Have you ever made the local or national News?

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As part of a disaster but no name or just you for something done. I made the national news and local for surving a plane crash. Two next to me died I did not, surrounded by jet fuel I think it was what I was wearing and who know what else . I was in the store you see across from Macys. Will never understand how I survived.

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/SunValley_Mall_Crash.htm
 

I've been interviewed on the local news a couple times. Our county is in the process of expanding wind energy production and the county supervisors have been instrumental in making the project happen. We've all been interviewed a time or two.
 
I never have made the news . But if it takes something like happened two you to make it, I'd rather not. Lucky you, huh?
 

Just once, and it was a very long time ago. My classmates cooked up an initiation stunt which put me in a makeshift tent inside a traffic circle located in a high traffic area. According to the theme, I was "Shipwreck Kelly" and I was not allowed to talk to anybody. A photographer from The Tennessean came by and my picture was on page one the next morning.
 
Not personally but I was in that search that went on for the woman who was killed by her "cop boyfriend",( it was on the news a long time )that is still in jail and I hope he never gets out. He killed her and she was pregnant with baby Chloe. I can't remember the moms name right now...... but, that was a sad day when they found her. SO SO SAD. We searched in places I never would have gone into !
 
lovemylittleboy said:
Not personally but I was in that search that went on for the woman who was killed by her "cop boyfriend",( it was on the news a long time )that is still in jail and I hope he never gets out. He killed her and she was pregnant with baby Chloe. I can't remember the moms name right now...... but, that was a sad day when they found her. SO SO SAD. We searched in places I never would have gone into !
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So sorry that is one of many things you do not want. Some make the news for silly things that now get put on youtube and that show right this minute. I try and avoid the press.
 
John C said:
Just once, and it was a very long time ago. My classmates cooked up an initiation stunt which put me in a makeshift tent inside a traffic circle located in a high traffic area. According to the theme, I was "Shipwreck Kelly" and I was not allowed to talk to anybody. A photographer from The Tennessean came by and my picture was on page one the next morning.
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Hate it when that happens. At least my photo was not out there so glad.
 
pchrise said:
As part of a disaster but no name or just you for something done. I made the national news and local for surving a plane crash. Two next to me died I did not, surrounded by jet fuel I think it was what I was wearing and who know what else . I was in the store you see across from Macys. Will never understand how I survived.

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/SunValley_Mall_Crash.htm
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Wow-I remember that so well. Lived in Woodside,CA at the time. I have a memory of somebody I knew being there at the time or something but my mind is blank.
 
Yes only a local paper of a town of about 50.000 people where I grew up. I was interviewed by the newspaper and had photo in paper after I phoned them regarding a brief story they had in what we call the stop press , which at the time was written in. Red on the back page .
The article was in 1971, it stated a 42 year old male,had been shot and killed,and A 14 year old and a 15 year old had been charged for murder.
It obviously mentioned the deceased name and that person was my natural father , I had unfortunately only met him for the first time a year prior to him being killed. All of his family was only aware of his death by reading the newspaper ....( I was bought up by a stepfather / mother who would not allow me to,have any letters sent by my father) I was 25 at the time ...
I,never did find out why he was only 17 when I was born very young for those days, information was kept secret many years ago and if you were game to ask a question you were told to,just be quiet
 
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Yes, last tear.

They withdrew my Blue, disabled parking concession, badge.

Made great play of being a 40 year veteran with a disability war pension.

It was reinstated a few months later!

(The reason it was withdrawn was that I carry a mobility scooter in the car, therefore I don't need parking privileges, as I can park anywhere and use my scooter! Do your officials apply that sort of logic in the States?)
 
pchrise said:
As part of a disaster but no name or just you for something done. I made the national news and local for surving a plane crash. Two next to me died I did not, surrounded by jet fuel I think it was what I was wearing and who know what else . I was in the store you see across from Macys. Will never understand how I survived.

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/SunValley_Mall_Crash.htm
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That was an amazing story. I remember your crash and the others that also took place. At United, we were doing all kinds of things to be prepared for anything that could go wrong. We spent a ton of hours in the simulators learning how to come out of all kinds of possible disasters. Things have really changed. Since 2002 there has been no airline related deaths here in the U.S. Flying is now more safer than ever. The NTSB has done an incredible job of making flying safer. Every accident brought about a change. Either a warning system or a backup system has been installed to prevent a similar accident.

