America’s Next Top Hobo

https://www.youtube.com/v/-_Yv1g8wWJU?fs=1&hl=en_US

This “news” report from Indianapolis’s Fox 59 is less than three minutes long, but it took me almost ten minutes to watch it. That’s because it’s so horrible that I had to stop it several times and walk away from the computer. Following the overnight success of Ted Williams (the golden-voiced hobo), a reporter takes to the streets to find homeless people with talent. And surprisingly, homeless people haven’t seen the viral video. Probably because, oh, I don’t know, THEY LIVE ON THE STREET.

As if that’s not bad enough, the reporter then makes the homeless people sing. It’s so awful that it doesn’t feel real. Honestly, I’ve made a career out of joking about how much I dislike the homeless, and even *I* find this morally bankrupt. It would have been more humane to film the reporter stabbing hobos. Not to mention a huge turn-on.

[Strike Gently via The Daily What]

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