[aerosmile]

He started off with "It's always strange to read these reports from American cities..."

It's strange because it's exaggerated, and it's exaggerated because it has to be - otherwise nobody would care to read the article (and then nobody would pay for this poor reporter's salary who has to hit certain monthly pageview targets, etc).

If you read something in the news and it sounds really strange, don't take it at face value.

[wan23]

I used to live by the bridge mentioned in the article as a place where people got attacked, and I believe it 100% fwiw.