This Just In

The front page of the Aspen (Colo.) Daily News told the whole story. A local woman, it reported, “rampaged through local singles bars Wednesday night, leaving a string of wasted males in her wake.” Indeed, “no less than 37 men aged 13 to 78 were taken to local hospitals. Their injuries included everything from severe bleeding due from hickies on their necks to sexual exhaustion.” But the reporter who wrote the story created it as a joke for his girlfriend, and never intended for the file to get into the paper’s typesetting system — let alone the front page. Locals were far from outraged: some bought extra copies, and “people are asking us to run this once a week,” the news editor said. (AP) ...Are they going to punish the reporter, or promote him?