Wednesday 1 July 2009

Grrr..bear headline gets a mauling

Great correction in the Guardian today involving a bear, a box of chocolates and champagne.
"A news brief reported that a California couple arrived home to find a bear eating a 2lb box of chocolates purloined from their fridge. A sheriff's sergeant added that the bear had also tried without success to open a bottle of champagne. Our headline - Bear necessity: couple catch chocaholic grizzly - was wrong, as wild grizzlies have not existed in California for decades. (And our style is chocoholic.) A reader adds: "A grizzly would have no problem opening a bottle of champagne; they can tear a door off a car."

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