News stories that completely obsessed you

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The bush fires, not the ones in Victoria but the ones in NSW several years earlier. Of course I was affected by them which made me all the more interested.

Now it's the flood which is taking place in here. It's the major topic of the news in Poland now.

i get depressed to when i hear new stories and what i hate about me i can remember news stories form when i was 7 and 8 in get so ahhhh about it.

I still think that vampire story was pretty special, though. Me laughing my head off, for days, over two teenage boys who thought they were vampires.

Yeah, major news events on large scale disasters, either man-made or an act of God captivates me every single time. I still remember the first news event that I was glued to the TV screen all day long - The April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. I also remember watching live on TV the Timothy James McVeigh's execution in Terre Haute, Indiana on June 11, 2001 (I was in Maryland at the time, I think). The biggest news story that got me glued to TV for days was the 9/11 event. I still remember watching the news with Dan Rather reporting on a new video from a different angle of the 2nd plane that hit the WTC, unfiltered for language. The captioning (I'm deaf) actually showed the profanities when that video aired.

Right now I'm kind of "obsessed" with the whole Gulf of Mexico oil spill catastrophe. My obsession now only goes as far as reading up a little bit every day on what the progress are regarding stopping the leak, and whether the oil are going to come up around the Keys to the Florida East Coast. I don't watch TV much anymore, but I am sadly still a news addict. Ok, more of an information addict/junkie.

Ialso think a lot about the Gulf oil disaster. I think I handle it by not reading more news about it than I think I can take at a given moment. Iassume that a lot of NTs are in the same boat about this. I'm also trying to figure out what's the most useful thing/s I can do to help encourage the human world to live less destructively. I guess the illusion that I can effect some kind of change helps, as does switching to pragmatic, planning type thinking.

any news report of anybody being tortured in any way.

I got obsessed with the Waco Branch Davidian mess. I watched the news all day every day and kept hoping they (the military and ATF) or they would let the kids out. I was so upset when the whole compound went up in flames. I have also watched several documentaries on it from both sides of the fence. I still think the government handled it wrong and they are at fault. They should have grabbed the psycho while he was outside of the compound and dealt with it in a different, less violent way. They just wanted to make a big show of it!

Also there was a man who murdered his entire family....his five kids and wife. In Bloomington Illinois where I grew up. Got pretty into that as well.

Frilled Shark and Goblin Shark footage from a few years back. The Goblin Shark has been my favorite animal for years and it was awesome seeing a live one for once. Befor 2007, I had only seen drawings and a photo of a frilled shark and I barely got an idea of how it looked. Then I saw it and was amazed.

When I learned about gulag schools, especially the Judge Rotenberg Center, I became very interested in them. To be more precise, I became interested in shutting them down. I ended up going to law school in Boston so that eventually I might get involved in shutting down the JRC. My goal is to work in making precedent or helping to pass legislation banning the use of aversives and severely limiting the use of restraint, seclusion and techniques of psychological coercion used in many of these facilities so as to protect the people who get sent to these hellholes.

Earlier in life, I was fascinated by school shooting stories and the reaction that school shootings got in adults around me. I hadn't been paying much attention when Columbine happened, being only 11, but afterward, authorities started targeting people like me - outsiders - as potential threats. As a result, I followed these stories and became vehement that, if bullying and social exclusion were a cause of school shooting, it should be the bullies, NOT the people getting pushed around and ostracized, who bore the blame. I still have an interest in bullying, and have been following the kerfuffles over it here in MA with interest. I hope eventually bullies will start getting sued, if not criminally punished, for their actions.

For me, it was anything involving weather or geology-related things.

Just like many others on this thread, I was totally obsessed with 9/11 when it happened. It became my special interest for a time; I watched news stories, I read as many newspapers as I could find, I read books, as well as certain internet sites for hours, so I wouldn´t go to bed until early morning. Needless to say, I talked about the subject for hours on end. I think the main reason was there were so many unanswered questions, and the official version just never seemed logical to me. I still think there was something shady going on there, and I hope someday the truth comes out, though I am no longer obsessed with it.

The only other news story that took a hold on me to that extent was the Iranian Hostage Crisis, which occurred when I was much younger.

- The disappearance of Iwona Wieczorek
- A little boy who got two liver transplants after he got poisoned after he ate a mushroom
- Karina, an autistic, mentally disabled, epileptic 10 year old who lost all her toes due to the cold after she got lost for 6 days in the woods

These are the hot topics in the Polish media just now, especially the Karina one.

This year's UK general election. Luckily the campaigns only last four weeks here so I was soon forced to move on.

Every once in awhile I get rather involved in researching the President Kennedy assassination. When I do so (as I have been this past week), I want to find out as many facts as I can. I have been researching the conspiracy theories. I like being able to have time lines of all the events that I can possibly find on something like this. And I like having scaled maps too.

One thing I find disturbing, but interesting, about the Kennedy assassination is what happened to the 1961 Lincoln Continental limousine that he was killed in. It was later used by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter before being retired. Today it resides in the Henry Ford Museum.

The passing away of Pete Quaife of The Kinks. I didn't get the support that I needed. I guess that I'll have to warn my mum in an E-mail that I need support when Mick Avory's time comes.