[buccaneer81]

The writer was a Columbia Grad, no doubt...45K a year...,

Nothing wrong with that headline for Boston readership. The "Pike" is the local vernacular for the Massachusetts Turnpike, aka Interstate 90. In California would it be wrong to say, "CHP arrests Long Beach man after wild 101 chase?"

Same difference.

[jessduntno]

The writer was a Columbia Grad, no doubt...45K a year...,

Nothing wrong with that headline for Boston readership. The "Pike" is the local vernacular for the Massachusetts Turnpike, aka Interstate 90. In California would it be wrong to say, "CHP arrests Long Beach man after wild 101 chase?"

Columbia grad, are ya? The dimwit didn't say THE Pike, like you just did, did he? Turnpkike was too long? Make it both readable AND understandable for the rest of the world in the digital age? It was stupid...and lazy...and poorly written...and no, not the same as "101 chase." It would be written coherently as a "wild Chase on THE 101"...you would never refer to the 101 any other way, anymore than you would say to a stranger, "go up to stop sign. Turn left. Take Pike." UNLESS YOU WERE TONTO! Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha...