Brian Damage
07-01-2007, 10:31 AM
Fox News reporter Laura Ingle got the shock of her life yesterday when, during a live interview, a man walked up and yanked the microphone out of her hand.
Ingle was outside the Fifth Ave. Apple store around 9:30 a.m. speaking to Newsweek technology editor Steven Levy about the new iPhone when the man lunged at Ingle's mike.
"You never know what's going to happen with live news, I suppose," Ingle told the Daily News yesterday. "This guy just busted out of the line, and he grabbed my microphone and ran off."
Hundreds of people were queued up outside the store to be the first to buy the iPhone, which went on sale at 6 p.m.
"He tried running away, but I think he tripped," said Ingle. "He actually let go of the microphone when he hit the ground, and [my producer] picked it up and handed it to me and I just turned my back and kept on talking. We had a report to do."
Ingle said she's not sure what happened to the almost-thief, but she thinks he simply walked away from the scene.
"I've certainly had people yell things before and walk by and be a nuisance where they come up and try to get in the shot," she said. "But nothing like this has ever happened to me before."
The guy was arrested around noon, according to a Fox source.
"It was one of those things where it happened so fast and all I could think about at the time was just, 'I've got to get the mike back so I can do the report,'" said Ingle.
"We had been waiting all day to do the demonstration of the iPhone," she added - Levy was one of only four editors to receive a device for preview.
"All I was thinking about at the time, was just to show people on the air what the iPhone can do."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uayBcHDxfww
Ingle was outside the Fifth Ave. Apple store around 9:30 a.m. speaking to Newsweek technology editor Steven Levy about the new iPhone when the man lunged at Ingle's mike.
"You never know what's going to happen with live news, I suppose," Ingle told the Daily News yesterday. "This guy just busted out of the line, and he grabbed my microphone and ran off."
Hundreds of people were queued up outside the store to be the first to buy the iPhone, which went on sale at 6 p.m.
"He tried running away, but I think he tripped," said Ingle. "He actually let go of the microphone when he hit the ground, and [my producer] picked it up and handed it to me and I just turned my back and kept on talking. We had a report to do."
Ingle said she's not sure what happened to the almost-thief, but she thinks he simply walked away from the scene.
"I've certainly had people yell things before and walk by and be a nuisance where they come up and try to get in the shot," she said. "But nothing like this has ever happened to me before."
The guy was arrested around noon, according to a Fox source.
"It was one of those things where it happened so fast and all I could think about at the time was just, 'I've got to get the mike back so I can do the report,'" said Ingle.
"We had been waiting all day to do the demonstration of the iPhone," she added - Levy was one of only four editors to receive a device for preview.
"All I was thinking about at the time, was just to show people on the air what the iPhone can do."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uayBcHDxfww