Incorrect fine
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Incorrect fine
July 25th, 2008 at 12:49 am
how do you make that mistake???????
July 25th, 2008 at 2:26 am
@Admin What did they block out her First Last Middle In. Even her age are present what’s left her S.S.#
Honest mistake “potato po-toto”
Child Molester “Jay Walking”
What I really want to know is what kind of newspaper prints “failure to stop at railroad X-ings” infractions
Talk about “spicing up” news but this is alittle extreme
July 25th, 2008 at 9:02 am
@mark: It looks like it was probably her home address.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:14 am
it wasn’t the newspaper’s mistake. Note the “due to incorrect information received,” which means the Clerk of Courts made the mistake. So it was the Clerk of Courts doing the spicing-up, not the newspaper.
Newspapers generally don’t print “failure to stop at railroad crossings” infractions, but they do tend to print prostitution infractions.
July 26th, 2008 at 12:56 am
No news is good news anyways… I’m tired of hearing about disaster stories, the he-said-she-said politic articles, and the violent horror items. We need more Good News articles, like Avrage Joe saves neighbor’s son from drowning in pool. Ex-homeless woman gets back her life when she saved man from apartment fire. Things like that.
And of course one can’t leave out the funnies. Go ahead laugh. I don’t care. Its hard to forget Charlie Brown…
July 26th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Amasea are you kidding me, you took what I say Literally, In English it is referred to as a joke. Or has Sarcasm not filtered down to you yet???
But, let’s speak Literally for a second!!! Crimes are reported prominently in the paper, page1 or 2.
While Retractions are printed in the back of the Classifieds (Somewhere between Recliners and Unicycles Alphabetically speaking). IF you were Diane K. Merchant, 38 would you feel Vindecated. Satisfied that your Good Name has been Restored!!
July 26th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I agree w/ mike. more positve stories might encorage other people to do better things..but the post is funny
July 28th, 2008 at 10:35 am
I understand sarcasm, it’s just extremely difficult to communicate via text. Ordinarily I assume that sort of thing is sarcasm and let it go, but criticism of newspapers is a sore spot for me.
Unfortunately, a lot of people believe newspapers really would stoop to changing the details of a crime to sell more papers, or that they somehow manufacture bad news and ignore good news. It’s simply not the case, 99 times out of 100. People are extremely interested in bad news (murder, disaster, scandal), and readership numbers prove it. Factually, there is a lot of good news in most newspapers, but if you ask readers what they remember from that day’s paper, it’s the bad-news story. That’s just human nature, and always has been, and to ask newspapers to ignore human nature is absurd. Yet newspapers are constantly being accused of being biased fear-mongers.
Sorry for the diatribe, but I felt compelled to defend my profession.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
The Clerk obviously gave the wrong information on purpose. He is a hero amoung pranksters.