Have you ever made the local or national News?

Does winning a coloring contest in first grade count? Got my picture in the paper sitting on a fire engine. (In first grade back then you only had to stay within the lines to win.)
 

Mrs. Robinson said:
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.
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It was the worse but at the moment of impact displays exploding was not able to run anywhere, just stood there and was surrounded by jet fuel I guess what fireman discribe as a flash over, all I could see was the color of the fire and was calm in shock and lost.
 
NancyNGA said:
Does winning a coloring contest in first grade count? Got my picture in the paper sitting on a fire engine. (In first grade back then you only had to stay within the lines to win.)
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Yes it does, only time they got me on tv was during the holidays when all the high school choirs sing carols which I was a part of
 

The only time my name has been in the news was through the local newspaper. Made a hole in one a couple of times so the golf club lets the paper know about it and it gets mentioned in the sports section. I suspect my next publication will be in the obituaries. ;)
 
I was on the 11 o'clock news and the 6 o'clock news the next morning for something stupid. Parts of the movie "Lethal Weapon III" was being filmed in downtown Orlando and it was interesting to walk downtown in the evening and watch the filming (which consisted of a hell of a lot of standing around doing nothing and then brief snippets of action). I had walked down one evening and was standing on a corner talking to a couple of other ladies, near to the stars' trailers. A TV reporter and cameraman came up to us and asked us to pretend that we had just seen Mel Gibson coming out of his trailer. We were supposed to jump up and down and yell "HEY MEL!" and "WE LOVE YOU, MEL!" So I did. And it was on the news. As I am riding up in the elevator to my office the next morning, a man who worked in an office down the hall and to whom I had never even said "good morning" to, looked over at me and said "Hey, I saw you on TV last night. I told my wife 'I know that woman!" Of course, all day I got phone calls from friends who had seen me on the news (I was, of course, the woman right smack dab in the front). I thought I'd never live it down. My one moment of "fame" and it had to be for something like that.

Later that day, in the parking garage of our building, they were filming the scene where Mel Gibson and Danny Glover run through the garage after trying to defuse a bomb. A couple of co-workers and I had gone down to watch the filming and they yelled, "Hey Mel....here's your biggest fan!". Danny Glover waved to me. Mel didn't. Hmmmphhh.
 
When I was 14 I got my name in the local newspaper for "foiling" a purse snatcher. My Mom and I were in our bank, some guy grabs a woman's purse and starts trucking towards the door. My Mom backed up but I stepped toward him and pushed him as he went past. My push resulted in him going not through the regular door but through the revolving doors - the wrong way.

Four years later I got a small writeup in NYC's Village Voice for being the Freestyle Frisbee champ from the competition that was held in Central Park.

When I ran my martial arts businesses I was on local TV several times demonstrating what I did, and was on a national radio show once when my first book came out.

Lots of interesting stories on this thread!
 
SifuPhil said:
When I was 14 I got my name in the local newspaper for "foiling" a purse snatcher. My Mom and I were in our bank, some guy grabs a woman's purse and starts trucking towards the door. My Mom backed up but I stepped toward him and pushed him as he went past. My push resulted in him going not through the regular door but through the revolving doors - the wrong way.

Four years later I got a small writeup in NYC's Village Voice for being the Freestyle Frisbee champ from the competition that was held in Central Park.

When I ran my martial arts businesses I was on local TV several times demonstrating what I did, and was on a national radio show once when my first book came out.

Lots of interesting stories on this thread!
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Cool! You're famous!
 
Oh, forgot a couple. My sister's local weekly paper will publish your photos in the paper if you hold up one of their newspapers while abroad somewhere. There's one with the two of us in front of the coliseum in Rome and can't remember where other was - in front of Edinburgh castle I think.
 
I was in our local paper years ago in a series they called "The Most Interesting People in the County You Would Like to Go to Lunch With". I was so honored to have been chosen and interviewed. Of course, all my "friends" kept asking me when I was going to take them to lunch. Got a laugh out of that!
 
Kathy G in MI said:
I was in our local paper years ago in a series they called "The Most Interesting People in the County You Would Like to Go to Lunch With". I was so honored to have been chosen and interviewed. Of course, all my "friends" kept asking me when I was going to take them to lunch. Got a laugh out of that!
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How nice! :)
 
Here and there, but, my mind doesn't keep such details, the only one that sort of sticks with me is the one with the bus going off the Pier in Sandy Hook bridge NJ. Really brings back some alful memories. I was at the hospital that night, I had to take my sister to the emergency room, something that was routine at I cared for her during her illness. The service men were rushed in and they were short of hands so I assisted in one of the emergency rooms with one of the service men getting him prepped, they were in panic mode and needed the help, didn't care where it came from in that moment, after, I went with one of the other service men to get his xrays, he was mostly in a state of shock, most of that time, I just sat holding his hand and trying to give him some words of comfort. Just thinking on that day, brings me to tears. It was chaotic to say the least and honestly, I wasn't sure if the young man I helped with in the emergency room had died or not, I tried to find out, but, really, I don't remember who was who and at some point decided I didn't want to know one way or the other, it was just too heart breaking. This is one reason, I prefer to live in the present, too many awful memories except where my dating and partying moments are concerned.

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1993/B...ing-Three/id-688d3f409f60cd165744b114441d434c
 
Fame & Infamy...

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I was in the news several times during the '80s when I was setting up business's. I made it onto national BBC TV when a restaurant/tearoom I had opened on a railway station was set fire too by an arsonist, burning half the station down. Initially British Rail blamed me, for leaving a heater on and sued me for half a million pounds, until the police discovered it was arson, and arrested a local man.

I had several TV interviews during this period and enjoyed the whole setting up and make-up etc, in those days a full news team came, and it took several hours for a couple of minutes of news.
The best one was which was several minutes long, was when the station was restored and the chairman of British Rail arrived on a steam train, and we all dressed up in Victorian costume and had a great time. They were heady days for me, I even had a personal letter from Lord Twining of the tea company, who offered to send a tea stall complete with staff.

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I did make it into the national press for a less celebratory reason, after having run away to Scotland with someone else's wife, which I won't go into here :censored:
 
OMG what a story Merlin..WoW!!



Now I am intrigued by your NB..about the other man's wife etc...why would that be in the National press.??...hmmmmmm??? was this someone well known?? I demand answers young man!!:playful:
 
hollydolly said:
OMG what a story Merlin..WoW!!



Now I am intrigued by your NB..about the other man's wife etc...why would that be in the National press.??...hmmmmmm??? was this someone well known?? I demand answers young man!!:playful:
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Oh dear Holly how can I resist you :tickled_pink: .............it was because the husband (nobody famous) pursued me, and attacked me with a branch from a tree :) and was subsequently arrested and charged for criminal assault. He then went on to give the story to the local press, and because I had been in the national news for the all the station/tearoom stuff it was picked up by the nationals and made a juicy Daily Mail style story :lofl:

I did get a few thousand pounds from the criminal injuries board so I can't complain really :confused:

I must confirm that I am a reformed character now Holly, and I don't pursue other men's wives for a whole host of reasons, it was all so long ago when lust/passion was so addictive, especially with redheads for some reason :rolleyes:

Please keep this to yourself :D
 
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