Submitted by Byzantium t3_yrg7i8 in nottheonion
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Syssareth t1_ivtj9j0 wrote
"Cops to" means "admits". It's coherent if you know what it means, but it's still awkward in a headline because it's slang.
P7BinSD t1_ivtjeqj wrote
No one talks like that.
Thisisnowmyname t1_ivtjqwv wrote
Just because you've never heard it doesn't mean people don't use it lol
Syssareth t1_ivtk296 wrote
That too, or at least I haven't heard it in a long time. Still, it was common enough at one point to make it into the dictionary.
RadicalPenguin t1_ivtkuap wrote
You could actually kill someone by striking them in the head with a frozen meat log.
Dependent_Yesterday9 t1_ivtmc1i wrote
They could call her "Chuck" Norris.
SanctimoniousApe t1_ivtnbi4 wrote
Because you're the authority on English-speakers the world over. 🙄
P7BinSD t1_ivtnfro wrote
Name checks out.
SanctimoniousApe t1_ivtnhud wrote
They're not frozen - at least not those.
SanctimoniousApe t1_ivtnoz4 wrote
I had to check, and came away soooooo disappointed that her surname wasn't Norris.
SanctimoniousApe t1_ivtnvnf wrote
Yep, never heard that one before. Now go read my profile to see what it's about. Maybe you'll learn something about yourself (admittedly unlikely).
SanctimoniousApe t1_ivtoct8 wrote
That just paints a whole other picture in my head (hint: maybe she's trans)...
SanctimoniousApe t1_ivtohws wrote
Love the double-entendre!
weirdgroovynerd t1_ivtojfu wrote
Thanks for sharing, now go wash off your hands before your phone gets all sticky.
weirdgroovynerd t1_ivtom79 wrote
The title was awesome.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the story is even better.
weirdgroovynerd t1_ivtoygv wrote
TLDR:
Final sentence in the story:
Jackson was not injured by the meat blows.
Syssareth t1_ivtpglj wrote
Haha, the image in my head was of her literally hitting the meat like a punching bag (for reasons unknown), but I couldn't resist.
SanctimoniousApe t1_ivts0ty wrote
Neither could I... 😜
SearchforHitchslaps t1_ivu3ry7 wrote
I had to read it, so I've reddit: "Jackson, who had lived downstairs from Garner in a University Heights duplex, had previously secured a protection order against her ex-neighbor.
Cops say that when Garner (seen at right) confronted Jackson in the Walmart potato chip aisle, she threatened to beat up Jackson and her daughter. Garner then allegedly pulled down Jackson's face mask and attempted to spit on her.
When the spit missed the target, Garner reached into Jackson’s cart and removed the $22 meat log. Cops described the tube of ground beef as a “blunt object” in an arrest report (a Walmart meat log is seen in the above police photo).
Garner, investigators charged, struck Jackson “a couple of times in the face with a ten pound log of prepackaged ground beef.” Garner was arrested at the scene and a relative subsequently took custody of her son.
Jackson was not injured by the meat blows."
Guapo_Pollo t1_ivufd3o wrote
"Frozen Meat Log" sounds like a great band name.
ash_274 t1_ivvglqy wrote
You could rearrange the words, like magnetic poetry, and create so many other interesting titles
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Ok-Row-6131 t1_ivxw4et wrote
Reading the title: "what the fuck"
Reading the article: "WHAT THE FUCK"
AdoggeWokePupper t1_ivzvpsf wrote
It’s similar to using “seldom” instead of “rarely”.
“I seldom use the word “seldom” to refer to doing things rarely.”
If you ask me, I think it sounds terribly lousy.
DementedMK t1_iwf57q6 wrote
The victim’s name is literally Percy Jackson. Kind of cool?
I don’t fucking know, there’s no takeaways here.
atticdoor t1_iwhwfir wrote
Plus, in that particular sentence it ends up leading you down the garden path. You see "Woman cops to..." and you think it's about to be something that female police officers are about to do. "Woman cops to strike in Philadelphia after unequal pay dispute." The admits to meaning is used much less than the police officer meaning.
InstanceSuch8604 t1_iwi0rxo wrote
Ohio = The north's attempt at competing w/ florida .
tofudisan t1_ivtge72 wrote
I had a stroke reading that title