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re: OT: I Was on the Local News
Posted on 4/23/16 at 8:13 pm to djrichiep
Posted on 4/23/16 at 8:13 pm to djrichiep
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No, 45s are usually 7" in diameter with the larger spindle hole in the center
You had to put that plastic circle adapter thing in the middle of record player to play them. I remember now.
All that stuff is going to be worth gold one day.
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Posted on 4/23/16 at 8:20 pm to dawgfan24348
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It's on an old vhs tape somewhere in my closet
OK, I'll allow it, you win.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 8:21 pm to Jefferson Dawg
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All that stuff is going to be worth gold one day.
Not if I own it! LOL
This post was edited on 4/23/16 at 9:09 pm
Posted on 4/24/16 at 8:23 pm to dawgfan24348
I was the Birthday Boy on The Benny Carl Show on WBRC-TV, Channel 6, in Birmingham, Al., on my 8th birthday. 1954. I got 2 pair of Lee jeans as my birthday present for being on the show. And cake and ice cream, of course.
This post was edited on 4/25/16 at 7:47 am
Posted on 4/25/16 at 6:08 am to AlaCowboy
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8th birthday. 1954.
Is this correct? You were 8 years old in 1954?
Posted on 4/25/16 at 7:47 am to DawgsLife
Yes. Why?
Posted on 4/25/16 at 7:50 am to AlaCowboy
Lt. Dan!
Ice cream!
Ice cream!
Posted on 4/25/16 at 8:58 am to AlaCowboy
You're old as dinosaur shite 
Posted on 4/25/16 at 10:55 am to dawgfan24348
I'm so old my Social Security # is 6.
This post was edited on 4/26/16 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 4/26/16 at 2:19 pm to Peter Buck
I was interviewed twice. Once in 1987 by Art Eckman for the high school game of the week segment they used to run on Wednesdays. We were playing Campbell for the region championship and I was the offensive captain. Coach Dorsey told him to interview me. Called mom after practice and said "put a tape in the VCR because I am going to be on the news!" I was very nervous during his questions and sounded like an idiot on TV.
The other time was when I was living with two buddies in a rental house on a main road in Powder Springs. There was a little white church next door and one day we watched a channel 2 news van and a reporter pull in to the church lot. They set up to record a report segment because the pastor had been charged with some serious charge child molestation. There was not a person at the church. Just an empty lot where the van set up and the reporter and her cameraman. They motioned us over and asked a few questions about if we ever noticed any strange things going on at the church. I told her no but she still asked if she could ask me the same question on camera. I said sure. I guess she was desperate for anyone to help fluff her report. I am wearing a damn muscle shirt and sweating because we had been playing basketball in the driveway. I just gave the canned "never saw anything strange , seemed like a good man, always waved and smiled at us when he arrived or was leaving" answer. I watched the news that night and I looked marginally better than the typical tornado witness.
The other time was when I was living with two buddies in a rental house on a main road in Powder Springs. There was a little white church next door and one day we watched a channel 2 news van and a reporter pull in to the church lot. They set up to record a report segment because the pastor had been charged with some serious charge child molestation. There was not a person at the church. Just an empty lot where the van set up and the reporter and her cameraman. They motioned us over and asked a few questions about if we ever noticed any strange things going on at the church. I told her no but she still asked if she could ask me the same question on camera. I said sure. I guess she was desperate for anyone to help fluff her report. I am wearing a damn muscle shirt and sweating because we had been playing basketball in the driveway. I just gave the canned "never saw anything strange , seemed like a good man, always waved and smiled at us when he arrived or was leaving" answer. I watched the news that night and I looked marginally better than the typical tornado witness.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 2:28 pm to djrichiep
I was on the news for running down a purse snatcher.
Posted on 4/26/16 at 3:13 pm to HinesvilleThrill
Made me think about one other time. Living in that same house on the main road we were again playin basketball on late afternoon. There were 6 of us playing 3 on 3.
Late afternoon traffic was ongoing and cars were hauling arse by the house in a steady flow. We heard this God awful tires screeching and watched as a little PU truck careened off into our ditch and flipped over onto its side. A skinny meth head looking dude with no shirt comes squirming up out of the cab and darted across the Hwy into the woods across the road. We called the police to report the accident and they asked if anyone was hurt. I told the dispatcher that there was no way to really know because the driver hauled arse on foot. Went back out to the truck and there were empty beer cans all over the inside of the cab.
Cops arrived and ran the tag. Asked us a few questions and one Cobb County cop told me the guy had a bench warrant and is why he ran away. Also a multiple DUI offender. About 10 cop cars show up and make our driveway their base. They set up a net along the other two roads where he might exit the woods.
