Leo is my Hero!

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

Perhaps he did. Though those facts aren't in the story to justify the headline or the first sentence in the story. Yes, it makes for a better newspaper story than "Dog and four kittens almost die in fire" though it is curious that we don't know the name of the true heroes in this story, credited with actual fauna-saving feats: the firefighter that retrieved them or the EMT that affixed an oxygen mask to the oooooh so cute and cuddly face of Leo.

He (Leo, not the EMT) may also have made them wear damp bandanas to help filter our the smoke. Though obviously he wasn't paying attention to flight attendants or he would have known to first secure his own air supply before helping nearby children.

I know it is just a silly vapid local news human interest story-writing and hyperbolic headline writing, and I like to comment on that when I see it. Besides, the alternative was to talk about our Leo and I was already doing that in another thread and if I hadn't shown up to be a humorless (or am I) hardass, then this thread wouldn't be the rousing success it is. Instead just lying there with nary a reply while Moonliner was forced to wonder if he detected in the far distance a twitter of wry chuckling.

Wow. Just wow. An inspired bit of prose to be sure. A perfect way to close out this thread.