Strange death story o' the week

Mummified body found in crawlspace in home ... and victim's family members don't sound surprised.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/coroner/mummified-body-found-in-east-l/

 

In our neck o' the woods, two brothers were involved in a head-on collision that killed the wife of the younger brother.

 

The best part of that story is the clipart of the mummy. Bwahahahaha.

 

We pulled that off the state wire and ran it at our shop. Absolutely bizarre.

 

How is that bizarre?

 

I think he meant Bizarre in a "What are the odds" kind of way. Unless it was a Pauly Fuemana reference, then I got nothing.

 

The act of pulling it off the wire wasn't bizarre. The act of the brothers in the head-on collision was.

 

It wasn't readily apparent that the two brothers crashed into each other, which I presume is what happened.

But in the original link, why does the story have a byline, when it is a blatant rewrite of the AP story to which it links