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Camel Eats Reporters Hair On Live TV

RICHMOND, Va. (WCCO) -- As Eric Cartman once said over and over and over again, "Now that's what I call a sticky situation."

Doing news stories with animals is always a losing proposition for reporters. There's no way you're not going to get upstaged.

Reporter Tara Morgan, from WWBT-TV, thought she was doing a routine news shoot at a farm near Richmond, Va.

But a camel added insult to injury when he decided to chow down on Morgan's mane, taking a nice big bite while she was on camera.

After a few seconds, she was able to break free and laugh about it. She even sarcastically asked the camel, "Why are you eating my hair?"

The camel was reportedly heard to reply, "Because it looks like straw. Snap!"

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