JUST TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE, THE DEPUTIES TASERED THE TV
Hudson man awoken by gunfire calls 911; deputies storm home, find shootout on TV
(Thanks to Rick Day)
"Awokened"?
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January 28, 2012
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The temptation for an accidental discharge of a service revolver must have been almost more than the officers could bear.
No jury in the land would have convicted.
Posted by: wingnut | January 28, 2012 at 08:07 AM
He should be forbidden from watching Fear Factor.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 28, 2012 at 08:35 AM
O/T The whole "awoken" thing bothers me, too. I'm aware that things change and become acceptable, but I was taught "awakened". Who can we taser for this "woken/awokened" trend?
Posted by: Girlogic | January 28, 2012 at 08:41 AM
Girlogic ... Everyone who claims to be a "professional journalist" yet abuses proper usageness in ways similar to this ...
Of course Dave would be exempt, becuz he knows the rules and merely laughs at 'em ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 28, 2012 at 08:51 AM
he must've been Home Alone
Posted by: ligirl | January 28, 2012 at 08:52 AM
After he was awokened and had arosen from his bed, he called police? I'm sure the police were extremely professional in front of him.
Posted by: nursecindy | January 28, 2012 at 10:49 AM
I fell asleep with the cooking channel on.
When I awokened I sent the meal back because it was cold
Posted by: poker | January 28, 2012 at 10:55 AM
I saw Fictitious Shooting open for Run-DMC.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM
I once proofread for a local newspaper. I got in a *lot* of trouble (as measured in decibels) with a ad exec for being snarky about how people who can't spell make it through college. She apparently was one of them. It's fun to see all their mistakes broadcast to the world since we have the internet to announce instant unproofed news.....
Posted by: Girlogic | January 28, 2012 at 11:51 AM
People who can't spell, yet would have the world consider their ownselfs as "wise" or "learned" or even "smart" ... yet display their indifference thru their ignoramousocityismness ... deserve to have snarks tossed at 'em ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 28, 2012 at 12:28 PM
I wonder who he thought was having a shoot out in his living room? Did he surmise that two gangs of ruthless gunmen had chosen his domicile as a convenient location for a shoot out? What happened to critical thinking skills?
Posted by: Gary | January 28, 2012 at 12:40 PM
No, that's wrong. It's "Thunking".
Posted by: Mr. Language Person's Evil Twin | January 28, 2012 at 01:29 PM
There's the Evil Twin, branging such silliness into the conversation ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 28, 2012 at 01:42 PM
I hafta apologize fer the egregious doofusheadedness in the above post. I should've said, "Mr. Evil Twin had branged such silliness into the discussion."
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 28, 2012 at 01:43 PM
Meanwhile, why did the deputies storm home? Were they offended by poor spelling or something?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 28, 2012 at 01:45 PM
Give the poor headline writer a break, he (she) works for TV news and TV people have a special type of spelling so that newscasters can produce vocalizations that the viewers can understand. Note that there is a theory that some newscasters are intelligent enough to have language, it may be true but as far as I can tell from having observed many newscasters they do not associate the vocalizations they have been trained to produce in response to visual stimuli with the real world.
Posted by: max | January 28, 2012 at 02:12 PM
Wait...What did the Gunshots have to do with the Pirates festival? Or were they talking about the baseball team?
(Excuse me, I just "awokened". That you for being so
perfumedperfessional.)Posted by: funny man | January 28, 2012 at 02:36 PM
Guess the State!
Posted by: Coconuts | January 28, 2012 at 04:00 PM
Does anyone else think it's ironic that O the U is correcting someone else's grammar? NTTAWWT.
Posted by: nursecindy | January 28, 2012 at 04:31 PM
I await good spelling with baited breath. Preferably pizza.
Posted by: Ralph | January 28, 2012 at 05:13 PM
Not ironical, n'cin' ... satirical ... merely sayin' ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | January 28, 2012 at 06:13 PM
1. My parents lived in Hudson.
2. I've done this exact thing before. I thought it was someone screaming in the street outside. Turned out to be my roommate watching TV in the living room. I figured it out within moments of putting the phone back down but was too embarrassed to call back. The cops went to my neighbor's house instead of mine. I was also too embarrassed to confess to my neighbors. ><
Posted by: Diva | January 28, 2012 at 06:33 PM
Network TV...Violence and mayham....
I'd rather have violins and smoked ham.... but thats
just me.
(My TV watching is down this fall/winter and I expect it to eventually him zero or very near that...)
You know, maybe someday they will put on stuff that uplifts humanity instead of teaching/supporting them to fight and kill one another...
Posted by: funny man | January 28, 2012 at 06:41 PM