Another “Killer” Report from KOVR 13

When I saw this last night I couldn’t believe it. I had to order a transcript right away and share it. I’m surprised that nobody has touched on this yet today:

ANCHOR: Another challenge to California’s death penalty today. Strangely enough though, this challenge doesn’t come from the courts, the ACLU or any government agency. For more on that, we go live to Folsom prison where Connie Werner has the story.
CONNIE: Thanks Carl. I’m here at Folsom prison, where problems again have arisen with the state’s death penalty policy. Due to ethical problems with lethal injection, the Governor issued a controversial emergency order reinstituting use of the electric chair. Well, it turns out that the only remaining electric chair in California was here, in Folsom prison. At least that’s what state officials thought before giving the chair a trial run. It turned out that the chair was not functional so a replacement needed to be found without delay. I’m here with prison guard Lee Miller, who thinks he’s found a solution. Mr. Miller, how do you plan on carrying out this execution?
LEE: Well, we needed a chair, and I didn’t know where to go, so I did some hunting and pecking on the world wide web and found a link to this store Ikea, and it turns out that they sell electric shares, and it turns out we have one right down highway 50.
CONNIE: Uh huh, in West Sacramento, right?
LEE: That’s right. Well, me and Johnnie drove down there, took about 2 hrs just to get down the offramp. Then it was like another 3 hrs to go through this kind of mouse-maze thing they’ve got there that winds through like 50 different living rooms. Now keep in mind, we’re trying to get this guy put to death around midnight, and the sun’s already staring to go down on us. Anyway, we got lost a few times in the maze, but wound up getting to the right section to pick up the electric chair.
CONNIE: Let me get this straight, they sold you an electric chair at Ikea?
LEE: That’s correct. But see, here’s the problem. [shouts to person off camera] Johnnie will you bring that thing out? [back to Connie] We thought we were getting some nice little thing that you could just plug into a wall socket and away you go. Instead [Johnnie enters carrying giant box] we get this thing. [Johnnie pours out contents of box which includes loose wood, metal parts and wired up salad bowl]
JOHNNIE: We can’t make head or tails of this thing. All the directions are in Swedish and we done gone and lost the little wrench thing that comes with it. Can’t we just shoot the guy and get it over with?
CONNIE: Well, looks like this execution will be put off again. Live from Folsom prison, I’m Connie Werner, with channel 13 news.