We just received an anonymous package at our paper (nothing new there).
But it contains a tape recording of (supposedly) someone who was recently arrested a month ago for harassment.
The tape is nothing more than voice mails over and over and over again of this person cursing at someone on voice mail.
Apparently an ex-client or spouse or friend of a spouse sent it to us.
But I wonder what they expect us to do with it. Run a transcript? Investigate it – when we have no real source – and in all actuality it could be anyone on the tape (considering how bad the recording is).
I love how so many people expect me to be the lawyer, detective and judge when they feel they’ve been done wrong.
Rather than paying money for a lawyer and letting the courts handle it, they come to the local paper, expecting us to spend our time finding out why they’ve been wronged.
Thanks a lot Hard Copy and A Current Affair.
And just to be fair, here’s a brief transcript of the tape:
Well that’s about all that’s fit to be published – even here.
