Media bloopers include a drug and bugle corps
22.05.12
Among her other good ones were a man's obituary that reported, "He was the wife of …" and an obituary that noted the deceased was the husband of a woman "with whom he would of celebrated 63 years of marriage with on [this date]…" (I should have — or of — saved that for the Grammar Police.) She also sent me police stories about "an Ambler alert," someone who threatened "to stab his ex-girlfriend over the phone" (long knife) and random clips about a baseball player's "battling title," airplane "fight attendants" and legislation requiring a "seat beat."
This brings me to my most prolific clipper, whose collections often require coding to match his comments to the tiny clips. Best of all, he's from the Tamaqua area, so most of the mistakes come from newspapers to our north rather than my own.
I only have space for a handful of these today, but let me highlight a couple that made me laugh out loud — "Retired racing greyhounds and their families will be on hand to visit with shoppers and answer questions" (I suspect the dogs are less articulate) — and then run through some of the other best ones.
Source: Allentown Morning Call