"Oh my gawd Fred, it looks like it's taking a poop in their yard."
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The journalist’s bio page on the station’s site is no longer active, while a list of his articles shows the story he was covering during his bathroom breakdown.
LOL!
Many,many years ago I arctic flight coveralls on (yeah, stole ‘em from the AF)and was gutting out a doe. I got hit by a bout of diarearrhia (the shits) and dropped the coveralls in the back, squatted down and defecated a gusher. No TP. So I pulled up the coveralls across my back and....almost started crying. All over my back, down into both legs and a deer to drag out. When I got back to camp, I had someone hose me down, nude in -32 degree weather. How humiliating.
"Tonight's news broadcast was brought to you by Metamucil."
We’ve known for years that the media craps on us. But all this time, I just thought it was a metaphor.
I must admit I enjoy the attention to detail, the pupils constricting, probably at least one hand (or whatever it has) clamped firmly over the soon to be leaking orifice!
Isn’t that how Cronkite got his start?
Oh him. I don’t think he’s good and I won’t miss him. Those reporters are a dime a dozen.
Every time that commercial comes on, it seems to be suppertime..................
When ya gotta go?
If the sh*t don’t fit, you must aquit ...
If the guy had just admitted that he’d had an emergency after not feeling well, and gone to clean it up afterwards, I fail to see how anyone could hold him at fault. It happens, sometimes you can’t make it to a bathroom, sometimes one just isn’t available.
"Oh my gawd Fred, it looks like it's taking a poop in their yard."
Nailed it.
Heheheh...that’s probably no coincidence!
Sh!t happens.
KPHO is CBS 5 News
A local news reporter grows a tail in someone’s yard. Hmm, this story stinks to high heaven.
Here’s the actual story he was covering. I might have been tempted to leave a loaf on that guy’s yard, too.
Former Arizona State football player Patrick Zane Thompson was arrested Saturday after allegedly putting his family’s dog in a lit smoker and breaking its neck.
Thompson, 42, had been smoking marijuana and having an “episode” before he broke the white poodle’s neck, per court documents Katie Faller of the Republic obtained. He said he believed he had to make a male sacrifice to God after burning his daughter’s shirt, per Jonathan Lowe of AZFamily.com.
That’s when, per police documents Faller cited, Thompson said he chose killing the dog over committing suicide or sacrificing his six-year-old son. Officers found him with a self-inflicted cut in his arm. It’s unclear whether it was a suicide attempt.
After inspecting the home, officers found the poodle in a barbecue smoker with an open flame, per Lowe.
“Police say Thompson admitted to then breaking the dog’s neck and strangling it until it ‘could not breathe,’” Lowe reported. “He allegedly told officers the sacrifice was not done and that he had to put the dog in a ‘lake of fire.’”
His family escaped and called police.
Thompson has been charged with two felonies and four misdemeanors related to the dog’s death, including animal cruelty, making threats to his family and evidence tampering. He was booked on a $20,000 bond and is scheduled for another court appearance May 23, per Faller and Lowe.
Something about this story smells. He could have asked the homeowners if he could use their bathroom, but they had prolly already told him to `get the ell off!’ their property.
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