# Meteorologist, Dead Dude with dog collar in hot tub. Priceless
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 7, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472 "2011-09-07T03:59:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/1 "2011-09-07T03:59:15Z")
This one hits a bit too close to home. He’s on our local NBC station. They have temporarily taken him off the news broadcast.
Sure beats chasing tornadoes doesn’t it. 😛 It’ll be interesting to see how this story develops. I suspect it’s an overdose. Perhaps nothing criminal other than the drug use. But, they won’t know until the autopsy. Don’t even want to speculate about the three guys in a tub and one wearing a dog collar. A bit too kinky for me… :dubious:
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> Meteorologist Brett Cummins, who has been with KARK since 2001, was questioned by police on Monday after he was found asleep in a bathtub along with a dead man wearing a dog collar.
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> Christopher Barbour, a resident of the house where Cummins was found with the dead body, told police that he witnessed Cummins and the man–a friend of his named Dexter Paul Williams–drinking and snorting illegal narcotics on Sunday night. Barbour, Cummins, and Williams spent time together in a jacuzzi bathtub before Barbour left the pair alone and went to sleep on a couch in the living room.
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> When Barbour awoke the next morning, he heard snoring coming from the bathroom and entered to find Cummins asleep in the bathtub–now empty of water–with Williams’s body slumped behind him. When Cummins eventually awoke, he discovered that Williams was not breathing and his face was discolored.
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> Barbour told police that when Cummins discovered Williams’s lifeless body, he ran out of the bathroom screaming and vomited on the living room carpet.
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### Author:  [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/2 "2011-09-07T04:15:17Z")
That is an excellent story. I’ll bet that story just made some journalists career. You just don’t get to write stories like that even once in most journalists careers, unless you live in Florida.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/3 "2011-09-07T05:00:01Z")
The tub was dry? A non-electric dog collar? It’s merely gay and somewhat perverted? And this is supposed to be NEWS? People stopped buying this in the 70s 😉
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### Author:  [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/4 "2011-09-07T17:06:07Z")
It happened in Little Rock. It still is the '70s there. 1870s that is.
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### Author:  [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/5 "2011-09-07T17:17:48Z")
Sad someone died, but this is a pretty awesome story.
Job Forecast for Mr. Cummins: 100% chance of unemployment.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/6 "2011-09-07T17:22:10Z")
Meh, I mean, who hasn’t had this happen to themselves?
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/7 "2011-09-07T17:41:57Z")
It’s like a remake of **Old Yeller**.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/8 "2011-09-07T17:56:23Z")
A couple years ago, someone posted a short clip of Brett acting weird during a newscast. Meant nothing then. Given the new info… it might have been an early sign of problems.
I noticed the dramatic weight loss in his more recent pictures. He’s at a normal weight in this video. He looks unhealthy in recent pics. Drugs will do that.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/9 "2011-09-07T18:00:36Z")
“This isn’t what it looks like!”
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/10 "2011-09-07T18:06:33Z")
I just noticed they have included the police report in the link I gave in the OP. Be sure to scroll down to the officers statement. That was one strange crime scene.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/11 "2011-09-07T18:10:33Z")
Look at who’s face is discolored now!
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/12 "2011-09-07T18:16:43Z")
And I thought this was going to be a story about global warming.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/13 "2011-09-07T19:34:00Z")
Quite a few weatherman have gotten into trouble recently.
> **[Brett Cummins KARK: What is it With TV Weathermen?](https://www.ibtimes.com/brett-cummins-kark-what-it-tv-weathermen-310366)**
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> Cummins is certainly not the first TV meteorologist to get in serious criminal trouble.
Kind of sad to see so many careers ruined by foolish and in some cases, criminal behavior.
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### Author:  [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/14 "2011-09-07T19:54:09Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> Look at who’s face is discolored now!
Win.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/15 "2011-09-07T20:52:26Z")
I just want to say that it was totally worth being banned this morning if it meant finding this when I got back on the board!
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### Author:  [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/16 "2011-09-08T00:20:58Z")
Out of curiosity, on the police report, why does it have an Ethnicity bit, where it lists all 3 men as ‘Not Hispanic’?
Is it just me that thinks that;s an odd way to put it?
And why is _that_ the detail I focus on?
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### Author:  [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/17 "2011-09-08T00:23:51Z")
There is much weirdness among us. Too bad about the man who died.
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### Author:  [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/18 "2011-09-08T00:29:19Z")
I was hoping one of the participants was Rick Perry.
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### Author:  [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/19 "2011-09-08T00:40:35Z")
Hope he’d come out to his parents already …
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### Author:  [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteorologist-dead-dude-with-dog-collar-in-hot-tub-priceless/595472/20 "2011-09-08T03:02:09Z")
> [@lieu](#):
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> It’s like a remake of **Old Yeller**.
You know how a desk looks when it’s flocked, with a Sonic chocolate malt taking the place of fake snow. I do now.
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