The Amazing Trail of Local News...

In the old days, we had to wait for the newspaper

to be delivered to hear the local news..

If it was in the neighborhood, it would be said over

the fence like.... called gossip.

But in this day and age..all you have to do is

go to your computer or your cell phone...and

there is the latest and greatest or not.. news.

Case in point ... yesterday, we had a police

car spin around in the parking lot across the

street from us....with lights going aglow...

heading back out to the highway.

So we turn on the handheld police scanner I

bought about 30 years ago or more..

With the crackling of the air ways, we found

out there was a police chase. and heading

out Highway 95. 

And then the internet came alive.  One of 3

different Facebook pages, came a blow

by blow description of the chase, as it

went thru each neighborhood, down the

highway, with about 17 police cars coming

from everywhere. 

Slowly thru the evening, there was word,

of it being in a certain area.  And for those

who lived there.. to lock their doors.  Word

from posters, warning their friends...and

word of having your vehicles locks.. and

having a cell and your gun near by.

There was the Sandpoint Local Forum,

there was the Sandpoint Yardsale,

which serves as a notice of things going

on as well.. and then there was the

Sandpoint Police Department Facebook

page.  After a couple hours, pictures of

the fugitives, who allegedly stab some

one in Southern Idaho.  It was a couple

they were searching for. 

And then darkness, and the warnings still

staying... and as we all went to bed, no

word of the capture of them..  The area

they chose to run to.. as they left their

car behind... is woods, and mountain

beyond...

It was amazing the flow of information.

With 99% being true... warning friends,

of the danger... friends asking if their

friends were safe in that area.. and

reassurance that they were.

We do live in a fast times.