Yes , treating it like a crime scene is one thing, calling it one is another. It’s not a " crime scene" until and unless it’s determined to be a crime. Otherwise it’s the scene, the location/place of occurrence * , the place where the bodies were found.
* which is not an expression I just came up with - my job required me to read a lot of police reports , all of which included " At T/P/O " ( time and place of occurrence) in the narrative section. Even if what was described was obviously a crime - but T/P/O fits everything that might involve police , from a crime to a car accident
I get the opposite impression – that they know what happened and don’t consider it a crime. One article said the autopsy / toxicology results were ready on Tue. Between those results and the statement from the house owner it might be clear what happened, but it can’t be released that until the investigation is complete.
I will say that if the reporting is accurate, then the house owner is a truly terrible person – staying silent for days, not answering the door until the police arrived. It’s a tragedy for the three families.
Our amateurish local newspaper often paraphrases Police Blotter reports thusly:
(A two car collision…police responded)… “no patients were taken to the hospital.”
I don’t know what it is with “journalists” or “wannabe journalists” (oh, hell, “writers”) thinking that including a bunch of boring background without making it relevant to the main story will make it more interesting. “Sara’s great-grandparents were born in a clapboard shack. Her grandmother enjoyed gardening.” Nobody cares. (This shows up for new fiction writers a lot too. I hate it.)
Aliens - specifically Alien abduction. Gone for three days - check. The owner saw it happen and cowered for the next few days - check. Bodies redeposited - check. Organs missing - check (might have made the last one up!).
That was the last game of the regular season. Its outcome was not meaningful to the Chiefs, so they played their “B” team and rested players like her boyfriend. Those two were probably having mojitos in Kingstown at the time.
I had that exact reaction to, of all things, snuff. I smoked a bit in college, and enjoyed cigars with a roommate right out of school; but I could very easily put them down and never smoke again (which, as it happens, I have). First time I tried snuff, though, I liked it so much that I did it again the next day, which I hadn’t planned on. That’s when I said, “Nope. Need to avoid this.”
In informal US sporting parlance, the “B” team is all the players on the roster who don’t normally start the game and don’t normally play most of the time. These folks are in effect trainees, understudies, and spares. They’re fully qualified players, but in the “must win as much as possible every day” world of sports, the person on the team who’s the second best [whatever] will play 5% of the time while first best plays 95%, or until he’s hurt.
Once a team has either been eliminated from contention or has clinched moving on to the next level of playoffs, often a team will let their regular players rest and avoid potential injury during a game that for once is not “must-win”. And thereby let the second-ranked players gain experience playing a full or nearly full game. That’s the “B” team in action. The regulars being the “A” team.
So basically they’ll play a game with almost no substitutions? There’s only 53 men on the roster. So you sit down the starting 22, and you’ve got really 29 players left to do the actual playing, not counting the punter and placekicker.
Guess football’s changed since I stopped watching. Sure, a number of players played every offensive or defensive down. But defenses used to switch even the number of linemen v. linebackers on certain plays, and offenses would have different RBs, TEs/H-backs in on different situations. I remember Joe Gibbs would use way more than just half his roster every game.
Not every starter will sit out the game. For instance, in the Chiefs game, the quarterback, tight end, running back, and one wide receiver didn’t suit up for the game. They were replaced by players from the practice squad. So there was a full roster of 53 players. Other starters played, but were limited in the number of plays in which they participated. So a backup player who might play 10% of the plays would actually play 90% of the plays in this game.
It’s not that black and white. Not knowing your nationality nor your level of sports-watching interest or experience, I explained the most vanilla case in bold strokes lacking nuance.
As @Railer13 rightly points out, lots more subtlety goes on on the sidelines and on the field when the figurative “B team” metaphor is trotted out in the broadcast booth.
