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Friday, May 15, 2009

Cop crashes Chinese cookery

Boston Globe photo

According to the Boston Globe, an unmarked police car crashed into the King Fung Garden II restaurant about 1:30 last night while chasing, at high speed, a "suspicious" vehicle. Clearly, that's not the only thing suspicious about this incident, and it bears following.

The five-sentence story has a "Globe staff" byline, which means the paper has not yet done any original reporting. (It credits Ch. 7 a news report.) Among the 27 comments (!), aside from the premature police-bashing, is some nice info about the couple that owns the place. One commentator ("Former Brookline resident") points out that the headline misleads readers because it doesn't ID the car as a cop car; but that, I think, is nothing nefarious, just due to normal time pressures to get the story posted. Globe & TAB headline writers should have a field day with this story.

Stay tuned.

—BMR, RhyNewService