This One is for CC Riter, Golden Toad, The Old Firm and Yes, You Too, JamaGenee
63While Searching on Youtube....
I found this on youtube this evening and literally fell off the bed laughing. I didn't know what was funnier--the newscast or the 911 call.
It brought back memories from when I was a DJ on the radio. We had three stations under one roof---a classic rock station, a country station and a spanish station. Seeing as how I can't speak a lick of spanish, I stayed on the west side of the building. I held the afternoon slot on the country station. I filled in for the news guy when he was out, though, and this is where the scene was set.
You all know how gullible I am, and that was no different back then. I could tell many a story about the pranks pulled on me on the air, but my face would turn so red, I'd loose circulation to my fingers and not be able to type.
So back to the day I was filling in for Frank. It was a small town that never saw much real action. We had a feed at the top of every hour for national news, but the local was all up to us. It consisted of heading down to the police station to go through their records for any arrests or public information of interest. It was usually hit or miss. This particular day, though, I found an arrest report for a lady who ran over a man. It wasn't the accident itself that caught my eye. It was how it happened. The lady was reported to have been driving a pickup truck down one of the downtown streets when she felt what she described as a "bump". She couldn't recall any potholes being in the road, though, so she decided to turn around and see what had caused it. She felt the "bump" again. Now in her defense, this did happen at night, and the streets weren't that well lit. She finally decided to get out to see what was going on. That's when she discovered the drunk man laying in the road groaning. He had laid down on the asphalt to get warm, and she had hit him. Not once, but twice.
Okay, this would suffice as a top news story, so off I went back to the station. I wrote up my report and headed over to the rock studio. I sat down across the counter from the DJ who was very well-versed in pranking me. I should have known better. He throws open my mike and I start my report. I'm being very serious, very professional when I look up and see the guy pretending to be driving--then he pretends to hit a bump. I don't know why, but it set me off. I started giggling and then I couldn't stop. I was right in the middle of a story about a man being run over, and I WAS LAUGHING!!!!! He was finally gracious enough to go to commercial and let me get my wits back, but when I get back on the air, he set me off again!! I was so ashamed. Especially when the lady's family called to complain!!!
Just in case you wondered, it was a little while before I was asked to do the newscast again, but I was finally forgiven and given another chance.
So now that you've heard the shameful memory dredged up by this newcast, I hope you watch it with a straight face.
Disclaimer...
Please understand that I hold the utmost respect for Police Officers and the very difficult job that they have. This, however was too funny to pass up.
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Rough week, GT?
It's not raucous, but it really did make me fall off the bed laughing. Since you guys are quite often the source of my laughs around here, I thought I'd give you the credit.
Hope things get better for you.
I get a day off tomorrow, finally, its been like three weeks since that happened!
Howdo, Proud Mom! Thanks for the giggles and the chuckles, good to relax and take it easy -- I was on a bit of a high, and not from anything I took, more from something I read that had me tripping all over the place --- and I won't say names here!! Laugh!
Glad to hear it, GT. Hope you have fun plans. Or maybe no plans at all.
Now come on, Elena. You can't leave me like that!! Do tell!!!!!! :-))
I'll just mention lemurs and you'll have to find out the rest on your own.... ahem :)
Oh. I haven't been over there. I should've figured it out though. I saw that ya'll had been posting there.
Have fun!!
LOL i enjoyed that one. And speaking of videos - i'll think about it PM *wink*
Just be sure to let me know!!!!
LOL okay, you'll be the first to know - promise :D
NICE! I wasn't laughing at the video until I saw the reporter cracking up! That was MONEY! Reminds me of a few times I landed in the chief's office for laughing at patients. In their homes, to their faces. It's difficult not to crack a smile when they're just so damn stupid!
Thanks for the laugh!!
Surely not you, Amy!!
PM, you've given us plenty of laughs and here are some more. I really can picture the scene and hear you laughing while trying to do the newscast. Too bad you can't post that on here. The video is funny, loved it and thanks for the tribute dear.
Oh, may I add the need for a Velvet Elvis?
Now that I know what TOF meant by Velvet Elvis, I can honestly say THAT would have fit right in with the pranks they used to pull on me at the radio station. Once, it was something about a necklace. It was a couple of weeks before I realized what they had made me say. They actually got reprimanded for that one!
I was worried about you yesterday evening, CC. It's good to see you back.
ROTFL!! Tooo funny, especially when the guy said "we're dead"! Lemmee see, the last time anyone ODed on grass....uh, NEVER!
PM, I cannot imagine *you* in a radio station, at the mercy of a bunch of jokester jocks. Do your remember their names? I suspect they're now hubbers. Won't mention any names, but you know who you are. ;)
Oh, I would just melt!! When I think back about some of the things they pulled, and how I knew NOTHING about how bad they really were--I just cringe in the corner. How embarrassing!! This one was on the innocent end of the spectrum.
