Posted on 10/10/2024 7:00:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
CNN’s Anderson Cooper was hit in the face by flying debris during his live coverage of Hurricane Milton in Bradenton, Florida.
The debris was later said to be a piece of styrofoam.
Cooper was doing a live hit by the water shortly after 9 p.m. when he was struck.
“The wind has really picked up,” Cooper said. “The water’s really moving. You can get a sense of just how fast the wind is moving there. You can see it in the light there. It is now just whipping off the Manatee River. It’s coming from kind of the north, I guess northeast. And the water now is really starting to pour over. If you look at the graph–whoa!”
The unidentified object then flew into the shot and hit Cooper in his face and chest.
“Ok, that wasn’t good,” Cooper said. “I’ll probably go inside shortly. But you can see the amount of water here on the ground. This is water from the Manatee River. It’s also water coming from the land as well.”
Nearly three million people were left without power after the massive storm made landfall near Sarasota on Wednesday evening.
Over a dozen tornados were reported across the state with multiple fatalities.
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Oh the huge Manatee!
Well he kept going after the hit. Hard to tell if he was really hurt or not.
Oh, the huge Manatee!
Probably even been mushroom stamped.
Pshaw.
One of the cameramen probably threw a McDonald’s bag in his face for drama.
I have never seen that clip...I want to grab that one!
Heh, many years ago I worked with a very attractive young woman from Australia who had fair skin, green eyes, and short hair in a pixie style. I liked her immensely, as she had a great sense of humor, and was good at what she did.
We worked together in a hospital, and one day as we were moving a patient onto a Nuclear Medicine scanner, me on one side, she on the other with the patient between us, I said to the elderly woman "Could you scoot your fanny down towards the scanner as we pull the sheet?"
I looked up to see her fair face turn beet red in front of my eyes, and she put the fingers of her hand over her mouth in the universal gesture of "What you said..."
I looked at her dumbly, and said "Wha...what?"
When we left the room, I asked her again, and turning red, she said "Where I come from, "fanny" means something else on a woman..."
I don't know why, but I admit I did find her blushing like that rather fetching!
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He “turned to look at a graph and” boom? Gee that sounds familiar. Staged.
I hope it was the soft brown type.
Was it staged?
I swear one of these days we are going to see on live television someone getting decapitated. What idiots.
Yea, but admit it was a bit satisfying.
Probably, out of the camera view, Anderson Poofer’s crew had the wind machines cranked up on high and then tossed some Styrofoam in the air for the “money shot”
At some personal risk, and without checking the earlier replies, I'm going to say, the jokes write themselves.
Slapped in the face with a P@nis.
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