When I was a kid, me and my beavers group got into the local paper because we did something.
I’ve got no idea what we did, but we got printed and as a 7 year old that was pretty huge.
Life never got better.
Boring answer for me: I’m a local councillor and activist, so I’ve been in the paper more times than is strictly good for me. I’ve pointed at potholes and glowered at empty shops and stood freeze-framed in the act of handing over petitions and all the other classics.
The burden of local fame can be overwhelming.
Have you ever appeared on Angry People in Local Newspapers? That would be the true claim to fame!
Yeah we were robbed a gun point and held hostage for like an hour before breaking loose and savagely beating the home invaders to the point where they were taken to the hospital before they were taken to jail.
One of them had to wait 5 days before they could even bring him in to court in a wheelchair to be arraigned on charges.
One of the headlines was something like, “home invasion thwarted by Crock-Pot” because I smashed my crock pot over the head robber guys face cutting my hand in the process.
When the police finally showed up an hour after we had called them, they started to arrest me until my mother got there along with my neighbors to vouch that I was the victim.
Edit: I’m an American, I just realized this was a UK community. The ringleader of the robbers that day was a German national, And the two Americans were sentenced to 5 years but he was deported to Germany and spent 2 years in a mental hospital.
Twice, once when I was about 12ish the school club added some native plants to an area of bushland designated as natural land. Local MP came down as a photo op.
Second time was around 17 for a promotional piece for the local cheerleading team I was on. Got some flack at school for that one being a nerd and somehow landing in the cheerleading team.
Not me or my picture specifically but my school did hit North West news and all the local papers when a meningitis outbreak in Poynton and Cheadle caused the death of multiple kids in the year above. This was in the 90s.
I was in a couple times when I competed in athletics. Was kind of cool the first time I had a photographer show up at one of my races to photograph me.
