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Floaty's wrong; this is absolutely newsworthy...and entertaining as hell if it's not your child and given that no one died, or was raped (which is what I think of when I think of jocks partying). And, I'm just shocked that football players and cheerleaders party...ha.

Newsworthy? Debatable. What isn't debatable is that the breathless reporting from both stations was the very definition of ridiculous local TV news.

Hey, Floaty, if you succeed in eliminating breathless reporting of non-breathtaking items from KLRT and KARK you'll take them both off the air.

Come to think of it..... ;-)

Maybe I've just come to expect local guys/gals to, well, act more dramatic than informed.

I was watching the morning show on KARK a couple of weeks ago (which is painful) and they actually reported on an event where Mars was going to be the closest it was going to be to Earth in X years, and that the planet would actually look as large as the moon on this date. This particular item has been an INTERNET HOAX for the past few months and these guys actually reported it as real news. To their credit, a couple of the guys called BS on the air, but regardless, it got past the news editor and made it on air. That was the last time I've had that program on my TV.

ROFLMAO, Earl. Did they really report that? I wish I could say I was surprised, but zelda is right. Local on-air heads are about as well-informed as an unprecocious 7th-grader, if that.

Unfortunately, lack of information goes pretty deep in this culture. Two of yesterday's nationally-distributed crosswords contained the word CAPRI, with a reference in the clues to Italy. I heard no fewer than two people remark that they hadn't known Capri was in Italy. I guess they thought Capri was just pants.

Grrrr! No more Floaty for me until they let you backtrack to the site what sent ya.

The only thing that might make this "no" news is that it is "all to common occurrance" news. Adults provide. Children (and these ARE children) partake. And then children die of alcohol poisoning, car accident, are injured in fighting, illicit and unprotected sex, rape, on and on. And it's business as usual? Benton High School and all law enforcement involved needs to send a CLEAR message to ALL students and parents...you PLAY...you PAY...you want to PLAY...don't be a PLAYER!

Must have been you, Doigotta. I visited the site, checked several external links and watched the videos, then backtracked straight to here.

ARK. BLOG: I had same problem two days ago and asked Floaty about it. He insists it's not set up to create the road block doigotta and I hit. Some weird glitch, maybe.

WorseThan,

Maybe you didn't read both source articles, but the Sherriff's office noted that no adults provided the alcohol. One set of parents did provide an opening by leaving a high-school-aged boy at home, but having unattended Juniors or Seniors at home is not neglect.

I live in a *dry* county and we don't have those kind of problems.

I can't imagine high school without beer. What a dull dreary risk-free world we're creating. Or fruitlessly trying to create, rather. Teenage sex, drugs and loud music have been with us millions of years. It's in our DNA to party.

"Teenage sex, drugs and loud music have been with us millions of years. It's in our DNA to party."

You left out, OrigRoland, and "military service."

It is amazing that in a dry "baptist" county a large group teens can get beer (kegs?) and have a big ass party and no one seems to know who got the booze for them.
It is also amazing that in a county where other (poor, black, mexican) folks/teens can get arrested for public intoxication none of those teens who tested positive for booze were not arrested. Could it be because these kids are jocks and cheerleaders? Maybe children of some of our upper income families?
(remember the hand slap the Bradford kid and his friend got for the whole computer theft or the gal who killed that little boy getting off the bus)
Has anyone been suspended yet?

Really I don't mind if teens did the same thing I did, I loved a good kegger, BUT what I do mind is that in Saline country the laws are not applied the same to all of us.

We care too much about our readers to keep them trapped at our site. We've looked for what might be causing the bug, but are yet to find it. Hopefully it's just a glitch with Blogger.com.