Ill. man killed trying to steal power lines

Oct 15, 2011 27 Replies

Here's a couple or current examples from ABC News stating it exactly that way:

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ALYSSA NEWCOMB and LUCHINA FISHER (@luchina) Oct. 12, 2011

"A Florida man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly hacking into the emails of Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and other high-wattage stars and leaking private photos of the women to Internet sites. "

Or how about these:

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A 43-year-old Morristown man has been arrested for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old girl after offering to help her after she fell off her scooter.

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"Terror suspect allegedly tried to hire Zetas drug cartel ."

Per the above, no they don't

Can be ture is not the same as is true. What exactly is your problem with giving someone the benefit of the doubt until they are actually conviced?

As someone pointed out, how would you like it if they arrested you at a playground, mistaking you for the child molester and the paper ran the story:

Homeguy was arrested today for molesting a child on the local school grounds before you had a trial? Maybe you wouldn't care. But all the news organizations obviously do, so they insert the allegedly to be fair and help avoid a lawsuit.

I tried to make that point to Homeguy a couple months ago when he last brought this subject up. If you're running a news organization who's going to decide when to use the word allegedly and when not too? What would be the criteria? And how much time are you going to waste each time you have to decide. The news organization doesn't want to be making the call if the party in question really did commit the offense or not, for ethical as well as legal reasons. Simple solution is to always use "allegedly". Don't think any of us have a problem with that, with one exception.

Just how f*ing stupid do you have to be to try and steal live power lines? Sheeeesh!

never under-estimate the power of a public school education

"Malcom "Mal" Reynolds" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@aquila.v.weretis.net...

LOL

LOL. She may be including the 900 counties on Jupiter that are having protests.

No, she was thinking about Uranus.

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