I'd give my eye teeth to see this guy beat Chuck U.
If I had been the City Desk editor of this paper and read this, my next move would be to ram the copy right down the writer's throat and kick his ass directly out the door.
Yes, I know what he was trying to say, but the first rule of news writing is to remember that "anything that can be misunderstood, WILL be misunderstood". I hate sloppy writing like this!