Gargoyle kills woman in Chicago

Absolutely.

From the article:

I’m guessing that, by the time this is over, an expression of sympathy might be the least it needs to provide.

The police are suspicious because she was swimming off Beachy Head at the time .

Not very clear from the video , was that really a Gargoyle or a Grotesque?

Gargoyles are used to drain water, a grotesque is what is named when the figure does not spill water.

Clip from the show:


And I just noticed that dropzone also wondered.

Great. One hardened gargoyle goes rogue and now all of them are getting a bad rap.

Since when is “mother of two” hyphenated? And why is it that her status as a mother is the still the first way she’s described?

When both children are named Pearl.

Unfortunately, it takes a terrible tragedy like to this remind us that, so often, not only is our sense of safety just a facade, but that a facade is, so often, not safe.

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Gargonado

I wouldn’t mind death by gargoyle so much… but to have a grotesque death just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
I feel sorry for the family, and two little kids left behind. :frowning:

I don’t see a problem with it. I assume the reasoning was to avoid confusion with the “who was walking along the street” modifying it, making sure the reader treats “mother of two” as a single syntactic unit instead of possible hiccuping on the sentence trying to attach the “who was walking along the street” to “two.” It’s certainly not wrong to hyphenate that noun phrase.

Pooh. A wikipedia distinction. Nothing at all like “something found painted on the wall in a grotto that was Nero’s palace”

I first read it as “Sean Bean was killed by a gargoyle” and thought, so what else is new.

She worked at a Childrens hospital, and was killed by stuff falling off a church? Somebody better check her recent patients for jackal DNA.

LOL I was just thinking about that old TV show.

In the OP quote, seeing the name “Bean” and the verb “killed” causes my brain to automatically insert “Sean” :wink: Although in all his deaths, I don’t recall a gargoyle related incident.

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Declan

It’s common for parents of either sex to be described as such in reports when killed suddenly. I suppose it serves to emphasise the effect the death has on others.