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Cops hunt heckler

Vancouver police are investigating after a heckler interrupted a live broadcast to hurl sexually explicit remarks at a female reporter.

CTV British Columbia news director Les Staff confirms that reporter Sarah MacDonald has filed a complaint with the Vancouver Police Department over the incident, which happened in the city's downtown around 11:30 p.m. on Thursday.

MacDonald was reporting on a group of Pokemon Go players that had gathered in Robson Square when a man stepped beside her and uttered a vulgarity while apparently recording the incident with his cell phone.

That same obscenity is the latest in a viral phenomenon that flared up about two years ago where hecklers interrupt live television reports to yell the comment into a reporter's microphone.

Staff says he hopes this doesn't mark a resurgence of the behaviour.

A Toronto engineer was fired from Ontario's Hydro One last year after he was identified shouting the obscenity during a live broadcast outside a soccer stadium, but he was reinstated after an arbitration process.



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