A strange Reuters' Lede. No?

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Savitri Mondol shivers every time she hears a tiger roaring somewhere in the vast mangrove forests surrounding her mud hut, the world's largest habitat of the wild cat.

Well, I'd be worried too if my mud hut was the world's largest habitat of tigers!

Is it just me, or isn't that how the lede reads? Doesn't the part after the comma describe her hut?
 
Also, I'd shiver every time I heard a tiger roaring outside my mud hut even if I lived in an area that was only the world's third- or fourth-largest habitat of the wild cat.

It's just not a real compelling lede.
 
It they had put a period after hut, that would be a strong opening sentence.
 
Wouldn't she be kind of used to tigers roaring by now?
 
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In my first job, it was all I could afford.

As long as the weather held, it was all right. But monsoon season was hell.
 
Mighty_Wingman said:
In my first job, it was all I could afford.

As long as the weather held, it was all right. But monsoon season was hell.

You had a mud hut? We lived in a lake!
 
Armchair_QB said:
Mighty_Wingman said:
In my first job, it was all I could afford.

As long as the weather held, it was all right. But monsoon season was hell.

You had a mud hut? We lived in a lake!

Was it at least a nice lake?
 
Um, Reuters sucks. Their sports are horrendous, especially when it comes to American sports, but their international news is absolutely untrustworthy -- Reuters basically invented the Jenin "massacre."
 

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