“Two clowns were shot and killed by an unidentified gunman during their performance at a traveling circus in the eastern Colombian town of Cucuta, police said Wednesday. The gunman burst into the Circo del Sol de Cali on Monday night and shot the clowns in front of an audience of 20 to 50 people, local police chief Jose Humberto Henao told Reuters. One of the clowns was killed instantly, and the second died the next day in hospital.
"The killings had nothing to do with the show the victims were performing at the time of the incident," Henao said in a telephone interview. "We are investigating the motive."
"The clowns came out to give their show, and then this guy came out shooting them," one audience member told local television. "It was terrible."
– CNN.com, Feb 21, 2007
The Guy is here, with CNN.com, physicalized.
THE GUY
Hey, mind if I ask you something?
CNN.com
Sure. Go ahead.
THE GUY
This clown thing…
CNN.com
Yeah?
THE GUY
Is this news?
And a handful of news enthusiasts enter, all a-twitter.
NEWS ENTHUSIAST ONE
Did you hear about the clown thing?
NEWS ENTHUSIAST TWO
What clown thing?
NEWS ENTHUSIAST THREE
The clown thing. The CLOWN THING.
NEWS ENTHUSIAST ONE
Yeah. Two clowns.
NEWS ENTHUSIAST THREE
One gunman.
NEWS ENTHUSIAST ONE
(as clowns, honking clown horn, silly face)
Honk! Honk!
NEWS ENTHUSIAST THREE
(as crazed gunman)
Bang! Bang!
One and Three laugh.
NEWS ENTHUSIAST TWO
No way!
NEWS ENTHUSIAST THREE
Way. I read it on CNN.com.
Which seems to lend gravity to the conversation.
CNN.com
It’s not news, no.
THE GUY
Then why do you print it?
CNN.com
Well… Slow News Day.
NEWS ENTHUSIAST TWO
Anything new about Iraq?
NEWS ENTHUSIAST ONE
Huh?
NEWS ENTHUSIAST TWO
What about Iran?
NEWS ENTHUSIAST THREE
Who’s that?
NEWS ENTHUSIAST TWO
Anything at all?
NEWS ENTHUSIAST ONE
They’ve got the updates on Anna Nicole Smith’s body…
NEWS ENTHUSIAST THREE
… and Britney Spears’ baldness…
NEWS ENTHUSIAST ONE
… and the guy who busted in on his upstairs neighbor with a sword because he thought his porno was a rape…
And News Enthusiasts One and Three blather on with any number of useless headlines as they group walks away.
THE GUY
You should be ashamed.
CNN.com hangs its head in shame.
The lights go down.
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3 comments:
Haha. I remember that.
"I would care about news. There's just been so much of it recently."
...what about the news story of the man in Idaho that saved a single mother and her 3 kids from a house fire?...or that story from Portland where a block of familes all came together and cooked meals and gathered clothes and blankets for the homeless?...why oh why does the news have to be so boring and sad? Where are the stories that make you cry from happiness that there are still feeling caring emotional giving people in the world? That's news I'd like to see...
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