Sea Gull Walks Behind Anchor During Australian News Report (VIDEO)

One news station in Australia received a lesson in the perils of using a live camera backdrop for your anchor's report when a sea gull, seemingly giant but really just close to the camera, loomed right behind the anchor and then strolled across the scene. To his credit the anchor calmly continued his report about organized crime.

The anchor Peter Hitchener told a radio station afterward: "I was reading away and it was a serious story, and I suddenly thought 'Oh my gosh, that seagull's back again', because we had a bit of a problem last night."

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Comments

[Chaucea]

Gullzilla!
xD

[Happyexpat]

I roared with laughter at the seagull and am laughing out loud at your comment. Gullzilla! Very, very quick and clever.

[Ryan81]

Bravo, news anchor. Way to keep your composure.

[MarkCamp]

I saw this while eating dinner at the company cafeteria. Made my day.

[hippie4ever]

That wasn't a bird but a spirit guide -- A BIG spirit guide.

[Rickfors]

BIG BIRD....yikes!!

[hypnotoad72]

On the plus side, it wasn't any of the following situations:

* plane flying toward camera
* superman flying toward camera
* striptease
* a bank robbery gone wild
* girls gone wild
* an episode of "Sanford and Son" (most newscasters are called "big dummies", especially the meteorologists...)
* the cityscape melting
* the cityscape shrinking
* a Richard Simmons music video
* Any speech given by Nixon, Reagan, or Ford - especially as they're all dead these days...

/ducksforcover

[hypnotoad72]

Oh, watching that made my day - thanks much!!!!!

ROFL!

[zeeshan809]

This is so cuteeeeeeeeeee.

[Berkeleylefty]

With a bird that size... I am not stepping outside the building unless I have a steel umbrella...I feel bad for the cars in the neighbourhood...

[hypnotoad72]

That's where PermaPlate brand coating comes in handy! :-)

[Khirad]

So, was the seagull the real murderer?

[ChelseaC]

The seagull is very cute--big too.

[glockshooter]

I, for one, welcome our Seagull overlords...

[Spencaa]

Not before I did, of course

[LordByron13]

Awesome comment....fanned.

[jdrourke]

This is exactly what those damned Mayans predicted...

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/dear-2012-a-k-a-the-end-of-the-world-and-all-that-sht/

[Ramirez]

I saw this on the news. It was a huge story.
I'm glad we get a chance to comment on it here.

[ChelseaC]

The story was on Countdown on MSNBC here in the States.

[SuperBunny]

Don't attempt sarcasm. You don't have the wits for it.

[Joye]

I put this on my Facebook page; so others could enjoy it!!