Yesterday a local five-year-old kid falls off a ninth-floor balcony and survives — he breaks his legs and his pelvis but is otherwise OK. Full recovery expected. I learn about this from James Street South’s newspaper dispensers; the story makes the front page of today’s Hamilton Spectator and the local edition of the Globe and Mail.
I also learn from the dispensers that the Spectator has unintentionally imbued the story with a distinct Looney Tunes flavor by devoting almost their entire above-the-fold front page to a photo of the kid-shaped dent in the ground.
The Tick: Gravity is a harsh mistress.
