I tell you what

A couple of places I used to live, things are tough.

A man drove his ATV into a 20-foot-deep hole on County Road 3572; somebody else driving on Texas Highway 11 hit a pig; and on County Road 1100, a driver hit and killed a cow.

http://www.myssnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28727:man-pulled-from-20-foot-hole-after-atv-crash&catid=93:local-news&Itemid=376

(The pig likely was feral.)

Hitting a cow is not for fun. One annual training at Fort Hood, two women soldiers in an M151 under blackout conditions hit a range cow. The soldiers jumped out just before quarter-ton and cow contacted each other. The cow rolled over the hood and into the windshield, breaking the windshield glass and mount. The soldiers were not injured.

And in another place, reporters now have to put (sort of) subtitles in stories?

"We were fixin [about] to put the cuffs on him and he hugged his mother then jumped right on top of his mother and ran," says court bailiff Bobby Lacefield.

http://www.ksla.com/story/28699842/escaped-inmates-mother-i-saw-it-in-his-eyes-he-snapped

Lookie here, KSLA TV staff – You work for a station in Shreveport, Louisiana. Shreveport. Louisiana. You think 99.9 percent of your viewers don’t know what ‘fixin’ means? Sounds like KSLA hiring way too many outsiders. Have to explain ‘fixin.’

I tell you what.