Great Moments in NZ television.
Part 1: PAUL HOLMES in the Manawatu Floods (Feb. 28, 2004)
What was YOUR favourite flood moment? Mine was this....
A flood-ravaged farmer somewhere in the Manawatu wades in, waist-deep, to his ruined, flooded house. Accompanying the farmer is TV One "personality" PAUL HOLMES. Both men are, of course, wearing chest-high waders. Holmes is carefully affecting his special caring demeanour, a ghastly combination of whimsy and empathy.
The scene is heart-breaking, water more than halfway to the ceiling. The farmer gathers an armful of precious family photos and documents. He soon has his arms full. Holmes cracks some kind of "joke", in an attempt to inject a little levity into the situation. One last wistful look at the devastation, then the two men wade their way out of the house, the farmer with his arms full of documents and photographs, precariously balancing them. Holmes carries only a portable microphone.
The water is deep, and getting even deeper. They must wade across a considerable expanse of deep water until they reach higher ground.
Can you even begin to guess what Holmes does next?
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Yes, that's right. He CLIMBS ONTO THE BACK OF THE FARMER.
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