Monday, December 10, 2007
Whatever are they trying to say?
Police investigate death of man hit by cruisers Associated Press - December 10, 2007 9:15 AM ET DOVER, Vt. (AP) - An autopsy is expected to be performed today on the body of a man who was struck by two state police cruisers in Dover. Police say they still don't know yet what killed 22-year-old Gerald Peterson of Dover, who they say was laying in the road when he was hit.I read this wire service story in this morning's Boston Herald
DOVER, Vt. - The Vermont State Police and Dover police are investigating what is being called the untimely death of a 22-year-old man hit by two state police cruisers while laying in the travel lane of Route 100 early yesterday morning. The victim is identified as Gerald Peterson of Dover.Inquiring minds want to know what or whom Mr. Peterson was laying. To their credit, The Burlington Free Press reports thusly:
DOVER -- The Vermont State Police and Dover police are investigating what is being called the untimely death of a 22-year-old man hit by two state police cruisers while lying in the travel lane of Vermont 100 early Sunday morning.
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I think it's pretty bad when you can't even get a police officer to tell the truth. I don't know why the press or the investigators don't go back and dig some more. If this was done maybe they would understand there was a unmarked police car before the other two police..............then they hide the vehicle for a few day and did god only know what to it. I don't know how some people sleep at night!
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: Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:41:00 PM EST
: Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:41:00 PM EST
Thank you for your comment, and I'm as suspicious of the police as the next guy, but here I was only noting the improper use by the story of the transitive verb "lay" when the correct word would have been the intransitive "lie".
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