With Friends Like These…
from the maybe-not-friends... dept
Okay, so maybe it wasn’t the proper choice of words, but you would think that somewhere between this Australian man and woman meeting online and then meeting in person where she proceeded to tie him up, ransack his home with another man and steal his property, the two would cease being “pals” as described in the headline of the article. Not that writing headlines isn’t a difficult enough job, but this is a pretty typical scam (unfortunately) and has little to do with (as the headline suggests) people robbing their friends.
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Mike, you’re american. ‘pal’ means something different outside the small box that is your country. The lack of the word ‘former’ in a medium as compressed for space as a headline, in contrast to the annoyingly common practice you lot have for dropping honorifics from news articles in a manner that continually confuses the story, is really quite minor.
Please write your local NYT or Seattle PI editor and inform them they’re fired. Then work on international news.