News Photographers Caught Fighting at UK Polling Station

A couple of photojournalists in the UK covering the general election today accidentally made the news when another camera caught them fighting for position.

BBC News cameras caught the photographer and cameraman pushing and shoving each other at a polling station in Cumbria as they waited for Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron to leave the building.

“A man just nearly tripped up,” says a woman’s voice in the video. “He’s done it again. What’s going on? They’re having a proper scrap.”

It seems the cameraman wasn’t happy with the still photographer standing in his shot, so he decided to take matters into his own hands:

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