We just received an anonymous package at our paper (nothing new there).
\nBut it contains a tape recording of (supposedly) someone who was recently arrested a month ago for harassment.
\nThe tape is nothing more than voice mails over and over and over again of this person cursing at someone on voice mail.
\nApparently an ex-client or spouse or friend of a spouse sent it to us.
\nBut 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).
\nI love how so many people expect me to be the lawyer, detective and judge when they feel they’ve been done wrong.
\nRather 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.
\nThanks a lot Hard Copy and A Current Affair.
\nAnd just to be fair, here’s a brief transcript of the tape:<\/p>\n
Well that’s about all that’s fit to be published – even here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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