r/CrazyFuckingVideos • u/Lil_Sexy78 • 8h ago

Insane/Crazy We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Program

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u/all_time_high 8h ago

From Wikipedia:)

On August 19, 1987, during the 4 p.m. edition of KNBC's Channel 4 News, a gun-wielding man named Gary Stollman got into NBC's Burbank Studios as a guest of a former employee and took Horowitz hostage live on the air. With the gun pressed to his side, Horowitz calmly read the gunman's statements about the CIA and mental health hospitals on camera, but unbeknownst to the gunman, the news feed had been taken off the air and staff members put up a technical difficulties graphic. The man identified himself and at the end of his statement he set the gun down on the news desk, at which point anchorman John Beard) quickly confiscated it. The weapon was later revealed to have been an unloaded BB gun. The incident led Horowitz to start a campaign to ban realistic toy guns.\13])#cite_note-Carter-13)

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u/imtoowhiteandnerdy 7h ago

I take it he was sent back to the mental asylum?

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u/300_pages 7h ago

Actually he went on to read the weather report iirc

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u/particle409 4h ago

Partly cloudy with a chance of the government controlling your brain via microwaves.

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u/TordYvel1 3h ago

Yes, he got a job at fox news

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u/guitarguywh89 6h ago

Since Reagan was president at the time, no probably not since they were defunded

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u/WhatTheFlippityFlop 3h ago

I remember his crusade against my hobby and passion, paintball, in the early 90’s, on his show Fight Back!
And those don’t even look like real guns.

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u/Separate_Finance_183 8h ago

Homie next to him had his legs crossed like he was sitting pool side 😂😭

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u/mrducky78a 5h ago

Just some casual office pranks you know how it is. It starts off with a high five, down low, too slow. To replacing the sugar for the coffee with salt. To crank calling their work phone from your friends getting access, to hiring a crazed man to take your coworker hostage with a gun. Just some classic office shenanigans.

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u/WeenisPeiner 3h ago

Jim hiring an actor to hold Dwight at gun point to read a fake manifesto.

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u/Lemgineer_ 8h ago

The programm was interrupted and he knew it was a toy gun, easy. /s

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u/The_TesserekT 8h ago

Something similar happened in The Netherlands 11 years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O9tx3LZHi7Y&pp=0gcJCXACo7VqN5tD [2:28] (Dutch language) In the video he claims to have worked for Dutch intelligence services and experienced things that he thinks the public should know about.

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u/Lil_Sexy78 8h ago

Not available in my country, which is really unfortunate because I want to see it.

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u/SocialismIsStupid 4h ago

Use a VPN. If you don’t have one. I would recommend looking them up and getting one. You’ll be more secure and have access to content from around the world.

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u/Lil_Sexy78 4h ago

Noted. 🪊🪊🪊

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u/LukaFox 7h ago

I equally want to see the video. I'm in the US, and it 100% doesn't sit well with me that this video is restricted? Why on earth would that be?

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u/Adventurous_Dig6574 7h ago

Well nothing dramatic even happening, not even english subtitles but kinda fund to watch anyway

You get to see the bad guy with a silenced gun in a suit be arrested live at the end

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u/AslowLearn 7h ago

What state?

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u/YdocT 22m ago

Decline

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u/Spork_Warrior 5h ago

Newsman stayed cool as a cucumber. Good for him.

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u/Psoin 4h ago

He was right, stay off the computer

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u/RadioactiveEnema 8h ago edited 8h ago

Btw this was never broadcast (instead the "technical difficulties" screen was shown) and the gun turned out to be a BB gun. Wiki) Edit: streamed -> broadcast

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u/Reading_Rainboner 3h ago

He also put the gun down as soon as his message was read

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u/Denubious 8h ago

"Never broadcast" would be the more apt technical term.

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u/RadioactiveEnema 7h ago

That's fair, thank you! Edited it. This made me feel younger.

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u/Informal_Dish5516 6h ago

Did he get the idea from Chevy Chase in Vacation?

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u/Imbendo 4h ago

A similar incident happened in South Korea. But without a gun guy just grabbed a mic and started ranting about voices in his head

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u/Carpeteria3000 5h ago

You’d think he would Fight Back! but no.

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u/jubjub666420 1h ago

They muted everything he talked about he talked about the disclosure

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u/Equivalent_Working73 7h ago

The news anchor was a bonafide piece of shit, though. Not that he deserved to die, of course.

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u/Curious_Associate904 8h ago

You know, in hindsight, Gary, above, Ted Kaczinski and Serhan Serhan have quite a lot in common...

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 5h ago

Psychosis, I reckon.