As a matter of course, Ted monitored lots of different news papers and online blogs. So yes, he had seen some pres about this new hero named Booster Gold who was doing hero-y things Metropolis. All right, so maybe Ted had decided The Blue Beetle should go to Metropolis and check this out because - well Ted had hard time getting people to say things about the Blue Beetle. Besides the occasional online blog that seemed to think he was a joke.
And maybe he'd get to meet Superman while he was in Metropolis! And hopefully it would go so much better then that time he had meet Iron Man ...
So he had been monitoring things from the Bug, as he flew over the city and had picked up word of a press conference that was being held. Having safely stashed The Bug, (okay maybe not safely, he had left it on the roof of a nearby building, but it wasn't like he had left the keys in the ignition!) he had headed to the press conference on foot.
No one was paying any attention to the guy in blue, probably because the guy in the flashy gold suit was sort of taking all the reporters attention. So he had hung near the back of the crowd until - the goon started to make a run for it.
"Outta my way - please, honest to goodness real hero coming - Ma'am I'm going to have to ask you to move the camera .." Ted was now seeing a fatal flaw in his 'hang back near the edge of the crowd' plan. He had to fight his way through the crowd to get to the crook, so he could stop the crook and save the day.
He didn't mean to shove the reporter it just sort of happened, and that reporter fell into another ... well at least it left a path clear to the front of the crowd!