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September 28, 2012

FoxNews Covers Another Car Chase; Perp Offs Himself At Video's End
— Ace

I'm not sure I have any opinion on this. There will be the typical scolding of Fox for covering sensationalistic events; but, what the funk, they broadcast for like 15 hours a day, they have to fill the hours.

I don't find this interesting. They're all the same, aren't they? But other people, I guess, watch these things. Or else they wouldn't be on the air.

End of the day, the drama of desperation is compelling. For good or for ill. 30% of all shows on primetime are now "reality" shows trying to ramp up contrived circumstances to produce some watchable "real-life" drama of desperation.

The guy offs himself at the end. I'm embedding the video below You don't have to play it if you're squeamish. But it's a fairly long distance helicopter shot so while you can see, with no ambiguity, that he shoots himself in the head and dies, you can't see much more than that.

Shep Smith starts yelling "Get off, get off, get off" at the end -- actually, well after the end, but perhaps his feed was a little less delayed -- to tell the network to stop airing the suicide. He sounds a little self-righteous about it, like he's the Thin Blue Line protecting the public from its own appetites for sensationalistic fare.

But as Jim Geraghty asks, aren't crashes and deaths what people are watching these things for? They're sure not watching them for the typical denoument-- guy on the ground, cuffed behind his back.

Given Shep Smith's self conception as a righteous liberal bien pensant, I imagine he'll have a big fight with the Higher Ups about the propriety of running these car chases on TV. I imagine he'll have a long faux-thoughtful but mostly self-justifying and self-congratulating televised essay on it tonight or tomorrow.

I... also don't care about that. He'll try to distance himself from the sensationalist, lurid footage, shifting blame to the audience and, more subtly, to the "requirements" of cable news (which is his way of insulting his bosses in a passive-aggressive way he won't be called on).

I really don't know what to say about this except it happened. There are no larger truths here, at least none that aren't perfectly obvious: Desperate people do desperate things, and people like watching this, and people also like engaging in self-congratulatory elevations of themselves as being "above such things," unlike the brutish mass of common humanity.

Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann and the rest of the left-wing all-stars will preen from their perches, which, in Matthews' case, is a little-watched legacy show on NBC, and in Olbermann's case, is Twitter.

We will shout and accuse and Look Within Ourselves and pretend all sorts of Lessons Have Been Learned all the rest of the predictable stupidity.

Guy shot himself. People like seeing sudden violence. It's all very shocking if you have the innocence of a five year old, or like pretending you do.

Posted by: Ace at 11:55 AM | Comments (275)
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1 I will not watch stuff like this.

Posted by: Vic at September 28, 2012 11:56 AM (YdQQY)

2 Obviously racist.

Posted by: maloderous at September 28, 2012 11:56 AM (p2s4o)

3 first?

Posted by: tofer732 at September 28, 2012 11:56 AM (2zM0P)

4 The really important question is: Why does Shep look like an Oompa-Loompa?

That skin color is not found in nature.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 28, 2012 11:56 AM (2b4yb)

That was pretty much it.

I wonder what it was all about? (The chase and such.)

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Aghast in his own head. at September 28, 2012 11:57 AM (hLRSq)

6 HHHHHead SHOT!

Posted by: Todd Bridges, first to go bad, last to go down at September 28, 2012 11:57 AM (ccC5G)

7 BuzzFeed and Mediaite put up the video already. So there's that. Weigel was chiding Fox for covering the car chase, which I found funny given how MSNBC/NBC choose to cover things.

Posted by: Y-not at September 28, 2012 11:58 AM (5H6zj)

8 Another question and this somewhat serious: Does Shep Smith wear eyeliner?

Posted by: Long Island at September 28, 2012 11:58 AM (kzp9t)

9 The revolution will be televised

Posted by: i am mad as hell and i am not going to take it anymore at September 28, 2012 11:58 AM (cgxNI)

10 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at September 28, 2012 11:58 AM (/eBe8)

Watched it. Meh.

Time to go set up for tonight's gig. Carry on, back later. No shooting.

Posted by: Meremortal at September 28, 2012 11:58 AM (jTKU5)

12 I just want to add that whatever this man's issues were, he was someone's son and one of God's children. Prayers for his soul and his loved ones.

Posted by: Y-not at September 28, 2012 11:58 AM (5H6zj)

13 Perp Offs Himself At Video's End Good.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 28, 2012 11:59 AM (X3lox)

14 I was doing some other stuff, then looked up to see Sheppie all upset. I didn't know what he was apologizing for until I backed up the DVR. Whoa.

Posted by: stace at September 28, 2012 11:59 AM (ugBjy)

15 The assumption is that this kind of coverage contributes to the coarsening of society, but the only difference between this and watching a hanging in 1730 is that millions can see this, while the hanging's audience was limited to how many could fit into the town square.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 28, 2012 11:59 AM (2b4yb)

16 BTW - it is a live feed. There is nothing to condemn anyone for running a live feed and then BOOM! something happens. Unless you claim that FOX is run by people who can predict the future, in which case why are you resisting our telepathic overlords?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Aghast in his own head. at September 28, 2012 11:59 AM (hLRSq)

17 Compared to the guy who flew out of his flipping Navigator, hit the median, flew up into the air, and then was ran over twice here in Atlanta a few years ago, not that bad.

Posted by: Adam at September 28, 2012 11:59 AM (/YJYi)

That skin color is not found in nature.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 28, 2012 03:56 PM (2b4yb)

I think he's trying to lighten up that bourbon tan.

Posted by: HtP at September 28, 2012 11:59 AM (jx2j9)

19 Ace you need to exercise the ban hammer on troll posting as BB on previous thread. .

Posted by: Vic at September 28, 2012 11:59 AM (YdQQY)

20 Call me heartless, but that was awesome.

Posted by: lorien1973 at September 28, 2012 11:59 AM (mcWHD)

21 R. Bud Dwyer with lest audio.

Posted by: © Sponge at September 28, 2012 11:59 AM (nDcVA)

22 Current mood: Indifferent I watched muslim savages saw off Nick Berg's head.

Posted by: soothsayer at September 28, 2012 11:59 AM (jUytm)

23 Less...dammit

Posted by: © Sponge at September 28, 2012 11:59 AM (nDcVA)

24 You can't really yell "BOOM head shot" when it's self inflicted. It's more of an epic fail. At least that's what video games tell me.

Posted by: maloderous at September 28, 2012 12:00 PM (p2s4o)

25 16 BTW - it is a live feed. There is nothing to condemn anyone for running a live feed and then BOOM! something happens. --- It was on a delay, Shep explained. Something went wrong.

Posted by: Y-not at September 28, 2012 12:00 PM (5H6zj)

26 Sad that people are so desperate today and have lost hope.

Such is the state of our country at the moment.

RIP

Posted by: exile at September 28, 2012 12:00 PM (JxQPs)

27 Shep can't help it. He's a fucking retard.

Posted by: maddogg at September 28, 2012 12:01 PM (OlN4e)

28 Why die tired like he did rather than sitting in a comfy car?

Posted by: @PurpAv at September 28, 2012 12:01 PM (bLEJy)

29 Sorry, guess this counts as a boycott of Fox, as well.

Posted by: t-bird at September 28, 2012 12:01 PM (FcR7P)

30 16 BTW - it is a live feed. There is nothing to condemn anyone for running a live feed and then BOOM! something happens. Unless you claim that FOX is run by people who can predict the future, in which case why are you resisting our telepathic overlords?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Aghast in his own head. at September 28, 2012 03:59 PM (hLRSq)

According the Shemp, they had actually gone to 10 second delay but screwed it up somehow. He was sowwy....very, very sowwy.

