Ultimate shoulder rides

Gyulasziposz already posted about this in "New pics, video clips and links" section of the forum under INTERESTING DOCUMET-CRITICISES MANS REPORTER SITTING ON SHOULDERS.

I always like to see a man sitting astride anothers man shoulders, but in this case, if you read the article and hear this character blaming his cameraman, he got fired for good reasons. Shame on him.

yeah.. agree
although i am not familiar with the hind culture from this point of view, but i guess it is rude-- our friends from india here on the site could tell more.

A TV journalist in India has been sacked after delivering his report on floods in the north of the country while sitting on the shoulders of a man who had lost everything.
Narayan Pargaien's former employer, News Express, said he was guilty of "grave misconduct".
It said what he had done was "not just inhuman, but was also against the culture" of the channel.
"You cannot ride on someone's back for a story. We terminated him on Tuesday," the head of News Express said later.
While the video was not broadcast by the TV station, it was anonymously uploaded onto YouTube where it has been viewed thousands of times.
Mr Pargaien insisted the man had been paid and had wanted him to show the damage to his home.
And while the journalist admitted his part in the filming, he was also keen to pass some of the blame onto his cameraman.
He said the cameraman had not done his job properly because the report was only supposed to show him from the chest up. The villager was not meant to have been in shot.
More than 1,000 people are believed to have lost their lives in the heavy flooding in Uttarakhand state.
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The above was copied and pasted from a news report. The video can be viewed on YouTube.

Thanks Am6 for the video.

Well, Hind culture says nothing about this situation.
Shoulder riding is not an offense in India,
but I think something was wrong with this guy.

He was talking about the hardship these people are facing and at the same time he chose to sit on shoulders of one of them.

I don’t know, why that frustrated man who had lost everything might have agreed to keep him on shoulders,
may be due to craze of coming on TV, I guess.

And the reporter seems to be really dumb to think that nobody will notice this.

And the camera man seems to be jealous of the reporter, so he shot the full figure instead of from chest as suggested by the reporter.
Actually he should have resisted and prevented the act from happening instead of shooting it.

namaegaaru wrote:

If the reporter was a beautiful woman on such a man would she be fired from her job?

Sam, you are totally right, she wouldn´t.
I think what he did is bad taste, but I also think they may have overreacted by firing him.
I think a serious warning and a reassignation would have been enogh. Unless this wasn´t his first offence, of course.