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Smoke Break #848: Russian News Anchor Can’t Keep Straight Face For BC Pot Story

May 12, 2011 

Remember that recent, crazy local story about the bears protecting the marijuana grow-op near Christina Lake? We all thought it was sad, right? Not so in Russia, where it’s freakin’ funny as hell…because it is?

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61 Responses to “Smoke Break #848: Russian News Anchor Can’t Keep Straight Face For BC Pot Story”

  1. Karen on May 24th, 2011 11:10 am

    I’m pretty sure it was the pot-belly pig and raccoon that got her going…I mean really, what was a fat little pig doing there? And raccoon???

  2. Allan on May 24th, 2011 6:13 pm

    Seems to me she had a good toke or Russian Weed.

  3. meg on May 25th, 2011 5:52 am

    i used to live there, and this was a bogus news story worldwide. the real story was that the bears were part of an unlicensed wildlife rehabilitation center and there was no pot crop at all, that got made up to make it newsworthy.

  4. poolchick on May 25th, 2011 2:57 pm

    @ Meg……you were missinformed. The story is true and he is being charged. Now thanks to that jerk, the bears were most likely put down since they are used to being fed and couldn’t fend for themselves in the wild. Don’t know where you got your info from but it unfortunately happened.

  5. meg on May 25th, 2011 7:52 pm

    http://news.aol.ca/2011/03/25/b-c-man-pleads-guilty-to-feeding-bears/

    check out this link. he never used bears for gaurding any marijuana crop. im from christina lake,and everyone knew he was allowing a bunch if bears tolive on his property.

  6. Rick on May 25th, 2011 11:13 pm

    Ok Meg, the story was made up by the news, and I guess the story from Whistler about the Huskies was also made up too. All those dogs are acually in loving homes. Shame on the news for fibbing. I read the story and sure he plead guilty to one count, if you dig a little more he plead not guilty to the other and still has to go to court.

  7. Don Greenbaum on May 26th, 2011 7:43 am

    I thought pot was legal in Canada. But how did the raccoon help the operation?

  8. Rosemary Phillips on May 26th, 2011 9:07 am

    That bears were fed in Christina Lake is true (dogfood). That they are now a problem is true. We here in Christina Lake have been issued a notice from the BC Conservation Office Service of bears that are human food conditioned. These bears lose their fear of humans. This is both a public and bear safety issue. And yes, there were pigs roaming around too. But these have been herded up. The stories were not made up, just sensationalized.

  9. Anita Ewart on May 26th, 2011 9:59 am

    We need more humour from the press nowadays…am a BC citizen and well aware of our pending reputation after this….
    We CAN laugh at ourselves !!! Hilarious. Thx for this :-)

  10. Jean on May 26th, 2011 11:24 am

    Meg…when you lived there what were you smoking? The story is essentially true .. it has been well publicized. Not necessarily true about the animals guarding the pot crop but true about the bears, their numbers and the fact that they were unfortunately learning to be close to humans.

  11. george skelton on May 26th, 2011 1:03 pm

    The accuracy of this ‘story’ is not the point, here. The way it is ‘enriched,’ is! If this delightfully spontaneous newscaster had been on air in this country, the network ‘stuffed shirts’ would have her wonderful delivery cut of. But those in charge of her program, realized that her humanity was part of what that media is all about – entertainment!

    Former broadcaster.

  12. DW on May 26th, 2011 1:12 pm

    Looks fake to me. Russian news readers are usually about half her age.

  13. Neil Miller on May 26th, 2011 5:03 pm

    Dave. If you are a former broadcaster, you should realize that it is painfully obvious that this newscast is being pre-recorded to be aired at a later time. It is not a live broadcast.

    Former broadcaster.

  14. Joan on May 26th, 2011 9:40 pm

    The bears being in the actual marijuana crop grow, story is true. But not smoking the pot. Are you people so foolish as to believe this gal is doing a true broadcast? It is a Russian show like our English UTube, with a “play on”, and exaggerated, of the story. I have seen a similar broadcast type on our Canadian UTube with a “would-be” announcer losing it with laughter. Not a real media broadcast. Just entertainment for the Internet.!

