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It’s always the simplest stories that turn out to be the most difficult.  I had to go cover a story about garage sales and a city government wanting to limit the number homeowners have every year.  Obviously, we needed video and sound from the sales.  So we’re cruising along, meeting some really great people at the sales and we hit one advertised as “huge.”  It was the mother load…massive…with tons of cars.  With the photographer at the end of the driveway, all of the sudden this woman comes down screaming at us to stop shooting!  She’s yelling and waving her arms in the air.  She says, “you don’t have permission!”  As some are suspicious of media, I explained it was just a story about garage sales and if she didn’t want to be on camera, we would just shoot her products and people shopping.  She threatens to call police!  I told her that would be just fine, as we were standing on public property…also known as the street.  She became more belligerent and I told her she wasn’t worth the argument and we left.  It was such a strange encounter over such a non-controversial story.  A big crime, with emotional people, I would expect it.  This one was a shock.  We figured she must be hiding something….later, I was told by other garage sale hosts and hostesses, that she was possibly selling samples that would get her in big trouble with her job. Hmmm, now that is the story behind the story.

Karen Scullin