. Police line strung across DC neighborhood

Capitol or Washington Monument rises in background

"Violent tragedy/Drug deal"

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14. people smoking cigarettes