Posted by: Tami at September 28, 2012 12:01 PM (X6akg)

31 last Sunday during a game the crowd was chanting "bullshit, bullshit" at the refs the broadcast continued...

Posted by: soothsayer at September 28, 2012 12:01 PM (jUytm)

32 26 Sad that people are so desperate today and have lost hope. Such is the state of our country at the moment. --- This. My husband works at a university. Both his and the nearby one (BYU as it happens) have seen an uptick in students requiring counseling due to stress, mostly from the economy, apparently.

Posted by: Y-not at September 28, 2012 12:01 PM (5H6zj)

33 Another victim of the Obamaconomy.

Posted by: Buck Bradley at September 28, 2012 12:01 PM (7xu78)

the only difference between this and watching a hanging in 1730 is that millions can see this, while the hanging's audience was limited to how many could fit into the town square.

Well that, and the conviction. But, you know, when we had public hangings, crime rates were lower.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 28, 2012 12:02 PM (cQpP1)

35 "Given Shep Smith's self conception as a righteous liberal bien pensant..."

Typical behavior of an Ole Miss grad...

Posted by: Country Singer (likes teh ginger ladies) at September 28, 2012 12:02 PM (+r4NB)

36 Hell, I've seen videos from Iraq that had a shitload more damn gore than this. A shitload. Pretty tame.

Posted by: maddogg at September 28, 2012 12:02 PM (OlN4e)

37 BTW - it is a live feed. There is nothing to condemn anyone for running a live feed and then BOOM! something happens. Unless you claim that FOX is run by people who can predict the future, in which case why are you resisting our telepathic overlords?Posted by: Mikey NTH

Yeah, because car chases are perfectly safe and no one ever gets hurt or killed, right?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 28, 2012 12:02 PM (CdCPN)

38 How the OJ chase should have ended.

I bet ole Shep is one those that curses a traffic jam, especially when he gets close enough to see that the cause is some sort of fender bender or worse. Damn rubberneckers!

But then as he passes the scene by, his eyes are practically locked onto the carnage.

But see, because he cursed rubberneckers first, it's okay to look then.

Posted by: GnuBreed at September 28, 2012 12:03 PM (ccXZP)

39 Sad that people are so desperate today and have lost hope. Yes. But the important thing is that he died while doing what he loved to do. /nods

Posted by: soothsayer at September 28, 2012 12:03 PM (jUytm)

40 I watched the video. I think it was a good thing to show. For squeamish people, you couldn't see any details of it. Nothing. Big deal. Perps should off themselves. Nothing wrong with showing it, even if it had been gory (which it most definitely was not). I don't see why anyone would be bothered by this.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 28, 2012 12:03 PM (X3lox)

41 If he had a free ObamaPhone, he could have called the suicide hotline.

Posted by: @PurpAv at September 28, 2012 12:03 PM (bLEJy)

42 He wouldn't have had to steal the car and shoot himself if you heartless wingnuts would've just let the government buy him a Volt like he wanted.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 28, 2012 12:03 PM (SY2Kh)

43 last Sunday during a game the crowd was chanting "bullshit, bullshit" at the refs

the broadcast continued...

Posted by: soothsayer at September 28, 2012 04:01 PM (jUytm)

Oh that's right! That was hysterical.

Posted by: Tami at September 28, 2012 12:03 PM (X6akg)

44 The best thing about the public hangings in the old days was that the trial happened at then the execution was carried out quickly. No 10 or 20 years of endless appeals.

Posted by: Vic at September 28, 2012 12:04 PM (YdQQY)

45 Posted by: @PurpAv at September 28, 2012 04:03 PM (bLEJy)

Ha.

Posted by: Long Island at September 28, 2012 12:04 PM (kzp9t)

46 BTW, suicide has now officially surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of injury death.

Posted by: maddogg at September 28, 2012 12:04 PM (OlN4e)

47 wow. To sum up.

meh meh and meh. And if you watch the video or say we should watch the video you're a bad person, if you say we shouldn't watch the video you're a pretentious, elitist, self righteous jerk. The only way to be the "good" guy is to not watch it and then not comment on not watching it. Way to kill your own thread. Here's new content, discussing it makes you a bad person....

So....How about them 49ers? Think they've got a shot this year?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 28, 2012 12:04 PM (0q2P7)

48 Despair over the societal wreckage brought about by eight years of Booooosh isn't easily repaired.

Posted by: Soledad O'Brien's Earpiece at September 28, 2012 12:04 PM (QKKT0)

49 Shep is always covering car chases because, he has stated he loves them. His favorite things are: 1)Car Chases 2) Stories about Bears.

Posted by: Ktgreat at September 28, 2012 12:05 PM (yhM4N)

50 actually, this post dovetails with the last post. I said that boycotts don't work. That's not true, the left is trying to kill fox and other conservative mediums. Didn't they just get amazon to stop carrying a conservative non profit? What bullshit, I wish the Koch brothers would cut loose and give us marching orders to boycott something real good, just like the lefties have with soros money.

Posted by: joeindc44 at September 28, 2012 12:05 PM (QxSug)

51 Well that, and the conviction. But, you know, when we had public hangings, crime rates were lower.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 28, 2012 04:02 PM (cQpP1)

Good point, but the desire to see death up close and personal is the same.

And I'm not criticizing public hangings. It might be just what we need.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 28, 2012 12:05 PM (2b4yb)

52 The question is: what other thing besides stealing a car did he do? One doesn't usually off themselves when looking at a felony that can be pled down to six months or so.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 28, 2012 12:05 PM (cQpP1)

53 Breaking: Motorist permanently boycotts Fox News.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 28, 2012 12:05 PM (SY2Kh)

54 46 BTW, suicide has now officially surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of injury death.

Posted by: maddogg at September 28, 2012 04:04 PM (OlN4e)

Hey maybe this could be counted in both categories.

Posted by: Long Island at September 28, 2012 12:05 PM (kzp9t)

55 15 The assumption is that this kind of coverage contributes to the coarsening of society, but the only difference between this and watching a hanging in 1730 is that millions can see this, while the hanging's audience was limited to how many could fit into the town square.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 28, 2012 03:59 PM (2b4yb)

This. Executions used to be entertainment before the 20th century. Also, given the ubiquity of cameras and the ability to upload video to places where anybody can see it, suicides/accidents/general mayhem is just going to be out there.

Posted by: joncelli at September 28, 2012 12:05 PM (RD7QR)

56 Well he stole the car and shot at cops. I don't know what they originally wanted him for.

Posted by: Adam at September 28, 2012 12:06 PM (/YJYi)

57 FOX isn't operating the camera, they're just playing the feed from a local affiliate.

Posted by: Up with people! at September 28, 2012 12:06 PM (kzFo5)

58 I'm not criticizing public hangings. It might be just what we need.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 28, 2012 04:05 PM (2b4yb)

I agree.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 28, 2012 12:06 PM (cQpP1)

59 42 He wouldn't have had to steal the car and shoot himself if you heartless wingnuts would've just let the government buy him a Volt like he wanted. Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 28, 2012 04:03 PM (SY2Kh) Don't forget, he shot at the cops, and probably also the guy whose car he stole. Why would anyone feel sorry for that lowlife. He had a fucking choice!

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Posted by: i am mad as hell and i am not going to take it anymore at September 28, 2012 12:06 PM (cgxNI)

It's pretty bad, but not quite Ogrish bad.

Posted by: Ben at September 28, 2012 12:06 PM (C2Y4l)

62 Was that Shemp Smith? All I saw was man-tan, Clairol Anchorman Brown and eyes spaced too far apart.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 12:06 PM (AZGON)

63 And here I was hoping it was Rupert Pupkin, Esq. (icwKQ). Unfortunately, he's still alive and jonesing for a fresh load of horse cum a few threads down.

