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Clever Elephants

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 7:51 pm
by Mad Dilys
The headline in the Daily Mail yesterday read thus:

Five wild elephants trample a Thai
rubber plantation worker to death
after circling him on his motorbike.


This makes me sad, because I feel very sorry for the friends and family of the poor man who was killed and the headline makes a laughing stock of the situation. Really the editorial staff of the Daily Mail are ignorant.

Re: Clever Elephants

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 8:20 pm
by LovelyLadyLux
I agree it is sad and does seem to be trivialized.

Re: Clever Elephants

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 9:22 pm
by Horus
Am I missing something? or was the headline "Clever Elephants"? and then the story line of them circling and then killing him?

Re: Clever Elephants

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 10:44 pm
by Grandad
I can see where you are coming from MD but I DO think this was an innocent and unfortunate grammatical error. The same words would perhaps have read better thus:
Five wild elephants trample a Thai
rubber plantation worker on his motorbike, to death,
after circling him .

Re: Clever Elephants

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 12:19 am
by Mad Dilys
There were a lot of comments on the lines of "why did he let them ride his motorbike" and so on. I do think it was one of the worst headlines I've seen.

In view of the general lack of grammar in the newspaper I think it was more likely an ignorant error than an innocent one.

Re: Clever Elephants

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2018 9:35 am
by Grandad
Where ignorance is bliss?