After what was a rather heavy night in
British politics, a touch of light relief was served up on
BBC News when a cyclist fell into a pond live on air.
Correspondent Sarah Smith was doing a live link-up from Edinburgh to discuss how the potential upcoming
election could see
Scotland seek an independence vote when the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment happened. Man falls off bike into river live on BBC News 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/UFsK9Ns8q5— Charlie Knowler (@charlie_knowler) September 3, 2019The cyclist could be seen slowly entering the screen from the left-hand side, but it appears they got a little bit too close to the edge of the water.
The hooded figure was then seen raising their arms in the air before crashing into the pond.
Luckily, they were OK, jumping straight back out before appearing to laugh at the gaffe.
And while Sarah didn’t notice what was going on behind her, plenty of people at home did, with many claiming the moment summed up the evening’s events...Bike guy on BBC news doing a better job than any reporter of summing up today’s political developments pic.twitter.com/GnQdurannP— Richard Innes (@bigrichinnes) September 3, 2019Keep watching...the guy on the bike clearly representing how we all feel about brexit😂 #brexit#BrexitShambles#bbcnews@BBCBreakingpic.twitter.com/flU9GC8You— Adrian Moody (@adrian_moody1) September 3, 2019Forget #Brexit did anyone else see the boy falling off his bike behind Sarah Smith on @BBCNews at 10? #BrexitClifpic.twitter.com/N154kp60pF— Alex Orr (@alex_m_orr) September 4, 2019Geezer just absolutely decked it off his bike behind a live news hit from Scotland on BBC News. A metaphor?— Chris Hopkins (@ChrisHopkins92) September 3, 2019kid falling off his bike live on bbc news rlly represents how british politics has been going the past few years pic.twitter.com/RBLpBBQ9CA— maisie Ⓥ (@maisiemaytorr) September 3, 2019Bloke on bike live on @BBCNews at 10 doing his best @BorisJohnson impression and cycles into pond...#HouseOfCommons#brexit#newsattenpic.twitter.com/KBjMHNx4g9— Alastair Reid (@bigredal) September 3, 2019The news unfolding today was too much for this fella in the background on his bike #BBCNews was it Boris on one of his bikes? pic.twitter.com/VoWR99nlUp— Steve Lang (@langyboy) September 3, 2019Of course, it is not the first moment of its kind to air on BBC News.
Who could forget the time coverage of Ant McPartlin’s court hearing for drink-driving was interrupted by two cars bumping in to one another?
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