10 Crazy On-Air Reporting Fails

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Even the vets make on-air mistakes. Sue Simmons of WNBC has decades of experience and apparently no patience. (If she's this mean when she's sitting at the news desk with a coworker, imagine how mean she is to the guy who bags her groceries.)

If someone rolls up and snatches the mic from you, maybe you're not holding it hard enough? In this instance, Ashley Taylor looks on in horror when a young man interrupts her report to deliver some very important breaking news.

Oh, no big deal. You just reported on live television that one of the biggest pieces of legislation that America has seen since the Social Security Act is unconstitutional when really, that's not what happened at all. Way to lose your credibility, FOX.

Dear A.J., if the first words out of your mouth are "fucking shit" once you hear that cameras are rolling, then maybe you should go back to blogging about cats in your parents' basement because clearly you're not ready for primetime, bro.

Journalists have to ask hard questions, but they also need to ask them wisely. It's true that Mike Tyson has been convicted of rape, but it's also true that he's not afraid to play dirty. In this instance, the interviewer probably should have anticipated Tyson's reaction before letting him go H.A.M.

It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast, and it takes some serious balls to tell that man to "keep fucking that chicken" while on live television. The best part about this fail is the fact that Mr. Anastos doesn't seem to realize what he's done until he sees his co-anchor's face.

Again, hold your mic harder, otherwise someone will snatch it out of your hands and deliver a major public service announcement about pussy that has since become a national trend.

What good would it be to allow people to send in their birthday and anniversary announcement requests if a prank can't, ahem, slip through the cracks every now and then? Here, this unassuming weatherman wishes a happy 10th birthday to a lucky young man with a huge anus.

PIX-11 reporter Mario Diaz thinks that he's more famous and important than Erykah Badu, so when she interrupts his report to give him a kiss, he throws mad shade at her when he'll probably never get that close to a celebrity ever again.

And of course, the biggest fail (or victory) of them all: That time Charlo Greene revealed that the marijuana dispensary she had just been reporting on is in fact the dispensary for which she serves as president. Not only does she quit on air, she gave her business a ton of free PR beforehand, says "fuck it," and then walks off stage like a boss.