Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Seattle News Reporter Jumps Into Street Fight On-Air

Video from The Daily Weekly

Look, Shomari Stone (the reporter) deserves his props for having the stones to run over and jump in to try and break this up, he does. We should all do our part as citizens to make our neighborhoods cleaner.  That said, I can't help but think that we'd probably be better off from a comedic stand point if he'd just stayed out of this and told the camera to keep rolling. 

These guys are bum, bro. Conducting low level pot deals at the waterfront at 6 AM! Who gives a shit if he hurts his face.  Plus you tackled the wrong guy.  Other dude is trying to rob him. If their aint honor amongst homeless junkies and dope fiends than what hope does the rest of society have. This guy deserved to have his ass beat. 

The 1:10 minute mark is what I'm talking about, guy just rolls up, steals the dudes keys and clubs him in the head with a retractable stick.  Hysterical! So nonchalant, and then just walks away.  That's what you robbed us, the viewers, of Shomari.  Instead of 10 seconds of brilliance we could have seen 3-4 minutes of breathtaking bum fighting.

PS: How outrageous is it that this was all over weed? I would have bet my life this was a bunch of heroine fiends fighting over the last fix.  Am I the only one that assumed that if guys are up at 6 AM in a public park they're probably conducting deals for something a bit more serious than pot?