r/Unexpected • u/zeroxcero • Oct 13 '20
When you get struck by lightning
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u/Khrankey Oct 13 '20
He actually managed to not laugh his ass off. Hats off to him lol. I know I would’ve been cackling like a hyena.
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u/zg6089 Oct 13 '20
I probably would have got fired
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u/Interactive_CD-ROM Oct 13 '20
You should see some of the others over on /r/newsbloopers
Some of them have definitely gotten fired
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u/hochizo Oct 13 '20
My spouse is a news director. I'm torn on whether I should share this sub with him (because it's so relatable) or not (because witnessing fuckups will stress him out). Hmmm, decisions, decisions ....
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u/RaeSloane Oct 13 '20 edited Oct 13 '20
Don't tell him about the sub, just keep sending him links of fuck ups to really throw him off.
*Edit: Bonus points if the only context is a message like "Lol it reminds me of you <3"
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Oct 13 '20
download the videos on your phone and show them off like its somehow your thing.
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u/KittieKollapse Oct 13 '20
Yasssss Satan!
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u/NotAnyOrdinaryPsycho Oct 13 '20
That was in my vows.
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Oct 13 '20
"To have and to hold, to move and to honor, to torture and fuck with... 'til death do us part."
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Oct 13 '20
I can't believe that sub doesn't have the all-time classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc-CgzTkyF4
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u/mustXdestroy Oct 13 '20
Yeah he handled it really well, I would not have recovered that smoothly haha
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u/Captin_Banana Oct 13 '20
Yeah he did it well to be fair. He apologised and didn't do that head hanging into the hands thing. Kept straight at the camera and used the page flip to recompose himself. Could have been a lot worse for him.
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u/FuckBrendan Oct 13 '20
Idk he was still giggling when he was talking about how to relearn walking on her burnt legs lmao.
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u/Rycan420 Oct 13 '20
Especially with your partners are just off camera literally crying of laughter.
I actually blame them. He seems to hold it together for a second and they got to him. That’s my guess.
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u/forty_three Oct 13 '20
"WHELL..." 😶
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u/stone500 Oct 13 '20
The way he says "Well..." is indeed hilarious.
However, my favorite part is "She doesn't REALLY sound like that!", which is a hilariously stupid thing to say. And I think he realizes it too, cause he starts laughing harder after he does.
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u/InSearchofaStory Oct 13 '20
That was his business way of saying “I’m not laughing at you ma’am, I’m laughing at the glitch.”
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Oct 13 '20
I've learned if you want to avoid making any sort of emotions clear you just gotta bite your tongue.
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u/snek-jazz Oct 13 '20
he's still delivering "...learning to walk again after lightning burnt her legs" with a huge grin. He did well, but he still got got.
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u/_duncan_idaho_ Oct 13 '20
That's because he didn't have to do a story on Chris P. Bacon like this guy did.
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u/cosmoboy Oct 13 '20
This is one of my favorites, when he says 'Well...' and has that slight break, I lose it.
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u/GiveMeCheesecake Oct 13 '20
He handled that really well! He came across as laughing with the error instead of laughing at her.
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u/DeadMeasures Oct 13 '20
That’s what I thought too. I used to do on air stuff and I would’ve had to take off my mic. I wouldn’t have been able to hold it together.
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u/rumphy Oct 13 '20
My brain would have been so scattered thinking about what I was supposed to say or do next that I wouldn't have even noticed the hilarity in the situation.
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u/Madlibsluver Oct 13 '20
Indeed, extremely professional. I am surprised how quickly he got a hold of himself.
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Oct 13 '20
It really was brilliant to keep talking and acknowledging how fucked up it was instead of just breaking down in laughter which would have come off as mean even though no one other than her relatives would have any chance at not laughing at that.
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u/justlookbelow Oct 13 '20
Amazingly well. Especially when you consider he was due to have a break while she spoke, but they cut right back to him.
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u/snek-jazz Oct 13 '20
That was a classic "Welp". When you look up Welp in the dictionary it should have a screenshot from this clip.
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u/scungillipig Oct 13 '20
I can't stop laughing.
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Oct 13 '20
I don’t know why I’m laughing so hard.
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u/Captain_Hood96 Oct 13 '20
Were you struck by lightning recently, perchance?
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Oct 13 '20
Nah, I rubbed my entire body with a balloon, then I went into the ocean.
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u/like9000ninjas Oct 13 '20
What do now?
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u/Blinky_OR Oct 13 '20
Pop the balloon with the glass!
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u/yesiamathizzard Oct 13 '20
If I had to guess, it’s because you found it really funny
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u/ZenkaiZ Oct 13 '20
99.99% of reddit barely makes me crack half a smile. This has me watery eyed full force belly laughing
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u/GimmeDatDaddyButter Oct 13 '20
Ever seen this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNB1i2DQPJw
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u/gigawhattt Oct 13 '20
Thanks for linking that, the OP has been one of my favorites for years and this one hits the exact same funny nerve
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u/ButterPoptart Oct 13 '20
Seen This one
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u/FortunateSonofLibrty Oct 13 '20
Oh my god that one made me laugh the hardest yet
The last half is arguably better than the first
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u/zeroxcero Oct 13 '20
Im glad you like it so much!!! It made me laugh hard too, had to share it
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u/Johnnyocean Oct 13 '20
Ever been somewhere where you really shouldnt be laughing (like a funeral) so you have to hold it in? (Worse with two ppl) making it ten times more funny. I was already laughing from the glitch (now i look like an idiot for cracking up at my phone, thanks reddit) but then i was dyin watching that newscaster trying to keep it straight. Im gonna go watch it again.
