Posted on 08/27/2011 9:18:21 PM PDT by 444Flyer
MYFOXNY.COM - A local news reporter from Washington, D.C. ended up getting covered in what is probably the remnants of raw sewage as he delivered live hurricane reports from Ocean City, Md.
WTTG-TV reporter Tucker Barnes was providing live updates for stations around the country as a wall of what he described as sea foam poured over him.
Barnes was on the boardwalk as Hurricane Irene hit the coast of Maryland
He noted that he had immersed himself in organic material. That "organic material" was most likely the effects of raw sewage pouring into the water during the storm.
"It doesn't taste great," he said.
He said it had a sandy consistency and added, "I can tell you first-hand, it doesn't smell great."
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxny.com ...
Here’s the report I mentioned above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QkHW3KfPmo&feature=player_embedded
Yes, I actually feel sympathy for the reporter who was trying to do a good job.
This is sickening - literally.
Providing they’re not jeopardizing the well-being of fellow travelers, I respect reporters that immerse themselves in risky situations for the sake of their craft.
Apparently, none of the reporters have been around the ocean very much, especially during a storm.
Sea Foam the candy or Sea Foam the ocean goop?
:)
I’d have paid to see Jerry covering Baltimore tonight.
Alone.
In the dark.
:)
That's hilarious. Idiots trying to get on camera with an idiot reporter trying to tell us how stupid it is to be out in the middle of a hurricane.
A good Canute, he cannot....:D
“Hey! I’m standing in water! Somebody hand me a live electrical device, quick!”
What a dolt.
If that is really sewage then that reporter is putting himself at great risk of catching something not so nice.
LOL!
Sea foam is *never* anything nice.
Everybody knows that...and so should he.
Even on the local rivers and cricks, we get that foam and folks stay the hell away from it.
~Normal~ water doesn’t “foam”.
Were I he, I’d be hitting the antibiotics really hard right about now.
QUOTE: “It doesn’t taste great.”
Yes, severe diarrhea and possible dysentery won’t be great either.
If he’s the gift that keeps on giving, when can we take him back for an exchange?
Everybody knows that...and so should he.
Even on the local rivers and cricks, we get that foam and folks stay the hell away from it.
~Normal~ water doesn’t “foam”.
Were I he, I’d be hitting the antibiotics really hard right about now.
“If human beings are not drowned,” asked the little mermaid, “can they live forever? do they never die as we do here in the sea?”
“Yes,” replied the old lady, “they must also die, and their term of life is even shorter than ours. We sometimes live to three hundred years, but when we cease to exist here we only become the foam on the surface of the water, and we have not even a grave down here of those we love."
-- Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
Yep. First thing I would do with something that fails the smell test is use the taste test!
Wish it was full of poop, but its see foam. Just sea foam. And being blown in by the wind. And yes it stinks because it is full of natural decaying material from the ocean. Still he is going to need a shower.
Dumb ass city boy. That’s an algal bloom foam, and he’s going to be sick in the morning. He’d better go take a shower and get some antibiotics and antihistamines ASAP.
Unless right at the sewer plant, it’s highly unlikely he was exposed to much human sewage.
Think of a hurricane as a giant mixer, cubic miles in size. A few cubic yards of sewage is quickly diluted beyond detection.
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