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intrepidity

(7,297 posts) Thu Mar 3, 2016, 08:21 PM Mar 2016

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I'm not trying to make light of this very serious event, but is it just me or is this sentence very poorly worded?

BRISBANE — A dismembered body found near a San Francisco Bay Area pier belonged to a woman reported missing by her husband, who jumped off the Bay Bridge after police recovered her mutilated torso, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/5326011-181/police-torso-found-at-bay

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Syntax [View all] intrepidity Mar 2016 OP

I've seen a lot of run-on sentences lately. kentauros Mar 2016 #1

So true intrepidity Mar 2016 #2

I had to edit it myself to figure it out, thusly: kentauros Mar 2016 #10

Any word on the husband's body after he jumped off the bridge? Festivito Mar 2016 #3

Husband's body was intact and it was mackerel Mar 2016 #5

Not that I can see intrepidity Mar 2016 #6

I see that the police covered her mutilated torso again, and then she jumped. Festivito Mar 2016 #7

That was nice of them. Quackers Mar 2016 #8

Oh, has she died. How sad. Many of our soldiers get prosthetics for their dismembered limbs. Festivito Mar 2016 #9

A similar article from SFgate is no better. mackerel Mar 2016 #4

Wednesday, authorities reported that nilesobek Mar 2016 #11