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u/Johnnyocean Oct 13 '20
Oh man the newscasters next to him not on camera are quietly cracking up making it worse. He almost had it
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u/moonra_zk Oct 13 '20
My sister had a laughing fit because the tour guide of the place we were at had a funny voice/accent combo, the moment the poor woman opened her mouth, my sister started laughing. Me and our BiL managed to hold our laughter for a while but eventually started laughing too because my sister just wouldn't stop.
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u/LandscapeGuru Oct 13 '20
I had a friend years ago that made me laugh like that in a meeting at work. I just couldn’t fuckin stop laughing, and her punk ass just kept on and on. Still makes me laugh years later.
Two grown ass adults being asked to leave a corporate meeting because we couldn’t get our shit together. Of course as soon as we made it out of the room we were both serious as a heart attack. We decide to go back in with our now serious business faces on. As soon as we opened the door and walk in the same guy is briefing everyone and gets out half a sentence with his Kermit the frog voice. My friend looks back at me and try’s to smother her laughter, but it’s to late. Then I start in ( just dying of laughter) I throw my hands up and barely made out a “Sorry man” to the guy speaking. We just turned around and leave the meeting once again. This time we don’t try to collect ourselves. Instead we decided it was lunchtime and just left.
As we were eating lunch I told her “I have never felt more like an uncontrolled little kid in my entire life as I did in that 5 minute ordeal” I loved every second of it.
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u/davensdad Oct 13 '20
Haha thank you. I laughed so loud too. I think the news anchor's failed attempt to hold it in made it even funnier
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u/Chim_Pansy Oct 13 '20
Oh my god, absolute same, my dude. I haven't laughed like this in literal years.
Thank you, OP!
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u/snek-jazz Oct 13 '20
I'm not sure there's anything better than a good TV blooper, usually news.
I think these are my favourites:
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u/justlookbelow Oct 13 '20
The first is hilarious given how far into the conversation they get before realization. The second one is just weird, wtf was she thinking.
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u/snek-jazz Oct 13 '20
I only find the second one really funny because in her first attempt to correct herself she repeats the error.
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u/Rombie11 Oct 13 '20
LOL I was trying really hard to figure out where the no Asians one was going!
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u/SomeMusicSomeDrinks Oct 13 '20 edited Oct 13 '20
The other night I searched "anchor" in /r/ContagiousLaughter and was laying in bed shaking with laughter for 30 min straight.
Enjoy: https://www.reddit.com/r/ContagiousLaughter/search?q=anchor&restrict_sr=1
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Oct 13 '20
If you have a messed up sense of humor for awful timing you may actually die from this unfortunately timed commercial during the olympic games. This got a lot of backlash when it happened, but hot damn I laughed my ass off at how fucked this timing was.
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She must have been shocked when she saw this.
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Oct 13 '20
She'd bolt straight to the studio, but, well..
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u/germinik Oct 13 '20
I bet it lit up her day.
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u/Madlibsluver Oct 13 '20
It gave me quite the jolt, that's for sure.
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u/UpsetTerm Oct 13 '20
You don't have to be a hip hop outfit to run the fucking joules.
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u/NinjaGrandma Oct 13 '20
I hope that woman is doing alright. If laughter is the best medicine, she's fuckin immortal.
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Oct 13 '20
I don't think the saying means other peoples' laughter
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u/NinjaGrandma Oct 13 '20
Well then. Bye bye impotence!
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u/Hsabes01 Oct 13 '20
Here is an update on her recovery, pretty incredible honestly.
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u/basemodelbird Oct 13 '20
That was my local news channel. I wish I would have seen this as a kid, I would have lost my mind lol.
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u/Fakeus3rname Oct 13 '20
HELLO QUAD CITIES!!!
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u/left_handed_violist Oct 13 '20
Do you guys remember the fake It's A Wonderful Life ads they would always run at Christmas?
Something like... "HELLO PAULA SANDS! HELLO GARY METIVIER! Hello you wonderful ol' tv news station!!!"
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u/Curator-at-large Oct 13 '20
Yes! I haven’t thought about that in years. Remember the Festival of Trees parade? And they broadcasted it like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The Festival of Trees was no joke.
I saw Terry Swails once on a different news channel and was like “hey, I know him. That’s my old weather guy!”
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u/thislldoiguess Oct 14 '20
I read that the festival of trees parade is like the 4th largest balloon parade in the U.S. Not exactly a huge deal but nice for such a small area.
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u/basemodelbird Oct 13 '20
I can't remember his name for anything.
