Boy charged with shooting bus driver.

bearklr · 03-03-2005, 07:53 AM

Did anyone see on the news this morning where a student was charged with shotting his bus driver? Funny how the pic they chose to show of him had him wearing a camo shirt in the back of a pickup, next to a treestand, with deer stickers in the window. They were probably drooling when they saw that, yet another chance to make gun owners look bad.

etothepii · 03-03-2005, 08:35 AM

Does anyone think the recent Supreme court ruling entered this kid's head?

Aught Six · 03-03-2005, 08:48 AM

Found a photo of the driver, but nothing of the alledged shooter. The new reports so far have mentioned the driver reported the kid for using dip. Not sure why he'd kill her over it, but then again I'm not that unhinged.

bearklr · 03-03-2005, 10:32 AM

They said that he took the pistol with the intention of killing himself but turned on the bus driver instead.

burniegoeasily · 03-03-2005, 10:36 AM

Saw that on the news this morning. The only picture they showed of the boy, had him in camo and with a rifle slung over his shoulder. Do you think they are trying to insinuate something with their choice of photos.[:'(]

bearklr · 03-03-2005, 10:39 AM

yeah burnie, it's funny out of the hundreds of regular pictures they probably have of him they chose the two that portrayed him as a hunter with guns everywhere.

BenGarrett · 03-03-2005, 10:59 AM

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yeah burnie, it's funny out of the hundreds of regular pictures they probably have of him they chose the two that portrayed him as a hunter with guns everywhere.

You're assuming. The press will use any photo they can get their hands on. There isn't always "hundreds" of pictures available. In fact, we had a situation a while back where a very prominent figure in the community died and we needed a photograph. We started contacting family members and came up with a picture of her that was very unflattering. It certainly wasn't our choice of picture, but we had an option: Run the story with that particular picture or run the story without illustration. We chose to run the picture.

With this being a kid, the most obvious place to look for a picture would be a school annual. Those are usually relatively easy to get one's hands on. But they're also usually black and white, which isn't necessarily desireable. From there you turn to the family. In this case, with him facing murder charges and under national scrutiny, I'd imagine that the family might not be too eager to give pictures to the press.

Carpicon · 03-03-2005, 11:10 AM

Ben, you have me extremely worried now.

What if I die, or shoot a bus driver, or run over a FIB, and the only picture the press can find of me is the one where I'm drunk and nekkid in Jamacia?

Note to self: Fax angelic-looking photo to AP and major regional press for future use.

BenGarrett · 03-03-2005, 11:12 AM

It would sell papers, that's for sure.

And I never seen a newspaper editor that didn't want to put something on the front page to bump up the day's rack sales.

Carpicon · 03-03-2005, 12:01 PM

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It would sell papers, that's for sure.

Only if they put in an extra fold.

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