Posted on 05/20/2016 11:35:16 AM PDT by Main Street
Getting the story is always priority No. 1, but a Phoenix TV reporter seems to have forgotten about No. 2 until it was too late.
Jonathan Lowe, a reporter for KPHO, was arrested Monday afternoon after allegedly defecating on a front lawn near the subject of his story’s home.
The 33-year-old was seen by a neighbor as he picked up papers from the street before leaning against the wall of a house and relieving himself, according to a Goodyear police report obtained by his station.
An officer tasked with the job of tracking Lowe down said the suspect admitted to using the yard as an impromptu latrine.
Lowe was arrested for public defecation, and now faces a fine of $2,500 or six months in jail for the misdemeanor, according to the Phoenix New Times.
KPHO news director Dan Wilson told the Times Wednesday that Lowe was still employed, though the channel’s Thursday night write-up of their colleague’s legal troubles called him a “former KPHO/KTVK reporter.”
The journalist’s bio page on the station’s site is no longer active, while a list of his articles shows the story he was covering during his bathroom breakdown.
Jonathan Lowe, we’ve had enough sh!t out of you.
Disgusting to say the least. No wonder I only watch John Hook on Fox Channel 10.
My 1st thought.
The masses need to use “Self ID’en” as an excuse for all below the belt mis-behavior.
Was walking a(town) local wood trail the other day and had to take a leak.So I did but b4 and looking around for cameras and other humans I said to self,If I get bagged I will tell the judge I was self ID’en as a dog
The cops should do this more often.
I didn’t know reporters could get fined for sh*tting on you.
When I was in the Navy, I heard about the case of the shipboard “phantom sh*tter”.
An office or such would find a steaming brown pile on his desk.
Everyone figured it was probably some E-1 or E-2 but the irony is it turned out to be a Chief Petty Officer.
Did he wipe?
Maybe he got caught because he asked the neighbor for some of that paper.
I don’t see him getting any new work as a reporter, at least not for a few years. That’s quite a degrading thing to do. He said he felt sick all day. Okay, then go home, you don’t drop a load on a strangers front lawn. Being black, he was already under more scrutiny, but got careless.
I seem to recall a story of a mailman doing the same thing some years ago. I think he was only suspended, and put on a new route.
From the TV station that used to advertise as “The Place With More STUFF!”
Watch “Flight of The Intruder” for a phantom s*****r with a twist. Seems every ship of the line had one.
He got confused.
Reporters are supposed to say, “This just in.”
Instead, this guy said, “This just out.”
There was a bathroom near by...
He couldn't just ask to use it, it's an emergency...
Keepin it real.....You know how we doo....
Its much worse when a white is trapped in a black neighborhood - they'll kill you if you're white - a black in a white neighborhood - they'll just stare at you. He should have knocked on someone's door and given them 20 bucks to use the head. That's what I would have done.
Did he write what was written on a Pompeiian wall near a politician’s house, two thousand years ago?
HOC EGO CACAVI
"Sooooooo, Jonathan. Heard you pinched one off in somebody's yard while you were on a story. You KNOW that's against station policy....."
Love the first line of the article.
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