  15. Theboxcutter on May 27th, 2011 9:25 am

    This is another example of R.C.M.P. misinformation. The media only reported what the police propaganda agent told them. Trained bears guarding a grow op? Come on … Im sure the police think that would sound good in court.

  16. cbluez on May 27th, 2011 11:29 am

    @Meg..I do live here..you are so full of ridiculous information.
    The bears were allowed to go into hibernation, and so far there has been no problem with them hanging around looking to be fed.

  17. Ricky Retardo on May 27th, 2011 1:16 pm

    …so Goldilocks grows up to be a news anchor…

  18. Tatiana on May 27th, 2011 4:53 pm

    …”crazy local story”… “we all thought it was sad” – if you know what’s happening outside of Canada, this story would seem really funny to you too…

  19. Albert Head on May 27th, 2011 6:09 pm

    The racoon was the lookout, the pig was lunch (he just didn;t know it) and the bears were just chillin!

  20. Mertin on May 27th, 2011 8:30 pm

    I don’t see what the big deal is, I’m Canadian and I sit around in the snow and smoke weed with grizzly bears every day, then we eat pizza and laugh at the pot bellied pigs. I thought we all did that?

  21. cbluez on May 28th, 2011 9:42 am

    @Mertin..no, the city folk are driving around in their BMW SUV’s sucking latte’s, while glued to their Blackberries and wishing they could do that.

  22. steve on May 28th, 2011 2:20 pm

    The sad thing about this story is…………………If the bears return they will be put down. It’s not their fault, the growers should be “put down”.

  23. claude on May 28th, 2011 6:47 pm

    Heu I wander if the vietnamese pig and the racoon shared the same joint with the bears

  24. Kay on May 28th, 2011 8:20 pm

    I thought we did too Mertin! Actually watching the broadcaster was pretty funny, I could just imagine the pictures running through her head as she talked about the bears “sitting” and the other animals that were listed as part of the “operation” ! She made me laugh!

  25. Roy on May 28th, 2011 9:09 pm

    This really did happen…heard about & saw the bears but the other critters I’m not sure about….laughed so hard that I tinkled in me drawers watching
    that news lady and could just imagine what thoughts were going thru her head….too funny

  26. patti on May 29th, 2011 8:53 am

    it was a POT bellied pig after all!!

  27. suzyq8 on May 29th, 2011 11:21 am

    Weed smoker past 45 yrs,,non-smkg past 2 yrs,,,She gave me a great ‘belly’ laugh like I just had a toke,,,Mertin said it best,,,

  28. suzyq8 on May 29th, 2011 11:23 am

    Weed miss the ‘smell’ of weed,,,May we finally ‘Free Weed” !!!!

  29. Dominique on May 29th, 2011 12:28 pm

    I remember hearing about this story & thinking “talk about smoky the bear!”.

  30. Bill on May 29th, 2011 4:46 pm

    I have been led to believe that the Russian people were grim.
    This explodes that theory, Very, very, very funny.

  31. val on May 30th, 2011 9:12 am

    Don’t forget guys, this is Russian-Canadian TV from Toronto, Ontario.NOT a Russian TV from Russia, and this was never broadcast live, putting on youtube just for fun and to be famous (kind of)

  32. Terry on May 30th, 2011 3:38 pm

    I believe the truth is the bears were smoking the pot and the man brought them food as they had a powerful hunger on.
    Terry

  33. KTHUNNY on May 30th, 2011 4:18 pm

    I don’t care if the story is true or not. I don’t care if this was a bit or not. I don’t care if this was being taped for a live broadcast or for re-broadcast on a slow news day. All I care about is that it made me laugh!!! She lost it and couldn’t get it together again and it was funny. All that other stuff is irrelevant. I LOL-ed. As long as people find it humorous, they have accomplished what they set out to do.

  34. Mimi on May 31st, 2011 2:07 am

    It is funny how she keeps laughing. We’ve all had those moments. What I didn’t find funny is the swearing. It’s a sick world when we can’t watch the news without vile cuss words. She spoiled it with the swearing. How do people think they can get anything positive in their life from something so negative.

