Thursday, March 29, 2007

Hooray for Misplaced Modifiers!



I love the way the above caption, circled, and taken from today's Fox News homepage, reads: "A man uses a chainsaw during tornado cleanup after twisters ripped Plains states, killing at least three." My first thought: How could they just stand there while he killed three people with that thing???

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I've seen much more egregious manglings. How would you have re-phrased it?

10:22 AM  
Blogger Benjamin said...

How about "Man kills three people with chainsaw after twisters ripped through Plains states". I wouldn't want the poor innocent tornado getting blamed for this man's shenanigans, after all.

10:33 AM  

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