1993 — it seems like forever ago, doesn’t it? That’s because it was. 1993 is just as long ago from right now as 1981 is to the pyramids being built. You can quote me on that. This is a 1993 news report featuring customers reacting to Burger King now accepting

This is a video of WSAZ 3 reporter Tori Yorgey reporting from Dunbar, West Virginia about the inclement weather and a water main break when she’s casually hit by a car, and keeps going. Clearly she went to The Show Must Go On School Of Journalism. Now that is professionalism.

Because when it rains it pours vomit, this is a video of ‘birds aren’t real’ satirical conspiracy theory founder Peter McIndoe performing a spit-take during a live television interview with Chicago-based WGN 9. The newscasters seem to think it’s real, like birds, but it was obviously a prank. Wait —

This is a video of ABC News 20 reporter Jakob Emerson reporting from Lake Springfield in Illinois when a truck at the boat ramp behind him starts sinking, presumably because its owner forgot it was a truck and not a boat. Hey, it happens. If I had a nickel for

Because cats can never stop catting, this is a video from a live at-home CBS Minneapolis news report when a reporter’s segment is interrupted by her cat jumping on the desk to stare at a fly that’s been attracted to her video camera’s light. It happens. Maybe not as often

Because some news stations (and websites) aren’t afraid to tackle the heavy-hitting stories, this is a local news report from 4WWL in New Orleans featuring some footage captured by Jefferson Parish resident Chris Fitzmorris of a blue fireball traveling along a power line outside his home during a recent storm.

News: sometimes it happens right before your eyes. This is a video of Fox 46 news reporter Amber Roberts reporting from atop a bridge in Hiddenite, North Carolina (about an hour south-west of Winston-Salem) where flood waters were quickly causing a bridge to sink, with a piece of it collapsing

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the incident, this is a 4K resolution remaster of the original KATU news footage about the dead sperm whale that washed ashore in Florence, Oregon in 1970. The bloated and stinking whale carcass was exploded with a half-ton of dynamite by the Oregon Highway