It was not a good day for Angel Cardenas, a California-based TV reporter who lost his job after he was filmed jumping on vintage cars during reporting. A correspondent with KMAX-TV, he was reporting from the Sacramento International Auto Show on the final day.?
As he couldn¡¯t get any car representative to talk to him he decided to lay on one of the cars that were on display. This incident didn¡¯t go down well with people on social media and they called this behaviour ¡®inappropriate¡¯ and the person ¡®shameless¡¯.?
¡°I feel like a kid in a candy store without the owner because you can do anything,¡± Cardenas is heard saying on camera. He found a baby pink Ford Thunderbird, but when he opened the car¡¯s door to hop inside, he accidentally hit the car next to it.
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He was fired after the producer of the auto show reached out to the General Manager of the channel.
¡°I may have crossed the line a bit, but my intentions were never to disrespect the owners of the vehicles, although it seemed that way,¡± Cardenas wrote in a message to the channel, reportedly?told Buzzfeed. ¡°It was really a dumb choice on my part,¡± the journalist admitted.
What do you think: Was it a dumb move or not?