Top story: Somebody was assaulted last week
It must have been a really slow news day on Sunday because at 6, WLOSers led with something that happened last week.
Kassandra “Special K” Pride told us that a UNC Asheville student says she was assaulted last week – Pride didn’t give an exact date – when three masked men entereed her apartment at Grove Park Apartments near UNCA. Sarah Chase told Kassandra that one of the guys pistol-whipped her and held a gun to her, but then ran away when they saw that there were two other people in the place.
The intruders remain on the loose, Kassandra said. The victim said she wants out of her lease to get out of her apartment. Kassandra said we’d have to wait until 11 to hear the apartment complex management’s side of the story.
In the accu-hunch weather center…
Julie Blunder says there’s a freezing rain advisory. She said it will keep raining until it stops.
There’s a frackin’ advisory or watch or warning for every damn weather phenomenon except sunshine. Sheesh.
Powerball jackpot grows
Russ “Beefcake” Bowen said nobody won the Powerball on Saturday night, so it rolls up to $240 million for Wednesday night’s drawing. WLOSers interviewed some dude who said you can’t win iffin you don’t play.
Filler news
East Asheville residents on East Street won’t have water service because crews will be working on the lines.
Homicide at Western Carolina University?
Russ had a little blurb that we missed – it had to do with Western Carolina University student Andrew Sides, who was found dead this past December. Police initially thought it was a suicide, but the cops put together some evidence they think could lead to murder charges. We’ll have to follow this up because we know this is story of high interest to many.
The duck story
WLOSer Edward McDonald had an unusually long sports report, so he filled it with a bunch of crap, including a story about a hunter who shot a duck and stuck it in the fridge. When the guy’s wife opened the fridge up a few hours later, the duck was up and about and scared the crap out of her.
So after the story, Russ says to Edward, “Can you imagine opening the refrigerator door – ‘Quack, quack.'” Then Edward goes, “It would have been ‘Boom, boom.’ That’s dinner,” and made like he was shooting a rifle.
On the other end of the desk, poor Julie sat, horrified.
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This is a response to an older article I know but a response just as much because the article will most likely be brought up again, in response to the homicide at WCU. A retraction should be a concern of the reporters. Andrew’s death was a tragic accident. It was not a suicide or suspected to be. A few guys got drunk and were stupid enough to play with a gun. Accidents happen. This is an accident that someone will have to live with for the rest of their life. I live in Cullowhee, was a friend of Andrew’s and know the truth. He was NOT "found dead", an accidental shooting occured, that was it and resulted in a tragic accident, that changed many peoples lives forever and took one persons life from him and a good friend from many. So get your stories right before making people mad because you published an untrue story and hurt people’s feelings. Freedom of Press aside, how would you feel if he was your friend and someone published something about him that wasnt true and made him look bad??? You wouldnt like it would you?? So be conserate…get your facts straight before you go to press and have some respect for those we lost and the ones who lost them.
RIP Andrew Sides…..12/2/86 – 12/2/06
Until the day we meet again….We miss you in the Whee…….
See you on the other side……
There was a police report filed…so if anything they could have pranked the cops.
But the latest is that cops think these guys busted in, stole some drugs, and ran. And since you can’t file a "hey, they stole my weed!" report, they called it a home invasion.
Best (?) part of Special K’s report: no mention of the cops (at least at 11:00). The way she phrased the response from the apt complex management was something along the lines of "the home invasion that the resident claims happened." Nothing about whether the cops have any suspects, no sketch of the suspects, etc. — just a "the bad guys are still on the loose so Jane Doe is still afraid." So was this a real event, or did a few college kids get their jollys by pranking the local teevee news?
Holy Hell Ash… do you think you could spare a little more coverage for this poor lass?? She’s obviously FREEZING. Are you turning this into one of those Porn Blogs, sweets?? AND, check out my Call To Arms for Edgy on listless… let’s rumble!
hugs from NYC,
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well, Edward proved me wrong by bringing out the duck story tonight after just doing straight sports Saturday night.
3 odd things about the duck story:
1) not really sports related (maybe hunting?)
2) he should have had some kind of video for it
3) it wasn’t the last story he did… he followed it with more sports
Actually, don’t they have a UV level warning for sunny days?