MCP Shooting Themselves in their Credibility Foot

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A Monday morning headline about a Friday incident involving police isn't all that surprising around these parts with the secrecy of the police and the complicity of the corporate media in their cover-up.  But one would think that over the course of four days, the facts of the story could be clearly aligned and put out without confusion.  

The story was broadcast on the Mason County Press with a headline saying that a hunter shot herself in the foot with an arrow.  The young huntress was taken to the hospital after doing that deed accidentally said Ocean County Sheriff Craig Mast.  

However, the enticing headline overstates what actually happened four days ago.  She didn't shoot herself in the foot it seems, she instead injured her foot with a broadhead arrow from her crossbow.

In the article the grandmother of the injured woman explains further:  “A quiver worked itself out from walking through brush and fell to the ground,” stated the girl’s grandmother, Gina Jarvis, in a Facebook message to OCP. “When she went to walk over a fallen tree, the top of her foot caught the arrow and it went into her boot and foot.”

For those who may be unfamiliar with crossbow lingo, a crossbow 'arrow' is typically called a 'quarrel' or 'bolt' and differs from a normal bow's arrow by being a bit shorter and having less or no fletching (feathers) at the back end.  A quiver simply is any contrivance to hold your quarrels, either attached to your crossbow (or bow) or maybe in a pouch strapped to your back or belt.  A broadhead arrow (quarrel) is a dangerous mishmash of multiple razor blades designed to hurt what it hits:

So the quarrel was never fired from the crossbow, it just happened to stick out from her fallen quiver and pierced her boot and foot.  Terrible freak accident, but it doesn't lead nowhere to the embarrassment of actually shooting yourself in the foot.  

Nor does an injured foot compare to shooting yourself in the foot when you are trying to get reader interest in your story and perhaps use the alternate headline to generate more interest and page hits.  Honest mistakes can sometimes happen with breaking news but it looks like this quiver of quarrels is pointing more at why the MCP might have gone lax with the facts:

[Willy]

When I started to read this article I was wondering how she could shoot herself in the foot with an arrow because walking with a cocked crossbow loaded with an arrow is definitely a no, no and she had to have taken a hunter safety course in order to get a license. Handling broadheads always gave me the willy's. I don't know how many times I sliced open a finger.  I'm glad she didn't "shoot" herself because she would have had a very serious wound.