NBC 10 Investigates Miracle

I know the NBC 10 investigators are good, but are they good enough to investigate a miracle from St. John Neumann? Yes, that’s what Lu Ann Cahn did the other night during a nearly five-minute piece: Investigate a miracle.

A woman has cancer, her husband just happens to be a previously-featured-on-NBC 10-forensic sculptor, he makes a new mask for St. John Neumann, a priest does some prayin’ and — wham! — no more cancer. These people aren’t religious, of course, and they don’t say “yes” when Cahn asks them if they’re going to go back to church. Score one for the nonreligious!

“Was there divine intervention?” Cahn asks, but NBC 10 can’t get comments from her doctors, who are all Know-Nothings. But everyone interviewed said it’s clearly a miracle, and Neumann will totally get another notch on his sainthood belt for this one. Video after the jump.

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Ravers Fight Back Against NBC 10

Just two days after NBC 10 exposed — honest to God — a rave where people were drinking, smoking marijuana and taking “the designer drug ecstasy” (gasp!), there has now been an apparent change of heart.

Last night, Lu Ann Cahn allowed ravers to “defend their way of life” to the NBC 10 Investigators, and it was somehow about 500 times funnier than the first one. The first report went undercover at the Tru Skool Rave in a basement rented out by a church in West Philadelphia. The building’s a charter school during the week; administrators say they have to clean up condoms every Monday morning. And a mother who has her face blacked out says raves are bad!

In tonight’s report, party promoter Mickey Fronick waxes about how ravers are marginalized:

“We’re forced to go into venues like this because the mainstream doesn’t accept it, and it sucks,” Fronick said.

NBC 10 also reported that the ravers said it’s about the music and the love, and not the drugs — which means this is one boring rave scene.

Both videos embedded after the jump.

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NBC 10 Running All Over Nation’s Laws

Oh, no, noted sex educator and Power 99 DJ Golden Girl lost her ring at the airport! She says it was stolen while going through airport security at PHL. Oh no! Scandal.

Well, apparently not. NBC 10’s Lu Ann Cahn went down to the airport and got the scoop! And not only did she get the scoop, the cops just let her do whatever the hell she wanted to, apparently.

The NBC 10 Investigators looked at surveillance video of Power 99 radio host Golden Girl walking through security, and concluded that her ring probably wasn’t stolen. The footage cannot be released to the public, but after police showed the NBC 10 Investigators the video, it appears the host lost her ring at a security checkpoint.

It is also clear, from two camera angles, that security or some other passengers did not take it, according to NBC 10’s Lu Ann Cahn.

Wait, what? The footage can’t be released to the public, but it’s perfectly okay for police to show it to reporters. I didn’t know that’s how the law worked; thanks for cluing me in, NBC 10! I’m totally going to find out just who really shot JFK now.

Police, Reporter: Golden Girl’s Bling Wasn’t Stolen At Airport [NBC 10]

Report Shows Everything Wrong With People, Media

Lu Ann Cahn recently reported on a couple in Kensington who say they’re being gay-bashed. They’ve called police dozens of times. The couple says their tires have been slashed, slurs have been used and someone left a steel penis on their doorstep. Cahn says “the phallic-shaped steel rod is a symbol of hate.”

Anyway, a neighbor interviewed said it’s not that they’re gay. It’s that they’re annoying and people are just using gay slurs because they’re gay.

“It’s not that he’s gay. We just don’t like the things that he wants to do,” said neighbor William Parks.

Parks admitted he doesn’t like the bathtub the couple has put in the courtyard between their homes and there have been neighborhood scuffles.

“But I mean why, if it doesn’t have anything to do with them being gay, why does someone spray-paint faggot? Why is there an assault? Why is there a penis on their steps?” Cahn asked.

“That would be just like if, say I was getting, got mad at somebody and I holler, ‘Here (expletive).’ You understand what I’m trying to say? And call me, ‘Hey you (expletive),’ or something like that. That would be the same thing,” Parks said.

“Well, someone just put a steel penis on their doorstep,” Cahn asked two women.

“What’s that about?” one of the women asked sarcastically.

“That could have been them that put it,” she added.

“You think they put it there?” Cahn asked, getting the response, “Probably.”

“Why would they do that?” Cahn pressed.

“Because they’re sick, probably,” the women answered.

A bold step for equality for all in this news report.

