OK, this guy from Graham, N.C., travels down to South Carolina to get some real fireworks, which are illegal in North Carolina. While he’s buying them a photographer for The Augusta Chronicle (my hometown paper) snaps his photo, The Associated Press picks it up and distributes it nationally, and USAToday runs it on its Web site so that everyone in the world can see it. And to add to the guy’s misery, The Drudge Report links to the USAToday story as its main story, guaranteeing millions of page views. Next time, guy, don’t give your name.
Then again, maybe he’s going to shoot these off at a relative’s house in the Palmetto State. Yeah, that’s it.