It was actually an awesome job. I should have never left the first station I worked for--I didn't know how good I had it. I had worked my way up from the midnight to six shift to the afternoon AND the Promotions Director. The other station, where most of the pranks were pulled on me, wooed me with, "We can take you national...", blah blah blah. I fell for it. I didn't stay very long because there was too much going on there that shouldn't have been. My first job was more like a family. LOTS of good memories!!!!
And the good thing about working on the radio???? You can work in your jammies and no one can see you chasing the cans into the culvert!!
Chasing cans indeed. You're a hoot PM! i reckon that' why we luv ya so
Proud Mom, I think I know which station! The video made me LOLOLOL! I believe how this could happen, there are not that many street lights in NM unless you are in Albuquerque...maybe Santa Fe. I know I would have laughed also!
Thanks for the hub! Seeing CC's comment above I must now go and read them all!
Proud Mom-I read them all! Just want to say--you are some one to be proud of!
I don't know, k@ri-- I just like to laugh. It doesn't take much to get me giggling, that's for sure.
Do you really know which station? It wasn't the one in the college town. They would have never gotten away with pranks there, but the other one........
It's still so funny to me that we were so close, and most likely never even met!!
PM - you really are a hoot - thanks for my laughter medicine for the day!!!
Thanks for the laugh PM. When I was on radio a year or so back if anyone else was in the station they were probably lost, (looking for budget advice next door) or another announcer come to snivel over my presentation.
When I introduced a selection of bagpipe music with "And now we have a bunch of hairy men in dresses standing on a cat's tail" and had two announcers with no more authority than I scuttle in shortly later to tell me what a naughty boy I was, tut tut, I made polite comments about their being childish (one was 65, the other 73) finished my shift, waited three days to cool down, didn't, and handed in my keys. - With the proviso that when the troublemaker apologised I might return.
However, I had three years of fun stirring the airwaves on Radio Geriatric - not it's real name, but a fairly accurate description of both the announcers, and the listeners.
Catch you later,
TOF
Hi Shalini!! Very happy to see you again!
TOF--I didn't know you were on the radio. But I have to say, if you're going to intoduce bagpipe music, THAT would be the way to do it!! You are so funny!!
Great one. Was that really on the news?
Yes, it was. I imagine the station manager gave them "the look" if not an official reprimand....
Good to see you again, Benson. Do you FEEL a year older?
LOL awesome hub, I needed that :)
Hi direxmd!! Good to see you again!!
Hey proud mom!!! I love the way you write and comment; it's extremely wholesome and personal, thanks for being such an awesome writer :)
I also visited your site and have to compliment you on it! how is business going? how are the kids?
Well, thank you. I'm humbled.
I don't really have a business per say...I work with special needs kids 3 hours a day, and I LOVE it!! I used to teach at a satellite of our state school for the Deaf, but it was full time, and I need to be home with my kids!!!
The kids are great. We got really good news about the one who is having health problems yesterday, so we are celebrating!! We also have a birthday to celebrate today, so we are sugar loaded!!!! Bouncing off the walls today. We'll be crashed by 7:00 tonight...You know the old saying--What goes up, must come down!
Oh too funny! I don't know that I would have been able to not crack up uncontrollably. Great story and video. That's guy is a Darwin Awards winner now, isn't he.
Right up there, I'd say.
It makes me feel better that you would have cracked up, too, Frieda. Sometimes, you just can't help yourself!!
Haha yes I am gullible too especially when I ask here is that video real.Please don't laugh too much at me haha.I am sitting here with a male friend of mine who has just popped over.He is a brunette and he does not know whether that is for real or not here.Anxiously awaiting your wise words Proud Mom.
Sadly enough, blondepoet, it is true. It really did show on the news. There really was a cop who confiscated some pot, took it home to his wife and made brownies. I don't know if it was his first time, or what, but he really did think they were dead because time was going by so slow and dialed 911. I've never smoked it, but even I know it really "relaxes" you. Anyway, they're not wise words, but they are truthful.... Enjoy your afternoon with your brunette hunk!!!!!!!
Oh my gosh my family loves to play pranks on me and tell me I am very gullible. The video at the end it funny, but I am a little skeptical about the officer calling 911 over the brownie overdose. Part of me thinks he was pretending to be poisoned by marijuana so he could get fired because why else would someone call the police about that?!
SweetiePie, I have no idea!! It's all so strange to me that it's hilarious!!
Haha well I'll be.Omg it is so funny,I guess that's why I asked whether it was real.I tried it ages ago wasn't a good experience.I remember laying on the bathroom floor,yet I was hallucenating thinking I was in a African jungle,and I saw lions,monkeys plus I thought the water was up to my nose.I called out for help but I could barely make a noise.Suddenly a few guys came in and I remember them carrying me to my bed singing "Hi Ho Hi Ho" as they walked haha.Honestly that is exactly how it happened.
That's wild!!!!! How was your afternoon yesterday with the brunette?
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goldentoad says:
10 months ago
Too funny indeed. Thanks PM. I needed that.