Clever police chief arrested

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/6/2007 02:49 PM, Gerald Cohen wrote:
>     As for ambiguous headlines, my favorite one appeared in my
> local newspaper about 25 years ago (not on page one; it wasn't a
> major story here):  "CLEVER POLICE CHIEF ARRESTED."  "Clever" is
> the name of a town in Missouri, and its police chief had evidently
> done something way out of line.  In the spirit of taking the
> headline at face value I often mused: If the police chief was so
> clever, what was he doing getting arrested?

No, it was the headline-writer who was clever.

Joel

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