How to tell you've got a winner of an article

[misterx]

When the first line reads...
"A jazz musician was injured Friday after jumping from a burning motor home driven by a one-time roller skating stripper from Lodi."
I shit you not.
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2007/02/25/news/4_motorhome_070224.txt

Comments

[blues-dream.livejournal.com]

Yup ... that's my home state.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

you folk sure know how to live it up.

[wldrose.livejournal.com]

From the stranger than fiction files

ash

[karenthecroccy.livejournal.com]

Lodi?

Wait. Roller skating stripper? Was she roller girl?

[misterx.livejournal.com]

*visions of Heather Graham in Boogie Nights danced in his head*

No. Actually the roller skating stripper was male.

[brujaoscura.livejournal.com]

Truth really IS stranger than fiction
Hmmmm- his act might not have been that great- if he was driving a bus for a living....

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

Actually, one might be fooled into believing that the first sentence gives it all away, and you don't need to bother reading the rest of the article. But wow that was worth the time! That reporter must have felt like it was Christmas when she got all the facts for that story!