[News] Dead Man falls from sky in Clapham...

[Stat Brother]

Saw this on Twitter yesterday. Somebody in the Daily Mail office felt a key element of the headline was the inclusion of the house price where the poor bloke landed. As if somebody living in a £200k, help-to-buy new build in Reigate would find the sight of a frozen corpse plummeting into the flowerbeds any less distressing than a millionaire in Clapham

House prices, immigrant, Princess of Hearts - oh for a story on the weather.

 

[edna krabappel]

House prices, immigrant, Princess of Hearts - oh for a story on the weather.

"Magical pullout inside".

Imagine people collecting that sort of thing.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Much sympathy for the man who must have been desperate, as others on here have rightly pointed out - but what is wrong with using the word 'stowaway'? That, by definition, is exactly what he was.

Context. It belittles the magnitude of the event.

 

[Bold Seagull]

House prices, immigrant, Princess of Hearts - oh for a story on the weather.

Bit incestuous to suggest Will's wife would have been an ideal sister.

 

[GT49er]

I don't know, it just sounds wrong on their short reports. Just coming across a tad flippant.

I really can't see why. What word or words would you suggest they use instead of stowaway to describe somebody who has... err .... stowed away?

 

[Acker79]

I dunno, when I even think about anyone in landing gears of planes my mind instantly jumps to the Arnie film Commando.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I really can't see why. What word or words would you suggest they use instead of stowaway to describe somebody who has... err .... stowed away?

I don't know, but then I don't write reports and maybe it's my issue!

 

[Bold Seagull]

I dunno, when I even think about anyone in landing gears of planes my mind instantly jumps to the Arnie film Commando.

You mean this piece of cinematic genius...

 

[Wilko]

Raises questions about security, or lack of it, at Nairobi Airport.

I used to live in Nairobi. I once did not have my yellow fever certificate to go to S.Africa, another time my passport was out of date. Both times I got through with ahem a little monetary persuasion.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

I dunno, when I even think about anyone in landing gears of planes my mind instantly jumps to the Arnie film Commando.

I don’t remember Arnie freezing to a block of ice and hurtling like a dirty-bomb meteor into a Clapham yard.

It would have been a lot better if he did.

 

[Justice]

You mean this piece of cinematic genius...

The lake at the runway is a bit convenient.

 

[Easy 10]

 

[edna krabappel]

Absolutely standard. Against their house rules, to mention a property in ANY context at all, without referencing its value.

Good grief - it would be like referring to a WOMAN, without alerting us to her HAIR COLOUR

"The society brunette, 32, ran her hand through her luxurious tresses and made her way to the bottom of the beautifully landscaped, substantial garden in her £2.3 million detached Edwardian property in the sought-after south west London enclave of Clapham, popular with monied overseas investors and royalty alike. Flaunting her enviable curves in a figure-hugging £899 caramel coloured strappy dress from Stella McCartney, teamed with matching fawn coloured 3" heels (£1299, Jimmy Choo) and a rare Thierry LaCroix handbag in cappucino with rose gold detail, the Benenden-educated beauty put on an eye-popping display as she pointed out the damaged slates.

'It's just terribly hard to believe this kind of thing could happen round here, rather than in, say, Brentford", she reflected. "Those slates were only laid down six weeks ago, and we had them hand made by an artisan stone-mason in mid Wales. The artificial turf will have to be relaid too now, as there seems to be some sort of crease in it. It's just so very sad- we're desperately hoping they still have the same colour stone in stock'.

The stowaway is thought to have originated from Kenya."

 

[Sussex Nomad]

"The society brunette, 32, ran her hand through her luxurious tresses and made her way to the bottom of the beautifully landscaped, substantial garden in her £2.3 million detached Edwardian property in the sought-after south west London enclave of Clapham, popular with monied overseas investors and royalty alike. Flaunting her enviable curves in a figure-hugging £899 caramel coloured strappy dress from Stella McCartney, teamed with matching fawn coloured 3" heels (£1299, Jimmy Choo) and a rare Thierry LaCroix handbag in cappucino with rose gold detail, the Benenden-educated beauty put on an eye-popping display as she pointed out the damaged slates.

'It's just terribly hard to believe this kind of thing could happen round here, rather than in, say, Brentford", she reflected. "Those slates were only laid down six weeks ago, and we had them hand made by an artisan stone-mason in mid Wales. The artificial turf will have to be relaid too now, as there seems to be some sort of crease in it. It's just so very sad- we're desperately hoping they still have the same colour stone in stock'.

The stowaway is thought to have originated from Kenya."

Fake news, the age of the male/female stone mason has been left out like a sore thumb.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

"The society brunette, 32, ran her hand through her luxurious tresses and made her way to the bottom of the beautifully landscaped, substantial garden in her £2.3 million detached Edwardian property in the sought-after south west London enclave of Clapham, popular with monied overseas investors and royalty alike. Flaunting her enviable curves in a figure-hugging £899 caramel coloured strappy dress from Stella McCartney, teamed with matching fawn coloured 3" heels (£1299, Jimmy Choo) and a rare Thierry LaCroix handbag in cappucino with rose gold detail, the Benenden-educated beauty put on an eye-popping display as she pointed out the damaged slates.

'It's just terribly hard to believe this kind of thing could happen round here, rather than in, say, Brentford", she reflected. "Those slates were only laid down six weeks ago, and we had them hand made by an artisan stone-mason in mid Wales. The artificial turf will have to be relaid too now, as there seems to be some sort of crease in it. It's just so very sad- we're desperately hoping they still have the same colour stone in stock'.

The stowaway is thought to have originated from Kenya."

You’re wasted writing reports about such mundanities as crime.

You should get a job at the Daily Mail.

 

[Questions]

Obviously what happened to the stowaway is horrific but having a frozen corpse fall from the sky abd land a metre away from you and then splat all over you, your garden, your walls, and your fence has got to be so beyond traumatic it is ridiculous. How many hours of therapy will that take to get over??

12.....

 

[John Byrnes Mullet]

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/21/305651780/you-can-survive-a-flight-in-a-jets-wheel-well-but-probably-wont?t=1562067806461

Probably not.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Yet people who refuse to turn right when boarding a plane will happily sit in their ivory towers and pour scorn on those seriously less fortunate and their desperate attempts to come to the UK.

Elton John might contradict your pointless attempt to hijack the thread.

 

[GOM]

The BBC have been calling this poor person a stowaway in their reporting all morning, which doesn't sit too well with me.

Well unless he paid Nigerian Airways for his travel, then that is what he was.

 

[GOM]

Context. It belittles the magnitude of the event.

Perhaps you could suggest words to replace stowaway for varying magnitudes of event. Which magnitude is stowaway suitable for and which would 'illegally hid' cover for example?