Inexplicable Image Of The Week

An alert reader found this on the Wikipedia page of WCBS (New York) reporer Mary Calvi. The caption says it’s from June 2006. And, yes, the man in that graphic appears to be longtime Action News reporter Jim Gardner.

A quick Internet search reveals, uh, no news stories about Jim Gardner being arrested in June 2006 — and, I mean, come on, we would have heard of this, right? Right? So it’s a Photoshop. But, uhh, what a random thing to do.

We’d call 6 ABC to get a comment, but as we all know, they don’t talk to the press. (And I don’t like to do any actual work.) Naturally.

UPDATE: This, and the followup, were hoaxes. But that seems actually stranger than if Jim Gardner had actually been arrested.

Mary Calvi [Wikipedia]
Jim Gardner [6 ABC]