What Are The Chances?

   Work in news for almost two decades and you see some strange things. Some odd bedfellows. Some insane probabilities.

   As someone who supervises newscasts, I have to ask myself: what are the chances of one news day containing two stories about people stuffed in trunks?

   We had the terrible story about a violent fight between four teenagers in Nashville yesterday morning over a set of keys. At one point, the group forced a 15-year-old into a trunk, and at another point, enabled her escape by opening the hatch “to make sure she didn’t have a cell phone”. I am not making this up.

   Then there is the story so strange that I was convinced to travel beyond the technical boundaries of the Nashville TV market.

    In Crossville, a family transporting a large TV deduced that the TV wouldn’t fit in the trunk, so hey, put the TV in the back seat - and the TEENAGER in the trunk! A relative called 911, and an APB for the Trunk Teen ensued.

   As my boss likes to say: “Do not attempt to insert logic in a system not designed to accept it.”