The worse air crash that I was even close to was in 1986 when Value Jet had gone down nose first into the Everglades. We had just flown non stop from Chicago to Miami on a Boeing 757 and had flown over a portion of the Everglades in our final decent. I walked into the crew's lounge and everyone was quiet and listening to the ATC's over the speakers, which normally, no one pays any attention to. I asked a fellow Captain what was going on and when he told me, I immediately felt the air go out of my lungs. It was like being punched in the gut. We had a scheduled second flight that day from Miami back to our base in Washington and I asked the ATC not to route us anywhere near the crash site.
 
pchrise said:
As part of a disaster but no name or just you for something done. I made the national news and local for surving a plane crash. Two next to me died I did not, surrounded by jet fuel I think it was what I was wearing and who know what else . I was in the store you see across from Macys. Will never understand how I survived.

http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/SunValley_Mall_Crash.htm
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Wow! An awful way to be in the news.

I was interviewed locally about 15 years ago when we had what others deem an "early" sNOwfall. It was either late September or early October. A camera crew from a local TV station was cruising around town filming the 36" dump of sNOw, and I was out with the sNOwblower. They wanted to know what I thought of the sNOw. Um...ask me in January!

My husband and I were on the Donohue show with three other couples in the summer of 1989 shortly after we were married. He was doing a show about people who had been high school sweethearts and "found" each other after many years. My husband and I weren't just high school sweethearts, we were childhood sweethearts but parted ways when I was 16 and reconnected 32 years later.

It was a fun thing to go to NYC on and be picked up at the airport in a limo, driven around like celebrities, stay at a pricey hotel and generally live it up on somebody else's dime!
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Wow! An awful way to be in the news.

I was interviewed locally about 15 years ago when we had what others deem an "early" sNOwfall. It was either late September or early October. A camera crew from a local TV station was cruising around town filming the 36" dump of sNOw, and I was out with the sNOwblower. They wanted to know what I thought of the sNOw. Um...ask me in January!

My husband and I were on the Donohue show with three other couples in the summer of 1989 shortly after we were married. He was doing a show about people who had been high school sweethearts and "found" each other after many years. My husband and I weren't just high school sweethearts, we were childhood sweethearts but parted ways when I was 16 and reconnected 32 years later.

It was a fun thing to go to NYC on and be picked up at the airport in a limo, driven around like celebrities, stay at a pricey hotel and generally live it up on somebody else's dime!
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How sweet! I used to always watch Donohue, beginning when he was local out of Ohio.
 
oldman said:
That was an amazing story. I remember your crash and the others that also took place. At United, we were doing all kinds of things to be prepared for anything that could go wrong. We spent a ton of hours in the simulators learning how to come out of all kinds of possible disasters. Things have really changed. Since 2002 there has been no airline related deaths here in the U.S. Flying is now more safer than ever. The NTSB has done an incredible job of making flying safer. Every accident brought about a change. Either a warning system or a backup system has been installed to prevent a similar accident.

The worse air crash that I was even close to was in 1986 when Value Jet had gone down nose first into the Everglades. We had just flown non stop from Chicago to Miami on a Boeing 757 and had flown over a portion of the Everglades in our final decent. I walked into the crew's lounge and everyone was quiet and listening to the ATC's over the speakers, which normally, no one pays any attention to. I asked a fellow Captain what was going on and when he told me, I immediately felt the air go out of my lungs. It was like being punched in the gut. We had a scheduled second flight that day from Miami back to our base in Washington and I asked the ATC not to route us anywhere near the crash site.
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I've mentioned this before but my husband and I find 'Air Crash Investigations' fascinating. The NTSB does everything possible to figure out why a plane crashed and don't give up until they do.

I remember the Everglades crash from that programme. Many of those bring tears to my eyes - the Detroit one where only a 4 year old survived, the Toronto one where every single person amazingly survived, the Sully Sullenberger one with his perfect landing on the water.
 
Foxie! Is that your kitty? And does he/she really look like that? I love that kitty! Kitty should be on the news:)
 

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