Wednesday, April 10, 2013

headlind writing in the 21st centuary

  1. Killed moving rabbit"  reads a headline on Yahoo's homepage this morning April 10, 2013.  I figured the man must have been a preety good shot to kill a moving rabbit which is what the headline leads on to believe.  I was curious as to what he used to kill the rabbit with.  If he used a slingshot then hitting the rabbit was just awesome.  However, if he ran over it with his car, then it was lucky but a bit too messy to make use of the rabbit.  Shooting it with a bow and arrow would have been a good trick but using a shotgun at close range would have been worse that running over it with his car.  Using a pistol or rifle might have been a little too dangerous if there were homes in the area.
  2. So out of curiousity I read the article.  It turns out the rabbit wasn't moving nor did the man kill it.  The story was nothing like the headline.  What actually happened was a rabbit was in the road and a man stopped to move it.  While being a good person, I suppose, someone else hit the man with their car killing the good samaritan.  I was thinking how disappointed I was over such a misleading headline.  Now if the headline has said "Man killed while moving rabbit"  it would have been true to the story and I would have known before reading the article what it was about. 
  3. What is really sad to say is this kind of stupidity is common today and speaks volumes about the poor state of education in America today.   

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