A theater cat has become a societal media phenomenon , after a local news internet had been cover about a large cougaron the prowl .
On Fox 13 last week ( Friday , October 13 ) , reporter Scott Madaus was out in the field attempting to descry a cougar . It hadbeen sightedroaming near the town of Hernando , Mississippi , manifestly a cause for vexation .
However , as the news deletion to Madaus , he uproariously appeared to suggest a common house cat in the grass nearby was the cougar . The sore man !
“ I ’m Scott Madaus , know in Hernando , Mississippi , where there have been spottings of a cougar , " he order . " And that ’s not it , that look like a house cat . "
Here ’s the Pulitzer - winning minute in all its glory .
The cyberspace ’s response was to go nuts . People were lapping up the fact that it allege “ bombastic CAT spot ” under the computerized tomography ( which was just regularly sized ! ) , and also loved the obstetrical delivery of Madaus .
Here are some of those reactions .
Okay , it was kind of funny . But , gasp , there ’s a twist . Because while it looks like this may have been one of those inadvertent comedic timing things thatnever happenalways happen , it was actually scripted . No ! Say it ai n’t so .
Yes , talk toBuzzFeed News , Madaus said he had spotted the cat while preparing to go live with a segment on the puma . He cry his producer and said to cut to him quickly , so that he could tantalize the chronicle to the spectator .
“ It had arrive out from this clash from underneath a tree diagram and it was just put up there , star at me , and I think how ironical is this that we ’re doing a story about a 100 - pound - plus potential cougar and here ’s this small , little theater qat , " he state .
As for what happened to the actual cougar , well , that ’s not too percipient . There does n’t seem to have been any reports of it going on any kind of vote out spree , however , so that ’s good .
If anything , this story just serves as a admonisher that everything funny is fake . Except for Trump being President . That is very real .
wager you did n’t believe I could get a Trump dig in this level , eh .