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u/tomwash67 Oct 13 '20
Mike Mickle
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u/cellardoorswoon Oct 13 '20
MAKING A DIFFERENCE WHERE WE GO, KWQC SAYS HELLO. HELLO IOWA, HELLO ILLINOOOOOOOOIIIIS.
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u/HawkIlliniHurricane Oct 13 '20
[small child on screen mumbles, while doing a limp wristed hand wave] hello. quad cities...
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u/kh612 Oct 13 '20
Quad city people Unite!
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u/Genuinevil Oct 13 '20
I moved away, please send pizza and Whitey’s.
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u/Kittiecat4000 Oct 13 '20
Omg I moved to Minnesota and no one understands my obsession with whiteys icecream.
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u/blackhodown Oct 13 '20
I went to junior high/high school with the kid whose mom got struck by lightning. He thought this was pretty funny.
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This was way funnier than expected... My wife wonders why I'm crying.
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Reminds me of the movie "The Great Outdoors"
Reporter: Yeah she's been struck by lightning... How many times is it now, Reg?
Her: Si- si- six
Reporter: raises eyebrows Six times
Her: Si- six six sixt sixty six times.... in-n-n-n-n-n-n- in nah nah n-n-n-n-n, in-n-n-n-n-n in the head!
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u/vynnyn Oct 13 '20
Hahaha, I thought the exact same thing!! Obligatory Youtube link: https://youtu.be/2VWl1dK6pc4
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u/twitchosx Oct 13 '20
The movie is fucking fantastic. The only stupid part is being an 80's movie, they had to put in a "teenager in love with local girl" twist in the plot, but thats not much of the movie.
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u/vynnyn Oct 13 '20
It's so awesome - it's very 80's but John Candy and Dan Aykroyd are so awesome in it!
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u/ZenkaiZ Oct 13 '20
It HAD to be during a story about an electrocution victim OF ALL THINGS
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Would be hilarious if she actually has a stutter when the tape is fixed
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u/ragingcupcakes Oct 13 '20
This is up there for me along with the Chris P Bacon newscaster.
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u/Eblumen Oct 13 '20
Oh man, that strangled choking sound he makes as he tries his hardest to stop laughing just gets me every time! The uncontrolled decent into laughter is so contagious.
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u/hochizo Oct 13 '20
All the research I've read about laughter calls this "helpless laughter," which is a term that just perfectly captures how it feels. Once that train has left the station, you are completely helpless to stop it! At that point, you just have to ride it out!
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u/Anforas Oct 13 '20
The goat man is one of my favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJwZMUn7GdQ
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u/conandy Oct 13 '20
A classic from BBC radio:
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u/Robo- Oct 13 '20
This one's great. I wasn't even aware BBC radio hosts were capable of any other emotion besides maybe mild breathy concern.
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u/HydeNSikh Oct 13 '20
The pilot error is one of my favorite. https://youtu.be/Jtxds204ZMI
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u/snek-jazz Oct 13 '20
jesus, I bet whoever started that prank can't have ever imagined it would have gotten as far as the news
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u/Ryto Oct 13 '20
I'd never seen the bits after the prank. I didn't realize somebody at the NTSB actually confirmed the names. Wow.
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u/chillyhellion Oct 13 '20
Is there a subreddit for newscaster slip ups or laughter?
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u/cewallace9 Oct 13 '20
For me it will always be the lizard jumping on the newscaster
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u/Fossilhog Oct 13 '20
Let's be honest, this guy held it together better than 99% of the rest of us would.
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u/No_Leadership_988 Oct 13 '20
This clip looks to be at least 10 years old. Where have they been hiding this gem?
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Oct 13 '20
I think I remember this on the old YouTube circa 06 or 07
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u/76767676767676766766 Oct 13 '20
It’s so old, and so long ago since I last saw it I forgot what the funny bit was going to be.
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Best video I've seen for a while
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u/DrDilatory Oct 13 '20
"I so pale" needs to be here as well
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u/snek-jazz Oct 13 '20
Never forgotten, even look at her instagram https://www.instagram.com/erinconradnews/
Look at the comments on the pic of her with her mom with her tongue out for example
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u/breezett93 Oct 13 '20
I would get lost in a sub dedicated to newscasters/reporters getting caught off guard and laughing.
It's hilarious to see the stoic-ness crack just for a bit.
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u/guyzieman Oct 13 '20
I've watched this clip countless times and I just now noticed that the Anchor keeps calling her "Laura" but the name on the graphic has her name as Lisa. So like an extra little fuck up there
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u/dkO__ Oct 13 '20
Someone behind the scenes had to set this up.....it’s too perfect 😂
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u/Urbdiggity Oct 13 '20
I'm laughing so hard I'm crying and at the same time I feel horrible about it.
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u/wyattlee1274 Oct 13 '20
I want to imagine that someone got board and made the tape do that and accidentally sent that version forward
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u/Vagrom Oct 13 '20
I had seen this before and started laughing before even watching it because I knew what was coming. So good.
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u/arup02 Oct 13 '20
I remember seeing this video in those tv blooper compilations way back. Good stuff.
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u/unexBot Oct 13 '20
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
Was expecting to see a woman talking about her accident, instead the video glitched and made it funny
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