"That Can't Be Him"

Yesterday, FTVLive told you about WMTW Reporter Norm Karkos and the missing man.

Karkos was doing live hits about the search for a 72 year old man that was missing. The man walked right up to Karkos while he was on camera.

Karkos exchanged ​pleasantries with the man but it did click that this was the same guy he was reporting about. 

“I just looked at him and I was thinking, that can’t be him,” Karkos, an anchor-reporter, told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday.

“I was doing a double take, and he says, ‘Don’t put me on television,’ and I said, ‘I won’t,’ and I saw him walking a little farther and going toward a garage," Karkos said.

McDonough then circled back while Karkos did his live broadcast about McDonough’s disappearance -- as McDonough watched.

“We wrapped up, and he kind of approaches me, and he says ‘So?’ And I said, ‘So what?’ And he said, ‘Don’t you want to talk to me?’ ”

McDonough then introduced himself as “Bob.”

“I said, ‘Bob what?’”

“Bob McDonough.”

“And I said, ‘Bob, where do you live?’ And he pointed at his house.”

The TV crew then kept McDonough close as they called the authorities, and his wife identified him shortly later; McDonough seemed to be confused that authorities were searching for him.

He appeared to have cut himself and gotten his shoes wet but was otherwise unhurt, surviving near-freezing overnight temperatures. He had been missing since Tuesday.

Karkos reflected on his -- and McDonough’s -- luck.

“Thank God, a happy ending. More times than not, these aren’t happy endings. It was surreal,” Karkos said of his bizarre broadcast. “As I’m updating information, giving the description, telling our viewers what’s going on, there’s Bob McDonough to the right of my camera, listening to me.”

Karkos added, “In my 22 years, I’ve never, never experienced anything as remotely close to this.”​

H/T LA Times