  35. tigersfan on May 31st, 2011 6:51 am

    A koala is sitting up a gumtree smoking a joint when a little lizard walks past, looks up and says:
    “Hey Koala, what are you doing?”
    The koala says: “Smoking a joint.
    Come up and have some.”
    So the little lizard climbs up, sits next to the koala
    and they enjoy a large doobie.
    After a while the little lizard says his mouth is dry
    and he is going to get a drink from the river.
    But the little lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the river.
    A crocodile sees this, swims over to the little lizard and helps him to the side then asks the little lizard:
    “What’s the matter with you?”
    The little lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting smoking a joint with the koala in the tree, got too stoned and then fell into the river while taking a drink.
    The crocodile says he has to see this, and walks into the rain forest, finds the tree where the koala is sitting, with yet another joint.
    He looks up and says “Hey you!”
    The koala looks down at him and says…
    “Fu-u-u-u-c-c-k, Dude…….
    How much water did you drink?

  36. ct on May 31st, 2011 11:43 pm

    Wow? You guys actually laughed and all at this “broadcast”? What are you guys smoking-maybe I will want some!

    Mertin and tigersfan, I got more of a kick out of your little jokes up there! :-)

    Sure seems you guys cannot agree if there was a pot plantation there or not…

    I read the one article up there Meg provided, but it’s only about feeding the bears, nothing about the pot.

    And cbluez, I defy you to show me any animal, including birds, which are regularly fed, won’t come back around. And think about how many animals get agressive if you don’t meet the needs they have grown accustomed to from you. If those bears come back around and people aren’t giving them their chow, they can/will become aggressive and that means those jerks will kill them-nothing funny at all about that part.

  37. karen on June 1st, 2011 12:27 am

    thought the story was funny. can you imagine a bear with the munchies! … I think that is why the raccoon was there….

  38. cbluez on June 1st, 2011 12:27 am

    @ct
    I live very nearby..yes they were growing pot. Which is like a normal pastime in the W Kootenay..duh..
    It’s immaterial as to whether anyone on here can agree to that..

    Well,,we live with bears all the time around here…Yes they can be aggressive…Yes they are constantly hungry…Yes there are no shortage of morons who leave garbage out.
    Yes, other morons want us to cut down our fruit trees because they attract bears..
    As I said…So far there has been no problem. with these particular bears of note.
    When there is a problem and the bear becomes aggressive, humans can be mauled and killed..In the end the humans win as the bear is dealt with, and that does not always mean killing them..they are moved sometimes..which can be problematic too.
    ..and the person who has to shoot them is not a jerk…’JERK’..they are doing their job to protect humans..duh..
    Do you live with bears in your friggin back yard??? I do..
    What fantasy world do you live in??the big city somewhere?

  39. gfer on June 2nd, 2011 8:11 am

    this is my home town, suprised it made it on russian news this is funny tho.

  40. gfer on June 2nd, 2011 8:12 am

    some of the bears where injured and some of the other animals were well idk lol

  41. Fred on June 2nd, 2011 9:36 am

    I don’t think this is Russian TV. At the end the anchor clearly says “*our* country’s authorities may have to put down the bears.”

    This would imply that she is NOT Russian, actually, but Canadian – probably one of those ethnic channel hosts. And we know how professional these guys are.

    Also, note that the word “news” behind her in the studio is written in English. I am almost sure this is a program for Russian speakers in Canada.

  42. doug on June 2nd, 2011 8:15 pm

    i live in the okanagan valley… one valley over..from christina lake…in British columbia..THIS STORY IS REAL…….the bears were being fed by the growers for ALMOST 10 years some were second generation bears…and yes they were found arround a marijuana grow operation … and it happened .. check http://www.chbcnews.ca archives , or globalbc or ctvbc …and yes it is damn funny…. would just hate to thik if those bears had the munchies…..

  43. Dennis on June 3rd, 2011 5:57 pm

    Hey CT, what fantasy world do you live in???? Hahaha, if you can’t even find a little humor in that then I feel truly sorry for you my brother!!!! It’s a damn f*#%@in funny story in its own right, even with out the Russian newscaster losing it!

  44. brian on June 3rd, 2011 8:38 pm

    No mention of moose and squirrel . . .

