--- title: Italian Soccer Reporter Beats Fan With Inflatable Banana description: After the fan was heckling and videobombing him canonical: https://time.com/4204846/italian-soccer-reporter-inflatable-banana/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-02T20:33:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:38.245Z og:title: Watch a Reporter Beat a Heckler With an Inflatable Banana og:description: For a good reason, admittedly og:url: https://time.com/4204846/italian-soccer-reporter-inflatable-banana/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Reporter Beat a Heckler With an Inflatable Banana twitter:description: For a good reason, admittedly twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Reporter Beat a Heckler With an Inflatable Banana by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 2, 2016 8:33 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 2, 2016 8:33 PM CUT Videobombing a reporter, an act that often makes it way into news blooper [compilations,](http://time.com/4146134/best-news-bloopers-2015/ "undefined") is usually pretty funny. To everyone except the reporter, of course. Usually, TV reporters just try to keep their cool and ignore the person interrupting their segments, but this Italian soccer reporter did _not_ keep his cool. During a segment for _Sportitalia_, a passerby interrupted him and began to poke and prod at him with an inflatable banana. The reporter does _not_ find it funny. Watch his reaction: Sometimes there is justice in the world. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4204846/italian-soccer-reporter-inflatable-banana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4204846/italian-soccer-reporter-inflatable-banana/"},"headline":"Watch a Reporter Beat a Heckler With an Inflatable Banana","datePublished":"2016-02-02T20:33:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:38.245Z","description":"For a good reason, admittedly","url":"https://time.com/4204846/italian-soccer-reporter-inflatable-banana/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4204846/italian-soccer-reporter-inflatable-banana/","name":"Watch a Reporter Beat a Heckler With an Inflatable Banana"}}]}] ```