I was down in Fresno over the weekend and watched the races down there. J. J. Haedo's younger brother, also a sprinter, came out of the last turn and apparently slid into the fence breaking his bike and having to hoof it to the finish line.
I was about 20 feet from where he crossed and the announcer had been shouting about a crash so I looked Haedo over pretty well and he didn't have a mark on him. Yet the next morning's paper had almost exactly the same position that I was in and you could see blood on his legs in the photograph.
The really interesting part about this was that I expected to see blood on his legs and looked carefully as he walked past and there wasn't a single mark on him. I assumed that he slid into the guardrail and never actually went down. No marks on his jersey or shorts either.
So, did someone at the Fresno paper decide to make it look more exciting that it was?
I was down in Fresno over the weekend and watched the races down there. J. J. Haedo's younger brother, also a sprinter, came out of the last turn and apparently slid into the fence breaking his bike and having to hoof it to the finish line.
I was about 20 feet from where he crossed and the announcer had been shouting about a crash so I looked Haedo over pretty well and he didn't have a mark on him. Yet the next morning's paper had almost exactly the same position that I was in and you could see blood on his legs in the photograph.
The really interesting part about this was that I expected to see blood on his legs and looked carefully as he walked past and there wasn't a single mark on him. I assumed that he slid into the guardrail and never actually went down. No marks on his jersey or shorts either.
So, did someone at the Fresno paper decide to make it look more exciting that it was?
I was down in Fresno over the weekend and watched the races down there. J. J. Haedo's younger brother, also a sprinter, came out of the last turn and apparently slid into the fence breaking his bike and having to hoof it to the finish line.
I was about 20 feet from where he crossed and the announcer had been shouting about a crash so I looked Haedo over pretty well and he didn't have a mark on him. Yet the next morning's paper had almost exactly the same position that I was in and you could see blood on his legs in the photograph.
The really interesting part about this was that I expected to see blood on his legs and looked carefully as he walked past and there wasn't a single mark on him. I assumed that he slid into the guardrail and never actually went down. No marks on his jersey or shorts either.
So, did someone at the Fresno paper decide to make it look more exciting that it was?
i think this is in season six of "the wire".
Not long ago (the Meet Melissa Arrington thread [1]), Tom was touting the value of eyewitness testimony: "You don't seem to understand that the majority of people on death row have murdered people in front of others or a camera etc." It appears he's supplied a good example of why eyewitness testimony is considered unreliable. But maybe that only applies when he's the eyewitness.
I was down in Fresno over the weekend and watched the races down there. J. J. Haedo's younger brother, also a sprinter, came out of the last turn and apparently slid into the fence breaking his bike and having to hoof it to the finish line.
I was about 20 feet from where he crossed and the announcer had been shouting about a crash so I looked Haedo over pretty well and he didn't have a mark on him. Yet the next morning's paper had almost exactly the same position that I was in and you could see blood on his legs in the photograph.
The really interesting part about this was that I expected to see blood on his legs and looked carefully as he walked past and there wasn't a single mark on him. I assumed that he slid into the guardrail and never actually went down. No marks on his jersey or shorts either.
So, did someone at the Fresno paper decide to make it look more exciting that it was?
i think this is in season six of "the wire".
Dumbass,
You act as though this is fiction, but anyone with any common sense knows it's not. The media has perfected this ability in Iraq, and now it's in use at your local bike races.
I had the actual paper with the picture about 3x5. Maybe it was just the copy I had but there were three other people that looked at it before me and talked about the blood.
I had the actual paper with the picture about 3x5. Maybe it was just the copy I had but there were three other people that looked at it before me and talked about the blood.
