# Help - rescue me from the guy I am burglarizing!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rescue-me-from-the-guy-i-am-burglarizing/573907>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 8, 2011, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rescue-me-from-the-guy-i-am-burglarizing/573907 "2011-03-08T09:59:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rescue-me-from-the-guy-i-am-burglarizing/573907/21 "2011-03-12T10:10:38Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Postal abbreviations are not supposed to be used except in addresses. It’s a style thing.

This depends entirely on what style you follow. Trying to make a general rule about it for anything larger than a large newspaper or publishing house is pointless.

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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rescue-me-from-the-guy-i-am-burglarizing/573907/22 "2011-03-12T10:50:21Z")

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> [@Derleth](#):
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> This depends entirely on what style you follow. Trying to make a general rule about it for anything larger than a large newspaper or publishing house is pointless.

Well, the Associated Press at least has a style guide that all contributing papers are required to follow. I spent a summer writing for The Battalion, the student paper at Texas A&M, and we were all required to follow the style guide. It’s a consistency thing.

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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rescue-me-from-the-guy-i-am-burglarizing/573907/23 "2011-03-12T11:12:31Z")

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> [@cochrane](#):
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> I shall gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburglerizer today.

That’s kind of a wimpy thing to say.

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**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-rescue-me-from-the-guy-i-am-burglarizing/573907/24 "2011-03-12T11:48:49Z")

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> [@control-z](#):
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> It gets worse, he was [arrested again](http://www.kptv.com/news/27136626/detail.html).

From the article.

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> “He’s also recently shown clear signs of deteriorating mental health, signs which prompted his last housemates to call the police in hopes to find Tim help,” says Caleb Chapek. “Tim’s actions in breaking into a home were inexcusable and the timing and rationale for his phone call to the police were odd, to say the least. From our family’s perspective, however, it has been difficult to watch someone whom we know to be in clear need of help be made into a joke.”

Sad

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