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by Aardwolf 2548 days ago
"A heroin addiction fueled a former Boeing engineer’s, 30-bank robbery spree"

Off topic, but I don't understand why the comma is there? Is there some English language rule dictating this one?

3 comments

Pretty sure that comma has nothing to do there.

Maybe it was transcribed from something Christopher Walken said?

the original title has "yearlong, 30-bank" there. "yearlong" has been removed for some reason, but the comma remains
It'd be because the original title exceeded the 80-char limit, so the submitter tried to condense it.
It shouldn't be there