Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Staten Island heroes

Detectives in Staten Island quickly tracked down and rescued a tabby stuck in a shaftway.


Ariel had slipped into a 4-by-8-inch heating vent and was lodged 20 feet down.
Stanislas called 911 and Emergency Service Unit Detectives Tony Borowiec and Dennis Canale got the contractors to cut a hole in the brick wall of the building at 100 Stuyvesant Place to access the shaft.
Borowiec then used his own tools to hack at the wood and metal and pull out 15-pound Ariel.


at fifteen pounds, I'm not quite certain that the story warrants the headline "Tubby Tabby Saved", but the voiceless alveolar plosive t followed quickly by a duplicate bilabial plosive b is really quite nice with the shifting vowel sound. Shouldn't a headline have an active verb, though? Something like "Tubby Tabby Meets Rescuers" or "Tecs Rescue Terrific Tabby".

Cats can be heroic, as well. They can be detectives, too.

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