I don't think I've ever been on tv or in a magazine. When I was in 5th grade I did win my school's spelling bee for grades 4-6.
When I was like 20 or so, me and 3 of my friends were cruising around town and noticed some commotion at the high school baseball park. They had the entrance blocked, so we parked down the road and walked off to the side to get in. All the ball players were huddled around the fence and the spectators were all there talking with the players, coaches, umps, etc. Some lunatic had crashed a car down the road running from the cops and had made off into the woods. I have no idea why they were still hanging around(hoping he'd be caught and they could finish the game?), or why they had the entrance/exit blocked. Being young and stupid, we headed that way to get a view of the woods. This is where it gets nuts...
A pickup truck zooms down the drive. It was one of the local cops in street clothes, and he asked us what the hell we were doing there. We gave him some BS and he told us the story, then told us to scram. Hand on the Bible, as he says that the lunatic comes out of the woods behind us(about 50-70 foot away). He looked like Antoine the man whore in Duece Bigalow, was wearing black pants, boots, no shirt, but a black leather vest, and had a hand behind his back. The cops sees this, says "Get the hell out of here!", and screeches out of there stranding us! My guy friend was so freaked out he grabbed his girlfriend's friend's hand and runs off with her. So I have to snatch his gf and make off with her. The nut turned and ran into the woods and was caught later.
You get into some crazy stuff smoking pot and loafing around town. I'm sure I would have been on the news if he had killed me.