More than 200,000 Facebookers have enjoyed Fox 9 meteorologist Cody Matz's brush with a trespassing sign.
Matz was doing a live shot Thursday in Lakeville after a little snow hit the metro. "You can always tell when you get that heavy, wet snow, because it covers the signs," Matz said on "Fox 9 Morning News." He brushed the snow off a red, diamond-shaped sign, which appeared blank before brushing the sign above it: "It says 'No Trespassing.' Well. I'll just move right in front of that sign to make sure I'm not trespassing," he said, as anchors Tom Butler and Alix Kendall laughed. "There. The sign was never there."
When we talked Monday, Matz said, "People seem to think it was funny. I was more embarrassed than anything else. I knew I wasn't trespassing but I was embarrassed I had uncovered a sign that made it look like I was trespassing."
If that's the most embarrassing visual Matz creates during a live shot, that's not very bad. "That's true. I try to break the law the least often that I can," said Matz, who claims that he doesn't even speed. "I would never do such a thing."
That makes him an extremely model motorist and anchor, as there's a stretch of highway near Fox 9 where state troopers famously tag early-morning anchors.
Matz, who returned to the state of his birth after working in South Dakota, previously has made other snow memories for viewers. "I made a snow angel like the first snow I was here about three years ago because I was so happy to be back in Minnesota, and somehow that just stuck," laughed the Eagan kid. "So I end up making snow angels every time we get a snowstorm."
Matz will never stop playing in the snow for viewers, but hopes not to repeat doing anything else that looks like trespassing. tinyurl.com/gv25zu7.
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