Sometimes you just want to find happy news -- and sometimes that means searching through story after story about shootings and drug busts and heat-related deaths and financial difficulties and other "bad-things-are-bound-to-happen-in-Gothamesque-cities-like-Chicago-when-Batman-is-not-around". [P.S. I'm eagerly awaiting the next movie on 7.20.12.]
And then sometimes, you click to the breaking news website at just the right time, and the lead story is truly shocking and upsetting (but in just the right way). To whit, here are the first two sentences of "breaking news" tonight:
"With a cherry pit and a wad of spit, a Chicagoan managed to upend a two-family legacy Saturday. Ronn Matt, 46, spit a cherry pit a solid 69 feet, taking the championship title at the 39th annual International Cherry Pit-Spitting Championship at a farm near Eau Claire, Mich."
For the details you know you want to know, check out the link below. [Or, if you're in a more morbid mood, see the second link about dead hot people or the third link about a teenage "party planner" that got busted with balloons, nitrous oxide and a couple of ecstasy pills before he arrived at the shindig.]
BREAKING NEWS -- AN UPSET!:
http://www.wgntv.com/news/local/breaking/chi-peachpit-spitting-champion-wins-cherrypit-spitting-upset-20120708,0,3318414.story
BREAKING NEWS -- HEAT DEATHS UP TO 18!:
http://www.wgntv.com/news/local/breaking/chi-confirmed-cook-county-heat-deaths-rise-to-18-20120708,0,236346.story
BREAKING NEWS -- PARTY PLANNING GONE BAD!:
http://www.wgntv.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cops-joliet-teen-arrested-on-nw-side-with-laughing-gas-ecstasy-and-balloons-20120708,0,7077668.story
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