One more for tonight…

The Salt Lake Tribune really needs to have a chat with its headline writer:

Skateboard attacks man over alleged fake-drug sale

Treacherous skateboards! When are the police going to do something about them! When I was a boy, you could walk down the streets without fearing that some skateboard was going to leap out and mug you, but now everything’s gone to hell in a mop-bucket!

(What actually happened, of course, is that some guy attacked another guy with a skateboard. But sloppy editing gives a very different impression, doesn’t it? Anytime anyone around my place of employment wonders why they need pedantic guys like me slowing down the process when they’re on deadline, I’ll just point them to this example…)

(Incidentally, the headline has been fixed since I first saw it this morning — it now reads “Skateboarder attacks man…” — but still, I think my point was made. Proofreaders… if you deal in words at all, we’re your most valuable resource!)