AP Story:
MOBILE, Alabama -- Land-based telephone service was cut to an area from west Florida to Mobile and north to Birmingham Thursday morning, an AT&T official said.
(I suspect that all five customers who still have landlines called to complain.)
Tim, the REAL story is the piss poor writing - pardon my grapic language (and you have every reason to criticize my choice of words).
ReplyDeleteThe sentence as it reads, is: "Land-based telephone service was cut to an area from west Florida to Mobile and north to Birmingham Thursday morning, an AT&T official said."
Instead, it would be more succinctly clarifying if it were to read something like this: An AT&T official said landline telephone service was disrupted Thursday morning over an an area extending from west Florida to Mobile northward to Birmingham.
Another phrasing might read: Landline telephone service was disrupted in parts of Alabama south of Birmingham extending to Mobile through western Florida, according to an AT&T official.
If all five customers were without phone service, how could they call in to complain?
ReplyDeleteJay....they used smoke signals, of course.
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