Tom Galloway pointed out this item from the Boston Herald:
“A Paris Street man was out strolling with his dog in Thursday night’s gentle rain when a woman appeared from the gloom with the unorthodox pickup line, “I am Buffy the Vampire Slayer!”
To prove her point, she threatened him with a 12-inch wooden stake. She missed her mark, prompting the would-be blood donor’s faithful hound to give chase. The dog didn’t get to sink its teeth in and police could not locate the witchy woman, which is probably one collar they and the brave pooch could do without.”
This is an example of lousy reportage. First, calling her a “witchy woman” is silly since Willow was the witch. And second, it should be clear that it wasn’t REALLY Buffy for the obvious reason that, if it were, the guy would–well–be dead. Tragically, a call to Wolfram and Hart could have clarified the situation, but with Angel no longer connected to them, they might not have been forthcoming.
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Heh. To think how many of us have imagined what it would be like to meet Buffy. Personally I never thought I’d be on the wrong end of the stake…
Phinn
Well I guess this would similar to that Bill Mumy elevator incident where a crazed fan accosted Bill screaming “send me to the corn field” or words to that effect.
OK quick reality check fandom. Watching a show and enjoying the characters is one thing. However, any fan that attempts to kill someone with a stake is a few quarts low.
To paraphrase Kirk:
GET A LIFE, move out of your parents basement.
Of course this is just my opinion…I could be wrong.
Regards:
Warren S. Jones III
Oh, I totally agree. I haven’t put on my Star Trek uniform since my wedding, and my wife only wears her princess Leia “hair buns” when we “role play”.
Phinn
Maybe she was a “witchy woman.” Did she have the moon in her eyes?
Or is it possible that to call someone “bìŧçhÿ” in France is politically correct, and they have to use the word “witchy?”
You just KNOW they’re going to use this as an excuse to stop Buffy reruns. Someone’s going to hold it up as an example of the terrible societal effects of violence on television. Egads, lock up your children! Buffy’s in town!
Not only that Elizabeth, but the protests to protect our youth would not stop there.
What about all the to do surrounding the urban myth of the kid who died while pretending to be Superman when the towel around his neck caught on something and the poor lad choked to death?
Or the would be acrobats that try to scale buildings ala Spider-Man and wind up hurting themselves?
We can make all the Buffy jokes we care to in hopes of laughing the situation away, but its incidents like these that try to spoil life for the rest of us.
Did anyone consider maybe confirming that the guy was NOT in fact a vampire? Strolling at NIGHT…with his (hëll)hound protector??? Buffy didn’t always stake the vamp on the first meeting you know. Just a thought.
Clearly, it wasn’t Buffy. Buffy doesn’t stake mortals. Obviously, it was Faith, back to her old tricks again.
Oh, Please! You are all mistaken!
Obviously, good old Ethan Rayne is alive and well. And his latest trick involves giving Buffy bad eye sight or sucky hand-eye coordination!
Funny though, I always thought Mr. Pointy was 6 inches long. I guess the new and improved 12 inch Mr. Pointy may be bigger, but he definitely doesn
This type of reporting is par for the course for the Boston Herald. I bet if some one did some real research we would find out that it was really Colonel Mustered with the Candle Stick in the ally.
“I guess the new and improved 12 inch Mr. Pointy may be bigger, but he definitely doesn
“Funny though, I always thought Mr. Pointy was 6 inches long. I guess the new and improved 12 inch Mr. Pointy may be bigger, but he definitely doesn
[QB]Posted by nekouken at August 18, 2004 12:48 PM
Clearly, it wasn’t Buffy. Buffy doesn’t stake mortals. Obviously, it was Faith, back to her old tricks again.[/QB]
Well, the Knight of Byzantium were mortal and last night I watched her chuck an axe into the chest of one of their men. Their leader later complained that Buffy & Co had killed at least 10 of his men…
“What about all the to do surrounding the urban myth of the kid who died while pretending to be Superman when the towel around his neck caught on something and the poor lad choked to death?
Or the would be acrobats that try to scale buildings ala Spider-Man and wind up hurting themselves?”
Or me, when I pretended to be The Vision and tried to make myself immaterial and pass through trees and walls. Luckily I stopped doing that before I suffered any dain bramage.
“Well, the Knight of Byzantium were mortal and last night I watched her chuck an axe into the chest of one of their men. Their leader later complained that Buffy & Co had killed at least 10 of his men…”
Yes, but she didn’t *stake* them…
Reminds me of the time that Robert Englund related the story that his Kruger persona had been held up as the cause/modus operandi of an attack… when the truth was that the attacker had simply worn a fedora which the police had trouble descibing accurately and finally went for ‘y’know… like the style that Freddy Kruger wore’
Equally, the tragic killing of Jamie Bulger in the UK many years ago had the press screaming links to the Child’s Play movies and saying they should be banned because his young attackers had seen it. Less reported was the fact that the police captain said later: ‘If you’re going to try and establish links to movies, you might as well link this to The Railway Children’ because it happened near train tracks’.
Don’t even get me started on our Daily Mail’s recent call to ban the computer game Doom.
*sigh*
Makes me ashamed to be in the world’s second oldest profession.
John
My friend, take EVERYTHING you read in the Boston Herald with a grain of salt. It is a notorious depository of sloppy journalism, fearmongering and flat-out bad writing. When I was working in a supermarket deli to help put myself through school, I read the Herald regularly, since there was always a copy in our breakroom. A fifteen minute dose was just enough to numb the mind and make the job of working in a supermarket deli bearable. Beyond that, I haven’t found any use for the rag.
Mark.
P.S. This is my first post, althought I’ve been lurking here for months. Great site!
“Obviously, good old Ethan Rayne is alive and well. And his latest trick involves giving Buffy bad eye sight or sucky hand-eye coordination!”
Don’t get me started on what his son Jaden has been up to…
Actually the same thing happened to me. Except it was a guy, and he didn’t say he was buffy…well…I didn’t stop to ask either.
Thank God for big muscled door bouncers after 10pm!
Makes me ashamed to be in the world’s second oldest profession.
You’re a prostitute?
I thought motherhood was the world’s oldest profession, and prostitution was the world’s second oldest profession.
Nope, prostitutes is the world’s oldest. It think that it moved past moms, because prostitutes make more.
John M. – While you’re at it, have a look at Bowling for Columbine. Whatever else you may think of Moore’s politics, he does have a point when he suggests bowling may be what set off the two killers.
he doesn’t really believe it, of course, but it makes the point that some of the so-called cause and effect scenarios we’ve been presented with don’t have much to stand on when looked at closely.