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Serious moments can spiral into chaos at the drop of a hat – especially on live TV. Get ready to witness unexpected mishaps, unforgettable interruptions, and unstoppable laughter as we highlight some of the wildest slip-ups that unfolded during what were meant to be earnest news stories. From accidental on-air comedy to eyebrow-raising reporting blunders, these moments took seriousness and made it hilariously memorable.

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00:00And he goes, I'll shoot you. She goes, I'm here to help.
00:05Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most unexpected, awkward,
00:09or downright hilarious mishaps that's occurred during otherwise serious news broadcasts.
00:15And, hey, to their credit, they came through.
00:20Number 10, assault charges for farting.
00:23This Fox 8 reporter thought she was simply delivering your average DUI story until things took a crazy detour.
00:29While more bodily functions in the news this morning, the next time you pass gas, make sure no police are around.
00:35The incident involved 34-year-old Jose Cruz, who was arrested for driving under the influence and brought in for a breathalyzer test.
00:42But then, in a move no one saw, or smelled, coming, Cruz passed gas and deliberately wafted it towards the arresting officer.
00:49This led to him being charged with battery.
00:51After the man was already arrested for DUI, according to police report, Jose Cruz, I can't even get through this.
00:59The story was so absurd that the reporter couldn't even keep it together and had to hand things off to her co-anchor.
01:04He passed the gas so loudly, the office said it was, quote,
01:07very odorous and created contact of an insulting or provoking nature.
01:16While Cruz still faced the DUI charges, the battery accusation didn't stick.
01:20Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said for the odour.
01:22Number nine, Grasshopper, interrupts death report.
01:26Let me say this to you.
01:28The reaction was so honest.
01:31Too damn honest.
01:33The year is 1996.
01:35Kark Channel 4 reporter Isaiah Carey is on site in Arkansas,
01:39covering the tragic death of an adult chaperone during a high school football game.
01:44It's supposed to be a somber segment.
01:46And that's how it begins, until a grasshopper crashes the broadcast by flying straight into Carey's mouth.
01:51What really happened on that Thursday here at Augusta High School that led to Chris Wood's death?
01:56What the f*** is death?
01:58In an instant, his professional front shatters.
02:00Gone is the cool, baritone, newscaster voice.
02:03In its place is a shrieking, expletive-filled meltdown delivered with a thick, southern twang.
02:09And he looked at it, and he, just like everyone else, bust out laughing.
02:13Mm-hmm.
02:13And he says, you have to embrace this, Isaiah.
02:16Even the camera operator couldn't hold it together, and ended up laughing in the background.
02:20And just like that, the solemn moment is hijacked by an insect with impeccable comedic timing.
02:25Number 8.
02:26Real injury, wrong clip.
02:27Airing the wrong clip can turn an earnest story into unintentional comedy.
02:32Just ask WPEC sports anchor Pat Murphy.
02:35Back in 2007, Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett suffered a devastating injury during
02:41a game that nearly left him paralyzed.
02:43It's almost impossible to believe what he's accomplished in the five short months since
02:47he suffered that devastating, life-altering injury on the football field.
02:51Luckily, he made a full recovery and regained his mobility.
02:54But when Murphy was reporting on the story, the editor queued up the wrong footage.
02:57Instead of Everett, viewers saw an alleged robber being wheeled into a courtroom.
03:02Great news regarding Bills tight end Kevin Everett.
03:05He moved his arms and legs today.
03:08And doctors now believe that's the wrong video, by the way.
03:12Somehow, the two stories, which were very serious in nature, came together to create
03:16a hilarious moment.
03:17Murphy quickly clarified that it was the wrong video, but it was already too late to stop
03:21the internet from doing its thing.
03:23It's from Columbus, Ohio, where Perp Wendell Hollingsworth, who was on trial for robbing
03:27a church and claiming to be injured, started kicking his lawyer in court and then was
03:32trussed up like that.
03:33Number seven, a desperately needed pause.
03:35Being an experienced reporter means knowing when you need to pause, especially when transitioning
03:39between two different stories.
03:41That was a lesson that CBS 5 anchor Ken Bastida seemed to forget briefly.
03:46For 31 years, Ken's covered lots of news.
03:49It is still burning out.
03:50From Bay Area disasters.
03:52My name's Ken Bastida.
03:53To in-depth investigations.
03:55In this clip, Bastida casually mentions that co-anchor Dana King is out of the office and
04:00without so much as a breath, dives straight into a grim report about a man who was murdered.
04:05Good evening, I'm Ken Bastida.
04:06Dana is off tonight.
04:08He was murdered and then set on fire while celebrating his birthday.
04:12The way it was said made it sound like King had been the unfortunate victim.
04:16To be fair, the real victim's name and photo did appear shortly after.
04:19Regardless, one can only imagine King watching at home, suddenly questioning how she managed
04:23to survive being killed and set on fire.
04:25I miss that adrenaline rush.
04:28I miss that excitement.
04:30But I'm so much happier.
04:33Number 6.
04:34Under the influence.
04:35BBC's Middle East correspondent, Quentin Somerville, had one job to do.
04:39Deliver a serious report on Afghanistan's sprawling drug trade.
04:43To add a bit of visual punch, Somerville was placed in front of a burning heap of confiscated
04:47narcotics.
04:48Bad idea.
04:49Just seconds into the segment, the fumes hit.
04:52Sending Somerville into a fit of laughter.
04:54Burning behind me is eight and a half tons of heroin, opium, hashish and other narcotics.
05:03And every attempt that he made to pull himself together only made the situation worse.
05:07The fumes seemed to also trap the camera crew into their crosshairs, as you can also hear
05:11their chuckles in the background.
05:13Burning behind me.