Posted by: The Googler at September 28, 2012 12:06 PM (ggRof)

64 Adds a new meaning to suicide watch.

Posted by: Love Reggie at September 28, 2012 12:07 PM (JMt7S)

65 After the Luka Magnotta video I'm pretty freakin' jaded now.

Posted by: RWC at September 28, 2012 12:07 PM (fWAjv)

Y-not at September 28:

So what? The guys were still filming it and then boom. They stopped fast.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Aghast in his own head. at September 28, 2012 12:07 PM (hLRSq)

67 I was hoping they would zoom in.

Posted by: Ozzie at September 28, 2012 12:07 PM (Gumu6)

68 Look at the bright side. That's one sex change operation the taxpayers won't be paying for.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at September 28, 2012 12:07 PM (QKKT0)

69 I just want to add that whatever this man's issues were, he was someone's son and one of God's children. Prayers for his soul and his loved ones. Posted by: Y-not at September 28, 2012 03:58 PM (5H6zj) this

Posted by: thunderb a conservative jew at September 28, 2012 12:07 PM (Dnbau)

If you look at it with Spock eyes, you can calculate that this saved the State a tremendous amount of money and could also conceiveably save someone from being a crime victim in the future.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2012 12:07 PM (m2CN7)

71 Well he stole the car and shot at cops. I don't know what they originally wanted him for.

Probably making bad movies.

Posted by: @PurpAv at September 28, 2012 12:07 PM (bLEJy)

72 Did society a favor. Sad? No F'n way. This punk carjacked a car from some poor unsuspecting citizen and then he shot a cop. I'm just guessing that this isn't the first time this jack ass has been running from the police. Good for him for taking it like a man.

Posted by: talibill at September 28, 2012 12:07 PM (VgmJa)

73 Shep got off.

(Okay, that was pretty sick of me.)

But really. What are you gonna do?

If the guy turns out to be a child molester we'll be high-fiving each other.

Maybe not a child molester but he was probably a very bad guy. Shit happens to very bad guys.

Posted by: Dang© at September 28, 2012 12:07 PM (R18D0)

74 God rest his soul. He's at peace now. He looked like he was amped up on something to me, not disoriented. I hope his mama (or other loved ones) wasn't watching. I have walked in on the after math of 3 suicides, one was a gunshot. This seemed very bloodless. The one I saw was a shotgun, though, maybe this was a smaller caliber. Have they confirmed he is dead?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 28, 2012 12:08 PM (SsG4J)

Oh? Shemp screwed up his own buttons and not the tech guys?

Then pile on. Who cares when the on-air "talent" gets fried?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Aghast in his own head. at September 28, 2012 12:08 PM (hLRSq)

76 $10 says Car Chase Guy still votes in November, somehow

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 28, 2012 12:08 PM (8sCoq)

77 Meant ' shot AT a cop"

Posted by: talibill at September 28, 2012 12:08 PM (VgmJa)

78 I'm not criticizing public hangings. It might be just what we need.

Stadiums are usually free during the week, and wild zoo animals always have to be fed.

Posted by: Commodus at September 28, 2012 12:08 PM (QKKT0)

79 NBC: Fox News murders innocent legal hispanic

Posted by: © Sponge at September 28, 2012 12:09 PM (nDcVA)

80 I found Shep's indignation worse than the suicide for some reason.

Posted by: Dr Spank at September 28, 2012 12:09 PM (0muQ0)

81 Maybe he didn't think it was a gun, maybe the perp thought it was an Obamaphone.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 12:09 PM (AZGON)

82 Where did this take place?

Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 12:09 PM (guxHP)

83 > Good for him for taking it like a man.

Posted by: talibill at September 28, 2012 04:07 PM (VgmJa)

Real Man pulls the trigger twice

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 28, 2012 12:09 PM (8sCoq)

84 >>>BTW, suicide has now officially surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of injury death.

Thank you airbags, antilock breaks, crumple zone engineering, advanced passenger restraints, collapsible steering columns, and electronic traction control.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 28, 2012 12:09 PM (0q2P7)

85 If you look at it with Spock eyes

Posted by: polynikes

I'd rather listen to it with Spock ears. That would be cool.

Posted by: Dang© at September 28, 2012 12:09 PM (R18D0)

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 28:

You're right. Aas soon as that first flame shot out of the Hidenburg they should have cut the cameras and turned off the microphones.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Aghast in his own head. at September 28, 2012 12:09 PM (hLRSq)

87 Think they've got a shot this year?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 28, 2012 04:04 PM (0q2P7)

as much as the guy in the video does

Posted by: The Dude at September 28, 2012 12:09 PM (tw6Ar)

88 It was a Republican gun. They all are.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (AZGON)

89 Here is the bottom line: Journalism is now about keeping news from the people.

Posted by: AmishDude at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (T0NGe)

Didn't any of the other news channels cover it live too?

This was bound to happen, sooner or later.

Shep has this 'thing' for live car chases...it's seems to be a sort of joke around FoxNews.

Megyn Kelly went to the car chase...a few minutes before her show was over...to 'set it up for Shep'.

She even framed it that way.

"And here we have a car chase, in progress, for Shep to follow"

[paraphrasing that, but that's basically what she said]

Posted by: wheatie at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (l5RhJ)

I'd like to congratulate the good citizens of Arizona on their savings of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in court and incarceration costs.

Don't spend it all in one place.

Posted by: Jaws at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (4I3Uo)

92 Dude did not fall like I expected. Suicide is for cowards.

Posted by: nip at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (11Tdq)

93 >>>BTW, suicide has now officially surpassed car accidents as the number one cause of injury death.

Thank you airbags, antilock breaks, crumple zone engineering, advanced passenger restraints, collapsible steering columns, and electronic traction control.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose

And the Obama economy.

Posted by: Dang© at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (R18D0)

94 Would it be in vain to hope this finally get Shemp fired?

That marsupial asshole should have been canned years ago.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (CdCPN)

95 66 Y-not at September 28: So what? The guys were still filming it and then boom. They stopped fast. --- Well, if you watched Shep's explanation and apology, the delay that they used was specifically intended to prevent showing something like this. But feel free to assert that Fox News was wrong about its own error. Because apparently you're a dick.

Posted by: Y-not at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (5H6zj)

96 Shep is the #1 car chase guy on TV, he loves this shit.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (ZPrif)

97 I heard this guy's mom's neighbor has a cousin who was laid off by a company that was purchased by Bain Capital. More blood on Romney's hands.

Posted by: Lefty Hussein McMoonbat at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (2jQGY)

98 What's worse for society live car chases/per escapes that might end horrifically or Honey Boo Boo?

Posted by: General Woundwort at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (06lNq)

99 Who was Shep with and what were they doing when he exclaimed, Get Off, Get Off, Get Off?

Posted by: USA at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (RIg+t)

100

I love happy endings.

I remember back when they had the Hollywood Shootout. I got to watch one of the bad guys blow his own brains out.

Doesn't bother me any.

Posted by: Hard Right at September 28, 2012 12:10 PM (+aCe4)

101 Why was he running from the cops and where did this take place?

Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 12:11 PM (guxHP)

102 Real Man pulls the trigger twice

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 28, 2012 04:09 PM (8sCoq)

I knew someone who did that.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 28, 2012 12:11 PM (cQpP1)

103 52 The question is: what other thing besides stealing a car did he do? One doesn't usually off themselves when looking at a felony that can be pled down to six months or so.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at September 28, 2012 04:05 PM (cQpP1)

Maybe he had already done time and really, really hated it. Maybe he was depressed. Maybe he just didn't want to give the cops the satisfaction of getting him. Lots of reasons to end it, many of which are incomprehensible to those outside the mind of the one committing suicide.

