Author Topic: Reporter gets it wrong, again (Read 483 times)

Shorty · « **on:** December 23, 2004, 08:21:44 AM »

Todays paper has a story of a teenager who earns some extra cash by shooting mistletoe from trees. ' Photo clearly shows him aiming a Browning .22 Auto (a rather distinctive design). The first sentence of the write-up states, Jay Matthews put the SHOTGUN to his shoulder and fired a single shot high into the branches of a tree". :roll:

powderman · « **Reply #1 on:** December 23, 2004, 08:44:12 AM »

SHORTY. Norinco makes a copy of that rifle, I had one. Look on the bright side of this, he could have called it an assault shotgun. :-D :-D POWDERMAN.

Nightrain52 · « **Reply #2 on:** December 23, 2004, 08:44:16 AM »

He probably could have stood there with a broomstick painted black and hollored bang and the reporter would have reported it as being a gun. :-D

:-D

magooch · « **Reply #3 on:** December 23, 2004, 03:51:35 PM »

What--a news reporter get his/her facts wrong--couldn't happen.

Dali Llama · « **Reply #4 on:** December 24, 2004, 01:54:25 AM »

Quote from: magooch

What--a news reporter get his/her facts wrong--couldn't happen.

:-D :-D