wtf, CNN.com

the stranded spokesfowl

when's the news conference- i need a pelican brief

how does an creature granted with the gift of flight get stuck in a tree? is it lazy?

-- kingfish, Thursday, May 1, 2008 2:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.alpacino.ws/img/ap_head.jpg

Fly, Pelican, Fly!

DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- Firefighters had to rescue a pelican that was dangling from a tree about 50 feet in the air Thursday.

The pelican was hanging upside down by its wing from some monofilament line in an Australian pine tree near the Dania Beach pier.

Beachgoer Sharon Schultz spotted the pelican Thursday morning.

"At first I thought he was dead, and I came and looked closer and he was struggling," Schultz said.

Schultz said she went to the pier for help and was told the bird had been hanging there since Tuesday. She was also told that a wildlife group had already come, but she was incensed by what she perceived to be a lack of sympathy for the animal.

"They said it was dead," Schultz said. "They weren't going to do nothing about it, so I called (Local) 10. I didn't know what else to do, and now everybody's here to get the bird out of the tree. That's all I wanted."

Hollywood firefighters used a ladder truck to rescue the bird. They snipped the wire and brought it down safely.

http://www.local10.com/2008/0501/16107543.jpg

not so funny now, is it fuckers?

dangling pelican vs dangling Reverend

poor poor pelican

They could have leaned a little harder on the "psychos think it's cool to leave dead birds hanging from trees for days" angle.

rolling marine critters in distress thread:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003189_pf.html

White house to endangered whales - eat it, suckers!

More like pelican't, amirite?

rolling marine critters in distress thread:

yeah that's not the title
if I wanted to hear about the fucking white house I wouldn't be looking at cnn.com now would I

dangling pelican vs dangling Reverend

-- Dr Morbius, Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:04 PM (Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:04 PM) Bookmark Link

um, what?

reverend wright

he's lettin it hang out.

Kelly Tilghman?

meanwhile, US dockworkers have shut down one of the busiest port systems in the world in protest of the iraq war and cnn's got nuthin

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ports2-2008may02,0,474763.story

estimated cost of west coast ports closing for one day: $1 billion

CNN.com Headline:

14th-century shipwreck laden with treasure found

* Story Highlights
* Geologists on a search for diamonds off Namibia stumble on a shipwreck
* Ship loaded with gold coins, elephant tusks, copper and cannons
* Ship dates to late 1400s- early 1500s, heyday of de Gama and Columbus
* Archaelogist speculates: Was captain on official business, or was he a pirate?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/01/Namibia.shipwreck.ap/index.html

Point to one thing wrong with that and you're smarter than the unpaid intern they replaced the full-time copy editor with.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

lol

hahahahah

They fixed it (perhaps that intern lurks on ILE).

Video report on out of control binge drinking rising among women - alarm! Commercial leading into video - Miller LIte party time! Not joking.

Let's see if you get the same:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/05/01/newton.uk.drowning.controversy.cnn

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/05/01/tv.walters.affair.ap/index.html

wau

current headline:

Police: Mom found 'D.C. Madam' hanged herself

okay waht

I'm sure there was absolutely NO foul play involved in that one!

'D.C. Madam' found dead

Let the speculation fly!

Police: Mom found 'D.C. Madam' hanged herself

headline still up, still totally ungrammatical

CNN's also selling t-shirts of their headlines now.

http://www.cnn.com/tshirt/allshirts/index.html

holy shit

Ducks Get Police Escort Across 4 Lanes

What happened to the incest dad!?!?!

Incest Dad Gets Police Escort Into 4 Lanes

Incest Ducks Gets Police Escort Into 4 Lanes

"Shocking Ad Shows Real Waterboarding" lol

i'm gonna buy shirts for every headline that appears every day for a week

no i'm not

Incest dad stuck in a tree in Austria

k-i-s-s-i-n--------- oh i'm going to hell.

Say hi to incest dad when you get there!

here's the other irritating thing about cnn.com lately: why the fuck are so many news stories video only? I know cnn is a tv network, but most of these things have AP or reuters written news stories; please put those up as well. I'd rather not sit here at watch TV at work.

Teens texting, 'sexting' on cell phones

yea, I'd like to see the video as an embed like right justified inside the text story

http://i32.tinypic.com/w8amif.png

also not clear if 3rd headline refers to first headline or second

wahey. i can confirm, it's real

wanna buy some soap?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-dickie-berg-soap-1.6906735