Posted by: joncelli at September 28, 2012 12:11 PM (RD7QR)

104 If Shep starts panting to his higher ups about the car chases, then he is a hypocrite, because I have seen him plenty of times talk about the fun of watching these.

As for the guy, it was weird in hat he was running and hiding just to kill himself. But I suppose anybody who does that isn't quite thinking clearly.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 28, 2012 12:11 PM (PHb2k)

105 No, all seriousness aside, Fox has only itself to blame. They always air midday California car chases, because it keeps eyes on the screen- 'good visuals'- and it costs nothing to produce.

It also has zero news value. I hope this incident causes the suits to review their policy.

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 28, 2012 12:11 PM (8sCoq)

106 In the end he took responsibility for his actions. I think god respects that.

Posted by: @PurpAv at September 28, 2012 12:11 PM (bLEJy)

107 On MSNBC they had a little talk bubble coming out of his head before he pulled the trigger: "I worked for Bain Capital!"

Posted by: Fleeb Hansen, super nice guy at September 28, 2012 12:11 PM (z1qfM)

108

80 NBC: Fox News murders innocent legal hispanic

Looked like a....'white hispanic'....to me.

Posted by: wheatie at September 28, 2012 12:11 PM (l5RhJ)

109

It is someones son. I do feel bad, at the same time, it's life. He obviously made a lot of bad decisions that culminated in him car jacking someone with an illegal gun which resulted in a police chase and his suicide.

You don't blow your own head off in a field running from police by random chance.

While I do feel awful for those that love him, I can't say I feel bad for him any.

Posted by: Ben at September 28, 2012 12:11 PM (C2Y4l)

110 Hope he used cheap ammo. My little CC Sig P232 is a .380, and the usual bullet weight for that size round is around 90 grains. You can get a little 55 grain hollowpoint round for it, that has a special tip that breaks up just right so it can release the teenie wad of pellets it has just behind. I think about eight little pellets. More pricey than your usual target rounds, but might be just right for blowing someone else's brains out. But if it just for you, what the fuck, just go cheap. I hope that imbecile did just that.

Posted by: The littl shyning man at September 28, 2012 12:12 PM (PH+2B)

111

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 04:09 PM (AZGON)

___

I was surprised to learn Obamaphonegurl is only 28, she sounds a lot older. I like how she says: we got to keep obama in president.

Which president is he in, again?

Posted by: kallisto at September 28, 2012 12:12 PM (jm/9g)

112 He only offed himself because his test from the Romney Cancer Ray Clinic came back "positive, bitch."

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 12:12 PM (AZGON)

113 It was in Phoenix, I think not sure why he was running. He looked like he was speeding/tweaking/ whatever they call it to me.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 28, 2012 12:12 PM (SsG4J)

114 People throughout the L.A. area are taking steps to avoid "Carmageddon" this weekend, but this seems a little extreme.

Posted by: Hayabusa at September 28, 2012 12:12 PM (659DL)

115 Also, a lot of car "accidents" used to be suicide. They just didn't call it that to make the family feel better. But now cars are so safe it's hard to kill yourself even if you're trying. So they have to resort to more obvious self-annihilation methods.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 28, 2012 12:12 PM (ZPrif)

116 Meh

Posted by: The Roman Colosseum at September 28, 2012 12:12 PM (h+sNN)

117 Dude had to be carrying so much drugs/guns in his car that he was going to go away for a few lifetimes to do this. Only thing I could come up with, but suicide in itself is not rational.

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 28, 2012 12:12 PM (UZQM8)

118 106-good point

Posted by: nip at September 28, 2012 12:12 PM (11Tdq)

119 I think it was kind of the guy to not make a cop shoot him. And that's about all I have to say.

Posted by: Rex Harrison's Hat at September 28, 2012 12:12 PM (4136b)

120 101 Why was he running from the cops and where did this take place? Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 04:11 PM (guxHP) Carjacked car, shot at cops, Phoenix Arizona

Posted by: Ma Bell, RRetired, but piping in at September 28, 2012 12:13 PM (uVuwp)

121 Shep sucks ass. Literally.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 28, 2012 12:13 PM (ZPrif)

122 I was surprised to learn Obamaphonegurl is only 28 I was surprised to learn she was a girl.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 12:13 PM (AZGON)

123 Funny ... if you have a photo of a guy getting his head blown off in Viet Nam, up close, with a terrible anti-American lie behind the "history" of the photo, you get a Pulitzer and the photo becomes one of the lefty favorites to display to everyone who can see. But anyone has a problem with pic of a perp who is clearly a menace to OUR society offing himself? Okey doke.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 28, 2012 12:13 PM (X3lox)

124 I didn't, and won't watch it to the end.

Car chase maybe.
Suicide, no.

How desperate must he have felt to think that was his only option remaining.

Posted by: Eric at September 28, 2012 12:13 PM (ClJ2V)

125 Ace, I offer two suggestions. I think a lot of us, if not all, hate to see the late AB's name to be used as it is by that loser troll. Can you either: 1. ban the word "breitbart" from the site altogether or 2. change the name for those comments to "Posted by: Some Asshole" or whatever. or 3. choose a few more comment editors with the power to wipe or edit the troll

Posted by: soothsayer at September 28, 2012 12:13 PM (jUytm)

126 Chollo believed polls that Soetoro could be re-elected.

Posted by: Sick and Tired at September 28, 2012 12:14 PM (wIgpo)

127 >I was surprised to learn Obamaphonegurl is only 28, she sounds a lot older. I like how she says: we got to keep obama in president.

from watching the video, she doesn't need a phone, she needs a fucking dentist

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 28, 2012 12:14 PM (8sCoq)

128 Which president is he in, again?
Posted by: kallisto at September 28, 2012 04:12 PM (jm/9g)

We all know who the president is in....don't we Reggie?

Posted by: © Sponge at September 28, 2012 12:14 PM (nDcVA)

129 >>>113 It was in Phoenix, I think not sure why he was running. He looked like he was speeding/tweaking/ whatever they call it to me. Thanks! At least he wasn't "twearkin" otherwise I would have shot him.

Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 12:14 PM (guxHP)

130 He found out he was Joe Biden's love child.

Posted by: Hard Right at September 28, 2012 12:14 PM (+aCe4)

131 122 I was surprised to learn Obamaphonegurl is only 28

I was surprised to learn she was a girl.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 04:13 PM (AZGON)

Damn. Living the free phone lifestyle is aging.

Posted by: Long Island at September 28, 2012 12:15 PM (kzp9t)

132 Posted by: i am mad as hell and i am not going to take it anymore at September 28, 2012 04:06 PM (cgxNI) Zombie Gil Scott-Heron

Posted by: baldilocks at September 28, 2012 12:15 PM (Su0W2)

133 from watching the video, she doesn't need a phone, she needs a fucking dentist She needs a veterinarian.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 12:15 PM (AZGON)

134

105...It also has zero news value. I hope this incident causes the suits to review their policy.

I doubt it.

If anything...this validates their interest in showing 'car chases'.

We're talking about it, right?

The other channels will probably start covering the car chases now, too.

It's all about getting the eyeballs on their channels.

Posted by: wheatie at September 28, 2012 12:15 PM (l5RhJ)

135 20 R. Bud Dwyer with lest audio. --- Hey man, nice shot!

Posted by: Filter at September 28, 2012 12:15 PM (e0xKF)

136 Shemp is always self-rightous. And indignant. And very, very orange.

Posted by: LASue at September 28, 2012 12:15 PM (wAhNv)

137 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at September 28, 2012 12:16 PM (Ts9tU)

138 The video freaked me out because the guy looked like Jesse from the hit tv series, "Breaking Bad". That dude's a bad guy but you kind of want to see him live and shit. Yo?

