I was watching the local news last night and they led off with a story about a shark sighting at a popular beach a couple of days ago. The story was that the State Parks Department posted this great big terrifying looking sign and you could tell by the wide shot that several dozens of people were enjoying the beach despite the warning, and the reporter had previously interviewed and got statements from some of them, and they cut to her pre-recorded sound bites.

The first person they aired is a young man I know. He's a nice Native American kid, good athlete, local boy with a good reputation. Caption under his name mentions our hometown. The reporter asks him some type of loaded question like, "Aren't you afraid to be out there with sharks? He's like 15, and he's there surfing with a surfing class. He replies, "Our surf instructor is with us and we're really safety conscious anyway. We always have a plan and we don't mess around out there, sharks or no sharks. That's the Pacific Ocean, ma'am." Great answer, young man.

The next person is a young blonde mom with about a four year old girl who is playing in the sand about 300 yards from the surf. She's from Washington state, it reads. Yes, she saw the sign. She wasn't planning on going swimming, she was there to play in the sand. Boring answer to boring question.

The last bit of the segment she finds a sheboon and the caption has some horrific nigger name with Q's and apostrophes and shit and it beez from Missouri. I can't even remember what the question was because the sheboon's statement had me laughing so hard...

The fucking savage dismisses the question with the wave of a paw and ooks, "Ahs don't pay no mind to no signs" Cut back to Pam, still on location. She looks fine, considering her coontact. The anchors were chuckling at the TNB when they got back to the studio. For the local news, it was a wonderful teaching moment inadvertently caught on tape.