# Possibly the most moronic assertion in a news cast...ever! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-most-moronic-assertion-in-a-news-cast-ever/759775 "2016-07-13T02:38:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-most-moronic-assertion-in-a-news-cast-ever/759775/1 "2016-07-13T02:38:08Z")
I usually like Lester Holt and his news team, but today’s story about Pokemon Go had a statement about how it was _dangerous_…because some players found a loaded gun while they were playing it: [http://www.kgw.com/news/local/vancouver/pokemon-go-players-find-loaded-gun-in-field/270748876](http://www.kgw.com/news/local/vancouver/pokemon-go-players-find-loaded-gun-in-field/270748876) As if finding the gun had anything to do with the game. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-most-moronic-assertion-in-a-news-cast-ever/759775/2 "2016-07-13T06:30:37Z")
Where does it actually assert that? I found where the video and article actually asserts that it could have been dangerous, were it not that the Pokemon searchers found the gun (i.e. if it had been left there to be found by a child instead) - that’s sort of the opposite of what you said. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-most-moronic-assertion-in-a-news-cast-ever/759775/3 "2016-07-13T14:18:36Z")
Geez, you could find used needles and condoms, empty liquor bottles and all sorts of other (literal) garbage too! _Madness!_ ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-most-moronic-assertion-in-a-news-cast-ever/759775/4 "2016-07-13T14:56:59Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Where does it actually assert that? > > I found where the video and article actually asserts that it could have been dangerous, were it not that the Pokemon searchers found the gun (i.e. if it had been left there to be found by a child instead) - that’s sort of the opposite of what you said. It wasn’t in the article I linked to (which was just for reference), it was on the NBC news broadcast last night. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-most-moronic-assertion-in-a-news-cast-ever/759775/5 "2016-07-13T15:19:43Z")
Going outdoors is not safe for kids. Someone think of the children. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-most-moronic-assertion-in-a-news-cast-ever/759775/6 "2016-07-13T16:11:03Z")
It seems that the sole purpose of the news today is to tell you to be afraid. It’s tiresome. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-most-moronic-assertion-in-a-news-cast-ever/759775/7 "2016-07-13T16:32:06Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > It seems that the sole purpose of the news today is to tell you to be afraid. It’s tiresome. And _scary_! ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-most-moronic-assertion-in-a-news-cast-ever/759775/8 "2016-07-13T16:45:42Z")
“Smithandwesson, I choose you!” ---
**Author:** ![Orwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/dfb087/32.png) [@Orwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orwell)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-most-moronic-assertion-in-a-news-cast-ever/759775/9 "2016-07-14T13:27:09Z")
On our local news last night, there was a story about a 15 year old girl who walked out into the road and got hit by a car while playing Pokemon Go. Her mother, crying in front of the camera (understandably), sobbed “Parents, don’t let you kids play Pokemon Go. My little girl is in the hospital because of that game”. Uh, no, your daughter is in the hospital because she lost all sense of reality and walked out in front of a car. Don’t blame the phone game. ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possibly-the-most-moronic-assertion-in-a-news-cast-ever/759775/10 "2016-07-14T15:15:54Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > It seems that the sole purpose of the news today is to tell you to be afraid. It’s tiresome. The other day on the radio (KMBZ 98.1 in Kansas City, on the Dana & Parks Show), they were talking about the news and how it is always bad. Someone texted the following in to the text line: [QUOTE=AnonymousTexter] "The news consists of someone telling you ‘Good evening’, and then proceeding to tell you why it isn’t. [/QUOTE]