RCMP Grammar

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Police in a Vancouver suburb issued an unusual warning to drivers on Monday: If you run out fuel, do not lay down on the road to get assistance.

Police were alerted to a man's body laying along the Trans Canada Highway in the predawn darkness only to discover he was "quite alive", but that his car had run out of gas and he "wanted to attract someone's attention".

"Guess it worked, but police don't really recommend this method," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Burnaby, British Columbia, said in a press release."

I highly doubt "Guess it worked" was in the press release.

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Update: it was.

Comments

[joecdn.livejournal.com]

LOL - that's hilarious!!! That's the exit that I use to get onto the freeway to go to work, and to come home from work or downtown or whatever as well! There's no shortage of stupid people using it either - I can definitely vouch for that!

[x-23.livejournal.com]

Their style guide is unique. I can't image writing that. Their communications person needs a new copy of CP style or perhaps a simple writing course.

Thanks for the chuckle.

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

Here is another one for you:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/personalfinance/index.html

Check out:
"The tax department notes that almost half the people who used tax software programs in 2004 didn't actually file them over the net. They used the programs to do the data entry and the math but then printed them out on paper (a non-electronic substance that derives from trees) and snail-mailed them to the revenue folks."

What the hell was the person smoking when they wrote that?