Nothing gory. Kid in a minivan tries to retrieve something out of the trunk by climbing over the back seat. The seat folds into the folding compartment with him in it and he cant move. He cant reach his phone but uses Siri to call 911. He tells the dispatcher he is in real trouble, the make, model, and color of the van and which parking lot he is located in. He cant hear the dispatcher since the phone isnt close enough but he keeps saying he is going to die if they dont help him.
She sends the cops but either doesnt relay that info or relays it poorly. The cops drive through the parking lot without stopping or getting out to look around, making snarky comments about the rich kids cars and then leave.
6 hours later the father opens the trunk to get something and finds his boy dead.
I would add the cop didnāt turn down his music either. But hey, the parents received 6 million dollars in tax payer money and it only cost them their son. Infuriating. The kid was so composed and calm. More so than I believe I would be. Gave them all the necessary information and they failed him. Iād love to know what happened to those fucking idiots.
Is it just me or is hurricane Heleneās impact not really being covered? Like, literal towns were washed away. I would have thought it would be wall to wall coverage and everyone talking about it, but it doesnāt seem that way.
I only listened to the first story of that video and decided I didnāt need anymore of that. But in the first story, the 911 operator deserved way more hate than the cops. She didnāt relay the make and model of the car, she didnāt relay which parking lot he was in, or that it was life threatening. The kid called 911 twice relaying it all both times.
Itās the 6th story down on CNN.com right now which is wild. Not in the top 10 on Fox News. All I can think up is that these places are hard to get to so it makes for a difficult story to tell.
Crowleyās stuff is hard to categorize. Its rarely gratuitous and much more often depressing and dark. He uses a lot of scratchy visuals and audio distortions to add a creepy atmosphere, but mostly the stories are centered around true and dark stories
I think those things are largely true, and you can only see so much destruction before it all starts to look the same. And the survivor stories sound the same. Not that different from mass shooting coverage. Disasters and tragedies of all kinds are so much more common now than they were years ago. And even the major media companies find their resources stretched. You cover them and you move on.
Thereās probably a lot of local coverage, but the people who need to see it donāt have power. I think more follow up could be done of past hurricanes, like Ian. But yeah, the election is probably a better ratings grabber, and sadly thatās what the news business seems to be about these days.
Thatās part of it, but another factor I think is that Katrina was almost 20 years of climate change ago, and now crushing catastrophic natural disasters are going to become like US school shootings, occuring with increasing regularity where each one is less shocking than the last until no one cares anymore. A hurricane destroying thousands of lives is just another Tuesday in America in the 21st century. Thoughts and prayers.
I didnāt think about this much but I donāt understand. How do you pick a random number based off of a distribution without any parameters to the distribution? And if you do know the distribution why not just keep going if it is less than the mean. Iām clearly missing something
