Reporter mistakes sex toy for magic mushroom
The "very young and sheltered" reporter would soon be immortal, at least for a few day on the Internet. (YouTube)
In college, I knew people who could identify every mushroom dotting the moist, fertile South Georgia landscape.
Unfortunately, when a mysterious object was unearthed while drilling a new well shaft in western China, the good people living there had no such experts.
ABC News reports the villagers in Liucunbu believed the double-headed object to be a rare mushroom.
A TV reporter, Yunfeng Ye, traveled there to to check out the “flexible, fungi-like object.”
Ye and the local villagers, after much probing and fondling, determined the bulbous thing was “a shelf fungus of the Ganoderma lucidum species, which according to legend has the ability to give immortality.”
The magic mushroom has indeed granted immortality: the reporter will forever be known as the reporter that was fooled by a sex toy.
Once the TV program aired, viewers called in to accurately identify the mystery object as a rubber vagina.
An online video (which may be considered graphic by some) has been viewed millions of times, probably by laughing people.
“Our reporter is very young and sheltered,” said the TV station afterwards.
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34 comments Add your comment
Buzzsaw
June 21st, 2012
2:53 pm
This did not fool an entire village — it just fooled the poor reporter. At 1:11 in the video, one of the men clearly uses the English slang term for the item in question. What I can’t figure out is how they got through the entire interview without anyone cracking up. They deserve an Oscar for ensemble acting!!
Elvis Prez
June 21st, 2012
3:36 pm
Oh Fred.
what a crock
June 21st, 2012
5:02 pm
You gotta love how the TV station totally threw the reporter under the bus on this one. As if she had total control over whether to do the story and air it. Typical.
They even phrased it in such a way that most people will go along with their denial of responsibility. She may very well be “young and sheltered” but this isn’t on her.
MyPatootie
June 21st, 2012
5:24 pm
It would have been even funnier if it had started vibrating while they were holding it!
John Holmes
June 21st, 2012
6:14 pm
I believe I saw a movie about this on Cinemax last night
Ted
June 21st, 2012
7:04 pm
That’s not funny. I’m more concerned about what’s being confused for ‘meat’ at my local Chinese restaurant after seeing this video.
There was a day when I could at least trust it was real ‘cat’. Now, who knows?
Ted
June 21st, 2012
7:10 pm
Does that mean they are putting ‘vagina’ on their pizza in China?
Fred ™
June 21st, 2012
8:15 pm
June 21st, 2012
1:32 pm
Fred just got owned.
SSSSSskkkkkorccch!
++++++++++++++++++++++
Really? i doubt George has enough cash to erent me much less own me. Besides nameless one, He SAID there were “millions” of views on the TV station site, but failed to give that site or the page that will actually PROVE “millions” of views. Given his track record, I’ll remain ed skeptical, un owned, un SSSSSskkkkkorccch ed or un anything until I can see some actual PROOF.
You DO know what proof is don’t you coward who was afraid to leave a name, even a fake one?
Georgie Fred — The video was viewed millions of times on the website of the TV station: Really? Can you cite your sources or give a site where that can be verified? Your last one proved to be woefully inadequate. Thanks for YOUR support……….. but due diligence would be nicer…….
Big K
June 21st, 2012
8:27 pm
Now if someone would just drop one of those from a plane over the Kalahari desert I bet the bushmen would find a million creative uses for it!
kp
June 21st, 2012
9:03 pm
At harts field one time someone’s luggage popped open in the baggage claim and a double of vibrators fell out