Unintended irony

[captainsblog]

Our newspaper's website switched over to "real-time updates" several months ago. Except for the biggest of breaking stories, this generally consists of a "LATEST LOCAL NEWS" box on the top right side of the page with the headlines of stories they're working on.

I am not making up, adding or taking away a word of the contents of that box as it appears at this minute, 4:32 p.m. on Memorial Day 2007:

Latest Local News

    * Gang overpowers, robs man, 43
      05/28/07 1:11 PM

    * Man, 37, shot at Wade and Holden
      05/28/07 1:06 PM

    * Buffalo man shot in Kensington neighborhood
      05/28/07 12:36 PM

    * Firefighters injured in two-alarm blaze
      05/28/07 12:07 PM

    * East Amherst Street convenience stores robbed
      05/28/07 11:59 AM

    * Two charged in party district slaying
      05/28/07 6:50 AM

    * WNY commemorates the sacrifices of America's service men and women
      05/28/07 12:26 PM

Sigh. I guess you don't even need to be a service man, or woman, to be sacrificed anymore. I don't mean to take an iota of respect away from the real heroes and honorees of today's occasion, but shit it's sad to see the battlefields our own city streets have become.

Comments

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

That all happened within a seven hour span? Wow. Is it normally so violent there, or do you think the holiday weekend had anything to do with it?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

It's a big enough city to have double-digit killings in the span of a year and a shooting or two every day or so, but this just seemed, I dunno, sick even for us.

Tensions aren't high about anything that I know of, weather's been nice and not too hot, and we even blowed up a building the other day to let off some steam. So it's got me swingin'....

[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

Did they give names on the injured firefighters? And the severity of their injuries?

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I don't think so. Least not the links that are still kicking around don't.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Sad...very sad. It's one of the reasons I left social work. I was getting clinically depressed.