tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-110146842009-11-08T19:14:48.694-08:00Confronting questionable businesses, Glen Loyd has been helping consumers for more than 30 years with his TV reports in Wisconsin. Read his memoir, and you will never be ripped-off again!glen loydnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11014684.post-1110719865891465382005-03-13T05:15:00.000-08:002005-04-26T07:55:34.046-07:00<img alt="Example" src="http://photos6.flickr.com/7799911_385c5bc78a_m.jpg" /><br />wluk-tv 1980<br /><br />More than 70,000 people have contacted me as an on your side reporter. That is about the number of folks that fill Lambeau Field on fall Sundays in Green Bay. While most people ask for help, many say thanks, tell eloquent stories or offer help to those in need. I'm indebted to the writers of these letters which I've sprinkled throughout this memoir.<br /><br />Contents<br /><br /><strong>I</strong><br /><em><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/02/warning.html">Warning!</a></em><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/02/chapter-1portrayed-in-cbs-tv-movie.html">1. Portrayed in a CBS-TV Movie </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-2courts-of-last-re_110978148003829963.html">2. Courts of last resort<br /></a><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-3warning-consumers-about.html">3. Warning consumers about asbestos</a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-4an-investigative-reporter-on.html">4. An investigative reporter on TV</a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-5bart-starr-and-fitness-center.html">5. Bart Starr and the fitness center<br /></a><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-6war-on-stench.html">6. War on stench </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-7what-were-they-thinking.html">7. What were they thinking?</a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-8tv-11-news-purposely.html">8. TV-11 News: purposely outrageous </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-9getting-sued-in-dallas.html">9. Getting sued in Dallas, Texas </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-10lawsuit-2-curse-of-pharaoh.html">10.Lawsuit #2: Curse of the pharaoh </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-11lawsuit-3-weight-loss.html">11. Lawsuit #3: Weight reduction </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-12coming-to-career-crossroads.html">12. Career crossroads </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-13lawsuits-4-5-and-6.html">13. Lawsuits #4, 5 and 6 </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-14civil-servant.html">14. Civil servant </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-15rip-off-of-month.html">15. Rip-off of the month </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-16picketing-questionable.html">16. Picketing questionable businesses </a><br /><br /><strong>II<br /></strong><em>People</em><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-17working-with-tv.html">17. Working with TV photographers </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-18helping-chris-wallace.html">18. Helping Chris Wallace</a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-19human-interest-stories.html">19. Human interest stories </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-20my-most-emotional-story.html">20. My most emotional story </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-21losing-cheryls-light.html">21. Losing Cheryl's light</a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-22little-travis-gets-his_03.html">22. Little Travis gets his kidney</a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-23this-scout-does-not-back.html">23. Scout doesn't take no for answer<br /></a><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-24a-grandsons-funeral.html">24. A Grandson's funeral </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-25glen-loyds-annual-care-and.html">25. Glen Loyd's Care and Share Party </a><br /><br /><strong>III</strong><br /><em>New concerns</em><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-26international-con-artists.html">26. International con artists </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-27why-elderly-are-conned-so.html">27. Why the elderly are conned so often </a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-28strangers-at-your-door.html">28. Strangers at your door</a><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-29my-advice-about-health.html">29. My advice about health advertising</a><br /><br /><strong>IV<br /></strong><em>Piercing other minds</em><br /><a href="http://fglenloyd.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapter-30my-hero-at-milwaukee-journal.html">30. My hero at the <em>Milwaukee Journal</em></a><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Example" src="http://photos8.flickr.com/11030114_b8dcb58407_m.jpg" /><br />This 2005 photo was<br />made for my induction<br />into the Wisconsin<br />Broadcasters Hall of Fame.<br /><br /><br /><img alt="Example" src="http://photos5.flickr.com/7799912_0dce514c4b.jpg" /><br />Exposing a Green Bay shop selling<br />illegal drug paraphernalia in 1990.<br /><br /><br /><img alt="Example" src="http://photos7.flickr.com/7796428_d50061bcb7_m.jpg" /><br />News and production staff at<br />WFRV-TV in Green Bay. I am<br />in the middle of the back row.<br /><br /><br /><img alt="Example" src="http://photos4.flickr.com/7799913_b4a9b69c54.jpg" /><br />It was an honor for me to match up kids with Big Brothers and Big Sisters. And with the help of viewers supplying presents, I held 19 Care and Share Christmas Parties for Salvation Army kids.<br /><br /><img alt="Example" src="http://photos6.flickr.com/7796427_4b616cc3a7_m.jpg" /><br />WFRV-TV<br />Green Bay 1988<br /><br /><img alt="Example" src="http://photos4.flickr.com/7796426_0d3e7ef7c9_m.jpg" /><br />Used car lots had spectacular sales on<br />George Washington's birthday when I was<br />growing up in Washington, D.C. At age 16,<br />I was on the front page of the Washington<br />Herald after buying my first car, a 1947 Buick,<br />for 46 cents on Feb. 22, 1956.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/11014684-111071986589146538?l=glenloyd.blogspot.com'/></div>glen loydnoreply@blogger.com10