Anybody hear about this??

[Burg460]

http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=53fe0ba3-0abe-421a-00e4-859816e86608&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

This is the guy I used to work for a few months ago... The media really over exadurated this.... I have known about this for 2 weeks and it just made the news last night. He is right, the police don't have a case, if there was supposivelly $500k to $1 million in theft then they wouldn't have released him. The is ALOT more to this then what the media says. He had a lot of shady hobo's hanging out around there and these people are the ones that did it. I worked for him for a good year or so and I know he wouldn't do it.. If I get subpeona'd to court so be it, I am on his side, plus I have watched him buy tools from the Mac/Snap On tool guys.

As far as cars being stolen there, that is all bull shit. Every car that I worked on there had a VIN number, there was some trailers there with no vins though, of course he also built trailers. I also think being he didn't have all the title's for them at that moment in time that they classified them as "stolen".

The place looked like a junk yard more then anything. All the cars he has are all wrecked and totalled, buys them from auctions (Klode and Copart) and fixes them and sells them and that what I used to help him do.

Sorry, I am a little pissed with how the media labeled him.... /end rant

[mattadams]

I hate how the media over-exagerattes everything. Makes you wonder what really happens in a lot of news stories... hopefully that will work out ok for him.

[Walking Eagle]

I think many people don't realize the media in the long run is trying to make money. They say they want to be non biased, fair, and report the facts, but in reality they need to sell advertising to make money to stay in business.

I do think they exaggerate news stories, and other things like weather. For instance on weather, at 9:30pm you'll see a quick 5 second commercial about the local weather center is on winter storm watch. So everyone turns on the news at 10:00pm. Then you hear, there is a 10 percent chance we could get 1 to 3 inches by tomorrow evening.

[mattadams]

yeah I agree... a definate example of a new story being WAY exagerated was one one news source the other day (cant remember which) the story was "President Bush nearly killed by terrorist bomb".
When you read the story, it was that there was a car bomb that went off outside the hotel where Bush is SUPPOSED to be staying in about a WEEK! I wasn't even anywhere near the country, so how was he nearly killed? Even if he had been at the hotel, his chance for even small injury are so minute, it shouldn't be reported that way.