TV reporter gets revenge on drunken fans

It’s the vengeance television journalists around the world have been waiting for.

For more than a year the FHRITP trend – or "f—k her right in the p----y" – has been the bane of television reporters around the world.

Hundreds of videos have gone viral showing people – mostly men – jumping into the background during live reports – conducted mostly by women – to shout the obscene phrase.

Now one reporter at least has had her revenge.

Shauna Hunt from CityNews in Canada decided she had had enough and is now being hailed a hero for her systematic takedown of a group of Toronto FC fans who were preparing to hijack her report with the lewd catchphrase.

“Were you guys waiting around to see if you could FHRITP me on live TV,” she said, robbing them of their opportunity and sending them directly onto their back feet.

“Seriously, it’s a disgusting thing to say, it’s degrading to women.

“You would humiliate me on live TV?”

There has been an outpouring of support for Hunt online as her confrontation went viral for all of the right reasons, with the video showing the group of apparently intoxicated young men fumbling for responses.

“I’m sick of this,” Hunt continued.

“I get this every single day, sometimes 10 times a day.

“When you talk into my microphone and say that into my camera to the viewers at the station I work for that’s disrespectful and degrading.”

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Of course, no public reprimand would be complete without an appeal to the better angels of their nature, and so Hunt finished by demanding to know what their mothers would think.

The response was an unconvincing insistence that Mum would probably be in favour of it all.

And while a public slapdown becoming a viral sensation might seem like punishment enough, the situation has become very serious for at least one of Hunt’s hecklers.

CBC News reports that one of the men, Shawn Simoes, was spotted by his bosses at Hyrdro One who were also far from impressed with his efforts.

Simoes is now out of work and the employer of another one of the men is also understood to be investigating the incident.

All of the men involved could also find themselves facing lengthy bans from sporting events.

The FHRITP meme began in January last year when a video emerged of an apparent on-air gaffe from a Fox News reporter using the infamous phrase before crossing back to a stunned and apologetic anchor.

Shortly afterwards two more videos appeared online showing another man delivering the line in front of shocked field reporters live on television.

The first three videos were later revealed to be fakes created by filmmaker John Cain, however, the lack of authenticity has not stopped hundreds of other boneheads taking to the streets to emulate them for real.

Hunt’s slap down of these men has now become its own viral powerhouse in its own right and could, perhaps, lead to a new trend showing the revenge of the newscaster on drunken sports fans worldwide.

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