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To: cva41
They must have changed the headline since you posted:

Tulsa Restaurant Patrons Step Over Shooting Victim To Reach Pickup Window
19 posted on 03/01/2010 10:53:23 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Yea it seems to be listed multiple ways:

Patrons ignore man killed by Tulsa restaurant

Associated Press - March 1, 2010 7:55 AM ET

TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Police say only one person in a parking lot full of people called 911 after a man was shot to death outside a Tulsa chicken restaurant.


25 posted on 03/01/2010 10:55:27 AM PST by cva41
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
It's a good thing, too, because the original headline was not only, as has already been pointed out, a grammatical abomination, it was also FACTUALLY incorrect in that if the patrons were "stepping over" the victim to get their food, then CLEARLY they were not IGNORING him. If they were ignoring him, they would have tripped over his body while trying to get their food.

This may seem a subtle or irrelevent point, but I think print reporters, who make their living with the written word, owe it to us readers to use both accurate and precise language when reporting a news stories.

The second headline is MUCH better.

;-)

36 posted on 03/01/2010 11:03:42 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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