Bizarre Story of Woman, Safe, Crack, Guns and Boyfriend
One of the most bizarre stories of the year has cracked in Athens, Tennessee.
Early Thursday morning, an Athens officer spotted Terrina Bates lugging a metal SAFE while walking along Highway 39. After changing her story multiple times, she finally told officers she stole it from her boyfriend, Gregory Bell.
Police say Bell came to the police station and opened the safe.
Listen to what officers found inside.
Detective Scott Webb said, “He (Bell) gives consent to search the safe, they open it up and find about eight grams of crack cocaine, two pistols with the serial numbers filed off and approximately 25 hundred dollars cash.”
Bell made his six thousand dollar bond Thursday while Bates went to court this morning saying she wanted to go back to jail out of fear of Bates.
Just yesterday she said in court the crack cocaine was hers.
Gotta love ’em.
Argh, English is dead in this country. If you’re going to write out “hundred dollars,” just make it “twenty-five hundred dollars!” If you’re going to use “25,” just make it “$2,500!”
Ahhh! And these people get paid more than me to write this drivel?!?
If that was my safe I’m sure I would have forgotten the combination, rather than giving the cops consent to search it.
What’s wrong with criminals these days?
2 – The old rule in journalism is to spell out numbers up to nine, then use digits for 10 and more unless a number starts a sentence. The direct quote was transcribed correctly, by that rule.
In this case its a problem because of it’s mixed nature – and thats a much more annoying and widespread misuse of written English.
Now, class, rewrite the above sentence using apostrophes correctly. 🙂
she wil b alot safer in prison, he gave up 2 pistols n 8gz, she wil b much safer in prison
#4, I respectfully disagree.
The number should either be written out as a word or numbers, but only with extremely large numbers may this rule be broken. It should have been $2,500 (preferred) or twenty-five hundred (acceptable) dollars.
The exception would be if the number were $25 billion. Because of the number of zeros in a billion, to avoid confusion it may be shortened to the word. $25 x 10 (9) is generally considered too confusing for non-scientific writing.
I remember my English teacher hammering it into our heads not to write something that might be confusing. Mind you, that was last century and all that acid may have fogged up my brain.
I also seem to remember that we should write out up to the number twelve and start using numbers at 13. I have seen others also start at 10 so I accept there may be some disagreement here.
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Geeze, how stupid do you get. So she felt safer in jail. OK.