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DISASTER STRIKES 'AMAZING RACE' DURING IRAQ PIT STOP
Two contestants killed, four held hostage after stop in Fallujah
HOLLYWOOD — In a case of what CBS executives are calling a “location scouting mishap,” it was a tragic week on the network’s “The Amazing Race” as the globe trotting reality show made a stop in Fallujah, Iraq, where two contestants were killed and four are currently being held hostage by anti-American insurgents.
According to insiders present at the taping, eight remaining teams were instructed upon leaving their last pit stop in Moscow to fly to Kuwait City, where they would travel by Humvee to the “remote and charming village of Fallujah.”
All eight teams arrived on the city outskirts safely, where they faced a “road block” with the choice of either learning to operate an oil pump at one of Fallujah’s newly operating oil fields, the safer but slower choice, or disguising themselves as radical Islamic militants and obtaining the signature of insurgent leader Moqtada Al-Sadr. While the first five teams chose the safer route, the pairs trailing significantly – little person Charla and cousin Mirna; Christian couple Brandon and Nicole; and elderly Internet couple Bob and Joyce – opted to locate Sadr, who was known to be at a building in the center of town.
With Charla’s diminutive height, Brandon’s curly blonde hair, and Bob’s complaints of his need to urinate due to his enlarged prostate, all three pairs were quickly discovered despite the local outfits provided by “Amazing Race” producers. Brandon and Nicole were shot as they attempted to flee. According to a video provided by Sadr’s aides, Charla, Mirna, Bob, and Joyce are being held and will be killed within 72 hours unless, as the militants said, “American networks take their demonic reality television programming off the air.”
One of the terrorists added that he would like the American-run television station in Iraq to air reruns of “Diff’rent Strokes,” after which he was knocked on the head with the rifle of a man standing next to him believed to be Sadr’s top Lieutenant.
“The Amazing Race” producers officially apologized for the incident, but reminded Americans that all contestants sign liability waivers and that, furthermore, entering Sadr’s compound was their own choice.
“As we make clear, Road Blocks are all about making tough decisions,” said host Phil Keoghan. “Unfortunately, several of our contestants in the last episode we taped made a poor choice.”
CBS will air an abbreviated version of its Iraq episode of “The Amazing Race” next week. The following week, contestants are rumored to be on their way to Pyongyang, North Korea, where they’ll have to recover plutonium rods from one of Kim Jong-Il’s secret nuclear weapon facilities.