“Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?”

by Joey deVilla on December 5, 2007

I have to hand it to people who enter the closed captions for live news shows — they have a tough job, and it’s all too easy to slip up:

Photo of news closed caption: “Firefighters to deal not just with the fire with people in the middle of the road ejaculating”
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Maria December 5, 2007 at 1:06 pm

I laughed so much I was actually choking. People came over to see if I was all right!

2 Margot Lewis December 5, 2007 at 2:57 pm

I felt sorry for the close captioning people who had to caption the Can West Spelling Bee!

3 Sean Galbraith December 5, 2007 at 3:06 pm

oh god that’s good

4 Frank L December 5, 2007 at 4:40 pm

alas, its debunked on Snopes.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/firenews.asp

funny though.

5 Mark Cidade December 5, 2007 at 7:54 pm

Snopes says it’s true.

6 GadgetMan December 13, 2007 at 10:55 pm

That’s funny! A spell checker wouldn’t do any good, because the word that they wanted (evacuating) and ejaculating are all valid terms!

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