Lu Ann Cahn Lost Battle, Wins War

Let’s say you’re a newswoman who happened to have her panty drawer raided by a local comedian. Do you laugh it off? Naah. You turn it into a ratings grabber, no doubt! (Ahem, Alycia Lane.)

NBC 10’s Lu Ann Cahn always tries to stand up for you, but Tuesday night she told us exactly what happened to her — in a very public way. And that’s why she was fighting back. [...]

Arthur Goldman was actually charming, Cahn said, and he invited her and an NBC 10 camera crew into the apartment where he lives with his comedian son, Peter Goldman.

Peter is better known as Danny Ozark, and he’s sometimes a guest on 94.1-FM WYSP’s Kidd Chris Show.

“While we were there, things got a little wild, and umm … her lingerie drawer was examined,” Ozark said on the radio, telling the world how Cahn’s house sitter invited him to her house while she was out of town and he went through Cahn’s personal stuff.

The Daily News[' Dan Gross] called her about it Monday, and Cahn said she felt humiliated. But when she saw Tuesday’s article, she decided it was time to go find out who the guy was who did this to her and confront him, not just for herself but for every woman who has had something creepy like this happen.

“Kind of here to teach your son a bit of a lesson. He rifled through my underwear drawer,” Cahn told Arthur Goldman.

“That was in bad taste. I feel bad about that,” the father replied.

Arthur Goldman told Cahn and her crew that they could go into his son’s room.

“Wow, he’s 40-years-old, right?” Cahn said.

Ooh, burn! However, I have to wonder: Do housesitters routinely let random people they meet at Phillies games into the house they’re sitting to rifle through underwear drawers? Is this a big issue? “I’m standing up for every woman who’s… had this extremely rare problem.”

Now, I can’t help but wonder what Dan Gross story will lead to another NBC 10 scoop. I can only expect it will be from this item in today’s paper.

NBC-10 reporter Deanna Durante had her own wardrobe issue yesterday when she accidentally put on two mismatched beige shoes, as she admitted to others in the courtoom at the Jeffrey Marsalis rape trial.

Tonight! Deanna Durante confronts her shoe closet! Only on NBC 10!

NBC 10’s Lu Ann Cahn Fights Back [NBC 10]
The wrath of Cahn [ha!—ed.] [Daily News]
Yesterday: Panty Raids Just Another One Of The Many Exciting Adventures One Can Have At A Phillies Game

Panty Raids Just Another One Of The Many Exciting Adventures One Can Have At A Phillies Game

Whenever I’m watching the news and Lu Ann Cahn comes on, I always think: “Man, I wonder what kind of panties she’s wearing.” Well, okay, actually, no, this kind of thinking is more reserved for Erin O’Hearn; no offense, Ms. Cahn.

Anyway, apparently somebody thinks that about Cahn. Namely, one Peter Goldman (aka Danny Ozark from the Kidd Chris show) apparently thinks that way, since he met a girl at the Phillies game housesitting for Cahn and went into her bedroom and rummaged through her underwear drawer.

Once there, Ozark and his pal rummaged through Cahn’s underwear and, Ozark, who admitted, “I’m just a freak,” said he hoped to try some on, but he could tell it wouldn’t fit him. She had government-issued really bad underwear . . . I wish she felt more sexier, because she’s beautiful. I feel like I should get her red thong panties,” he said.”

More sexier, eh? Cahn tells Dan Gross she’s “really upset” by this and Goldman/Ozark says he thinks she’s beautiful. Ooh, I smell romance!

Panty raid! [Daily News]

NBC 10: There Is Porn On Them Thar Internets!

Is it sweeps already? NBC 10 has not one but two stories about porn already this week, and we still have three days of the 11 o’clock news to go!

The first porn story is about the deep dark seedy shocking revelation that — gasp! — porn is being made right here in Philadelphia.

Somehow, the story begins with a viewer angered she’s getting porn spam text messages. NBC 10 traces them to — where else? — the National Watch & Diamond Exchange on 8th Street. Uh, let’s just let NBC 10 explain their Woodward & Bernstein work they let a viewer do for them:

The NBC 10 Investigators found out that one of the Web sites that sent her a text message was R.S. Duffy in Philadelphia.

The address for R.S. Duffy on South Eighth Street was actually home a National Watch & Diamond Exchange jewelry store. It appeared our search had hit a dead end.

Then, computer savvy viewer Noah Webster called us saying, “I saw your story on NBC 10.”

“Within half an hour, I found the actual owners,” Webster said.

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