I’m Apparently a Criminal!
The lede from a news story at WTVY (CBS affiliate in Dothan, Alabama:
Okaloosa County investigators say a poaching investigation resulted in the bust of a math lab.
It’s a sad, sad day when one can get in trouble with the law for doing math.
The story was actually about the discovery and closure of a methamphetamine production facility…but it was the phrase “math lab” that really caught my attention.
I guess it’s a media strategy for a new decade – reel in readers/viewers through attention-grabbing typos.
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Well, isn’t that something? That’ll be the day, when we’re prosecuted for doing mathematics. Actually, I think the great mathematicians before us already saw that day.
I got busted doing calculus while drunk. That’ll teach me to drink and derive.