Iowa station: ‘Brush fire sh*ts down interstate’

By NewscastStudio July 13, 2015

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KCCI-TV, the Hearst station in Des Moines, Iowa, fell victim to the inconvenient similarity between the word “shuts” and “shits.”

The station, which was covering a brush fire in Florida, ran a lower third banner reading “Brush fire shits down interstate.”

Whoops.

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