From a photo caption showing an unfortunate man who was attacked by a bear in Alaska (he is recuperating in the hospital):
"Robert Miller, 54, recovers from a bear attack in his hospital room in Anchorage."
How could they let a bear into the hospital room?
The naughty prepositional phrase "in his hospital room" is to blame for this ambiguity. It would be better to write this:
"Robert Miller, 54, pictured in his Anchorage hospital room, recovers from a bear attack."
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2 comments:
Alaskan bears are very clever.
lol. This was too funny for me! I find that sometimes the best jokes can be found in newspaper headlines and captions.
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