What happens when a local Indiana news show segues from a segment with spiders to the weather report? In this case, a particularly arachnophobic weatherman very much loses your cool and attempts to give the weather report from the back of the studio, by an exit. When the bullyish male news anchor decides to wear the spider on his sleeve and threatens to put it on people, things get frantic. Professional news reporting at its best.
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Subject: Re: 'Local News Report Completely Derailed By Spider' (video) Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:54 am
I was expecting to see a little spider drop down from the ceiling. The guy was being a jackass. And apparently doesn't know as much as he thinks he does. When he had it up near his face he's lucky it didn't feel threatened. The weather guy is right. They will shoot hairs & it's unpleasant. It's fine if the guy had no fear of the spider himself. But to attempt to put it on or near other people who wanted no part of it was just being a bully & an ass. Wish the spider had proved the weatherman right.
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Subject: Re: 'Local News Report Completely Derailed By Spider' (video) Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:50 am
That's hilarious how he still did the weather report and commented on the spider at the same time.
I was expecting to see a little spider drop down from the ceiling. The guy was being a jackass. And apparently doesn't know as much as he thinks he does. When he had it up near his face he's lucky it didn't feel threatened. The weather guy is right. They will shoot hairs & it's unpleasant. It's fine if the guy had no fear of the spider himself. But to attempt to put it on or near other people who wanted no part of it was just being a bully & an ass. Wish the spider had proved the weatherman right.
What an ass. I would like to have known the follow-up commentary in the local press on this.
If that ass is still working for the station after embarrassing it on the local airwaves, I'm sure he has had a chewing by their HR department. Even Fox network is not exempt from EEOC complaints about a "Hostile Work Environment." The ass was probably taken by the ear later by the station execs and made to apologize to the weatherman, trying to avert a lawsuit. This kind of harrassment might even fit a legal definition of "assault."
As long as no harm came to the spider I don't see a problem. Maybe I missed something but it didn't look like the spider was anywhere near the weatherman. Now what really would have been funny is if that tarantula had put on his track shoes and run up the anchorman's arm and down his back.
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Where was the weather man and where was the news anchor? They didn't look anywhere near each other for him to be throwing a fit like that. It's the lady sitting next to him that should have have been threatening to leave.
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