Have you ever heard the phrase 'I'd lose my head if it wasn't attached'? Of course you have, it's a common phrase. The phrase it supposed to be symbolic, of course, not a literal description of something that can happen, which may come as news to the boys down at NBC news because they seem to be under the impression that human body parts can be simply abandoned or mislaid by absentminded people.
A human leg has been found abandoned on a New York subway track, police say. https://t.co/bX9h2gZved
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 20, 2024
That's a weird way to phrase that, right? That seems like a weird way to phrase it to us. According to a statement given to NBC 4 New York by the NYPD,
... the leg was found at about 1 p.m. ET on Saturday in the Concourse neighborhood of the Bronx, between 167th Street and 170th Street, on the line of the 4 train
Again, they all seem awfully cool with the fact that a dismembered human leg has been 'abandoned' on a random subway line.
Abandoned seems like an odd word choice. 🤷🏼♂️
— Edgar (@ufotofu617) February 20, 2024
I hope they take it to the local leg rescue center
— Sunny Jim (@sunnyjim4) February 20, 2024
"found abandoned, " like someone decided to litter & left their leg behind.
— Brian Doherty (@BDOH) February 20, 2024
You know how sometimes you'll accidentally leave your coffee on the top of your car before driving off and the coffee flies off the car and gets left behind in the street? We guess maybe it's like that, except it's a leg.
"Abandoned" 😂 OMG, I'm sorry! 🤣
— Paul-B Loves Movies (@Paul_Berney) February 20, 2024
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No one just "abandons" a human leg. Please, NBC News, do better.
— François Péladeau (@F__Peladeau) February 20, 2024
New Yorkers wouldn't give it a second look. They've seen worse.
— Louie Kabatnik (@loukabatnik) February 20, 2024
Given the way things have been heading in New York (especially on the Subway), this is probably in fact true.
Is ‘abandoned’ the word we should be using here https://t.co/vVMSFq6kti
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) February 20, 2024
*me, hopping around the house* Now where did I put that darn thing https://t.co/6LlnWano7m
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) February 20, 2024
Was wondering where that thing went.
— Bobcat 2024 (@BobcatneySpears) February 20, 2024
Lol I'm so clumsy. https://t.co/c2yGnIIjdI
The phrasing on this headline is as suspicious as the severed human leg found on the subway track https://t.co/JOPVwRXBBb
— MasterThief, Diogenes of the Hellsite (@MasterThiefEsq) February 20, 2024
Yes it is indeed.
It's just such a weird way to phrase it! Why, NBC, WHY?! Thankfully we can't imagine it'll be too hard for police to find the legs owner, there can only be so many newly one-legged people checking themselves into hospitals... assuming that the owner is still with us. Which in New York City ceraintainly isn't a sure thing; while the overall homicide rate was down in the Big Apples in 2023 it's still not nothing, and given the spike in assaults, stabbings and slashings things still aren't really moving in a good direction.
But... let's just hope that the legs owner is off somewhere getting himself fitted out for a new peg leg to complete his Long John Silver costume for next Halloween. That's a much nicer mental image than the alternatives.
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