It’s That Time Of Year Again In Houston: Death By Big Trucks

Posted on January 17, 2008
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You know it’s a slow news day in Houston when the TV News stations start regurgitating old news.

About every 6 months we have the same old stories. Imagine this…(ominous music plays in the background…dadadadum!…there’s a picture of an 18 Wheeler barreling out of control down a highway in Houston…(more ominous music…dadadadum!)…then a voice over by the Reporter…he says…“Houston roads are a deathtrap, 18 wheelers barreling down the road uncontrolled, running over anything in their way…we have the exclusive story just for you…next after this message from our sponsor”…the screen fades to a scene showing an 18 wheeler in a wreck with a small imported car…smoke bellowing from the wreck…moans of innocent victims…more ominous music…dadadadum!

Channel 2 aired a story last night about how  18 Wheelers are dodging the scales on I-45 North in Walker County.

The News stations have a vault full of old crap they can throw up on the air when there is nothing else. Big trucks is a favorite of most of the stations. So are City employees, underground prostitution rings in the shopping malls, etc, etc.

So last night, Channel 2 took their “undercover” camera and followed a Big truck as he exited 45 North and went through New Waverly to get past the scales. As the Big truck got back on 45, the Reporter blurted out

“See there, he didn’t even stop, there was no reason why he should have exited. He did this to get around the scales.” 

Let me clue in to something Mr. Reporter. HE DOESN’T NEED A FREAKIN’ REASON!

Dodging scales…or Chicken Coops as truckers call them…has been an age old game between truck drivers and state police. This reporter acted like it was breaking news, I’m surprised they didn’t break into regularly scheduled programming!

Normally, it’s a story about “unsafe” Big trucks on the road. The news crew will hound Houston’s truck enforcement division as they set up portable scales or roam around pulling over big trucks.

You’d think, as educated and talented as these people are suppose to be…they could dig up something better than the crap they do. Is this what a journalism degree turns out?  Someone should be asking for their money back!

Of course, there are some stories they just won’t touch…stories that involve their sponsors. Oh hell no! You don’t expect them to actually uncover something meaningful do you?

How about staking out the labor camps and see who’s hiring illegals?

How about digging into the New Black Panther Party and see who’s giving the money to support Quannell X and his thugs?

How about doing some ambush journalism on the Building industry in the Houston area and how they rely on illegal aliens for labor, shady sales tactics to sell homes and even shadier lobbying in Austin to get Builder friendly laws passed for their self while screwing the consumers?

I could go on, but then I’d be doing your jobs for you. Jobs that your bosses won’t allow you to do and stories you don’t have the gonads to buck you bosses on.

Stay tuned for the next week when they’ll take us undercover and show us “Tow Truck Drivers From Hell.“ 

Then we’ll have the “Illegal Slot Machine Monday”.

Damn, I’m going to go out and get me some popcorn!

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