Friday, July 9, 2010

What a shocker...

Registered sex offender arrested for sex offense, according to this poorly written, apparently unedited article. (Look, ma, no hyphen!)

Highlights: "Then Mason drove to a business in the Annapolis area to purchase food and was accompanied by the 13-year-old female." Nice way to start a sentence...

"One of the females text a family member stating that the juveniles were scared and needed assistance."

"Mason was arrested and charged with Second Degree Rape, Perverted Practice and Contributing to a Mino." He contributed to a mino? Helping out needy birds is a crime now?

11 comments:

Maurice Bradbury said...

Who is Shall001?
Why is this person hyphenating an "ly" word, against all rules of AP style?

ps., I've always wanted a myna bird. I hear you can teach them to talk.

Sean said...

Actually, I'm up for an editing job with WBAL, so I figured I'd throw in some misplaced punctuation. See, what-I (mean)?

You may remember me as Sean.

Sean said...

In ancient times, there was a primitive tribe which lived in grass huts. This tribe had many successes on the battlefield with other tribes and would take the most prized possessions of the losing tribe's chief.

After a particularly fierce battle, the tribe returned to their village with a solid gold throne, formerly the seat of power of their vanquished foe. The chief directed his tribesman to hoist the throne to the top of his hut for all to see.

Unfortunately, the heavy weight of the throne was far too much for the thatched roof to bear. The throne crashed through, killing the chief and several tribesman below.

The moral of the story:

People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.

Maurice Bradbury said...

Well thanks for all the links!

Maurice Bradbury said...

.. if they give you an AP style test: no hyphen with an -ly, reverend is an adjective, numbers over 10 are digits and there is no period in Dr Pepper.

Maurice Bradbury said...

ps., I'm going to try to get our Facebook group up and going again. We should have a happy hour for Bernstein, don't you think? Buy the guy a beer for trying.

ppatin said...

His campaign actually sent me an e-mail about hosting a meet & greet. I can cook pretty well, maybe I can seduce people into voting for him with food!

Sean said...

You're right, there IS no period in Dr Pepper... Huh.

I like the FB idea. And yes, I'd ABSOLUTELY buy Bernstein a beer. Where were we last time? Zodiac/Club Charles, correct?

If numbers over ten are digits, why did you type 10?

MacArthur Media Staff said...

I definitely think Bernstein should be highly commended for being the first legitimate challenger in nearly a decade. I wish him the best of luck.

On the facebook group, I say go for it.

Regarding shall001, guy seems a like a real character.

Sean said...

The Editors, I used to comment and post on here pretty frequently. Haven't been on here for a bit, things seemed a little quiet.

Sean said...

To avoid confusion, I've set my screen name back to my old moniker, Sean.