Lunatics harrass TV reporter, forcing hosts to abandon live TV segment
A New Zealand news reporter has been forced to abandon a live segment after men gatecrashed the report, unleashing a stream of profanities.
TV3's Kim Vinnell was trying to present a light-hearted piece on the issue of 'man buns', a strangely controversial hair style.
Her efforts to speak to one man sporting the hair style were in vain, however, as another man repeatedly pushed his way into the shot, swearing loudly into the camera.
Apparently encouraged by the offender, another men quickly joined in and unleashed their own foul-mouthed pieces-to-camera as Vinnell did her best to remain professional.
Eventually the anchors back in the studio decided enough was enough and decided to abort the piece before viewers were subject to any further explicit language.
That's the beauty and the danger of live TV; you never really know what is going to happen.
When this man noticed a live news cross was happening near his house he decided he needed to be a part of it.
Full points for effort - his mad dash to make it onto the street in time to make it onto the TV succeeded and he did, in fact, make the news.
Other examples are not quite so benign though. ABC's Q&A host Tony Jones looked mortified when an audience member hurled his shoes at former Prime Minister John Howard.
Luckily for Mr Jones, Mr Howard was no stranger to hostile audiences and quickly reassured him that all was well.
Just a few weeks after Sunrise's Edwina Bartholomew (and her viewers) saw a lot more than they wanted to at nudist camp, a uni student from Bathurst's Charles Sturt University campus has come very close to losing his dressing gown on live TV.
An invitation to students to wake up early for a chance to read the morning weather saw one criminal justice student make the dash wearing very, very little.
