Video: Jesse Watters Falls for Fake Photo of a Shark Swimming Down Houston Highway
OutdoorHub Reporters 08.30.17
Fox News host Jesse Watters proved why you should never fall for what you see on the internet when he fell for a fake photo of a shark swimming down a flooded highway during a live broadcast.
Watters was covering the destruction caused by Harvey when he began discussing the weird “biblical things” he saw on social media, including gators and sharks(?)
“I’ve seen some amazing things out there just looking at television,” Watters stated on “The Five” on Monday night. “Alligators on people’s back-door steps. I saw a shark on a highway swimming in the water.”
Here’s the photo Watters was referring to:
Watters: I saw a shark on a highway, swimming in the water
Guilfoyle: like Sharknado
Watters: like Sharknado pic.twitter.com/ycsRqV36F6— Brendan Karet 🚮 (@bad_takes) August 29, 2017
This photo was quickly debunked as a fake, however, and in fact seems to pop up anytime there’s a flood, anywhere.
Y’all please stop tweeting me that shark on a flooded highway photo
It’s fake.
It’s not Houston. It’s not #Harvey. It’s not real.
— Dianne Gallagher (@DianneG) August 29, 2017
Watters later realized the error he made, and promptly apologized for spreading shark rumors.
Yesterday, I made a comment about a shark in the floodwaters in Texas. I sincerely apologize if I caused concern or alarm to anyone (1/2)
— Jesse Watters (@jessebwatters) August 29, 2017
…The folks there and beyond are suffering unimaginable hardships. My heart goes out to them (2/2)
— Jesse Watters (@jessebwatters) August 29, 2017
Harvey has dropped over 50″ of rain on Houston over the span of less than a week, and more is still on the way. The death toll continues to climb and mass evacuations are underway.
Preliminary record: Harvey has passed the 50” measured single-storm rainfall record for the continental US.
More: https://t.co/sgB1qmoe4M— NWS (@NWS) August 29, 2017
