Newscaster falls victim to heartless prankster, hilarity ensues online

Jul 13, 2013 08:33 GMT  ·  By

One KTVU newscaster fell victim to a very heartless and not entirely original prankster while reporting on the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed last weekend at the San Francisco International Airport.

Video of the prank was posted online and, as you can imagine, almost immediately went viral.

The newscaster was reading some names of the crew and pilots on the plane that crashed but, after just the first, she should have realized that something was off.

If she did, she didn’t stop reading, as you will see in the video. Neither did she burst into laughter, as some would have done, if only for what they assumed was a coincidence.

The crash was tragic, there is no doubt about that but, even so, voices online (especially on YouTube) are saying that the prank was hilarious. What do you think?