I sat to watch the local morning news today, as I often do, for a few minutes before heading to work.  I like to catch the weather and get the highlights of what is hot on the national scene to start my day.  I thought I would see something about the monumental tech event of Gates and Jobs on stage together, a historic event of two tech giants.  Not a word.

Well maybe we would hear about recent remarks made by the NASA administrator.  His comments were thought provoking, if not controversial, about global warming.  How he was throwing ethics into the discussion and forcing us to think about how magnanimous we must feel toward other generations, both future and past, now that we have determined that our climate is the perfect one and must be preserved.  No, they didn’t report on this either.

Instead we had the breaking story - racing helicopter deep in searching of a fugitive.  The high distant camera shot of a helicopter scouring the tree line looking for a fugitive.  A regular criminal mastermind.  Police were out in drove’s, at least four different police organizations were involved in the manhunt.  The manhunt had zig zagged  investigators across the state as they hunted desperately for the fugitive since early April.  They finally had him after being spotted on county road U (we letter our county roads in wisconsin).  This violent offender had hijacked a snow plow at gun point back in April.  Somehow managing to elude authorities for nearly two months while crossing the state with his new found prize.  A perilous trek from Hobart to Eau Claire in his pilfered, not so inconspicuous, snow plow.

Onlookers were interviewed as they watched the dramatic events.  The consensus being - “Will he still be able to do my snow plowing?”

Case solved!

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