Another instance of "literally"

[Victor Steinbok]

  http://bit.ly/c6cWOb
> A driver in her 70s plowed into a Santa Clara shoe repair shop, and
> although her small SUV plunged deep into the store and ran over a
> customer, police say no one was seriously injured.
> ...
>
> Faiss said the customer was literally "run over," and firefighters had
> to pull him out. Faiss said he learned the man was been treated and
> released from the hospital.
>

This is a pretty funny instance of fake "literally"--not only is this
not an instance of someone being "run over", but the author of the
article even put "run over" in quotation marks.

     VS-)

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