Headline: "Goat jumps from roof, kills kid in Turkey"

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Oct 9 19:11:12 UTC 2014


On Oct 9, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> Sadly, the "kid" was the thirteen-year-old son of the owner of the goat.

Well, the alternative reading would have been sadder for the goat--that would have really gotten her goat.

LH

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