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PedanticBarSteward Started conversation Nov 13, 2008
Not for the first time there is a BBC headline that reads:
'Motorcyclist dies after accident'
followed by:
"A male motorcyclist has died following an accident on the Old Holywood Road in Belfast. It happened at about 2040 GMT on Wednesday. No other vehicles were involved."
This is not the first time that I have read such a BBC headline, not the second either (but I wasn't counting - just thought it odd at the time), and I am pretty certain that previous 'news' articles concerned male motorcycles in Northern Ireland and accidents that did not involve any other vehicles.
Not in any way wishing to underestimate the seriousness (both to the motorcyclist and his family and friends) - why is this 'international news'? If it were just once, I could understand it as being a need to fill space on an otherwise uneventful Friday with nothing more serious than Germany's economy going into recession to write about. But it is not.
Am I missing something - is it Auntie's code for something far more sinister?
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