This News Crew Sat And Filmed As A Giant Pothole Blew 20 Tyres

Instead of warning drivers about a giant, tyre-bursting pothole in Michigan, this news crew simply sat back and filmed the carnage...

Matt Kimberley

Updated: 03 Mar 2018

Here’s a prime example of small-time news journalists doing what small-time news journalists do best: finding a spot where they know full well people are going to fall foul of something, and then filming it.

A huge and sharp-edged pothole had appeared on Mound Road in Warren, Michigan, so, as you apparently do in an age where the viewing public has a ravenous appetite for calamity-related video, instead of warning people about it, a news team from Local 4 simply set up a camera and watched tyre after tyre go bang.

Eventually members of the public tried to warn drivers, first by setting out flares and then placing a comically large traffic cone ahead of the hole, but by the end of the report, some 19 cars had succumbed, with over 20 tyres blown out on the pothole just in the time the gallant Local 4 crew was filming. We’d imagine there was a cracked wheel or two to report, too.

Video via Jalopnik

Comments

*used to bomb

This is like bystanders recording a dying person instead of helping him/her

That’s how the world goes these days though

eh, not really. The point of the news crew was to prove a point. If you just waltz into town hall and ask to fix a pothole, they’ll get to it eventually, but with proof that it’s a serious problem, it’ll get fixed faster. But I agree that usually people just record stuff and don’t help

That happened not long ago. Someone was drowning and some teens filmed it and laughed at the poor guy. Trouble is that they can’t really be charged with anything since you don’t have a legal obligation to help

You are so right it is exactly like that.

The news crews are not paid to warn drivers of hazards in the roadway, that is what local road crews and law enforcement are for. If anything, the headline should have been “HOLY CRAP WHY HAS NO ONE WORKING FOR THE TOWN DONE ANYTHING TO EVEN WARN DRIVERS ABOUT THIS LET ALONE FIX IT”

Wow, good job -.-

And this is why the media is considered by some to be a massive bunch of pure scumbags. Evil people.

On one hand the news crew did not help anyone one single bit (directly).
But, sometimes, this bystanding is required, by showing negative effects, it may get the city to “wake up” and fix it.

Local 4 news reporter:
“Hey, there is a huge pothole here. Lets flim cars getting damaged as they go over this massive pothole.”
Camera man:
“Sure. This shi! should help the ratings.”

Plot twist
A car ends up hitting the pothole with huge speed that the wheel flies off and hits the newscrew FINAL DESTINATION style.

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If I had blown out a tire like this and found out they were just sitting there letting it happen, they might find that their van would have a few flat tires when they go to leave