Somehow I missed this story when it came out five years ago. I’m running it now because it seems to say a lot about our cultural meltdown. I mean, who knew it could be this bad?
Weatherman Jamie Simpson Tells Viewers to Stop Complaining About Tornado Warnings Interrupting ‘The Bachelorette’: ‘This Is Pathetic’
byu/Pwuz innottheonion
Tornadoes are not unknown in Ohio. You should have seen Xenia when the tornado got through with it. That was the 1974 tornado, in which 32 people were killed. I had occasion to pass through there a few days later.
So… They interrupted “The Bachelorette” to deliver a tornado emergency report–and the audience went wild. What? You’re interrupting “The Bachelorette”? Who the blazes do you think you are? Hell’s bells, man! This is “The Bachelorette” we’re talkin’ about! This is what’s important! How dare you interrupt it???
The TV weatherman called the viewers’ outburst “pathetic.” Sir, you’re too kind.
It reminds me of the public burning up the switchboards in 1968 when the network cut off the Jets-Raiders football game to show a special presentation of Heidi. Thought they were just cutting off the last few minutes of a football game whose outcome was a foregone conclusion. So of course those last few minutes were among the most astounding and exciting in football history.
Anyone remember that? I was watching that game…
Well, no tornado ever agreed to hold off until a TV show was over.