Posted by: Dang© at September 28, 2012 12:16 PM (R18D0)

139 Thanks! At least he wasn't "twearkin" otherwise I would have shot him. Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 04:14 PM (guxHP) What is twearkin? I swore a vow not to Google things I saw posted here!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 28, 2012 12:16 PM (SsG4J)

140 I gots me an "Obama" phone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: LaQuisha Dumbbutt at September 28, 2012 12:16 PM (48wze)

141 Mia Love has been targeted By Democrats with racist hate mail and threats

http://tinyurl.com/d6sxacx

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 28, 2012 12:17 PM (8sCoq)

142 When I was being warned that it was !!GRAPHIC!! I was expecting the head to come clean off...the fact that he dropped like that I think was what surprised me the most. Meh...

Somebody loved him and didn't need to have his death forever recorded, but in the long run I'm glad the guy didn't pull a suicide by cop.

Posted by: H Badger at September 28, 2012 12:17 PM (n/0Nw)

143 The video freaked me out because the guy looked like Jesse from the hit tv series, "Breaking Bad". That dude's a bad guy but you kind of want to see him live and shit. Yo?

Posted by: DangÂ© at September 28, 2012 04:16 PM (R18D0)

they can use it as a meta video in the second part of the season next year

Posted by: The Dude at September 28, 2012 12:17 PM (tw6Ar)

144 >>>Why would anyone feel sorry for that lowlife. He had a fucking choice!

Depends on what you believe. In my world he faces God's judgement now. I try[/y] to make it a habit to not wish hellfire and damnation on people. As a general rule.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 28, 2012 12:17 PM (0q2P7)

145 The perp ventilated his head because he found out his iPhone 5 won't ship until Monday.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 12:17 PM (AZGON)

146 Damn that gun for making its poor innocent victim kill himself!

Posted by: mediumheadboy at September 28, 2012 12:18 PM (aHR5E)

147 oh damn

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Regular! With Full Stomping Power! at September 28, 2012 12:18 PM (0q2P7)

148 >>>What is twearkin? I swore a vow not to Google things I saw posted here! Posted by: Tammy al-Thor I don't think you want to know. I consider it child abuse since it seems to be done in the presence and faces of young children.

Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 12:18 PM (guxHP)

149 That is racist to point out the "Obama Phone Creature" looks old for its age of 29.....How Rude !!!!!!!

Posted by: LaQuisha Dumbbutt at September 28, 2012 12:18 PM (48wze)

150 You're right.Aas soon as that first flame shot out of the Hidenburg they should have cut the cameras and turned off the microphones.Posted by: Mikey NTH

Ah, Hindenburg = car chase. Got it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 28, 2012 12:18 PM (CdCPN)

151 How desperate must he have felt to think that was his only option remaining.

He jacked a car and shot at the cops. In Arizona.

Once escape was gone, that was his only option left. He was leaving on a gurney no matter what happened.

Posted by: @PurpAv at September 28, 2012 12:18 PM (bLEJy)

152

>>>Thank you airbags, antilock breaks, crumple zone engineering, advanced passenger restraints, collapsible steering columns, and electronic traction control.

And the Preznit's gas prices.

Posted by: LibertarianJim at September 28, 2012 12:18 PM (WDCYi)

153 145 The perp ventilated his head because he found out his iPhone 5 won't ship until Monday. --- He was being chased by Chris Hansen.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at September 28, 2012 12:18 PM (e0xKF)

154 I feel as bad watching this video as I do watching you tube videos of our our apache helicopters taking out insurgents who think they are hidden behind trucks in the dark. And by bad I mean not as all.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2012 12:18 PM (m2CN7)

155 >I was surprised to learn Obamaphonegurl is only 28, she sounds a lot
older. I like how she says: we got to keep obama in president.

from watching the video, she doesn't need a phone, she needs a fucking dentist
Posted by: Jones in CO

She needs to use her indoors voice. Who needs a phone, "FOH", whatever they call it, when you can yell that loud?

Posted by: Dang© at September 28, 2012 12:19 PM (R18D0)

156 I don't think you want to know. I consider it child abuse since it seems to be done in the presence and faces of young children. Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 04:18 PM (guxHP) Ugh, thanks...sounds like something I don't want to know either.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 28, 2012 12:20 PM (SsG4J)

157 O/T Registration Fraud in Florida for the GOP: The company said earlier this week that it was cooperating with elections officials in Florida. It said the suspect forms were turned in by one person, who has been fired. Put this in the back of your head for the election. If Romney wins, this shit will come back in the news cycle.

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 28, 2012 12:20 PM (UZQM8)

158

Romney sucks! Bad! Ax me!

Posted by: Obamaphonegirl at September 28, 2012 12:20 PM (wIgpo)

159 I just want to add that whatever this man's issues were, he was someone's son and one of God's children. Prayers for his soul and his loved ones.

Seconded.

Posted by: Armando at September 28, 2012 12:21 PM (5iuEW)

160 Bush never gives me a phone likes presdent Bama. Bush he lied to all of uss and I be had no jobs until presdent bama comes along. I be votin for presdent obama cause hye be president'n good !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: The Obama Phone Girl at September 28, 2012 12:21 PM (48wze)

161 She needs a veterinarian.
Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 04:15 PM (AZGON)

She needs to be mayor of Cleveland!!!!

I'm putting the call out.

Posted by: © Sponge at September 28, 2012 12:21 PM (nDcVA)

162 We no longer have a news media. We have a Shiny Distracting Object Media.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 28, 2012 12:21 PM (DuH+r)

163 I can't believe Romney made that guy shoot himself. That was uncalled for.

Posted by: MJ at September 28, 2012 12:21 PM (TR60b)

164 She needs to use her indoors voice. Who needs a phone, "FOH", whatever they call it, when you can yell that loud? Posted by: DangÂ© at September 28, 2012 04:19 PM (R18D0) She didn't need a phone, she needed a phoneme.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 28, 2012 12:21 PM (X3lox)

165 I feel for his loved ones. Him? Not so much.

Posted by: Hard Right at September 28, 2012 12:21 PM (+aCe4)

166 The video is only shocking if you spend most of your time looking at another man's penis.

Which is why Shep found is so shocking...

Posted by: exile at September 28, 2012 12:21 PM (JxQPs)

167 The best car chase was last week when the bank robber was throwing money out the window.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 28, 2012 12:21 PM (PHb2k)

168 Shock! Horror!

*clutches pearls*

Posted by: Shep Smith at September 28, 2012 12:22 PM (5Rurq)

169 Drudge has a link to Sheppie's on air apology

the guy looks pretty shaken up

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 28, 2012 12:22 PM (8sCoq)

170 No doubt he was a rethuglikkkan despondent over Romney's failing campaign.

Posted by: Retard Fuckwit Esq. at September 28, 2012 12:22 PM (aHR5E)

171 Research shows most suicides are impulse decisions and if the person can be stopped then they won't do it again. Most -- not all - but most. I've known people who had major mental breakdowns and behaved extremely oddly. Luckily for my friends they didn't do anything illegal or violent while they were in crazy-mode. But circumstances could have been different. And once they got on the right medications they were able to lead productive, non-crazy, lives.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at September 28, 2012 12:22 PM (ZPrif)

172 here it is

http://tinyurl.com/csf2as6

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 28, 2012 12:23 PM (8sCoq)

173 I don't get the whole "live broadcast of crime in progress" thing.

Was the dude famous?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ at September 28, 2012 12:23 PM (/kI1Q)

174 Call me at fo-fo-fo, fo-fo, fo-fo.

Posted by: soothsayer at September 28, 2012 12:23 PM (jUytm)

175

I yelled "SCORE" and jumped up looking for a high five. Again, in my little piece of reality, my guess is that this POS has brought pain and suffering to many, many undeserving citizens. just sayin.

