This is KTBS Operations Manager Trey Lankford modeling one of the recent federally mandated safety vests we, as reporters, are being told to wear if we report within 150-feet of a federally-aided highway.  It’s tuff readin’, but if you want more, go here.  

Of course, we all want to be safe and we want that for our fellow workers, but some of us in the newsroom couldn’t help but think about how viewers might sit in their living rooms discussing the vests and such instead of listening to what we’re reporting. 

And why not, while we as a society are making money for attorneys and those who file suit, extend those safety guidelines to include parking lots?  Lots of unsafe things happen there.

As I write, I’m wearing one of those vests, safety goggles, a helmet and knee and elbow pads. 

   

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