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In the battle of things that are funny, farts usually win. But self-serious local news reports come close, so you can imagine my excitement (USE YOUR BRAIN) when I was alerted to a "news" "report" about a young boy in Florida who was written up and sent to detention for passing gas on the bus.

The report makes The Daily Show's remote pieces look like Nightline, which is not how things are supposed to work. But when a kid describes detention as "preeeeeetty dumb" before we cut to his dad, seated on a couch, reacting to the story like any normal dad would -- by laughing at the idiocy of it all, like his kid's some sort of terrorizing walking gasbag -- I'm all in.

Plus, reporter Emily Valdez says "let it rip" like she's talking referring to mass genocide, but only before "reporting" that 11-year-old Christian is now "secretive on letting one slip." In other words, HARD NEWS = FART NEWS.