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Las Vegas Reporter OK After Being Accosted Live On-Air By Man Who Wanted $1
ADWEEK ^ | May 21, 2025 | Kevin Eck

Posted on 05/26/2025 6:13:06 AM PDT by Racketeer

KVVU reporter Molly McBride is OK after being accosted live on-air by a man who wanted a dollar.

McBride had just started her standup about recent shootings in the area, when the man came running from behind asking for a dollar. He kept repeating the request until the camera panned off McBride and the Las Vegas Fox affiliate’s anchors moved on.

News director Tom Bell told TVSpy, the man “briefly made contact with her then ran off.”

“Molly was not hurt, just startled. The incident occurred in seconds. She said when she looked back at the tape, it looked scarier than it was in real life,” said Bell. “When she returned to the station, she was more focused on and appreciative of how concerned we were about her, vs the actual encounter.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/Broadcasting/comments/1krolie/be_careful_out_there/


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KEYWORDS: beggar; community; economy; reality

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The common man and woman has to put up with this nonsense frequently. My response is I only have bit-coin.

Yet when the protected class known as media is confronted, it is shown as horrible with most who are accosted seeking PTSD treatment.

1 posted on 05/26/2025 6:13:06 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: Racketeer

Sounds like Las Vegas needs a Mayor and a Police Force too


2 posted on 05/26/2025 6:15:59 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Racketeer
Molly McBride of KVVU


3 posted on 05/26/2025 6:18:55 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Racketeer
Thats nothing. Imagine being accosted by the newspaper delivery boy for $2.


4 posted on 05/26/2025 6:20:52 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: texas booster

Quite an Irish lass, she is.


5 posted on 05/26/2025 6:21:14 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Racketeer

Accosted by diversity!


6 posted on 05/26/2025 6:35:20 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Racketeer

There was an episode of Sanford and Son many years ago. Fred puts a quarter in the fountain for luck. He goes to the casino, starts winning big, then loses everything. At the end of the episode, he’s in the fountain looking for his quarter.


7 posted on 05/26/2025 6:43:53 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Racketeer

I was on a business trip in Philly back in ‘03 with a group of co-workers. Some guy chased us for two blocks asking for fifteen cents.


8 posted on 05/26/2025 7:17:24 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Racketeer

We sure have a lot of weirdos in our society.


9 posted on 05/26/2025 7:20:05 AM PDT by KittyKares
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To: Racketeer

$1? At least he wasn’t expensive.


10 posted on 05/26/2025 7:28:59 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: texas booster
IllBuyThatDollar

Because someone was going to post it.

11 posted on 05/26/2025 7:53:42 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (I don't usually warmonger but when I do it's about killing terrorists.)
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To: texas booster

If she wants to show it on the Streets of Las Vegas, she’ll GET the Streets of Las Vegas in return. She needs to use Green Screen if she doesn’t bring bodyguards.


12 posted on 05/26/2025 7:59:50 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Racketeer

Further proof we need to re-open the asylums. We can afford the money. Quit pissing it away on less important stuff.


13 posted on 05/26/2025 8:06:17 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

He’s the next who needs to be deported.

Foreign accent.


14 posted on 05/26/2025 8:29:17 AM PDT by bgill
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To: SaxxonWoods

They always want a dollar. They will approach me outside our Ghetto Target and demand a dollar “so they can ride the bus.” I’m all, “A dollar won’t get you a bus ride.”


15 posted on 05/26/2025 10:59:07 AM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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To: ponygirl

Wow. We have homeless here but I’ve never been approached. I give a few bucks to one regular here in a wheelchair with no legs below mid-thigh.


16 posted on 05/26/2025 11:35:33 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: lowbridge

Two dollars!!!!


17 posted on 05/26/2025 11:36:56 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: SaxxonWoods

I yelled at one of them and told him, “Don’t you EVER approach a woman in a dark parking lot!” He backed off and apologized.


18 posted on 05/26/2025 3:37:36 PM PDT by ponygirl (Stay gold.)
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