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   From: do-it-again@rachel-madcow.msnbc.com   
      
   Maybe she should try more phone interviews.   
      
   For the second straight year June became an unlucky month for   
   Australian TV reporter Alex Bernhardt who on Monday was hit in   
   the face with a lit cigarette by a woman she was trying to talk   
   to.   
      
   "Just had a woman stub her lit cigarette into my face at   
   Caboolture Court ... Charming," Bernhardt tweeted.   
      
   A year ago she was doused in water by a man unwilling to grant   
   an interview request.   
      
   You're in my way.   
   Video of the incident from TV Station 9 News shows the   
   unidentified woman, who wore sunglasses, a pink sweater and   
   zebra top, look straight ahead but then shove the lit cigarette   
   into Bernhardt's face with her left hand.   
      
   She had been smoking a cigarette and pushing a baby stroller as   
   she left the court room in Caboolture, Australia, on Monday. She   
   was arrested for making a public nuisance, the station reported.   
      
   "You're in my way," she nonchalantly remarked and continued   
   walking by with a smirk. She did not turn around to check on the   
   reporter she'd burned.   
      
   The station said Bernhardt was "shocked" but unhurt in the   
   incident.   
      
   "We go to work every day just like everyone else," she said.   
   "Yes, our job's more public but we certainly shouldn't have to   
   deal with this."   
      
   The multiple journalists surrounding the suspect as she departed   
   the court room might have been warned by some of her odd   
   behavior. Video shows her blowing cigarette smoke at Bernhardt,   
   and a man accompanying her tried to scare the reporters away by   
   barking like a dog into their microphones.   
      
   The media members were covering a court appearance involving a   
   woman named Stevee Jane Kennedy, who is charged with the murder   
   of her 26-year-old alleged boyfriend, the station reported.   
      
   This is not the first time Bernhardt has had problems trying to   
   interview people who didn't want to talk to her.   
      
   In June 2014, she went to the home of a man who was accused of   
   harboring a grenade. The suspect decided instead of talking to   
   her he would fling a cooler full of water at the journalist.   
      
   That water would have come in handy after the flame hit her face   
   this time.   
      
   http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/watch-woman-puts-cigarette-   
   reporter-face-article-1.2250862   
       
      
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