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by AdmiralAsshat 827 days ago
WANTED: DEAD AND ALIVE
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If you look at "wanted" to be prefixed to everything in the list, it'd expand to: "wanted: dead, and wanted: alive".

While this: "Wanted: dead or alive"

could be interpreted as: "We haven't decided yet what we actually want, if it's dead, or alive, but it's one of those".

Then it can be good to give them (the police) a call and ask if they have decided yet, before you go looking for the wanted person

Obviously they want Schrodinger's criminal. You must get them before their wave function collapses.