Posted by: Talibill at September 28, 2012 12:23 PM (VgmJa)

176 Shep Smith is awful. I don't know why they keep him around. He looks like a creepy marionette. In fact, he looks like one of the puppets from Fireball XL5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireball_XL5

Posted by: zipity at September 28, 2012 12:23 PM (kwgTF)

177 >I don't get the whole "live broadcast of crime in progress" thing.

Was the dude famous?

Posted by: HeatherRadishÂ™ at September 28, 2012 04:23 PM (/kI1Q)

no- it's just damn fine TV, I guess

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 28, 2012 12:23 PM (8sCoq)

178 The dude perforated his brainpan because his girlfriend needed $18,000 of french ticklers and Seasonique.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 12:24 PM (AZGON)

179 The company said earlier this week that it was cooperating with elections officials in Florida. It said the suspect forms were turned in by one person, who has been fired.

Put this in the back of your head for the election. If Romney wins, this shit will come back in the news cycle. Posted by: cajun carrot

It will probably turn out to be a democrat plant doing the dirty work. Obama apparently did this with ACORN in Chicago.

Posted by: Dang© at September 28, 2012 12:24 PM (R18D0)

180 All of these chases seem to happen on Shep's watch.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 28, 2012 12:24 PM (f9c2L)

181 Compared to the Flying Jihadi series they show on Weasel Zippers (the one the other day where an IED being planted went off "unexpectedly" was especially entertaining) this is G-rated. No visible blood or anything, the dude just drops and then they cut to something far scarier, Shepard Smith.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 28, 2012 12:24 PM (B/VB5)

182 I feel for his loved ones. Him? Not so much. Posted by: Hard Right at September 28, 2012 04:21 PM (+aCe4) I don't feel anything for his "loved ones". I feel for the loved ones of those whose lives he's brought pain and suffering to. The only reason he offed himself was because he was in the middle of nowhere and couldn't find any innocent person to take hostage.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 28, 2012 12:25 PM (X3lox)

183 !! I was expecting the head to come clean off...the fact that he dropped like that I think was what surprised me the most. Meh

It looked small, like a .38 or .380. Real life isn't like the movies. People don't go flying across rooms when they're shot. Unless its a kill shot, they keep motoring around for quite a while.

I knew a cop who cored a perp's heart right out of his chest with a shotgun blast. Dude kept running down the stairs right over the cop, ran out the door and collapsed half a block later. When they're jacked on PCP or meth, they can have incredible stamina before they finally drop.

Posted by: @PurpAv at September 28, 2012 12:25 PM (bLEJy)

184 Look... car chases on TV are like spontaneous "sudden time-outs" from the trials and tribulations of life. Like deer hunting season in northern Minnesota.
It's like a secret code. A pact between the media and the citizen. Car chase pr0n.
One of our last society-wide "spontaneous" events that gives us something to talk about. Like watching a slow motion train wreck on demand.
And no matter how bad our dreary life is, it's not as bad as the poor schlub we're watching, who's gonna get his, within the hour.

I saw the event live. No way it could have been avoided. It was a totally unexpected ending. There were no officers immediately nearby, that might have caused him to suicide.
Live TV. Real live.

Posted by: Mikey at September 28, 2012 12:25 PM (db4pz)

185 All these phoney polls that show Obama winning are designed to say Romney stole the election because we all know the CBS/CNN/ABC/NBC/ETC... polls are 100% accurate. Get ready for the voter fraud shit to explode just like they did with Kerry and the exit polls showing him up by 10-15 points over Bush. And oh by they way the 2010 election was an anomoly and was not real.............Because everyone loves the Clueless Indonesian !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Fart Tube Jones at September 28, 2012 12:25 PM (48wze)

186 seems to me there has been a noticable uptick in suicides over the last few years, and it seems that most (not all) are adult white males... gee i wonder what could be happening that would cause such a thing?

it's mystery, it's better that we just ignore it and pretend like everything is wonderful.

Posted by: Shoey at September 28, 2012 12:25 PM (jdOk/)

187 The guy was braver than OJ, I'll give him that.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 28, 2012 12:25 PM (PHb2k)

188 Poster child for gun control.

Posted by: harleycowboy at September 28, 2012 12:25 PM (wSTfB)

189 Don't know if it's been mentioned yet, I haven't read all the comments, but their were articles in a couple of blogs that said deaths from suicide now outnumber deaths from traffic accidents.

Posted by: Undecided Voter at September 28, 2012 12:25 PM (E2I3C)

190 clean off? as in Harry Callahan's .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun on the planet?

Posted by: soothsayer at September 28, 2012 12:26 PM (jUytm)

191 Shep Smith, self-righteous??

**
P'shaw...the DEUCE....

Posted by: dananjcon at September 28, 2012 12:26 PM (eavT+)

192 Sarah Palin brought in for questioning.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 12:26 PM (AZGON)

193 what does a .44 weigh, anyway? 3 lbs?

Posted by: soothsayer at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (jUytm)

194 Poster child for gun control. Posted by: harleycowboy

He was holding it wrong?

Posted by: Dang© at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (R18D0)

195 I'm not going to lose any sleep over him. He carjacked someone and shot at cops. If he is a gangbanger, more likely than not, his parents are gangbangers, too.

Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (guxHP)

196 I deeply apologize to all of our viewers for the horrible, violent, sensationalist images at the end of the video. Now let's have another look at the ugliness.

Posted by: Shep at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (Rrc6j)

197 162 We no longer have a news media. We have a Shiny Distracting Object Media. Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 28, 2012 04:21 PM (DuH+r) The Squirrel is now Mainstream and Functional...

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (UZQM8)

198 maybe he thought he was playing Grand thief auto, and was looking to reset.
Couple of years back I was playing against my nephew Halo one on one. I had him pinned down, and was looking for the final shot. He then pushes a combo of buttons and suicides himself so he would pop up in a new location. It bother me.

Posted by: Paladin at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (ycm4Q)

199 seems to me there has been a noticable uptick in suicides over the last few years, and it seems that most (not all) are adult white males. Shhh!

Posted by: Michelle Obama's White People Death Ray at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (B/VB5)

200 gotta be closer to 4lbs

Posted by: soothsayer at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (jUytm)

201

WTF??? Did somebody mail Kirsten Powers a clue?

Link@ nic

Posted by: maddogg at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (OlN4e)

202 Was the dude famous?

Nope. Didn't even steal a white Bronco, which is the gold standard of escape vehicles.

Posted by: @PurpAv at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (bLEJy)

203 121 Shep sucks ass.

Literally.

I thought it was penis? I guess he upgraded...maybe?

Posted by: Jim Scrummy at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (sbV1u)

204 Poster child for gun control.

Posted by: harleycowboy

Yeah, so he wouldn't kill himself by other means?

Posted by: © Sponge at September 28, 2012 12:27 PM (nDcVA)

205 Dude blew his frontal lobes out so he wouldn't have to face Paul Ryan shoving him off a cliff in a wheelchair.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 12:28 PM (AZGON)

206 Looking back, the weirdest one I ever saw was the Budd Dwyer suicide. Not because it was a realist look at suicide and kind of gruesome, it's because the guy was only 47 and looked 65.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 28, 2012 12:28 PM (GZitp)

207 >>>192 Sarah Palin brought in for questioning. I caught 2 seconds of Glee last night. First, one of the characters says his fashion icons are Audrey Hepburn and Moochelle. Later, another character says SP had her grandfather as her running mate and now they no longer speak to each other.

Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 12:29 PM (guxHP)

208 I'm so happy Shep is around to protect my delicate sensibilities.

Posted by: dananjcon at September 28, 2012 12:29 PM (eavT+)

209 Imagine if every felon, shot himself in the head. Ooo hoo, woo hoo woo.

Posted by: John Lennon at September 28, 2012 12:29 PM (R18D0)

210 a noticable uptick in suicides over the last few years

Economic depressions spike suicides among the breadwinners. This is the hidden bodycount of Obama's failed economic policy.

