“The Puppy Flinger”…Starring Christian Bale?
Were I the professional journalist who wrote this story, I would be pretty happy today. Not only did the story make the rounds of the blogosphere (start your tour with Moe Lane, I Own the World, and memeorandum) but it also could provide a bright and prosperous future for an ambitious writer. How so? Well, dig the headline and the lede.
Puppy thrown at German biker gang
A German student “mooned” a group of Hell’s Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.
Now, you just know there’s a bigger story to tell than “guy goes off his medication and does something crazy”. Why the Hell’s Angels? Why a bulldozer? Why, for goodness sakes, a puppy?
And that’s just the first paragraph. The story also involves a traffic jam, hitchhiking, and a happy ending for the puppy (and, probably, the biker gang). Who wouldn’t want to know more about what happened? More importantly, what Hollywood studio wouldn’t kill to get their hands on a story like this? They could do practically anything with it:
- Madcap comedy,
- Teen coming-of-age story (the puppy-hurl was a dare to impress a girl or a college frat),
- Adventure story told from the dog’s POV (with Matthew J Fox or Chris Rock playing the voice of the puppy),
- Romance (the puppy was actually an anniversary present from one of the members of the gang to his woman, delivered in a memorable fashion),
- Action thriller (the puppy-thrower wasn’t mentally ill, but was being forced to risk his life à la John Maclane in Die Hard With A Vengeance),
- Horror (the puppy is part of an elaborate curse that the flinger just removed from himself and cast on our hero, a biker with a heart of gold played by Christian Bale).
See how easy that was? Were I a certain BBC reporter, I might just have an idea to dig a little bit more deeply into the story and see if I can find someone in it who could be played by Jessical Biel in cutoff shorts (Maybe the biker girlfriend, or the girl who owns the Fox-voiced puppy). Hey, it’s at least as good as what we’re getting from Hollywood right now.
Other Posts of Interest:
- If Conservatives Want A New Media Environment, They’re Going to Have to Listen
- Right-Wing Hate Not Confirmed, But MSM Lunch-Eating in Full Force!
- The Inspectors General Scandal and Real Journalism, Blogger-Style
Category: Oh, THAT liberal media., The World At Large
