Fox 23 wants you to keep an eye on the spice rack this holiday season — not because you could run out of something you need to bake Christmas cookies, but because your kids may be stealing the nutmeg to get themselves baked.
Last week the station breathlessly reported that teens were snorting, eating, and smoking nutmeg for a pungent and powerful high. The evidence of this behavior? They saw some videos on YouTube.
The story is a carbon copy of the vodka eyeballing piece they did in June, except the YouTube clips of kids holding vodka bottles up to their eyes are much funnier.
While not shy about suggesting this is a big and dangerous problem, the station said they couldn’t find a single instance of someone being treated at a local hospital for ingesting nutmeg.
When I worked in TV, it was my job to make sensationalistic promos for news stories. It was sorely disappointing when our news department did well-thought out and reasonable stories about important topics — instead of ridiculous scare pieces about non-issues like nutmeg smoking.
I’m not in favor of irresponsible journalism, it’s just that the crazier the story, the more fun it was to do the promo. And it was easier! I would have had a field day with this nutmeg thing.
But what do I know? Kids do crazy things. My advice is to go home tonight and give them a big hug — and while you’re hugging them see if you smell nutmeg. If you do, for God’s sake, lock that stuff up somewhere safe.
and while you’re hugging them see if you smell nutmeg. If you do, for God’s sake, lock that stuff up somewhere safe.
The nutmeg or the kids?
We heard about nutmeg from the 50’s jazz guys.
nothing new under the sun, eh?
First try the nutmeg. If that doesn’t work…
Tonight on Fox 23: Banana peels are funny — until you find out your kids are smoking them to get high!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L39D1bYpvaQ
That has to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. The funniest part is the faux serious intro with John Gray. I don’t know how they don’t burst out laughing when reading that.
And they wonder why people don’t bother watching the news anymore. The real stories are just things they read in the newspaper and the rest of the half hour (hour? ninety minutes? two hours?) is garbage.
So happy to see that Fox 23 News is still content to be the smelly carnie tent of local news.
(giggles at the term “smelly carnie tent” while picturing John Gray as a “smelly carnie guy” complete with sweaty armpits)
Oy. Don’t get me started! 🙂
My favorite mock tease always and always will be:
DOES POCKET CHANGE CAUSE AIDS ? WE’LL HAVE THE ANSWER AT 11.
Of course, the answer is ‘no’…
Remember : Friends don’t let friends nutmeg…
Maybe it was John Gray who was snorting the nutmeg.
That could explain his cock-eye.
Will- that’s called heterochromia and besides John, other famed heterochromiacs include Dan Ackroyd, Kate osworth and Jane Seymour…
Not to be confused with Animaniacs, who rather than having two different colored irises, have baloney in their slacks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0TS9l_nJE
HELLLO Nurse !
I actually had a friend eat an entire bottle of nutmeg. He described it as a 4 hour high that was okay, followed by 3 days of a feeling of impending doom, 24 of which he spent curled up on the bathroom floor.
On the upper hand, he swears he’ll never eat a full bottle of anything from the spice rack again.