Watch Out!
A news crew from Fox O&O WNYW in New York had a close call yesterday morning.
The station says that WNYW Photographer Tim Daughtry, Reporter Raegan Medgie and photog Paul Barnathan prepared to go live for Good Day New York when a flatbed truck passing through the southbound intersection struck a pothole or a manhole cover or something, sending a piece of metal, apparently from the flatbed, skyward.
"I'm standing there getting ready for my hit," Medgie said. "I was the lead so after weather and traffic, it was probably 5:01, 5:02 a.m. Then I heard this loud bang."
"I hear this 'boom!'" Daughtry said.
"I have my IFB, my earpiece, in my ear and I'm hearing programming," Medgie said, "but then I hear my cameraman, Tim, start shouting."
"Watch out! Watch out! Watch out!" Daughtry said.
"And then I'm thinking: Is he messing around with me?" Medgie said.
"A piece of metal flying up hits the light [pole] with the wires that's holding the light," Daughtry said.
"And then I look up," Medgie said, "and I see what looked like a pancake thing coming at me."
Daughtry's shouted warning successfully moved Medgie and Barnathan out of the path the ricocheting piece of shrapnel followed after striking and leaving an inch-deep crater in the sidewalk.
"Thank God for that wire that it hit," Daughtry said, "because more likely my reporter and the cameraman would not be here today."
"If I didn't listen to Tim and I didn't get out of the way, this would be a much different story," Medgie said.
No one was hurt.