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    16 Times Australian News Was Too Much To Handle

    This is why we can't have nice news.

    1. When the football was interrupted for this breaking news from CANADA:

    2. When our cheap as chips anti-terrorism scheme was revealed.

    3. When A Current Affair got a hold of this "exclusive."

    4. And when Australians were shown a lesson in irony:

    5. When the ABC recommended the mass exodus of Tasmania:

    6. Or when Channel 9 ran with this:

    7. Or when they alerted us to the storm affecting MORE THAN 2.2 PEOPLE!

    8. When we were asked the TOUGH questions:

    9. The classic and historic arrival of a Mr. Mehoff:

    10. When Channel 7 had a nice, even panel to discuss gender equality.

    11. When Channel 9 REWROTE THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!!

    12. NOT ONCE BUT TWICE!

    13. Or when they captured this bit of television gold:

    14. When Carrie Bickmore had a penis on her paper:

    15. When Channel 9 tried to trick us into thinking Karl Stefanovic and Laurie Oakes were in a different place:

    16. And when the Bananas in Pyjamas showed up on the ABC News set!

    An earlier version of this post had a news blooper that was actually a clever use of photoshop. Woops!