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[–] [email protected] 148 points 7 months ago (39 children)

"Died of high chili consumption"? Is this actual English? Those words don't seem to fit together that way. I feel like if this were a real thing, Thailand wouldn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There is another country that would not exist if high Chile consumption was a real thing.

This is real title gore, the sentence structure barely makes sense too. Unwinding the journalistic word order and even correcting for the missing word "report" and the chilli misspelling, it basically says

Autopsy was conducted on a teen who had a tortilla, and it[s report] says: "He died of high chil[li] consumption and had a heart defect."

The logic is technically correct but the following bizzare statements are suggested (not implied):

  • If you are a teen and eat a tortilla, a doctor may decide you need an autopsy. Prevention first, amirite?
  • The cause of death of the teen in question was high chilli consumption, which caused a heart defect, and subsequently the autopsy, either of which alone would be enough to kill him.
[–] voluble 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So bad it's good. Personally, I like the description text on the video that makes it seem like the teen who was autopsied is speaking:

An autopsy of a Massachusetts teen who died after participating in a spicy tortilla chip challenge says he died from eating a lot of chile pepper extract, and 14-old Harris Wolobah had a congenital heart defect.

Editorially, it's a hilarious article. Though, respect to journalists out there. This might be a situation of, "Johnson, I need that tortilla chip death article on my desk in 5 minutes".

edit: Per the correction in the article, I guess AP style guidelines dictate 'chile' instead of 'chili'. It looks super weird to me!

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