Subject: Suspicious VehicleNews Team:During our recent safety meetings, we asked you to be aware of suspicious vehicles around our trucks. ABC7 Photographer Lorne Morrison experienced a situation on Wednesday that we wanted to share with you.Lorne stopped at the Trader Joe’s in San Francisco at 19th and Winston near SF State. He was on his way home at about 4:45pm. When he came out of the store he saw a Gray Porsche Cayenne SUV pulled up next to the ABC7 van. The car had damage to the left front fender. Two men got out of the Porsche. One went up to the driver side window of the van and was looking inside. Lorne said the other man seemed to be acting as a lookout. One man was driving and stayed in the car.As Lorne approached the van, he said “hey, yo” to the men. One of them asked if this was Lorne’s parking space. Lorne said yes. They quickly got in the Porsche and drove away. Lorne wasn’t able to get a license plate.This is a good example of being aware of a suspicious car and people. We wanted to share this information in case you are in this area and notice the same vehicle.Please see me if you have questions. And thanks to Lorne for sharing the information.Tracey
TRACEY WATKOWSKI SILVA • VP, News Director
*The following memo was obtained through a local broadcast source --a concerned broadcast source.
What's wrong with this picture? Read the memo. Is there something glaringly wrong you read right away? Why is the KGO guy approaching the van in the first place? Dangerous don't you think? Yet the tone of the memo suggests Ms. Watkowski is fine with it.
"Lorne wasn't able to get a license plate?" How about Lorne should have stayed clear and called the police. End of story.
This is truly bizarre.
I honestly don't see anything wrong with this memo. It's just a relating of facts as they occurred with the only instructions being to, basically, be on the lookout for suspicious people snooping around their station vans.
ReplyDeleteHmph...Shitkowski needs to put out 2 memo's asap: (1) How to save KGO, & (2) What to do about her Big Fat Ass.
ReplyDelete"Hey-Yo" is typical gang language. It translates in English to "Hello there fine stranger, may I show you the way to San Jose?"
ReplyDeleteSince the exchange was at a Trader Joe's we can only surmise a discussion of fine food was soon to ensue.
I see no harm here.
If this happend at the 99cent store in Richmond I would be concerned.
Could race be a theme here??
Is it possible the KGO employee really wanted to "Jack that Porsche?"
Lorne doesn't put up with any shit. I don't think he did anything wrong. I also don't see anything wrong with the memo. As far as Tracey having a "big fat ass," that is uncalled for. Though I hear that's where she keeps the stick.
ReplyDeleteUnless Lorne was much bigger and packing his own weapon, too risky in today's society. Most criminal could care less about their life much less someone else's. After visiting most of Europe I have come to the conclusion that we live in an uncivilized society. In Europe, most fights are handled with fists. In America, it's with a gun. I'm pretty big myself but I always judge whether the moron I am dealing with is packing. Not worth the risk.
ReplyDeleteYep, fistfighting is a much more civilized way of handling conflicts. And why jousting and fencing fell out of favor is beyond me.
DeleteWhat I saw was the implicit racism in the greeting, "hey, yo".
ReplyDeleteI don't, I know plenty of White, Asian and Hispanic people who say that all the time....Quit looking for an excuse
DeleteYo! Adrian!
Then Ed McMahon was the biggest racist ever.
DeleteI agree wholeheartedly, 9:32! It would be the same thing if a Rabbi walked into a bar & the bartender said "Yo, what up, Jew?"
DeleteWe also notice there is no physical descreption of the gentlemen looking for the way to San Jose.
DeleteWhere they Albanian, Chechen, or from Kenya? Were they "tall men" or "little people"?
Is the rear on Traci considered a butt???? or a "booty"?
Once again we must force the issue of race to aid in the discussion.
Like Rachael Dolenzol said to Christine...
"I'm really a black woman...you however are NOT a talk show hostess."
Discuss.
A few months back a KNTV photog was assayed put in the field and the equipment was stolen. That person lost his job because he didn't "protect" the gear. That about says it all with the priorities of the TV stations and the bean counters that run them.
ReplyDeleteAlan Waples was fired for that?????
DeleteAre you sure???
I'm hard pressed to find anything wrong with this memo.
ReplyDeleteLorne should have called the police, HUH? That would accomplish nothing.
ReplyDelete"Someone's peering inside my truck."
DeleteSFPD isn't going to send anyone out for that.
> After visiting most of Europe I have come to the conclusion that
ReplyDelete> we live in an uncivilized society.
If more Americans traveled abroad they'd learn more about how much America is going down the tubes. Most Americans have no idea.
> What I saw was the implicit racism in the greeting, "hey, yo".
STFU. Call it like it is.
Why is this bizarre?
ReplyDeleteI guess one of the perks of working at KGO is that you get to use the company van to do grocery store errands.
ReplyDeleteLots of stations have cameramen take a van home. If a big story breaks it saves the time needed to get to the station.
DeleteNothing wrong with the memo. What's Lieberman's problem?
ReplyDeleteI am mystified myself. KGO guy could have "approached" the van on his way inside the store. Seems like an appropriate memo to send out.
DeleteI don't know Lorne - or Tracy, for that matter. But, it sounds as if Lorne felt confident that he could handle the situation.
ReplyDeleteI don't read Tracy's message to be: "Now, hear this! All drivers of station news vehicles will, henceforth, be prepared to do physical battle, in order to protect 'The Company Wheels.'"
C'mon, Rich. Don't go looking for sinister crap. There's enough of it on the surface. You don't have to dig for it.
Of course the memo is bizarre. It is alarmist and it provides nothing of value. Since when is a Porsche SUV (a car worth over $100k) considered suspicious? God forbid the Trader Joe's shopper aka KGO photographer comes to Silicon Valley on assignment. He'll go run to Buttowski like a baby and say: "Two Teslas pulled up next to me at a red light with tinted windows. They said nothing and they went on their way. Let everyone know! It was extremely suspicious!".
ReplyDeleteThis is the typical email sent by a corporate stooge climbing the corporate ladder. Something Buttowski can show the higher ups at her next review to show that she a "great leader" and someone who takes "initiative". Nothing more nothing less.
Typical overreaction from Lieberman as well as Watkowski.
DeleteSpeaking of Bizarre, did anyone see Brian Hackney on The Saturday night KBCW 10PM News?? He looked distinctly different. New make Up? Using Eye Liner? Pulled a Ken Wayne??
ReplyDeleteBrian Williams version: I came out of the store and saw this guy snooping around the van. I said "yo", and he was startled and tried to get to the getaway vehicle, but I grabbed him and put him in a half Nelson, pummeling his head against the front fender so hard that it got dented. His driver screamed out his window, "please don't hurt us!" I yelled for him to get the hell out of here or you'll REALLY make my day. I opened the companion-side door and threw the bloody body into the seat, slamming the door behind him. The frightened driver drove away so fast I couldn't get the license number.
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