Woman dies doing what she loved: Getting thrown to ground by mule

KySportsWriter and I both like working at our paper, but what our news section did today could get us put on "Headlines" on "The Tonight Show":

http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/cgi-bin/c2.cgi?053+article+News.Local+2008091007023053003

E’town woman dies doing what she loved
Expert equestrian when thrown from pack mule along rocky trail

CADIZ — An Elizabethtown woman, no stranger to pack animals, died Tuesday afternoon after being thrown from a large mule she was riding along an equestrian trail at Land Between the Lakes.

Rhonda A. Boyd-Hogan, a 54-year-old rural mail carrier and partner in a stable outside Elizabethtown, died while doing what she loved. ...

 

Pretty sure there's a dropped word in your deck. Hope it wasn't like that in the print copy, or you'll never make Headlines.

 

This is worse than Twittering play-by-play of a funeral.

 

Heaven needed a mule-riding mail carrier.

 

I am so going to hell for laughing at that

 

Nobody dies doing what they hated anymore.

 

The mule killed while doing what he hated.

I don't know if that counts.

 

Print had "killed when" in deck, but killed was omitted in Web site sub hed.

Maybe that's a good thing if it keeps us off TTS' Headlines.

 

Aha! That leads to a better headline:

Mule goes postal
Dashes mailcarrier to death on rocky trail

 

"He was a quiet mule. He kept to himself."

"Do you think he meant to kill her?"

"Absolutely. It's all he ever talked about."

 

Looks like I'll be joining Slappy for laughing at that.