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Thursday, August 6, 2009

A stiff full of holes?

Most badly-written headline I've seen in a while:


This headline appears at the website of the UK's Telegraph newspaper.

An "an" between "dead" and "unarmed" would have made this much clearer. As it was, I first thought the cops had fired on a corpse. Of course, I wish it meant they had shot at a ravenous zombie or vampire!

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