October 11, 2006

Okay, this has to stop.

I don't know who's writing these things. The first one I could let go as a slipup, but now there comes ANOTHER one: Gadsden man given 51 months for stealing $500 grand

STOP THAT, MORON HEADLINE WRITER! The guy didn't steal "five hundred dollars grand" and he didn't steal a $500 grand piano--he either stole "$500,000" or "500 Grand" or "half a million" or something else, so QUIT WRITING $(numeric amount) GRAND! And better yet, quit using "grand" when you mean "thousand." Twit.

Oh. And don't steal money from your mother-in-law, either--that goes for all of you.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at October 11, 2006 11:33 AM
Comments

And who decided on 51 months? And why? Because it's a prime number?

Posted by: kitchen hand at October 11, 2006 10:53 PM

Welcome to the arcane world of American federal sentencing guidelines! I have no idea how they came up with 51 months, but being a prime number certainly is a possibility.

Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 12, 2006 08:34 AM