High School Hoopster Loves Hurricane

I’m becoming more and more fascinated with Tim Furlong’s “6:15″ reports, which run (surprise!) halfway through the 6 o’clock news. Sure, there’s the infamous 4:20 report, where Furlong reported the time 4:20 p.m. almost killed someone.

But not all his reports are the modern day equivalent of Reefer Madness. While there does seem to be a tone of “What you don’t know about your kids could kill them!” in Furlong’s reports, damn if they’re not usually somehow entertaining. (The 4:20 report was pretty much the best thing on TV all last year.)

And last night? Oh, just a story about a local high school basketball player who likes Hurricane Schwartz. “I was watching you since I was like 9 and I love you,” said Jamal “Hurricane” Wilson, who goes to Newman-Goretti. He’s also going to Rhode Island to play basketball (D-I, congrats) and study meteorology.

Clearly, this is TV news at its finest. But I suspect the other schools’ fans are going to have some fun come Catholic League playoff time.

High School Basketball Star Idolizes Hurricane [NBC 10]

420 Is A Joke

Sometime yesterday, NBC 10’s website posted video for their already-infamous report on the time 4:20. (The report that’s bringing competitors together in gleeful mockery!)

What was left out of the written transcript yesterday was where Evan, who claimed 4:20 nearly killed him, is what he’s doing now: Studying at New York University. NYU, of course, has been ranked #1 in the “Reefer Madness” category from the Princeton Review.

4:20 is Dangerous Time For Kids [NBC 10]
Yesterday: NBC 420

NBC 420

We all know the local news attempts to scare its viewers in order to keep them watching. Usually, this is accomplished by reports about things that are endangering your children. And the most dangerous time, according to NBC 10’s Tim Furlong, is 4:20.

Four twenty, as you probably know, is slag for a time to smoke weed. Most likely, it comes from when a group of high school students in California would smoke up. (Some people in college said “smoke out”? I don’t know.) Somehow, the slang made it into popular culture, and today most people could tell you 4:20 is a marijuana reference. You would probably get in trouble in school for putting a 4:20 patch on your bookbag.

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