Is the slightest, barest degree of competence too much to ask?
Apparently, it is:
A New Bern police officer left his department-issued revolver in the bathroom of a sandwich shop Friday afternoon.
An employee at the Subway on Dr. M.L. King Jr. Boulevard found the gun, and police were called, according to Ed Preston, deputy chief of the New Bern Police Department.
Preston said the gun had not be in the bathroom very long before it was found, but he did not provide a specific time. He did say the officer was on duty at the time.
Preston said another officer went to the Subway to get the gun and take a report.
He refused to say what type of gun was left, but New Bern officers are traditionally issued a 45-caliber Glock as their revolver.
You know why newspapers are written at an 8th-grade reading level? It's not because the readers are fucking retarded, it's because the journalists are. Hey, here are some new rules that should be taught to all reporters:
1. If you don't know what a word means, look it up.
2. If you're too fucking lazy to look it up, don't use it.
And I'm not even mentioning the officers/revolver grammatical error. The Sun Journal must pay homeless people to act as editor-for-the-day.
A New Bern police officer left his department-issued revolver in the bathroom of a sandwich shop Friday afternoon.
An employee at the Subway on Dr. M.L. King Jr. Boulevard found the gun, and police were called, according to Ed Preston, deputy chief of the New Bern Police Department.
Preston said the gun had not be in the bathroom very long before it was found, but he did not provide a specific time. He did say the officer was on duty at the time.
Preston said another officer went to the Subway to get the gun and take a report.
He refused to say what type of gun was left, but New Bern officers are traditionally issued a 45-caliber Glock as their revolver.
You know why newspapers are written at an 8th-grade reading level? It's not because the readers are fucking retarded, it's because the journalists are. Hey, here are some new rules that should be taught to all reporters:
1. If you don't know what a word means, look it up.
2. If you're too fucking lazy to look it up, don't use it.
And I'm not even mentioning the officers/revolver grammatical error. The Sun Journal must pay homeless people to act as editor-for-the-day.