• DominusOfMegadeus
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    5828 days ago

    It’s unclear what Liddell did with $1.5 million worth of wings.

    Come On journalists, we are dying over here

    • magnetosphere
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      1428 days ago

      Yeah, I was hoping the story would explain that she was supplying a friend’s restaurant or something.

      • @jordanlund
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        1828 days ago

        That is a FUCK TON of chicken wings.

        Alexa tells me the wholesale price of chicken wings is $3.22 a pound and each pound is around 5 wings.

        So $1.5m / $3.22 = 465,838.5 pounds of wings.
        2,329,193 wings.

        What did they charge her with? “Possession with intent to distribute”? LOL.

        • @[email protected]
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          428 days ago

          Well you know cops, they’re always overestimating the value of chicken wings to make themselves look good.

      • @andrewta
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        328 days ago

        If you ate that much I think it just might kill you.

  • @gAlienLifeform
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    3428 days ago

    Why is a news station in Texas concerned with an Illinois school district?

    • HonkyTonkWoman
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      928 days ago

      The news networks might have the same ownership & are sharing content to keep readers/viewers happy, without having to pay for local reporting.

      One of our local news outlets does this because new ownership cut their budget. They use nationwide stories from other partner networks to cover the broadcast time or publication quota.

      It kinda sucks living in an area where you can’t get local news.

      • @[email protected]
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        728 days ago

        In this case, WGN-TV is owned by Nexstar and KCBD is owned by Gray. Probably the case that KCBD has little budget for reporters, so they repackage other stations news (and add their copyright at the bottom) to drive traffic to their site.

        • HonkyTonkWoman
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          Thanks for this. Am I correct in assuming that the deal would likely be made between Gray & Nexstar, rather than directly between WGB & KCBD?

          I know when Sinclair wound up owning a second affiliate in my area, the non local stories were the same between the two affiliates. They each had their own staff & local coverage, but the filler was largely the same across both stations.

    • @Crashumbc
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      728 days ago

      The color of the woman…

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s content syndication. You can see right at the start of the article that it’s attributed to Gray News.

      Readers in Texas might be interested in the story just like we are here…

    • sunzu2
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      128 days ago

      Got tell local idiots about brain dead libs in other states… Politics and culture wars

  • Flying Squid
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    1528 days ago

    “Hey… psst… c’mere… you wanna buy some wings?”

    • @SpruceBringsteen
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      828 days ago

      Spread over a decade it’s not a crazy amount for a local franchise to take.

        • teft
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          1028 days ago

          If she did it over 19 months and we use @jordanlund’s figures from another comment in the post of her stealing 465,838lbs of wings it would mean that she was stealing 800lbs of chicken a day. That’s an insane amount of chicken.

          • pupupipi
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            428 days ago

            this lady is definitely the fall guy for some chicken mafia related activities, people were profiting from this, it’s bigger than just one lady and some friends, how can you move that much chicken in a day, everyday? someone find the closest wing place and tell me that their prices are incredibly reasonable at least

  • @Subnet64
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    428 days ago

    With prices today, like 6 dozen?