Posted by: @PurpAv at September 28, 2012 12:29 PM (bLEJy)

211 So I guess not all Latinos are wise.

Posted by: George Orwell what knows Harry Reid is a pederast and a strangler at September 28, 2012 12:29 PM (AZGON)

212

Looks like that guy got ripped off 14 min 28 secs of fame. A lot of people people have been a lot more famous for a lot less.

Posted by: Shep at September 28, 2012 12:29 PM (Rrc6j)

213 WTF??? Did somebody mail Kirsten Powers a clue? Link@ nic Posted by: maddogg at September 28, 2012 04:27 PM (OlN4e) The writing is on the wall, a few journolist will switch sides just in time to save their precious little careers... then will conveniently go back to talking about squirrels.

Posted by: cajun carrot at September 28, 2012 12:30 PM (UZQM8)

214 >it's because the guy was only 47 and looked 65.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 28, 2012 04:28 PM (GZitp)

that's what low level government work will do to a guy

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 28, 2012 12:30 PM (8sCoq)

215 Shep almost shit his pink silk panties

Posted by: Cricket at September 28, 2012 12:31 PM (DrC22)

216 Off off, day old bad neutral sock

Posted by: Soona at September 28, 2012 12:31 PM (E2I3C)

217 Yeah, so he wouldn't kill himself by other means?

Waving a black hair dryer at the cops is usually sufficient to cause a "suicide by cop"

Posted by: @PurpAv at September 28, 2012 12:31 PM (bLEJy)

218 Posted by: Ma Bell, RRetired, but piping in at September 28, 2012 04:06 PM (uVuwp)

What the hell? Why would come back here after being hostile to the 'ettes and 'rons, and swearing you wouldn't be back, like the passive/aggressive bitch you are, and then continue to come back? huh? WTF is your problem?

Posted by: Full Pint at September 28, 2012 12:31 PM (7g1yh)

219

Remember No-Heart Anthony?

Posted by: Z Ryan at September 28, 2012 12:32 PM (tsC/8)

220 Meh. No blood or gutz or anything.

But then most stuff doesn't bother me. Of all of the things I've seen on the internet only two stick with me. One was some woman's tit -- it had a huge aureole, and the aureole had a bunch of pink worm heads poking out of it. Symmetrical, kinda like the LED brake lights on a tractor trailer. Talk about things that can't be un-seen.

The second was a picture of a helicopter pilot's head after a rotor blade did a Gallagher on him. That stuck with me because as messed up as his face was I could tell he had looked just like my father, also a helicopter pilot, when he was younger.

Posted by: Ed Anger at September 28, 2012 12:32 PM (tOkJB)

221 Im 12 and what is this?

Posted by: amirite at September 28, 2012 12:33 PM (1KEUk)

222 I guess if I visited 3-chan or 4-chan I'd get pretty grossed out, though.

Posted by: Ed Anger at September 28, 2012 12:33 PM (tOkJB)

223 I'm still freaked out about Johnny Lewis. He tore a fucking cat apart. What an asshole.

Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 12:35 PM (guxHP)

224 Looking back, the weirdest one I ever saw was the Budd Dwyer suicide. Not because it was a realist look at suicide and kind of gruesome, it's because the guy was only 47 and looked 65.
Posted by: lowandslow

I have a special hate reservoir for scumbags who do that in front of an audience. That's where the jump from suicide to homicide is the shortest.

Posted by: Dang© at September 28, 2012 12:35 PM (R18D0)

225 " Perp Offs Himself" Ace, you sounded like Dirty Harry just then.

Posted by: JohnW at September 28, 2012 12:35 PM (44mmh)

226 The world is a hard hard place, Sheppy. Looks like your audience is better prepared for what's coming than you are. Once again you've proven that you can't face the reality of your type of entertainment media.

Posted by: Soona at September 28, 2012 12:37 PM (E2I3C)

227 The only video that has stuck with me is one the Texas DPS uses as part of their training. That is the video of the late night traffic stop and the three Hispanic suspects jumped the trooper and took his gun and shot him. It was all captured of course on his dashboard camera. It gave me a sickening feeling.

Posted by: polynikes at September 28, 2012 12:37 PM (m2CN7)

228 I blame the SCOAMF in the White House. Obviously, this man could not live one more minute in O-bah-muhhz Amerika.

Posted by: Firing the SCOAMF in November at September 28, 2012 12:38 PM (r/PyW)

229 Johnny Lewis should have never been let out of custody. With all the assaults and breaking into homes of strangers -whether he was on drugs or crazy, he was a fucking danger. But celebrities get away with everything. So, what's this new drug Smiles that makes you homicidal?

Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 12:39 PM (guxHP)

230 When I was in driver's ed, in high school - as a minor - they used to force us to watch truly gory movie reels of the aftermaths of car accidents - I think the big one was called "Faces of Death". This video is nothing in comparison.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at September 28, 2012 12:40 PM (X3lox)

231 Thinning the Herd

Posted by: Evilpens at September 28, 2012 12:42 PM (ck76k)

232
I never saw the Dwyer even though I knew people who had taped it. I can imagine it was pretty gory. I don't go out of my way to see that kind of stuff. This particular suicide, however, wasn't any worse than the guy who offed himself after him and his buddy got into the big shootout after a bank robbery in CA.

Posted by: Ed Anger at September 28, 2012 12:43 PM (tOkJB)

233 Well I know I am only "pretending to have the sensibilities of a five year old" but I'm with ynot.

Drug addled kids don't deserve the death sentence.Even self imposed.

Posted by: typo dynamofo at September 28, 2012 12:44 PM (pjT+p)

234 Once again you've proven that you can't face the reality of your type of entertainment media. Posted by: Soona at September 28, 2012 04:37 PM (E2I3C) I'm just a dumbass civvy but I've followed Michael Yon's website because I'd rather be unsurprised by the shit that happens.

Posted by: ErikW at September 28, 2012 12:44 PM (CTDTw)

235 I like to see perps face down on the ground getting cuffed. After getting tazed.

Posted by: CharlieSays at September 28, 2012 12:44 PM (2aJHq)

236 At least he won't be reproducing

Posted by: Capitalist Infidel at September 28, 2012 12:44 PM (MnFzn)

237 Who returns his Obama phone?

Posted by: Derpman at September 28, 2012 12:44 PM (86HKP)

238 I blame saggy pants and oversize jerseys.

Posted by: sifty at September 28, 2012 12:45 PM (p39GY)

239 Shep, Shep, get over yourself. If the cops could be shown to be Republicans this would be Pulitzer material. Better yet if they were Sheriff Joe's Deputies, Emmy material. Remember when you Shep were in New Orleans during Katrina, dead bodies ,destruction, No ten second delay, Bushes fault.

Posted by: Buffalobob at September 28, 2012 12:46 PM (x+7qA)

240 Saw it live. Carjacker, criminal. Don't care. Don't need to see it again either.

Posted by: cynic at September 28, 2012 12:47 PM (ndlFj)

241 Youtube pulled it. If you really want gore, go to liveleak and look up Buddy Dwyer.

Posted by: Holger at September 28, 2012 12:47 PM (MHk3m)

242
230 When I was in driver's ed, in high school - as a minor - they used to force us to watch truly gory movie reels of the aftermaths of car accidents - I think the big one was called "Faces of Death". This video is nothing in comparison.

Those were Signal 30 movies made by the Ohio State Patrol. They had some pretty gory stuff in them. You can still see them online.

