[lotharbot]

In the guidelines [0], immediately after the aforementioned vague comment, pg gives some specific restrictions:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[meric]

"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

I don't think they'd cover this on TV news.

[ak39]

:)