Recently, during a live broadcast during floods in Pakistan, a news reporter asked a young child what he was doing out in the middle of the flood. He didn't foresee the boy's honesty. Unable to improvise on the spot, the child blurted out the truth, "It's because you forcefully brought me here."

Live news reports are often a harrowing experience for the reporter and a fun one for viewers.

Here's a news reporter attempting to record a monologue but unable to do so because he keeps forgetting and travellers keeps walking into frame. By the end his frustrations becomes contagious. Thankfully, he succeeds.

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A few years ago, this video had gone viral. In it a reporter near a site where confiscated marijuana and cocaine are being burnt by soldiers and policemen gets high on the layers of THC-infused smoke around him and finds himself unable to focus on the report.

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It's happened more than once. Makes you think it might not be unintentional.

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The videos make for popular compilations earning millions of views. It's mostly of reporters breaking into laughter and unable to complete their reports.

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