Eyewitness News at 11 photobomb: the story behind the photo

NEW YORK

"We were running as fast as we could from Penn to here, about 42 blocks," says Anthony, "we get here in about 15 minutes, so we tried to take a breather and we saw you guys filming, so we thought it would be funny to take a random picture outside."

That random picture was taken during a commercial break of Eyewitness News at 11. So as Anthony posed, "Attack, Attack" shirt and all, Rob Powers posed, too, in the background. It was a perfect photobomb.

Anthony's friend Angelo knew it, and posted the picture on the social news site, Reddit.

"I didn't think it would get as big as it did, but when I saw it start rising, I was slowly waiting," says Anthony, "But it hit the front page, then it hit the first rank, and I was like 'wow!'"

Anthony says that when he went to look on Reddit, there were almost a million views, even though his friend had only posted the picture a couple of hours earlier.

Copyright © 2024 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.