Most Helpless Man in Town Gets Frostbite [PIC]

It's winter and it's cold. This week, it's been exceptionally cold  So much so, that as I'm writing this it is 7° above zero, and it feels wonderful. Wind chills have been brutal, driving gets tougher thanks to every other driver on the road and shoveling becomes harder to deal with each year that passes. Yes, I know about snow blowers. I'll deal with that later. I didn't have kids so they could not shovel snow for me.

The shining examples of idiocy, other than drivers who are not me, are the reporters and weathercasters who stand in Arctic blizzards to drive home the fact that indeed it is cold and snowing. If it's a hurricane, they're out on the beach fighting the wind. You know the routine. Enter cub reporter Eric Fink. According to CBSDenver.com the KRDO-TV reporter was alone and attempting to set up a liveshot from a frigid spot somewhere in the Colorado Springs area, but could not hook his camera up to his backpack without taking his gloves off in the cold weather. It's reported that expressed concern about the cold temperatures. Well, he ended up with frostbite on both hands. The story says that the station has been criticized by reporters in the past for not providing safety training in extreme weather. He is expected to be alright and recover, and I hope that's the case. However, I will say it's a shame that basic common sense and simple survival instincts to not get frostbite did not prevail. He had a perfectly good vehicle with him. He was not stranded on the side of a remote mountain pass, miles from civilization.

There's something about the picture in this tweet that just makes me want to wrap a Hello Kitty blankie around this kid and ship him home to mommy.