“Whoever did this does not understand that stealing newspapers doesn’t stop a story,” she told readers in her email.
This story was already lowkey national news but now it's going to go nuclear. Whoever stole the papers, what a complete moron.
This is the raid on that Kansas newspaper all over again.
I just wrote an update to the Marion Record saga over in the other thread about this new story - https://kbin.social/m/news/t/775202/Entire-Edition-Of-Newspapers-Stolen-On-Day-It-Publishes-Story#entry-comment-4680217 .
Link doesnt seem to work if your not on kbin. Just dumps me to a kbin login page.
Thanks - I'm still adjusting to federation. I've updated my comment with a hopefully working link!
Looking good now, thanks.
Do you think maybe the police don't hire the best and brightest people?
I live in Colorado, and hadn't heard anything about this until now. So yeah, I'm thinking that move kind of backfired.
Same. What a dumb ass move. I can't imagine this was done with any critical thought. Just pure panic that absolutely backfired.
The Streisand Effect.
Or a genius at getting the story out there?
You know who I bet it was?
Barbara Streisand
You're walking in the woods
There's no one around and your phone is dead
Out of the corner of your eye you spot her
Barbara Streisand
She's following you, about 30 feet back
She gets down on all fours and breaks into a sprint
She's gaining on you
Barbara Streisand
There's blood on her face There's blood everywhere! Running for your life from Barbara Streisand Musical superstar Barbara Streisand
I also would have accepted “Mécha-Streisand Barbara Streisand”
Love that Duck Sauce song
🎵ooOOooOOOO OOooOOOOO OOoo OOOO ooooo🎵
"Oh no. I wonder who could have done this. Unfortunately, we have to close the case for lack of evidence." - Ouray County police department
Fools, you're supposed to set up an elaborate printer press system, where you create an entire edition of a newspaper, but replace the no no story with a different one, THEN you steal all the newspapers, but swap them with yours, everyone gets a newspaper, no one really knows anything happend except maybe a couple of people and you gaslight them or arrest them.
Now this random idiot in rurual Australia knows that the Ouray County Police Chiefs step son is a rapist.
How hard is it to do a cover-up...
Edit: put the wrong person.
Now this random idiot in rurual Australia knows that the Ouray County Police Chief is a rapist.
Technically, I believe it's the police chief's stepson who's accused of rape, along with two other people.
How hard is it to do a cover-up…
Given that the entire population of Ouray County is 4,874, they may not have either the required density of criminal masterminds to pull off your plot, nor sufficient anonymity to get away with it.
The limit for a successful persuasion check is 4,873 persons
Oops! Someone also forgot to steal the Internet!
The files are IN the computer!
This is a fucken I Love Lucy scheme, wth
It's so weird to me the stuff people will still try to pull in the age of viral, instant news.
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