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    TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall

    The Dangers of Being a Television News Reporter
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    Image of Gnip-Gnop Gnip-Gnop
    12/29/08

    In reply to TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
    Looks to me like he landed and hit his nuts somehow. See the way he has his hands down there? Also, the bent over walk. If you're a guy, you can read the body language.
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    Image of Shelwood Shelwood
    12/29/08

    @Gnip-Gnop: Fun anatomy fact: if you injure your hip joint(s), you'll feel the pain in your groin, not the outside of your hips. It's probably his hips, unless he has enormous balls.
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    12/29/08

    In reply to TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
    I love a good, drawn-out fall like that. Good rotation, guy!
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    12/29/08

    In reply to TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
    Reporters have to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, …I was interviewing Peggy Fleming at the Garden one time and she invited me to put on skates and get out on the ice with her. I considered it for about three nanoseconds before having a rare epiphany and saying "next time, okay?"
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    12/29/08

    @Weegee's bored: Yeah, but you probably shouldn't have agreed to get the same haircut as her.


    Now that I think about it, I had the Peggy Fleming haircut way back when. It was my mom's fault though.

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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    12/29/08

    In reply to TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
    "Wow...what's that word for the tailbone again that sounds really medical?...wow...cocxys?...yeah that's it...wow.
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    Image of onebadclam onebadclam
    12/29/08

    In reply to TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
    It's even worse when the anchors mock your misery.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/29/08

    In reply to TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
    He landed right on his li'l white-boy spider ass. Youch. This is why weather field people need to be ladies at all times. When we land on our tailbones, we at least have some padding to cushion it, plus there is some concurrent bouncing that the mens find titillating, helping ratings and bonhommie all around.
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    12/29/08

    In reply to TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
    But it wasn't for want of cold weather accouterment that he fell. I don't even think they wear so much cold weather gear in Antarctica.
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    Image of theysaidwhat theysaidwhat
    12/29/08

    @i'm_a_bottle: Apparently, he forgot the crampoms...
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    12/29/08

    @theysaidwhat: Whoa. I had to OED that badboy of a word. It wasn't even in Wikipedia.


    "3. A small plate of iron set with spikes or points which is fastened to the foot to secure a firmer hold in walking over ice or slippery ground, or in climbing a steep. Cf. CRAMPET 3."


    Yes, he forgot his crampons. The first and the last time, apparently.

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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    12/29/08

    In reply to TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
    Slow News Days are the leading cause of journalist injuries.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    12/29/08

    @Hiphopopotamus: Now, THAT'S a fall!
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    Image of jbk jbk
    12/29/08

    In reply to TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
    What a bunch of babies his Baghdad colleagues are, ducking every time a mortar round goes off 10 feet over their shoulder. Ok, is it just me or does that fall not seem as bad as the histrionics from him and his in-studio anchor seem to make it?
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    Image of Shelwood Shelwood
    12/29/08

    @jbk: The video doesn't really show the ground, but having grown up in Green Bay I know that A. Lambeau Field is built on sloping lot and B. because of the incessant snow, the plows never take the lot down to bare ground. So he's on uneven packed snow with a hard coat of ice over it, and he fell ass first into the hill, so the ground smacked him sooner than he expected (before his arms came down to brace him). Hope he has a nice, fluffy butt or he just cracked his tailbone.
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    12/29/08

    @Shelwood: Yup, if you live in a cold climate, you know he may as well have fallen on cement.


    Scratch that: cement is more forgiving.

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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    12/29/08

    @jbk: Never broken a wrist, have you?
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    Image of Helman Helman
    12/29/08

    In reply to TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
    I'd totally vote for him for senator.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    12/29/08

    @Helman: Meaning that he already knows how to take a dive?
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    Image of Helman Helman
    12/29/08

    @Weegee's bored: That, and "you know" isn't so far from "uh, oh."
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    Image of mmstk101 mmstk101
    12/29/08

    In reply to TV Reporter Falls On Ass In Holiday Weekend Pratfall
    "People Falling Down" is pretty high up on my list of things I find amusing. That said, if I were that guy, I would be mortified.
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    12/23/08

    In reply to The Dangers of Being a Television News Reporter
    The guy being flipped over by the inner tube is a personal favourite (We both work for the same network, he usually does crazy stand ups like this one)
    The best part of the clip wasn't show though- after being flipped into the air and landing on the snow, he picks up his discarded microphone and says, "That was a bad idea. At Riverside Park, Rob Leth, Global News." And falls back down onto the snow.


    He finished his stand up! It's the best part of the whole clip!

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