I'm no journalist or writer by any means...

[johnnie]

...and my grammar is terrible, but do people really get paid to make up headlines like this?

"Riders Injured By Metal Shards Suing Cedar Point"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=387&e=1&u=/kero/20050215/lo_wews/2586552

I wonder why the metal shards are suing? :shrug:

[Solon]

1. You know they are supposed to "write down" to about 8th grade...

level don't you? Looks like they missed by about 6 grade levels, and not upwards either.

[livinginphotographs]

2. "I'm no journalist or writer by any means..."

Here, have a white house press pass!

[johnnie]

6. Lol

Funny..

[Squeech]

3. I would like this documented

If the riders were injured by the metal shards, why are they suing the cedar points? Cedar is wood, dammit!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

4. I wonder what the riders are pointing at.

[datasuspect]

5. it is grammatically correct

albeit clipped. nontheless the subject/verb is actually clear.

[johnnie]

8. I guess it could be

But as I said..I am no journalist..:)

[indigobusiness]

7. Headlines have a grammar all their own.

Sort of an antigrammar. Sometimes, they must be having us on.

[HamdenRice]

9. Actually, it is grammatically correct...

because of the "by". That introduces a prepositional phrase, "by metal shards". Therefore, "metal shards" cannot be the subject of the verb suing, but is the object of the preposition. Of course, it would be clearer if there were commas after "riders" and "shards."

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