  45. Carolann on June 4th, 2011 4:12 pm

    Hey, CT? I have 13 birdfeeders which I’ve been using for about 13 years. Do you think those BIG BAD BIRDIES are going to get ‘aggressive’ and poop me to death? This is the funniest story I’ve seen in ages and I don’t give a poop HOW or WHY it was done! I needed a good laugh and I got one! Aggressive BIRDS, for Heaven’s sake…you seriously need to ‘lighten up’, CT!

  46. Ann on June 4th, 2011 6:04 pm

    This made me cry laughing! I’m Canadian. Loosen up.

  47. lisa on June 4th, 2011 9:36 pm

    It may or may not be fake, the point is that the clip itself is funny. I know how she feels but mine was at a radio station not t.v. It’s all good…. chill!

  48. ct on June 4th, 2011 10:41 pm

    First of all, I do not live in bear country, but I have been in bear country camping/fishing-northern Minnesota and most of the time you can just send some warning shots and they finally decide to move on. If we shot and they were still coming, then sure we would have to do something drastic at that point. But yes, I still find it a shame if the bears have to be shot because of humans spoiling them! I think sometimes people get what they deserve. Cutting down fruit trees is a bit silly, but when one deliberately feeds them-they are ruining the bears-that IS a human’s fault.

    And too bad you both don’t find life a little more precious-anything that has to be killed(potentially)-not for food, especially an innocent animal who’s just doing what they do…that’s sad.

    I had asked about the pot because of the poster who said they live near the area and there was no pot-something about this being propaganda for the media…if it’s real fine, but that is why I asked. Duh you say??

    As for no sense of humor? Sure I have one, but didn’t find much of anything funny about the video. Like I said, I thought the other 2 in this message board WERE funny (a LOT funnier that that stupid video)! So sure, as you can see I DO have a sense of humor. When something is really funny, I end up making a fool of myself from laughing so hard-just this didn’t do it.
    Guess you find Seinfeld funny as well?

  49. george on June 5th, 2011 6:27 am

    This is ethnic Russian-language TV program in Toronto, called ‘MixTV’. These reporters are not professional journalists.

  50. Carolann on June 5th, 2011 9:56 am

    Actually, CT, I find you funnier than Seinfeld and you aren’t funny at all. As for linking the killing of bears to a stupid made-up video shows a serious lack of humor…and please don’t tell me what you do think is funny! CA

  51. cbluez on June 5th, 2011 10:02 am

    @ct
    Well there’s no shortage of boring fools in the world.

  52. ct on June 5th, 2011 10:08 am

    I am chillin’, I just don’t comprehend how this is so hilarious in any facet: the obvious fakeness of the video, the story itself, how fake that woman is, the impact this could have on the bears…

    And no, I don’t think the birds are gonna attack you, but if you know anything about science, if you feed birds regularly and quit they can starve. Don’t believe me? Check it out on the major birding sites.

    But this is a real bore so, I bid you adieu.

  53. lisa on June 5th, 2011 11:51 am

    so what!!!!!

  54. Carolann on June 5th, 2011 1:54 pm

    (giggle)

  55. lisa on June 5th, 2011 3:32 pm

    It was a test segment for a news anchor at this station.

  56. cbluez on June 5th, 2011 8:53 pm

    Yes adieu, Sir Boring.

  57. Russ Darden on June 7th, 2011 1:40 am

    If your bears are like the ones here they and the deer eat the pot. It’s a real problem for the pot farmers here.

  58. Russ Darden on June 7th, 2011 1:44 am

    Also the pig is too short to get the buds. So what was the pig doing? Was it wired with a camera?

  59. Carolann on June 7th, 2011 10:36 am

    (hehehehe)

  60. Pat on August 2nd, 2011 2:18 pm

    OMG.. the presentation by the Russian News castor.. was hilarious… thanks I laffed my butt off…
    BC already has a bad reputation…. pot should be legal… and at least the bears weren’t eating people.. raccoons, or the pig….

  61. mila vesely on April 20th, 2012 12:26 am

    The presentation by the Russian News castor.. was hilarious… thanks I laffed my butt off…
    “most funny story” in her interpretation, I heard in last 30 years of my life.
    Funny girl………..good bless her.