電視臺主持人錯過直播 一怒之下上演滑稽秀

Two Chicago television anchors run into a comic paper-throwing tantrum when they missed a bridge implosion they had been covering on live television on Friday。

Morning hosts Robin Baumgarten and Larry Potash from WGN (World's Greatest Newspaper) news spoke for three minutes about the impending explosion of the Seneca bridge over the IIllinois River. Throughout their talk, the bridge stands still in front of television viewers。

"I think we're gonna stay with this," Baumgarten told the camera. "It's supposed to happen right at seven o'clock." Minutes later, nothing had happened and the bridge was still there. The show then cut away to the weatherman。

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However, within just seconds, the explosion happened, and the news show missed it. The program went back to the live river shot, showing the steel bridge blown up and collapsed down into the river。

"Are you kidding me?" Baumgarten cries in mock exasperation, balling up paper and throwing it towards the camera. "We stay live for three minutes and cut away for five seconds...." She started wildly gesticulating and pounding the table with her fists while Potash stuffed paper into his mouth, chewed it up and spit it out。英國《每日郵報》20日報道稱，芝加哥某電視臺兩位主播週五全程直播當地某橋被炸情況，卻錯失最重要的爆炸時刻，二人一怒之下上演了一場扔紙團的滑稽秀。

芝加哥WGN(注：全稱爲World's Greastest Newspaper，即“世界最偉大報紙”)新聞的兩位早間主播羅賓-鮑姆加滕和拉里-波塔什就伊利諾伊河上的塞內卡橋即將被炸的消息播報了三分鐘。這期間，電視畫面中的橋一動不動。

“我想我們還要等一會兒，”鮑姆加滕對着鏡頭說道。“這座橋預定於7點被炸燬。”然而幾分鐘過去了，什麼都沒發生，橋還是靜靜地立在那裏。於是電視節目被切成了天氣預報。

結果就在這幾秒鐘內，塞內卡橋被引爆，二人錯失現場直播。調出剛纔的錄像可以看到，鋼製橋身被炸斷，一頭栽進了伊利諾伊河。

“不是開玩笑吧！”鮑姆加滕見狀佯裝憤怒，大喊着把手中的稿件揉成一團扔向了攝像機。“三分多鐘的等待，只是五秒的離開，就....。.”她開始手腳亂擺狂拍桌子，而波塔什則哭喪着臉把紙團塞到嘴裏大嚼，然後吐出來。