Posted by: Ed Anger at September 28, 2012 12:49 PM (tOkJB)

243 I've seen some awful things, up real close, in my life - and this ain't one of them.

Posted by: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion at September 28, 2012 12:49 PM (38ReL)

244 Do you think he got his Obama vote in before the event?

Posted by: cynic at September 28, 2012 12:51 PM (ndlFj)

245 I remember when two teenage girls were in lovers lane with the bfs and were kidnapped and raped repeatedly. They were looking for them with all these Amber alerts and finally tracked them to the high desert. It was clear to me that the guy brought them out there to kill both of them. There was a shoot out and the guy running across the desert and the cops shot him dead - much to the boo hooing of the leftys.

Posted by: Redd at September 28, 2012 12:52 PM (guxHP)

246 Removed as shocking and disgusting content... Guess they need to ramp up their removals for that so that them wanting to drop "Innocence of Muslims" looks less like marching orders.

Posted by: Karusky at September 28, 2012 12:53 PM (dO4L7)

247 "but their were articles in a couple of blogs that said deaths from suicide now outnumber deaths from traffic accidents."

He did avoid dying in a traffic accident BTW.

Posted by: cynic at September 28, 2012 12:57 PM (ndlFj)

248 I'm surprised. Shep can usually cut to a video of a bear falling out of a tree an onto a trampolene at any time.

Posted by: Lars Kermuffen at September 28, 2012 12:58 PM (m0le6)

249 Facing his third strike? Had a prison rep as a snitch?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 28, 2012 01:01 PM (TIIx5)

250 Unfortunately, I've seen worse.

Posted by: mpfs at September 28, 2012 01:03 PM (iYbLN)

251 Ohmigosh - they put this on broadcast television? What were they thinking?

They could have made bank putting it on pay-per-view.

Posted by: Keith Arnold at September 28, 2012 01:03 PM (Jdtsu)

252 I think in the coming years we will have live death matches, public executions (of conservatives) and anything-goes sex. Unless islam takes over, then there will be no anything-goes sex. It's a toss-up.

Posted by: EROWMER at September 28, 2012 01:04 PM (kxlCQ)

253 I heard they were videotaping the last episode of Breaking Bad and things went wrong, horribly wrong. Nobody expected Walter White to check out like that.

Posted by: Tantor at September 28, 2012 01:08 PM (659DL)

254 Shep really has a problem keeping his shit toghether, doesn't he? Remember his complete girlish hysteria down in New Orleans during the Katrina Big Blow?

Posted by: Nomennovum at September 28, 2012 01:26 PM (gAUJb)

255 I remember one incident vividly. After the JFK assassination we were all glued to the TV. I don't recall much of it, and most of it is a distant memory. But one thing sticks in my mind to this day. I still can recall watching Ruby shoot Oswald and thinking I just saw a man die on TV. Not a tape, but while it happened.

Posted by: Deanna at September 28, 2012 01:29 PM (hh9tk)

256 Shep Smith? Oh, pu-leeze. Shep, the guy who deliberately ran his car into another reporter in Tallahassee in 2000 over a dispute over a parking lot. Shep of the hysterical "journalism" during Katrina, sobbing over the never substantiated claims of Superdome rapes and atrocities and the piles of bodies. His sense of propriety was offended? Cry me a freaking river.

Posted by: obladioblada at September 28, 2012 01:29 PM (p1D8B)

257 #35. Ahem!! I'm an ole miss grad you dork!

Posted by: Stacy at September 28, 2012 01:32 PM (bKOZG)

258 I think all of you are overlooking the most logical explanation, in which Shep isn't referring to the video at all, but is addressing Anderson Cooper under his desk.

Posted by: Bob at September 28, 2012 01:34 PM (gAi9Z)

259 Better offing himself than the cops that are chasing him in a shot out and there be two dead people. If this was on CSI it would get great ratings. They have has a few head shots that started the show. This is only a problem because FNC's resident lefty was on TV during the time. If it was earlier with Megan Kelly with time to "kill" and go to an affiliate helicopter chase there would be no righteous indignation.

Posted by: TJexcite at September 28, 2012 01:36 PM (PNDql)

260 I'm wondering if that guy has an ObamaPhone. If he does, and since he doesn't need it any more, what happens to it? Can I have it?

Posted by: MyCherryS'Mores at September 28, 2012 01:44 PM (qLxQ4)

261 My wife and I were watching it live. They cut to a 5s delay about 2 minutes before the end game. Whoever was supposed to be in charge of cutting the feed failed big time. After the immediate commercial break, Shep apologized on air, and then just went on with the show, but you could tell he just wanted the show to be over. Now I am of the desensitized type where I'm not 'messed up' over this, but my wife was a quite a bit shaken by it. I agree that the whole point of the 'car chase on tv' is the same reason people watch nascar ;d This just happened to have a bad ending.

Posted by: kerncon at September 28, 2012 01:45 PM (M+4md)

262 Oops #237 beat me to it.

Posted by: MyCherryS'Mores at September 28, 2012 01:46 PM (qLxQ4)

263 Hey, people are fascinated with this stuff. I also remember the Erie, PA pizza bomber who had a bomb collar around his neck. He asked the cops to get it off of him, just seconds before it exploded. The whole scene was on TV right up until the explosion, but there are videos of it. You know people were waiting to see it, it's a fascination with death and sensationalism.

Posted by: Deanna at September 28, 2012 01:48 PM (hh9tk)

264

If you haven't seen this, take a look.

http://tinyurl.com/cyogpnx

Highly, highly interesting. Comparing 2008 Absentee requests in Ohio to 2012. So far, Republicans are on pace to well outperform their 2008 numbers in absentee voting while Democrats are significantly underperforming from their 2008 numbers.

Posted by: Rich at September 28, 2012 01:53 PM (TOgQZ)

265 Oh, now it's down because its "disgusting."

Sure a lot of "disgusting" stuff going on lately.

Posted by: PJ at September 28, 2012 01:54 PM (DQHjw)

266 I liked the original ending of The Shawshank Redemption better.

Posted by: Memories at September 28, 2012 01:56 PM (WWB7i)

267 Alternate site for the video you can no longer see at Ace's link, if you're really into watching thugs off themselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifL13sOIxhY

Posted by: Swanny at September 28, 2012 02:02 PM (XzlBE)

268 Am I the only one who actually wanted to see that mesothelioma commercial?

Posted by: JA at September 28, 2012 03:39 PM (iYQB2)

269 I don't think that was Gagnam Style.

Posted by: Bill H at September 28, 2012 05:14 PM (3sZO1)

270 And a Meme is born..

Shepard Smith apologizes for horrible event shown on live TV

http://bit.ly/VXnItC

Posted by: frank Rizzo at September 28, 2012 07:51 PM (JHRCt)

271 Everyone should look for Iowahawk's response to the Guy P Benson's tweet on the shooting, its one of the greatest responses i've seen to any event.

Posted by: Rbastid at September 28, 2012 11:11 PM (lKZMI)

272 I might subscribe to a channel that shows nothing but violent criminals getting shot in the head. As long as the a-hole has it coming, no prob.

Posted by: gp at September 29, 2012 05:46 AM (+Jpqc)

273 He probably was just returning from his CPA's office looking at his new tax liabilities.

Down with the Obama Fluffer Media Complex!

Posted by: joe Bidenmytime at September 29, 2012 09:06 AM (vwPhh)

274 One less Democratic vote......but just thinking - this has to be racist or Bush's fault somehow. Give me a few days months, I'll think of something.

Posted by: DaveinMinnesota at September 29, 2012 11:39 AM (nOLbs)

275 Crashes and deaths and the cops beating the crap out of the perp(s). Of course, the most famous case of the latter was captured by one of the neighbors playing with his camera.

Posted by: Rich Fader at September 29, 2012 01:45 PM (AhmV7)

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