The Browning pistol that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and sparked the crisis leading to World War I has been discovered gathering dust in a Jesuit community house in Austria.
Interesting enough in itself, but what really caught my eye was the headline that FARK used when they linked to this story. It’s apparently been edited to add some much needed clarification, but the version that showed up in my news aggregator this morning was as follows:
Pistol responsible for deaths of 8.5 million people found gathering dust in Jesuit community house in Austria
I actually had to read this three times before I could parse the sentence the way it was actually intended. I kept reading it and picturing a house with a basement big enough to hold the 8.5 million dusty corpses that had just been discovered.
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