News Reporters

Tuesday night Jon and I are at dinner enjoying some lovely cheese fries and dipping sauce at the training table. We did order sandwiches too. Just so all of you don't think we didn't have a partially sensible dinner. When my cell phone rang. It was an out of state number, 206 area code. Rather than be distracted and possibly miss out on my share of the cheese fries I decide to pass on answering the call. To my surprise the person calling actually left a message. Sadly most phone calls I get from numbers I don't know, the person doesn't leave a message so ends up being a mystery who ended up calling.

Later after we got home I decided to listen to the voicemail and see who the "mystery caller" was. Once again to my surprise it was a news reporter from Kiro TV in Seattle Washington, named Kyle Moore. In his message he said that he was doing a news story on a Jon Pomeroy, and when he looked that individual up I showed as being linked to him. This intrigued me so I called the guy back. I did, however, search the TV station's website to make sure this Kyle Moore guy was legit first though.

The reporter seemed shocked that I had called him back. He reiterated to me that he was doing a news story on Jon Pomeroy. It was nice he gave the guy's name again because I couldn't understand what last name he had said in the message. He asked me if I knew the guy. I said I wasn't sure and asked if he could tell him a little about him to jog my memory. The reporter then began to apologize for inconveniencing me. He then told me that he was hoping that I was the guy's wife. I informed him that wasn't the case, which he was already aware of - since I didn't appear to know Mr. Pomeroy. The reporter thanked me for my time and ended the call.

I then went and told Jon this story and how crazy it was, and how I felt the reporter might have gotten my cellphone number.. blah blah blah. I then made a mental note of checking the Kiro TV website later in the week to see what the actual story was about.

The next day at work a co-worker stopped me when I was on my way to lunch and jokingly told me that my name was all over the internet in some news story. Not quite making the connection, probably due to low blood sugar, I mentioned something about the odd phone call I got from the news reporter and asked the co-worker to send me the link to the article. When I came back from lunch I found this link:
http://www.kirotv.com/news/17713956/detail.html

Apparently, "Rebecca Long" was being charged with starving her 14 year old stepdaughter. Wow! Heartbreaking!

Although there is a spelling difference, and anyone who knows me knows that the individual in the article is not me - it catches me off guard that the reporter somehow ended up with me. He said he had contacted several people. I imagine he just searched that name.