CNN.com - Eiffel Tower parachutist killed - May 17, 2005
CNN.com - Eiffel Tower parachutist killed - May 17, 2005
daredevils, suicide attempts whatever. the best part of this article is the last paragraph, which if it wasn’t lifted directly from some old report shows that the AP writers are all about the descriptions:
Franz Reichel, a mustachioed Austrian tailor, was killed leaping from the first deck in 1912 to test a tent-like parachute coat he had invented. He is said to have died of fright before hitting the ground.
“mustachioed” when was the last time anyone saw/used the word mustachioed? did they have another Franz Reichel, so they had to make the line more specific? ha.
