What not to do while on vacation

May we give you the following advice:
Never listen to the local news while you are on vacation.

This is a little background:
After a pleasant drive form the north-east coast of Florida, 
we arrived in Orlando and checked into a condo. 
We had been over 1 1/2 weeks in the motor home and not getting any news.
We sat down in a comfortable sofa with cool air conditioning 
and turned on the local early night news.

Here are 3 reasons not to do this:

1.  We had seen a few fires which we knew where set to control the vegetation.

One looked larger than the others
Yes, the news informed us that it had crossed over a road and gotten out of hand.

2. We had crossed many rivers and commented on how nice they looked.

Here is one we camped at, as it approached the Atlantic.
They had canoes you could rent for a close-up view of river life.

But, the news informed us that they had found the body of a 20-30 y.o. female that day along one of those rivers we had just crossed. She had been missing since the Friday before.

3. Traffic along those beach cities had seemed a lot calmer 
and the communities appeared much more slow moving than we had expected.
The news informed us that a man and his son had been carjacked in one of those cities that day.
But the father purposefully wrecked the car into a tree and both he and the son escaped safely.
The car jacker had been apprehended.

(The car looked like "totaled". But apparently the father knew both he and the son in the back where safely seat-belted, while the car jacker was not.)

So the lesson we learned was: Avoid the news.
Ignorance is bliss.