Don’t let the relatively small regional audiences and occasionally mundane stories get you fooled, local news is a high-pressure media arena, and in many ways the lack of major funding forces reporters to go beyond their normal comfort zones more often. Two recent listicles explored the various failures of these overworked and underpaid professionals, mental_floss with their 11 Local News Bloopers and Coed Magazine with The 15 Funniest Live Local News Fail Videos, all of which adds up to our 26 Local News Bloopers, our favorite of which is this field reporter getting high on seized drugs being destroyed.