I've never been a fan of watching the news.

Usually if the news anchors aren't being overly dramatic about the weather or sports,

they're reporting on depressing things like car crashes, animal abuse, child abuse.

I find none of this entertaining and typically flip the channel to an episode of South Park,

just recently a news report caught my attention during a ritual of channel surfing.

If the Anchorman hadn't phrased it just right, I probably wouldn't be alive right now.

I caught the tail end of a news segment before the commercial break.

And the Anchorman Ross Cooper said, coming up, find out what local residents are starting

to call a miracle.

Our own Dan Aaron reports live on a slowly growing phenomenon happening in our city right

after the break.

Stay tuned.

A line like that was enough to keep me hooked.

So I chose to sit through the seemingly endless string of commercials.

As usual, you had your movie trailers, store advertisements, and those drug commercials

that always show people frolicking in the meadows while a narrator lists all the unpleasant

side effects.

Commercials always last too long, but I feel it's worth it if listening to this particular

exciting news story.

When the news returned, the face of Ross Cooper looked very worried as he reported that

there was a breaking news story.

And reporter Dan Aaron was on the scene.

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