[EEDUDE]

“A piece of artillery”?

Where do journalists get their degrees, and do they teach the English language there?

Ignorance lives!

[EEDUDE]

The way it’s written it sounds like the piece of artillery landed in the kids room.

[going hot]

I was thinking perhaps a piece of the barral blew off and flew to the guy's house, figured it must have been an overpressure kind of thing to blow the pieces off the artillery piece.

/sarc

[centurion316]

“A piece of artillery” is a perfectly acceptable phrase. However, in this context, it is used incorrectly. An artillery piece is the cannon itself, not the munition. The munition is called a shell or a round, never a piece, but then this is the Star Ledger.