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September 27, 2005
the antlers, the gash, the tenant and the police. cha cha cha
filed under story & plot
I provide an excerpt of an email from a friend. Because I simply couldn't top this.
Today's headline:
"Police: Deer Head Cut Wife in Accident"
The newsworthy part here being NOT the "Deer head cut
wife" but the "in accident." In other words, when the police
responded to a domestic disturbance and had to take
the wife to the ER because she had a deep gash in her
leg where the husband had struck her while wildly
swinging a mounted trophy deer head... it was in fact
accidental. Because they had been jointly trying to
put some hurt on an unidentified man who had come back
to the house to try to retrieve some belongings. So it
was actually a tenant-gone-bad drama.
See? Story material all around you. In the paper, every day.
September 27, 2005 10:36 AM
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That was fun.
It reminds me of how many times in a month something happens at work to cause someone to say "We should write a book about that".
Posted by: Alison at September 27, 2005 06:02 PM