05:14Somewhere in this chaotic report is a PSA on the perils of secondhand smoke, but we'll
05:27let the health experts handle that one.
05:29Number 5.
05:29The wrong kind of bomb threat.
05:31Some scary moments for customers at a Kansas Home Depot.
05:34Police responded to reports of a bomb threat at the store in Wichita.
05:38The last thing that you want to hear at a Home Depot is someone announcing that they're
05:41fixing to blow the place up.
05:43So when that exact phrase was uttered at a store in Wichita, Kansas in 2019, it understandably
05:50set off alarms.
05:51The incident was later reported by this KY3 news anchor, only for her to realise that the
05:55man in question was merely warning everyone about an impending bathroom emergency.
06:00Man also tuffles, others in the room laughed, understanding his joke, which I'm just now
06:07getting.
06:08As the truth sank in, she was reduced to a ball of laughter and pointed fingers at her
06:12co-anchor for letting her read that story.
06:14From there, neither of them were able to fully regain their composure, and their persistent
06:18giggles spilled over into the subsequent segments.
06:21The missing tree, seen here, stands about three feet tall and two and a half feet wide.
06:32Number four, worst police sketch.
06:35The more detailed a police sketch is, the better odds of catching the culprit.
06:38At least that's the theory.
06:40In this case, it seemed to prove otherwise.
06:41Police officers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania were asking people to be on the lookout for a
06:46man who robbed a store.
06:47And I think, yeah, I think we do...
06:51After a man robs a store in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, his sketch is sent to this newsroom to help
06:56broadcast the image.
06:57As soon as the anchor sets his eyes on the sparsely detailed, cartoonish sketch, you can
07:01see him struggle to keep it together.
07:03He's got a nose and some hair that goes like that, and he was wearing a hat at the time of
07:09this particular crime.
07:12And yet, against all odds, the drawing actually works.
07:16Police managed to track down and apprehend the perpetrator, 44-year-old Hung Phuc Nguyen.
07:21Oh, and now I'm getting word that police actually caught this guy.
07:24Thanks to the sketch, no doubt.
07:26So, here's a picture of the real guy next to the sketch that led to his arrest.
07:31The moral of the story?
07:32Always believe in yourself.
07:34Even if you're a police sketch artist with the skills of a kindergartner.
07:37Number three, Asiana Airlines KTVU prank.
07:41In July 2013, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 departed Seoul from San Francisco, but unfortunately
07:47it crashed just before landing, resulting in the loss of three lives.
07:51Go around, he says, just 1.5 seconds before his tail hits the tarmac.
07:56Too late to save Asiana 214.
07:59Viewers around the world got timely updates about the situation from news outlets, but
08:03those who tuned in to San Francisco's KTVU got nothing close to the actual facts.
08:08During a segment about the crash, the anchor confidently listed the names of the four pilots
08:12who were on board, except those names were fake, and quite blatantly so.
08:16KTVU has just learned the names of the four pilots who were on board the flight.
08:21They are Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wee Tu Lo, Ho Li Phuc, and Bang Ding Au.
08:30What makes the moment particularly ludicrous is that not a single person, from the graphics
08:34designer to the editor to the anchor, seemed to notice there was, in fact, something wrong
08:39with the names.
08:40We are working to determine exactly what roles each of them played during the landing on Saturday.
08:46Number two, Identical NSYNC twins.
08:48And we heard this big bang.
08:50We said, oh no, another car accident.
08:53So we dropped everything, and we went running out the front.
08:5651-year-old twin sisters Bridget and Paula Powers had quite an eventful day on April 21st,
09:022025.
09:03Their mother had rushed them to help a carjacking victim, only to be threatened at gunpoint by
09:08the assailant.
09:08Later that day, the sisters recounted the ordeal to 7 News Queensland.
09:12But while the story itself was intense, what really caught viewers' attention was how
09:16they told it.
09:17And he goes, run, he's got a gun.
09:21And, oh, our heart started to pound, and I said, oh, mum, where's mum?
09:26Bridget and Paula talked in unison, synchronising their statements and even finishing each other's
09:30sentences like they had previously rehearsed the routine.
09:33Could it be twin telepathy, or just a freaky coincidence?
09:37No one knows.
09:38But one thing's for sure, it was more than just a little unsettling.
09:42He went and approached that car, and pulled the young girl out who was driving, and her
09:48mum that was in the car too.
09:50She goes, yes, take me car.
09:52Yeah.
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10:09Number one, BBC Dad.
10:11Political science professor Robert E. Kelly and his family became global sensations in
10:162017, when a BBC interview took a very unexpected turn.
10:20Kelly, who is an expert on Korean relations, was discussing the impeachment of South Korea's
10:24president in a virtual interview from his apartment in Busan, when he was upstaged by
10:29his own daughter.
10:30And what will it mean for the wider region?
10:33I think one of your children has just walked in.
10:35I mean, shifting sounds in the region.
10:38Shortly after, her younger brother made a grand entrance on his own in a baby walker.
10:42Then came their mother, who burst into the room with urgency of a long-anticipated superhero
10:47in a Marvel movie and dragged them out.
10:50Pardon me.
10:53Pardon me.
10:54My apologies.
10:55It's the kind of chaos that could sink a reputation, or launch it into the stratosphere.
11:00Luckily for Kelly, it was very much the latter.
11:02We just got this massive wave of email and solicitation and stuff like that.
11:07You know, and we, to the people in the media and stuff like that, we didn't respond to.
11:14We apologize.
11:15Which of these news bloopers did you catch live?
11:17Let us know in the comments below.
11:19See, that wasn't even right.
11:21To put that story in there was wrong.
11:23That was wrong, man.
11:24I didn't even see it when I was looking through the script.
11:26He stuck that in there.