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* Anderson Cooper, reporting on Hurricane Dennis, was almost decapitated when a piece of aluminum siding suddenly broke off in the wind and flew straight at him. He managed to get out of the way.
* A weather reporter is reporting on a torrential rainstorm with lightning and thunder, the whole bit, when suddenly there's a flash and the camera dissolves to static for two seconds before cutting back to the confused anchors. The weatherlady was ''struck by lightning''. Worst of all, this is ''played for laughs'' on a comedy show about the funniest moments in television (she survived, but retired).
** Irish channel TG4 looks to have [https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a812876/irish-weather-girl-struck-by-lightning-during-live-broadcast/ staged an incident] in which weather lady Caitlin Nic Aoidh appeared to have been struck by lightning during a 31 October 2016 report and had disappeared as the feed cut to a test screen.
** That doesn't mean that this doesn't happen in real life; Dalian City, China weather anchorman Liu Xiaodong and his cameraman survived a hit on-camera which was [https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3408611/weatherman-struck-by-lightning-live-broadcast-video/ picked up by the metal umbrella] he was holding.
** Hell, every time Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel is outside, it's a [[Real Life]] example...
* One [[Baseball|Braves game]] radio broadcast had a sequence something like this: "He hits a foul ball, and it's heading into the -" CRASH! "It's between your feet, Skip."
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