# Florida teen charged with soliciting hit on school employee

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**Created:** [November 3, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-teen-charged-with-soliciting-hit-on-school-employee/842934 "2019-11-03T00:50:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-teen-charged-with-soliciting-hit-on-school-employee/842934/1 "2019-11-03T00:50:16Z")

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poor choice of words for the headline CNN

not what I was expecting

> **[Florida teen charged with soliciting hit on school employee | CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/02/us/florida-teen-hit-murder-high-school/index.html)**
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> "I need a guy who could kill someone," a Florida teenager allegedly wrote to a friend on Instagram, authorities say. "No joke. I need him eliminated as soon as possible."

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**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-teen-charged-with-soliciting-hit-on-school-employee/842934/2 "2019-11-03T01:14:22Z")

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_shrug_ It reads as less sensational then their usual “You won’t believe what got this high school student arrested!” click-bait headline. What do you find poor about their choice of words?

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-teen-charged-with-soliciting-hit-on-school-employee/842934/3 "2019-11-03T01:32:14Z")

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well if you read it too fast it reads like the teen was arrested looking for sex and a school worker hit on him  
not that he was looking for someone to kill someone

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**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-teen-charged-with-soliciting-hit-on-school-employee/842934/4 "2019-11-03T01:38:46Z")

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The first thing wrong with the story is that Ferris would never have to pay for a hit; he’d have someone do it for him for free.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-teen-charged-with-soliciting-hit-on-school-employee/842934/5 "2019-11-03T02:48:43Z")

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Headline seems completely accurate to me. No surprise when I read the story

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**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/florida-teen-charged-with-soliciting-hit-on-school-employee/842934/6 "2019-11-03T03:34:21Z")

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Ok, after a bit of squinting I can see what you mean about the headline, but I think that I wouldn’t naturally interpret it that way unless there was a comma after the word ‘soliciting’