A Mother and her son died in the emergency room after they walked straight into the path of fired bullets. The 92 year old gun owner mixed up the trigger with the safety of his assault rifle and will have to pay a fine of $200. His lawyer announced that they will appeal the judgement, arguing that his client needs the money for new ammunition.
The BBC's report was criticized by activists who considered the original headline ("Gaza man with Down's syndrome dies lonely death") to be obscuring the Israeli military's responsibility in the incident; the headline was later changed to "Gaza man with Down's syndrome attacked by IDF dog and left to die, mother tells BBC".[10][3]The New Arab reported that the attack was not mentioned until the article's 16th paragraph, nearly halfway through the article.[3]
Yeah, headlines in June 2026 are different. The "Israelis are killed, Palestinians die" problem was more pronounced earlier in the genocide and there are a lot of articles about it.
No, you see it was the car that hit the cyclist, it did that on its own, that's why they're called automobiles, the car driver is the real victim here.
To be fair the driver was either black-out drunk or on their phone, so it's fair to say they weren't really driving at the time.
In many parts of the world it's legal for farmers to kill a dog that's worrying(chasing) or attacking cattle because the owner isn't in control of them.
By that logic, it should be legal to shoot out the tyres or otherwise put out of service a car the owner has lost control of.
I mean, I hear you, but knives and guns have verbs that have the general connotation of lethality. "Shot," and "stabbed," have easily understood repercussions within a single term. We need a word for cars, and we don't have one. I understand that "person hit person with car" has a sentence structure implying grave harm, but there simply isn't the cognitive weight behind "hit" as there is "stabbed" or "shot." "Hit," "murdered," etc. all implicitly bury the lede of "car" just by merit of their generality.
“Pedestrian struck by driver” is pretty clear. I get what you’re saying but c’mon, there are lots of words in the English language even most people these days have severely reduced vocabularies.
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Mother and child walked in path of bullets
A Mother and her son died in the emergency room after they walked straight into the path of fired bullets. The 92 year old gun owner mixed up the trigger with the safety of his assault rifle and will have to pay a fine of $200. His lawyer announced that they will appeal the judgement, arguing that his client needs the money for new ammunition.
Bullets kidnapped by mother and child
Addendum: they were not wearing
helmetsbulletproof vests.This works even better for western media reporting about israel
Hell no. Western reporting will run headlines like "Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds". In car crash that would be something like "During tensions between Israel and Gaza children have passed away UN inquiry finds"
On a more individual incident level it works: Four killed in Gaza attacks as Hamas security chief abducted
Memorable example.
Try "Belgian driver convicted of murder over carnival car crash that killed seven people"
Guy literally got convicted of murder and it is still just a "crash".
Hell you can even murder police and get a headline like: "Police sergeant dies from injuries after officials say man intentionally rammed into his motorcycle"
Yeah, headlines in June 2026 are different. The "Israelis are killed, Palestinians die" problem was more pronounced earlier in the genocide and there are a lot of articles about it.
Was the cashier wearing a hi-vis stab-proof vest?
The floor was wet and they didn't have non-slip shoes. Clearly just slipped and fell. With a knife in their hand because it makes you run faster.
I see every article talking about car drivers hitting bicyclists ever.
No, you see it was the car that hit the cyclist, it did that on its own, that's why they're called automobiles, the car driver is the real victim here.
To be fair the driver was either black-out drunk or on their phone, so it's fair to say they weren't really driving at the time.
In many parts of the world it's legal for farmers to kill a dog that's worrying(chasing) or attacking cattle because the owner isn't in control of them.
By that logic, it should be legal to shoot out the tyres or otherwise put out of service a car the owner has lost control of.
I mean, I hear you, but knives and guns have verbs that have the general connotation of lethality. "Shot," and "stabbed," have easily understood repercussions within a single term. We need a word for cars, and we don't have one. I understand that "person hit person with car" has a sentence structure implying grave harm, but there simply isn't the cognitive weight behind "hit" as there is "stabbed" or "shot." "Hit," "murdered," etc. all implicitly bury the lede of "car" just by merit of their generality.
“Pedestrian struck by driver” is pretty clear. I get what you’re saying but c’mon, there are lots of words in the English language even most people these days have severely reduced vocabularies.
The post makes a good point. I'd never considered that, but the with cars and guns these sorts of euphemistic headlines are rampant.
article from 2034?
Yes. By "The News".
Almost like it's fake.
It's on the internet so it must be true
I always trust Reporta Lotte's every word
How dare you impugn the journalistic integrity of Reporta Lotte.
omg is that the same organization as in https://xkcd.com/1583/