Did anybody else see this A-hole?

[TNT]

I wish this had the audio, the one I saw on my phone last night did. He was basically talking about how great it was to be in the building all by himself so that he could do whatever he wants without any of the car owners stopping him.




Someone who worked at the venue hosting this finally yelled at him when he crawled under a "fence" to climb onto the hood of a prototype Explorer that Ford Corporate had on display.

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/local-c...ter-fired-cars

A local CBS reporter in California was apparently fired after he — during a live news segment — climbed atop classic, privately-owned cars, even seemingly damaging one of them in the process.

Angel Cardenas, a correspondent with KMAX-TV's "Good Morning Sacramento," was on air Sunday at the Sacramento International Auto Show, a weekend-long event at Cal Expo that was about to begin its final day.

Someone who caught the segment on air, Adam Copeland, posted a clip of it to Facebook, as he has "never seen such a disregard to someone else's vehicle."

Cardenas playfully tells viewers "the only person out here is a media coordinator, [the event] doesn't start until later in the day… no one is out here to tell me which car I can't go in, cause some of these are off-limits, so I'm just gonna live on the wild side." He then gets on top of a yellow Ford Thunderbird and laying on his side, posing on the car.

"I feel like a kid in a candy store without the owners because you can do anything," Cardenas says. He then moves on to another car, a pink Thunderbird, and opens the driver's side door — which dings into another vehicle sitting next to it.

He briefly takes a look at the possible damage, and then proceeds to get inside the car and quips that "nobody's looking," before directing the cameraman to zoom in on the spot where the door hit the neighboring vehicle.

Cardenas later crosses through a barrier around a Ford Explorer and hops on top of the hood of the car.

"I would get off that now," one of the two on-air hosts tells Cardenas from the studio. He gets off moments later, saying someone in the auto show told him to.

The following day, the auto show's Facebook page was updated with a message about the incident. According to the post, the auto show's producer reached out to the producer of the general manager of the CBS affiliate about the "astonishingly awful incident" and was told Cardenas was immediately fired following the segment, as also noted by the Time Meets Road blog.

The news station, which declined Fox News' request for comment, "expressed their sincerest apologies for the incident," the post read.

[Basin Motorsports]

I hadn't seen it, but it's probably fair to say he's out of the business for good. There was a "comic" at SEMA a couple years ago pretending to be somebody and getting people in trouble. It caused SEMA to question whether they let media personalities in that aren't in the auto industry. Things like this are similar. Should they let non-auto people into shows?

[mustang_fanatic]

I did see the story and yes hopefully he was fired as indicated. The blatant disregard for other people's property is really getting out of hand.

[TNT]

The station fired him after the segment aired. No word on whether they called him on location to fire him or waited for him to return to the station to tell him

[NAVYCAT]

they looked like all thunderbirds?

[TNT]

In that section at least.

At the end of the segment he walks over to a new Explorer that Ford had roped off. He then jumped the barrier, climbed on top of the hood of the Explorer and was laying there when someone at the car show finally saw his antics and yelled at him.

[gmatt]

Well, he got fired and he deserved it. He demonstrated that he can't be trusted to behave responsibly. There's a lot of that going around.

[WilliamCapri]

Check the comments after the article. All I can say is pathetic. For the ones that say the damage was only to cars, I’d like to know where they draw the line.

[noac]

I heard CNN hired him after he was fired.

[graphicdesigner80]

I heard CNN hired him after he was fired.

Sounds about right.

I'd be willing to bet there were several early bird owners who wanted to have a 'word' with him. That's a video I'd like to see.