This week one of our publications is running a story about a truck driver who was attacked by thieves. They shot him with a Taser, bundled him into a car, dumped him nearby and stole his truck.
In its original form, the story concluded: "The driver was shocked but otherwise unhurt." This was perfectly accurate, but I had to change the wording to avoid the unintentional pun. Otherwise our readers might have thought we had no sensitivity or tact at all...
3 comments:
Please, how did you write the final sentence?
Thanks...
Juan F.
Hi Juan. I can't remember now how I rewrote the final sentence; perhaps I just took out any reference to the driver being 'shocked'! Pun aside, I think anyone that was attacked by thieves would be somewhat shocked (or at least, it would be reasonable to assume so).
Shocked , haha nice pun!
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