I was reading this story about the tragic death of New Orleans Police Officer Nicola Cotton and saw this strange bit of melodrama at the end…
On Monday, she had a smoked sausage sandwich with cheese on toast. About 30 minutes later, paramedics rushed to the scene of her shooting.
Do we really need to know what Officer Cotton had for breakfast the moments before she was senselessly killed? I think I understand what the writer was attempting. He was probably trying to say in the uncertainty of the Universe, we can be eating a sausage sandwich one moment and killed by a mentally ill person the next.
But didn’t we already know that by reading the article?
Condolences to the family of Officer Cotton.
i hate myself for laughing at this observation/article.
You wouldn’t feel compelled to if the writer had stuck to the facts and not tried to communicate some cheesy message at the finish.
There are reporters
There are writers
and then there are reporters who wish they were writers.