Captioning blooper

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Captioning blooper found on an unknown TV network – someone passed this along to me but doesn’t know which TV station it is.

Ed note: Snopes says it’s Los Angeles news station KABC-TV. Thanks Pete.

closed captioning blooper

8 Responses to “Captioning blooper”


  1. 1 Meryl K. Evans

    What a blooper! Best one I’ve seen in ages. Thanks for posting.

  2. 2 Pete

    More details are available at Snopes.

  3. 3 Ian

    Good stuff, thanks.

  4. 4 Anonymous

    ha ha reminded me last year when captioning came up on a NHL commnetary saying Chicago Black Cocks…..

  5. 5 cowboycoffee

    i seriously hope that’s just a close captioning error

  6. 6 Pepe

    SuperFUNNY…. Toooo Funny!!!

  7. 7 Denise

    That word obviously should have been evacuating. On a steno keyboard, the J and the V are part of the same letter. It’s hard to explain, but one little tiny finger error can change the word. So from a captioner’s viewpoint, it’s easy to see how this could have happened!

  8. 8 Matthew Riley

    This is worth submitting to TheDailyWTF (http://thedailywtf.com), if it hasn’t been already. That’s pretty bad, although pretty funny too.

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