So that police tape incident I mentioned a couple of days ago? I found out what happened.
Turns out it wasn't a boring break in as surmised. Nor was it a grisly murder of a marine or air cadet, but it was close! It was a stabbing!
I probably heard it, but as I was trying to tune out the row, I don't think I heard anything at all useful.
This might not be the nicest area ever, but it's never been stabbings bad. In an interesting side note, the villain of the piece is from the road next to where we found the cat.
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Somehow 'Kyle Minas, aged 19, of Thumpers', is the sort of name and address you just couldn't make up, isn't it?
(There's nothing quite like regional reporting, is there - 'possession of an offensive weapon, namely a knife' is a line of pure gold.)
(It makes me wish I'd had a stab at journalism) ;D
You'd have been good at it!
Nah. I realise now I would have been terrible. The writing wouldn't have been the problem, it's the interviewing and sniffing out stories (if they actually bother to do that for the local paper). I can be such a mouse sometimes - especially when I was younger. Plus I'm not nosy enough.
*nods* Wouldn't surprise me; Revs is where it's at...
It's definitely true you could be nosier. I always assumed most journalists got their news from press releases and PR phone calls though, if they weren't investigative - though this may be because my mum's in marketing and used (when she was in pressy stuff) to essentially send out articles to the local press, which then got three words changed and attributed to someone else...
Am I noticeably un-nosy then? I suspect so.
I got that impression too, certainly of the local press. I think you call them up and they send a photographer round if they can me arsed. I will never forget one frontpage of the Gazette that had a woman's stolen birdbath as the main headline - doubt they tramped around Hemel to find that one. My one journalism interview (for a fishing magazine!) was very much a regurgitate press release thingy. They didn't have any original content at all. Very much like part of my job now, translating accident reports from site language into readable reports, funnily enough.
I think the national press (and especially the TV) are a bit more proactive though.
I don't know about nosy, but you definitely seem like less of a gossip-hound than me, and I think of myself as hardly being desperate. So to me you aren't nosy. :D
You see, you'd have been great!
National press, probably, but that's the sort of thing you can get into by learning how go about it on the job. I assume.
I often wonder if I just don't ask enough questions and this is why I'm always the last to know anything.
I noted that the report in the free paper was word for word what was on the website. A lot of investigating went on there!
You have to bear in mind I overlook a park and a footpath between the town centre and several residential areas. It often gets noisy on non-work nights (especially in the summer) with drunk people or just passers-by talking beneath my window, so you have to tune them out or you'll spend your life annoyed or on the phone annoying the police.
This group (and I only assume it was this group that were involved in the incident because they were around at about the right time) were being noisy, but they never sounded angry, agitated or even drunk. In fact the only thing I remember anyone saying was 'when we get home let's have a bacon sandwich', hardly a warning of trouble ahead!
When we lean out our windows to spy down on drunken skullduggery on our quiet residential street we only get to witness inept streetfights. Here you are with somebody getting stabbed and all they can express is a wish for a bacon sandwich?!
Street fights are way more exciting than what usually happens around here as we don't really get any. It's more drunken inconsiderate yelling.