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Jesse Watters of Fox News’ “Watters’ World” is normally the one behind pranks, not the one falling for them.
But here Watters fell for one of the oldest fake photos that’s been swimming around Twitter for years: The shark on the flooded highway.
"BREAKING: Sharks are now swimming through the flooded streets of Houston, as seen in this photo we have obtained this from a source"- CNN pic.twitter.com/GbhRbnRJQN
— Angry Mob Capital (@PSBCap) August 27, 2017
Watters casually references this as real. ” I’ve seen some amazing things out there just looking at television. Alligators on people’s back door steps. I saw a shark on a highway swimming in the water. Like Sharknado!”
Yeah….no. The photo, it turns out, was first published 2005 and shot in South Africa. It’s been knocking around the Internet since at least 2011.
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Twitter users raked Watters over the coals for what social media frenzies around like…sharks in the water: gullibility.
Just saw the Jesse Watters clip talking about sharks swimming around in Houston and I'm now a little dumber than I used to be.
— Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) August 29, 2017
Watters…Please don't mention the fake pics like sharks on the highway that has circulated for years and is totally bogus. Love you though!
— Viki Falgout (@VikiFalgout) August 29, 2017
Now, all that being said…there are fake photos, but there are also real risks.
Sea creatures and swamp reptiles like alligators do get washed into human-occupied space during floods and hurricanes. In the 1994 central Georgia floods, there were gators and snakes in the hallways of flight line buildings at Robins AFB.
So…if you’re in Houston, be careful out there. You could run into some real animals, but it’s really (really) unlikely you’ll see a shark. If you’re Jesse Watters or anyone else plying the infested waters of the Internet, just be careful, period.
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Watters is good at his humorous interview segments, but is in over his head trying to be a newsman.