It's newspaper headline-style, i.e., written in present-tense. Example from nytimes.com right now, "Bag Left Alone by Mother of Olympian Is Blown Up". (Downvo

It's newspaper headline-style, i.e., written in present-tense. Example from nytimes.com right now, "Bag Left Alone by Mother of Olympian Is Blown Up". (Downvotes: Dunno why either. People are grumpy.)