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‘Eyewitness’ prankster derails MSNBC’s MH17 coverage

The commercial break couldn’t come soon enough.

MSNBC’s coverage of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 took an awkward turn when a Howard Stern fan pranked “The Cycle” anchor Krystal Ball with a bogus eyewitness account.

“Well I was looking out the window and I saw a projectile flying through the sky and it would appear that the plane was shot down by a blast of wind from Howard Stern’s ass,” the man told Ball, who thought she was speaking with Sgt. Michael Boyd of the US Embassy in Ukraine.

Unfortunately, the interview didn’t end there. Ball continued the exchange, asking, “Can you tell us anything more from your military training of what sort of missile system that may have been coming from?”

“You’re a dumbass, aren’t you?” the prankster bluntly replied.

Ball explained what happened after a commercial break: “We thought we had an eyewitness on the scene. That individual was not actually an eyewitness.”