Newspaper typing error
The following appeared on the back page of one of Australia’s more outrageous computer publications, “Computing Australia”, 21st Sept 1987: … Blame it on the computer.
An unfriendly computer has been held responsible for a “potentially lethal error” involving a Mafia loan collector.
A New York paper inadvertently put the `heavy’ in the running for a pair of custom-fitted concrete shoes when it identified him as a “ruthless informer”.
According to a published retraction (and apology!), a writer on the paper had actually typed “ruthless enforcer” – but the computer system’s spelling checker liked it the other way.
And I thought the worst you could expect from a “computer error” was a bill for a million dollars!
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