About 2 hours go by and not one cop had gone into the woods looking for him. I asked one of the main cops on the scene if we could go into the woods to search for him since we knew the woods. We were all only around 19-20 and not thinking of the danger that might occur if the dude had a gun. We just wanted the task of finding him. Unbelievably, the cop said go ahead. I can't imagine a Cobb Co cop putting his stamp of approval on that today. The liability of playing that was enormous.
Anyway, we went inside and put on camouflage and shite and got flashlights. Before we left, I called the news and told them of the situation. Told them the cops had deputized us to go and detain this criminal hiding in the woods. Get to our address within an hour and they might have a good story about a modern day posse.
About 9 cops just watched us walk across the Hwy and disappear into the woods. This was about a 50 acre piece of wooded land and it was dark. I headed immediately to an old rotted out barn that was in a small meadow. We were yelling his name and telling him to just give up. Don't try to escape because we were the police and had him quarantined.
Came up on a pile of old wood and saw him laying underneath. We apprehended him and I think the guy was so scared he thought we actually were the cops. Walked him out and delivered him to the real cops. On the walk in, the guy seemed in shock and was whimpering about going back to jail. I actually felt bad for him when I shouldn't have.
News never showed up. They towed his truck away. Cops said thanks and I asked if we got any kind of commendation or award. I was told no. They left and we started playing basketball again.
Late afternoon traffic was ongoing and cars were hauling arse by the house in a steady flow. We heard this God awful tires screeching and watched as a little PU truck careened off into our ditch and flipped over onto its side. A skinny meth head looking dude with no shirt comes squirming up out of the cab and darted across the Hwy into the woods across the road. We called the police to report the accident and they asked if anyone was hurt. I told the dispatcher that there was no way to really know because the driver hauled arse on foot. Went back out to the truck and there were empty beer cans all over the inside of the cab.
Cops arrived and ran the tag. Asked us a few questions and one Cobb County cop told me the guy had a bench warrant and is why he ran away. Also a multiple DUI offender. About 10 cop cars show up and make our driveway their base. They set up a net along the other two roads where he might exit the woods.
About 2 hours go by and not one cop had gone into the woods looking for him. I asked one of the main cops on the scene if we could go into the woods to search for him since we knew the woods. We were all only around 19-20 and not thinking of the danger that might occur if the dude had a gun. We just wanted the task of finding him. Unbelievably, the cop said go ahead. I can't imagine a Cobb Co cop putting his stamp of approval on that today. The liability of playing that was enormous.
Anyway, we went inside and put on camouflage and shite and got flashlights. Before we left, I called the news and told them of the situation. Told them the cops had deputized us to go and detain this criminal hiding in the woods. Get to our address within an hour and they might have a good story about a modern day posse.
About 9 cops just watched us walk across the Hwy and disappear into the woods. This was about a 50 acre piece of wooded land and it was dark. I headed immediately to an old rotted out barn that was in a small meadow. We were yelling his name and telling him to just give up. Don't try to escape because we were the police and had him quarantined.
Came up on a pile of old wood and saw him laying underneath. We apprehended him and I think the guy was so scared he thought we actually were the cops. Walked him out and delivered him to the real cops. On the walk in, the guy seemed in shock and was whimpering about going back to jail. I actually felt bad for him when I shouldn't have.
News never showed up. They towed his truck away. Cops said thanks and I asked if we got any kind of commendation or award. I was told no. They left and we started playing basketball again.
This post was edited on 4/26/16 at 3:15 pm
Posted on 4/27/16 at 8:01 am to Dick Leverage
Not that I was looking for any accolades or anything, but the woman was walking into the bank to make a $14,000 business cash deposit when the purse was snatched. The guy that owned the furniture store never called me but about two months later I got a thank you letter and a $50 Longhorns gift card.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 8:50 am to HinesvilleThrill
At least it was Longhorn and not Applebee's.
Posted on 4/27/16 at 8:35 pm to retooc
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Cool mane. Most if the time people sound like idiots on the news, you did good.
I was interviewed once on channel 11 in Atlanta about the lack of knowledge most Americans have about US History.....I was asked if I knew who James Madison and I answered that he was the president at one time but I wasn't sure when...and then, like an idiot, I added that his wife's name was Dolly Madison...and the idiot interviewing me made a big deal out of someone thinking the president was married to a bakery....which of course he was, or at least married to a woman who shared a name with a bakery a hundred years or so after her death....so the piece was pretty revealing, even the person doing the interviewing was short of knowledge in the subject...
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