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By on November 3, 2006

“The suspect has only one hand“.

This was tagged on at the end of a standard description (medium height, short brown hair etc etc) of a con-artist the police are looking for, as read out on the radio while I was driving the kids to school. I couldn’t help it, I snorted and giggled. It sounded somehow Pythonesque.

“I want to confess! I done it!”
“Now, now, sir. Sir knows very well that we’re looking for a one-handed man.”
“I got better!”

Wouldn’t saying “we’re looking for a one-handed man” be better to put at the front of the description?

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4 responses to “oh, and by the way”

  1. elsewhere
    elsewhere November 3, 2006 at 1:26 pm |

    Would it be considered discrimination against one-handed people?

  2. Andrew Warinner
    Andrew Warinner November 3, 2006 at 6:53 pm |

    Paging Dr. Richard Kimble…

  3. tigtog
    tigtog November 3, 2006 at 7:05 pm | *

    Andy, GET OUT OF MY MIND.

  4. tigtog
    tigtog November 4, 2006 at 8:16 pm | *

    At least the SMH subs know to put one-handed right up front and centre:

    One-handed fashion con’s jewel heist

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