Althouse: "I will retreat if it gets any more dangerous than this."

August 28, 2011

"I will retreat if it gets any more dangerous than this."

"Be careful with that weird stuff.... That is a bizarre, wild substance that is about to bury you."

Reporter in the hurricane.

10 comments:

madAsHell said...: Famous last words: "Hey guys!! Watch this!!"; 8/28/11, 9:30 AM
ndspinelli said...: There is the "look @ me dad" syndrome. It's usually men who didn't get enough attention from their fathers. Picture the 5 year old boy on the side of the pool about to jump in and saying repeatedly, "Look @ me dad" as his father reads a newspaper. I see adult males doing the equivalent in many variations. This is one example. I'm sure you can all think of others.; 8/28/11, 10:05 AM
edutcher said...: No macho here, some reporter from each of the local stations has to do this in every hurricane, blizzard, etc.

PS Sewage or sea foam?

There really is a difference.; 8/28/11, 10:08 AM
Big Mike said...: By the time you realize that it's dangerous, it may be too late to retreat.

The reporter can take his chances, but every year there's some courageous fire fighter or policeman who also dies trying to rescue a fool who shouldn't have been there in the first darned place. That's the tragedy.; 8/28/11, 10:10 AM
Phil 314 said...: Five News. We're doing "stupid" so you don't have to; 8/28/11, 10:19 AM
Wince said...: Sounds familiar.

Unh, what's that?
Unh, dunno. Look like dog shit.
Enh? Feel.
Unh, feel like dog shit.
Smell.
HUH?
SMELL!
Unh, smell like dog shit.
Taste.
Taste???
Taste!
(tasting sounds)
Unh, taste like dog shit.

Must be dog shit.
Good thing we no step in it.; 8/28/11, 10:36 AM
Sue D'Nhym said...: Weather reporting is a freak show. It's reality TV, and if someone dies, well, we'll get to see it.; 8/28/11, 10:52 AM
Titus said...: I love this video.; 8/28/11, 12:35 PM
MDIJim said...: One of my pet peeves, It is why I both love and loathe the Weather Channel. It is a great source of weather information. Apparently, no one but I would watch if they just gave an accurate forecast and showed the radar. To get viewers they have to have people standing outside in the storm. Usually the person standing outside with trees falling all around him announces that the local police have urged every one to stay inside during this dangerous storm. Remember, all you aspiring journalists, Dan Rather was a nobody reporter at a nowhere TV station in Corpus Christi until the day he broadcast live from the beach as a hurricane came ashore. Then he became a famous network anchor. Then he became an infamous liar. Now he is a has-been.; 8/28/11, 3:51 PM
MDIJim said...: Here is an update on Irene from the coast of Maine. We have had scattered snow flurries in January that were worse than this.

Conspiracy theorists will say that the media hyped Irene to make Obama look good.; 8/28/11, 3:55 PM