[Bigg Red]

FTA:Four Connecticut carjacking suspects flee scene after woman yells they were calling the police.

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Why were the carjackers calling police? Why was a woman yelling that they would do so?

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Is it too much to ask that these “journalists” display a familiarity with elementary composition skills?

[nicollo]

Is it too much to ask that these “journalists” display a familiarity with elementary composition skills?

Bloody idiots w/ a pronoun fetish. Usually it's a problem with ambiguous participles, but here the headline would be perfectly clear with the correct, third-person singular pronoun reference:

FTA:Four Connecticut carjacking suspects flee scene after woman yells they were she is calling the police.

Had to correct the tense-shift, and a relative pronoun "that" would be helpful...