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Actual title: A Hiker Started a Wildfire Trying to Signal for Help. Now He Owes the Government $300,000. The editorialized version makes it sound like some gad
by luckylion 4y ago
Actual title: A Hiker Started a Wildfire Trying to Signal for Help. Now He Owes the Government $300,000.
The editorialized version makes it sound like some gadget started a wildfire and he's on the hook for it.
- macintux 4y agoI suspect the original title was too long, but I don’t recall what the character max is.
- Aachen 4y agoEven this is ambiguous though, or at least, I didn't get it when reading the headline in the article either. Smoke signals just don't even come to mind when someone says signal, it's like having to think of network cable when someone says "dog strangled by cat", to me at least!