VUVUZELA AND AFRICA

Friday, July 30, 2010

Russell Peters


Wednesday, July 28, 2010

AirBlue Crash in Islamabad Kills 100+

A commercial airliner carrying 150 people crashed in a ball of flames on Wednesday into densely wooded hills above Islamabad during heavy rain and poor visibility, leaving little hope of survivors.

Rescue officials said pieces of charred flesh and body parts were littered around the smouldering wreckage, partially buried on a remote hillside following Pakistan’s first major aviation accident in four years.

Private airline Airblue’s flight 202 from Karachi was coming into land at Islamabad’s Benazir Bhutto International airport when witnesses saw a jet flying at unusually low altitude before hearing a loud boom.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Excited TV reporter falls into borewell while covering news about a child who fell in it..."Princess ko bachaana hai" (Save Princess).

Atelevision news channel reporter has not yet been rescued after he fell inside a borewell in the village of Anarkali, 10 km from Agra. The incident happened while the reporter, Vinod Singh, was shooting a report for his channel, about a 5-year-old girl, Princess, who had fallen into the same borewell earlier in the day. It has been as long as 40 hours since the girl fell into the borewell. Singh's channel has put a digital timer clock on its screen that shows that it has been 40 hours since the reporter fell. The channel still maintains the headline as, "Princess ko bachaana hai" (Save Princess).

Television footage shows Singh reporting in a highly excited and enthusiastic manner. He repeatedly bent down to peep inside the large hole drilled to reach the girl. His left foot slipped during one such attempt, when the newsreader in the newsroom apparently shouted his name loudly because his voice could not be heard properly.


The army, that was called to rescue the girl, has been paid by the television channel authorities a handsome amount of money to rescue the reporter before the girl. According to sources, this was done so that the rescued reporter could cover the news of the child being rescued, since the channel has no substitute reporters to go to cover this whole incident.

A toilet break at the exact moment had apparently caused the channel's photographer to miss the videos of the child being rescued, the last time a similar event happened in Madhya Pradesh. Therefore, the channel is eager not to miss it this time. Our source with the channel said on condition of anonymity, "The CEO wants an alive Vinod Singh to cover the rescue of the girl, whether live or dead. However, efforts are being made to select an insane, noisy and excitable correspondent to be sent to Agra as soon as possible. Yes, these are the eligibility criteria for us while choosing reporters to cover such incidents."

The incident has not discouraged other news reporters from other channels, and the place is now intolerably noisy, with each and every reporter trying to put forth his noisiest voice and the most fake sympathy for the parents of the girl. The parents of the girl are demanding the state government to pay compensation money and a place in Bollywood for Princess if she is taken out safely.