Have you ever read something in the paper or seen the news about someone you know?

[Deleted User] · 26/02/13 - 00:34

Following on a little from the crimes thread, have you ever read a paper, national or local, and seen a report about someone you know or used to know?

A while back, I read a report about a car crash in which the driver rammed into a power pylon and the car became 'live', and he had to creep out of the wreck without touching metal or he'd be electrocuted. He brushed against part of the car and the shock threw him six foot into grassland at the side of the road. Luckily he was wearing rubber-soled shoes, so wasn't electrocuted to death.

He was a schoolmaster and had taught me in secondary school, hadn't seen him for years. Blimey, I thought... didn't like him but I was glad he survived.

I also used to work in a foreign exchange bureau, and last year read about one of my old, umm, 'regulars' appearing in court. I wasn't surprised. I'd reported his unusual transactions every other week, I was surprised it took them so long.

[Deleted User] · 26/02/13 - 00:36

Not a crime but there was a story in the Daily Mail last year about a girl I went to school with.

[Deleted User] · 26/02/13 - 00:36

Read about someone I used to know who was murdered (stabbed) back in 2008. He was a good friend of my older brother's and used to hang around our house a lot, so I was shocked to hear about what happened to him.

EDIT: I've just remembered...two years ago a former classmate of mine got locked up for 15 years after an acid attack, and recently a classmate of my cousin's got sentenced to life for that stabbing in Westfield last year.

Early Bird · 26/02/13 - 00:42

yes, I see some of the students I've taught over the years in a pickle or two.... (court wise)

one was for assaulting an old lady in her home..... I taught him for one year and he was nasty to pretty much all the other students in the class (although, he was pleasant enough towards me). I wasn't surprised to see his name on the front page of the paper.... it was horrifc what he did to the old lady... :eek::eek: I could never forgive that kind of act...

I was teaching at a very tough inner city school.....

spanglerokapi · 26/02/13 - 00:43

Saw an exposé once in the NOW about a very senior ambulance officer I knew complete with a photo of him in dress uniform. He had been entertaining various lady friends whilst on duty.
A couple of years ago one of my colleagues was in the national media after being sent down for fourteen years for child sex offences!

1fab · 26/02/13 - 00:44

Yes, it can be a bit surreal seeing a face you recognise in a national newspaper, in connection with, say, medical malpractice. Makes you think you had a lucky escape.

rionia · 26/02/13 - 00:49

A bloke airlifted (by helicopter) from a river after a flash flood a few years ago in Cornwall was a former neighbour of my mum. Mum was friends with his wife

randomlise · 26/02/13 - 00:49

Yes a girl I went to school with was taking part in an EDL protest march and was quoted in our local paper.

Apple_Crumble · 26/02/13 - 00:50

Yeah - just the other year in fact. I noticed a news story on the BBC about a music teacher, whom I recognised, who had been having a relationship with a 14-year-old pupil. He was jailed for four years. We both went to the same infant / junior school, but I hadn't seen him since then.

[Deleted User] · 26/02/13 - 00:51

I used to be mates with someone, we lost contact after leaving primary school, that was only 10 years ago, I saw his mugshot a few years ago, he had been done for armed robbery, quite interesting how people can take different paths in life.

phantom sneeze · 26/02/13 - 00:52

I found out that my foster brother I hadn't seen for years died in a motorcycle accident because it was in the local paper. Very sad it was, He was only 27.

Muze · 26/02/13 - 00:55

One of the lads who bullied me relentlessly in secondary school was in the local paper after glassing a bloke in a nightclub :eek: Not surprised.

Someone else I knew from primary school has been all over the news and net after dying from alcohol poisoning when they were 17

Think the parents started some campaign or something.

The woman my ex partner cheated on me with was all over the local paper for ages when she was murdered....

