Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/28/watch-this-news-reporter-just.html
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He’s so casual about it! I would have leapt 10 feet in the air like a cat spotting a cucumber.
News reporting can be deadly. Tucson lost a very good news photographer when a transformer at the newspaper building exploded in 1982.
Who is crazier, the weathermen, their bosses who send them into storms for ratings, or us for watching?
Didn’t realise Jerry Seinfeld had a new gig!
Comedians in Storms Getting Electrocuted
Hope the crew is getting hazard pay. Otherwise, fuck that. Actually…just fuck that.
What a cool cat. Also if you were looking for a microphone that’s good in high winds, I don’t know what that one is called but there ya go.
Probably should NOT have worn the Star Trek redshirt uniform.
Everyone is missing the main point, this guy was attacked by a TRANSFORMER! Not sure what their being blown has to do with it…
It’s probably a standard type of microphone inside a zeppelin.
Grew up in Tampa. I jumped over a bonfire in HS. Burned all my leg hair off. Had a good laugh.
This? This is unnecessary. I’ve done dumb stuff I the past, but hanging out in standing water with an electrical mess sparking up? Yeah, I’ll take another pass at the bonfire first. Dude should know better if he lives down there.
Hat tip to that guy for keeping the language clean. I’d have lit up the FCC’s profanity beeper harder than George Carlin
Anyone notice how often the link to comments (excepting this one) goes nowhere? Just me?
This is awesome!
Yeah, I was just thinking the same. There must be something about the BoingBoing blogging software which makes it an easy mistake to make, because I’m seeing it often.
The Meteor – Origins
Not just you. I’m with you there.