In March 2014, during a live news broadcast for Good Morning Jacksonville, WLTV’s David Williams, while reporting at the scene of a minor fire in Florida, is photobombed by a woman wearing a unicorn mask and a tutu. Impressively, Williams maintains his professionalism, despite the unnamed woman gabbling and flailing her arms in the air. Keeping a straight face, he quickly wraps up the report and hands back to the main studio.
The tutu-clad, masked nuisance is an example of the chaotic, unpredictable nature of an industry fraught with pranksters, the miscreants of the world who are looking — at the expense of the reporter’s reputation — to have their 15 minutes of fame.