Diagramming party to action stations
How many meanings can you extract from this hed?Nobody likes to draw the story with the minefield hed. If you do, go back and get enough space (this isn't the longest hed on the page, by the way) to create as little snickering and head-scratching as possible. I'd try to hold out for something like "Ex-mayor kills self after shooting wife's companion," but the solutions in these cases are usually bad and less-bad, not good and better.
posted by fev at 5:23 PM
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Ex-mayor kills wife's lover, self.
Eh, not quite -- other guy was alive as of the story's posting.
"Ex-mayor shoots wife's lover, self" then.
Ex-mayor shoots wife's lover, kills self
Ex-mayor kills himself; tried to kill wife's lover
She says he's not her lover ... no good way to write that hed, just less offensive ways.
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