Amusing attribution
This story about a fire in Northern California near where I grew up naturally got my attention. I know the area the article refers to, and I'm familiar with forest fires in the region.But the funny part is at the end of the second paragraph, where a source named Brian Harris is mentioned. Who is he? You'd think he'd be a forest service employee or some sort of fire department spokesman. Nope, he's apparently just "of the Klamath National Forest." I've got this mental image of someone who lives in a tent in the forest and just happens to get quoted by a random Associated Press reporter who actually hikes up into the mountains. Does that mean that, if someone quoted me, I'd simply be "Layla Bohm of an apartment"?
Posted by Layla at 9:08 AM, August 04, 2003
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