Makes my sad little life sound rather exciting :cool:

[Deleted User] · 26/02/13 - 01:02

Yup my ex got banged on the sex.offenders for ten years, it made the Daily Mail

Aarghawasp! · 26/02/13 - 01:04

A guy I dated as a teenager was accused of rape. I read about this in the local paper. He was later cleared.

A local murder made the news last year when a pensioner was killed as he tried to stop thieves from stealing the car from his drive. I was at school with his son and briefly worked with his wife.

Another guy I dated as a teenager was killed in a car accident a couple of years later. I heard about it on the lunchtime news.

[Deleted User] · 26/02/13 - 01:08

One of my friends was mentioned by name in Russell Brand's autobiography. Not news but still quite funny!

BillyCasper · 26/02/13 - 01:08

The kid who used to bully me ended up in jail after hitting a man on the head with a metal pole.

2shy2007 · 26/02/13 - 01:08

An ex boyfriend got in the redtops after murdering his girlfriend, my brothers best friend also had a 2 page spread in the Sun about a very famous actress he used to go out with when we were all younger. another ex made all the local papers after committing a terrible crime , my ex sister in law made the papers when she was murdered
My friend at school made the local and national papers when she was murdered
After reading that I realised I know quite a few people who were murdered or commited awful crimes

HaloJoe · 26/02/13 - 01:09

Not crimes, but yes i know a few people who have featured in newspapers. A cousin of mine scored so high in her A-levels she was mentioned in the Daily Mail.

A friend of mine who killed himself by jumping off a multi-story carpark was mentioned in the local newspaper. Also a friend (a very good one at that) was mentioned in the same local newspaper after dying in a car accident.

I was in the local newspaper too, for being awarded MOTM on my men's debut football match, i was 16.

darkjedimaster · 26/02/13 - 01:15

I remember reading about one of my old mates who had been tortured to death. I refused to believe it first of all, thinking that it was a mistake & just of someone who had the same name. But then I saw the picture & knew it was him.

Vast_Girth · 26/02/13 - 01:16

A guy i went to school with, (and went on a caravan holiday with once) murdered someone, chopped up his body and buried it on the local common and tried to use techniques seen on CSI to cover it up. He was caught when he blabbed to his girlfriend on holiday. It was in most of the papers.

[Deleted User] · 26/02/13 - 01:20

Yes. Someone I had a one night stand with a couple of years ago was in the paper recently. He murdered someone quite brutally. I was stunned!!

[Deleted User] · 26/02/13 - 01:21

My friends boyfriend (allegedly) had a fling with Rihanna and it was front page of the Sun. The guy in the we found love video.

Mumof3 · 26/02/13 - 01:28

A girl I was at school with was given a life sentence in America, (so a 'full' life term), for killing her parents. In the papers she was shown at her trial, in the 1980's, meekly dressed as a Sloaney type, but we all knew her as a hardcore punk.

[Deleted User] · 26/02/13 - 01:29

Back in the 60's a neighbour, who was in the forces, was killed on a level crossing in Germany.

In the 80's we had our maisonettes pebble dashed by some builders and one was involved in a fatal armed robbery the week after. The funny thing is (if there is anything funny in this

) his older brother actually brought back my neighbours teaspoon which they had taken by mistake after they had finished the job.

More recently, my old boss was killed in a helicopter accident. That was quite high profile. Think Chelsea.

Just remembered another from the 70's. A relatives ex was found guilty of abusing his new partners child ( not sexual) but that was just local news.

[Deleted User] · 26/02/13 - 02:25

A girl a year above me was the focus of an expose in NOTW about student escorts, she was in her first year at Oxbridge and the uni were furious with her. I never liked her so I found it pretty funny. The best part was when the undercover reporter was appalled that she charged £300 for a date, because she 'seemed to think a lot of herself.'

Erlang · 26/02/13 - 02:32

I saw a former colleague on world news after he got out of his vehicle.

Then the reception committee gave him a bit of a hard time, before popping him in front of the cameras.

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