Here is a hilarious item from Thursday's "Reliable Source" in the Washington Post regarding an incident reminiscent of The Naked Gun:
Flush we must: Several hundred attendees at the Kaiser Family Foundation's conference yesterday on kids and the media with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton got a surprise earful before she spoke. Drew Altman, the foundation's president and CEO, was making introductory remarks when, suddenly, the unmistakable sound of a toilet flushing could be heard over the loudspeaker system. The culprit: moderator Jeff Greenfield of CNN, who used the facilities while wearing his remote microphone. He e-mailed us yesterday: "After 25 years in the business, you'd think I'd know when to turn a microphone off!"
We had a similar experience a few years ago. We were doing a dress rehearsal for our 2001 live video recording one night at Lake Hills Church in Laguna Hills. The rehearsal was running long as we worked out various bugs in the program, and at one point we decided to take a moment to reset everything.
A minute or so later we heard, loud and clear, sounds coming over the speakers that, let's just say, were clearly coming from the restroom (bathrooms always have great acoustics). Our tenor singer had left the stage, stuck his mic into his pocket without first turning it off, and had gone to take an apparently much needed break.
Fortunately, we weren't rolling tape at the time.
Another time, many years ago, I was involved in some of the productions at Melodyland when that church was going strong. We would do three big shows a year, and many wireless mics were used by the actors and singers. The performers were specifically instructed never to turn off their mics - they would be controlled by the sound staff.
One night, one of the lead actresses left the stage after her scene, and a few moments later was heard to proclaim, over the entire house sound system, "she's been upstaging me all night!".
God's not afraid to use modern electronics to humble the proud.
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