A video of an ESPN reporter berating a towing company lot attendant has exploded online and resulted in her suspension from the sports network.
Washington D.C.-based bureau reporter Britt McHenry’s car had been towed from an Arlington, Va., restaurant earlier this month.
McHenry, age 28, has been suspended a week after the profanity-laced tirade that made fun of a woman’s job, weight, teeth and education.
She first Tweeted about the towing itself, asking “how corrupt is” the towing company — but the Tweet was later deleted.
Later, when she went to retrieve her car, she was displeased and took a nasty attitude with the cashier.
Click here to watch the video of McHenry’s tirade
On the video, first she boasts about her position and threatens the company, Advanced Towing.
“I’m in the news sweetheart, and I will [expletive] sue this place,” she said on the video, which was posted to LiveLeak.
But after a few seconds, her insults become more direct and personal.
“Do you feel good about your job,” she asked. “So I could be a college dropout and do the same thing? Why because I have a brain and you don’t?”
Then it gets downright nasty. “Maybe if I was missing some teeth they would hire me, huh?”
From there it gets juvenile as she takes more digs at the cashier’s dental work.
“Oh, like yours, because they look so stunning. ‘Cause I’m on television and you’re in a [expletive] trailer, honey”
“I wouldn’t work in a scumbag place like this. It makes my skin crawl even being here.”
Just before leaving, McHenry said “Lose some weight, baby girl.”
McHenry took to Twitter to express her regret, claiming it was “intense and stressful moment.”