Bad News for a Wednesday

September 18, 2002 9:16 AM

Bad News for a Wednesday I certainly hope that some good can come out of this tragedy. Perhaps that's a bit of wishful thinking on my part.
posted by tommyspoon (11 comments total)

Ah... Washington Post, requires registration; not enough information in the FPP to convince me to do so. Help me out here.
posted by jokeefe at 9:19 AM on September 18, 2002

The Washington Post doesn't require registration. It just asks you for three pieces of demographic information.
posted by eyeballkid at 9:25 AM on September 18, 2002

After the 3 pieces of demographic info, I got a blank page.

I'm looking on CNN for the bad news. Any hints?

Pre-911 intelligence?
Stock slide?
Desert W. Storm?
posted by kurumi at 9:42 AM on September 18, 2002

Two of which are already provided as examples... 1965 as a birthday and 27010 (iirc) as a zip code...
posted by FiveFrozenFish at 9:42 AM on September 18, 2002

Two black transgendered teenagers were shot and killed in a tough part of DC back in August.

The article is a profile of them and their families; police department is keeping quiet about the investigation.

At least, that's the article I saw.
posted by junkbox at 9:44 AM on September 18, 2002

Two transgendered teenagers shot in their car, not far from their house in Washington D.C. Family reactions, background on the life of the kids, not much in ways of talk of suspects or motive, more a piece of the lives of the girls and those they left behind.

On preview, what junkbox said.
posted by nramsey at 9:47 AM on September 18, 2002

I certainly hope that some good can come out of this tragedy.

I hope they catch the shooters. That's the only Good one can really expect, right? No evidence yet that they were shot because they were so "hated", as the mother suggests.
posted by dhoyt at 9:54 AM on September 18, 2002

"Two of which are already provided as examples... 1965 as a birthday and 27010 (iirc) as a zip code..."

Funny, it wouldn't accept that I am a 115-year-old woman who lives in Beverly Hills, but it did let me in as a 1-year-old boy from Washington DC.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 10:38 AM on September 18, 2002

It must be the age--I was fine as a 1 year old from Beverly Hills.
posted by shinnin at 1:12 PM on September 18, 2002

humph. who the fuck are the washington post to say that 1847 is an invalid year of birth???? and (ironically, i suppose) there are only two choices for gender.
posted by quonsar at 1:56 PM on September 18, 2002

good wording -- this FPP could be about basically anything
posted by matteo at 6:04 AM on September 19, 2002