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Car Chase Ends With Suicide On Live TV — SHEP SMITH DECLARES 'WE REALLY MESSED UP'
News Busters ^ | 9-28-12 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 09/28/2012 1:01:42 PM PDT by STARWISE

A stunning moment just happened on Fox News...

Shepard Smith was in the midst of narrating one of his famous car chases.

However it appeared to end in tragedy, as the suspect ran out of his car and shot himself in the head on the middle of a field.

After a quick break, the network cut back to Shep Smith, who was stunned and apologized for not cutting away sooner.

He explained that there was a problem with the delay.

"We really messed up." *snip*

If you must see what happened, Mediaite has posted the video.

Here is Shep's stunning apology.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


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To: STARWISE

The carjacker might have had a better chance of running away if his pants were not around his ankles.


41 posted on 09/28/2012 1:46:41 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Morris70

My bad. Re read again. It was live.
Not necessary to show on news. all needed was follow up story.


42 posted on 09/28/2012 1:47:10 PM PDT by Morris70
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To: STARWISE

I posted this right after it happend and it got pulled.
Wonder why?


43 posted on 09/28/2012 1:51:18 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: STARWISE
I saw it. It was blurry so you only saw the gun and the guy falling down. They cut back to Shepp who was frantically trying to get them to cut off the feed. After the commercial break Shepp apologized for not cutting it off in time. Then nothing: it became an unstory.
44 posted on 09/28/2012 1:52:21 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: raccoonradio
Dwye

Oh that one was brutal, I remember that.

45 posted on 09/28/2012 1:52:42 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (I can haz CW 2 now?)
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To: miss marmelstein

-—— Paddy Chayevsky’s satire “Network” has come true. -——

Remarkably prophetic movie.


46 posted on 09/28/2012 1:54:31 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: al baby

There was nothing to get so upset about. Shep went off for no reason. The perp was barely falling forward when they cut away and it was from quite a distance.

I saw the Bud Dwyer suicide live. That was graphic. This was not. Most people watching probably didn’t know what happened. It was Shep who dramatized it.

That said...carjack a Caliber? Really? The perp was lucky the car made it as far as it did. He probably shot himself when he realized his stupidity.


47 posted on 09/28/2012 1:55:34 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: flaglady47

You got it all correct. The guy was really disoriented when he got out of the car. He had no idea what he was going to do - looking this way and that way and when he started running he was very clumsy and just fell down for no reason. He seemed to be able to drive the car well at those high speeds he was going. When he stopped the car and got out maybe he realized what he was about to do.


48 posted on 09/28/2012 1:56:01 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Bitsy

Dare I ask? How do you know how he tastes?
Sorry for the bad joke.


49 posted on 09/28/2012 1:57:35 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes. (Josef Stalin))
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To: STARWISE

Along the line of ‘USA Burns While OBOZO Fiddles’, this is just a warm up to another return to the ‘good old days’ of early Rome when dissidents to the throne of BO will be placed in stadia whilst the pit bulls are sicced on ‘em, naturally, on live TV for the enjoyment of all.


50 posted on 09/28/2012 2:04:20 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: STARWISE

saw it live too, the guy looked deranged!

it was FOX’s 2nd car chase of the day

Shemp is the consummate putz!


51 posted on 09/28/2012 2:18:02 PM PDT by Archytekt
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To: Bitsy

I don’t think metrosexuals and homosexuals are mutually exclusive. In fact, they may be one in the same!


52 posted on 09/28/2012 2:25:42 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: STARWISE

Gay Shep is UNWATCHABLE!!!


53 posted on 09/28/2012 2:33:21 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: TexasCajun

Was it a black guy???


54 posted on 09/28/2012 2:35:58 PM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: STARWISE

I remember one from some yrs. ago. Might have involved a tank.
Anyway the perp was sitting on a bridge, put a shotgun under his chin and pulled the trigger.
The top of his head lifted off. That was live. Of course all subsequent showings cut that off.


55 posted on 09/28/2012 2:40:15 PM PDT by Vinnie (A)
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To: STARWISE

What a bunch of phony crocodile tears from Shep.

He wants drama, that’s why he covers these car chases and he got it in spades.


56 posted on 09/28/2012 2:51:13 PM PDT by RatSlayer
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To: BlatherNaut

The shooter must have been Italian he got tired of the helicopters WOP WOP WOP


57 posted on 09/28/2012 3:27:51 PM PDT by al baby (“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
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To: RatSlayer

I watched it, I knew he shot himself but not sure where. Shep kept yelling cut it, heck when he was yelling the video had been stopped we were watching Shep.

Good grief, the horrific events in the middle East is far worse.


58 posted on 09/28/2012 3:32:16 PM PDT by Burlem
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To: Burlem

Remember when shep had to apologize for saying something about Jennifer Lopez and blow job?


59 posted on 09/28/2012 3:37:07 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: STARWISE

Remember the body-armored bandits who had the big shootout with L.A. police some years back? One of the bandits ended up shooting himself in the head which was aired countless times on crime shows. Nobody got too upset about it.


60 posted on 09/28/2012 4:16:03 PM PDT by driftless2
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