Miss Kolka

It was two minutes to midnight when I arrived into the control room for my last bulletin last night. The day hadn't been great, technical problems, some members of the team were a bit sleepy and it was a busy news day. But this was my last contribution at France 24 before going home and getting finally my two days off.

So I arrive, and the normally very busy room is totally empty, and creepingly quite. I look at the clock, 23.58.00... Screens were swithced off and the output editor who normally never leaves his post is not even there. Then I look onto the main screen and what do I see... two big fishes...and THEN I get it.. its two minutes to the 1st OF APRIL... but still at around 58'30 I become a bit nervous .. and then the technical team finally decides to show up - "Poisson d'avril hahahaha!"

Apparently people love to make others freak out.

We managed to get through the bulletin perfectly and I went home smiling.

p.s. you would think that some people wouldn't be tricked twice.. but I was so stupidly surprised when I saw that the main news website in Island was opening a movie site where you could download alot of exiting films FOR FREE.. I should have reacted when it said that it was free only for today... silly me.

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