In The News.....

Producing the news can be a high-stress job and one way to defuse the tension is a sense of humor. All sorts of things can trigger laughter.

For instance, there was this summary from NBC's 2 a.m.-6 a.m. rundown the other day:


NA20T, WA SICK SWIM TEAM, :29, KING, 0330, VO/NAT NA,PW
Officials are investigating why three members of the Seattle Synchronized Swim Team simultaneously fainted

I mean, really, what else would you expect? I laughed long and hard at that headline.



The next day I ran some amazing video. It showed an eight-foot alligator that showed up in a woman's kitchen near Tampa, Florida. A trapper had just caught it. The gator wasn't in the best of moods- snarling, hissing and snapping.

The homeowner theorized the alligator saw her cat and was interesting in making Fluffy an entree. The cat got away, went outside and for some reason, was reluctant to go back inside the house. Gee, I can't imagine why!

Ever a skeptic, I have come up with another reason why the alligator was in the kitchen. Perhaps it was looking for a "croc" pot.