Reporter testing 'knife-proof' vest gets stabbed in the back on TV in disturbing demonstration
Topics: Film and TV, World News
Poppy Bilderbeck
Featured Image Credit: Channel 1 Israel
Topics: Film and TV, World News
A journalist from Israel was accidentally stabbed while attempting to showcase a 'knife-proof' protective vest on TV.
Reporter Eitam Lachover put on a protective vest which was reported as being able to withstand a knife attack and got in front of the camera for Israel's Channel 1 to show the vest in action. However, the report very much didn't go to plan.
In the TV report from 2016, the vice president of the company which made the vest, Yaniv Montakyo, can be seen taking out a 'commando knife' from a sheath.
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"[The knife] is used by militaries around the world, a very strong knife made of steel," he explains.
Montakyo then goes on to 'demonstrate' just how 'knife-proof' the vest is by stabbing the journalist with the weapon, adding: "You have nothing to worry about, we are very confident in our product.
"This product can protect from knives that are stronger than this one, may I? Don't be afraid."
Well, the knife ended up going through the supposedly 'knife-proof' vest and pierced Lachover's skin.
Montakyo stabs Lachover with the knife four times and after the fourth time, worryingly comments: "I missed."
Indeed, the journalist is reported as having sustained a cut to his back and requiring stitches.
Montakyo later told Israel's Channel 2 he accidentally stabbed a section of the vest which isn't covered in protective material which is how the journalist sustained such an injury.
Despite Lachover being injured within the report, it was still scheduled to broadcast a spokesperson for Israel's state broadcaster confirmed at the time.
Lachover later took to his social media to update he received stitches at hospital but was discharged shortly after.
In a post to Twitter after the report aired on TV, the journalist wrote: "Superficial puncture, some stitches in the back and I was discharged home. Many thanks to everyone who expressed concern!"
And it's not the only time a TV station has caused controversy with what it's aired, with another news station accidentally showing an intimate body part instead of a solar eclipse on live TV - quite the unexpected turn of events.
Mexican news station RCG media had been broadcasting coverage of a total solar eclipse in April 2024 when viewers got a lot more orb than they bargained for - it accidentally ended up broadcasting a video of someone's private parts after asking viewers to submit their own footage of the celestial event.