A local news broadcast in New Castle, Delaware has gone viral for all the wrong reasons.
The unfortunate positioning on the screen of a stream of water gushing from a water main break generated laughs on social media. The viral video captures people laughing in the background as the anchor keeps talking without apparently realizing the optical illusion being created.
Check out this water main break in New Castle, DE this morning 🤣 pic.twitter.com/8nUz1pbPWL
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 26, 2025
Fox 29 Philadelphia , the station that filmed the stream, posted another video showing the two men joking around and making light of the situation. The anchor pretends to be drinking from the water main stream at one point in that video…