Film footage of police chase.

Do we really need to watch the police chasing a ‘suspect’? Are we really that starved for the possibility of carnage resulting from a traffic accident that these bozos will more than likely cause?

Is this what is passing for ‘hard’ news these days?

Do we really ‘need’ six helicopters filming the same chase?

The NTSB is investigating why two news helicopters crashed into each other in Phoenix AZ and tragically (senselessly) killed four individuals while filming a car chase, of all things. Okay, let’s see if we can help. Six helicopters crowded the sky trying to get ‘exclusive’ film footage of some blockheaded, ‘no-class’, fool thinking he can outrun police radios, so that a violence-desensitized, gore-hungry public can be ‘thrilled’ when this dirt bag causes injury and possible death to some innocent person who just happened to be in the way.

Wow. That sentence is just brimming over with topics to blog about. Thank-you, one and all.

To make things a little simpler, let’s put the blame on ‘human error’. Yeah, that’s it. Hey, NTSB it was a freaking traffic jam in the sky and the humans were not paying attention to what they were doing.

How about all of you news outlets, that own or lease helicopters and are not afraid to waste fuel on this oh so excellent pursuit of ‘news’, put your collective heads together and come up with a plan to have just one helicopter up there feeding the footage, as it happens, to all the stations in your market at the same time? Believe me when I say, nobody cares about ‘exclusivity’ but you.

This way the media gets what it wants and those individuals who have nothing better to do get what they want. Plus we get the added bonus of not senselessly loosing any more lives in the name of ‘bringing the news to you first’.

I am not an insensitive person, I think losing these four individuals in this manner was tragic. They were just doing their jobs. Their families have 'senselessly' suffered a great loss that will never leave them.

I have a problem with the individuals sitting back at the news stations who think this is a credible pursuit of news. The individuals who sent these news crews out to get the footage of this chase. They think they have to show it just because it is happening now. They think they have to show it because someone else is showing it and if they don't show it too then they might 'lose' some viewers to their 'competitors'.

I also have a problem with the police participating in these chases. Most cities these days have helicopters to chase these guys and they can radio to the ground units on where to go after the 'suspect' stops running. Perhaps they can use the news helicopters. Chasing these fools in this manner would at least prevent the police from directly causing an accident.

And of course, the idiot who thinks he can outrun the police. Hey fool, they have radios. There are more of them than you. You cannot get away. If you really want to escape paying for your crime then shoot yourself and save the rest of us the time and expense of having to deal with your worthless ass.