Reuters, the international news service, is having a little trouble explaining this error. Check out the story:
German Lego giraffe penis reportedly stolen
Visitors to a tourist attraction in Berlin have been making off with an unusual memento — the 30 cm long penis of a Lego giraffe.
The Lego phallus belongs to a six metre tall model that has stood outside the entrance to the Legoland Discovery Centre on Potsdamer Platz since 2007.
“It’s a popular souvenir,” a spokeswoman for the centre said on Tuesday. “It’s been stolen four times now …”
The penis is made out of 15,000 Lego bricks. It takes model workers about one week to restore the long-necked animal’s manhood at a cost of 3,000 euros ($4,300), the spokeswoman said.
The center is now erecting a metal construction to protect the giraffe’s genetalia.
Just one problem – people have been stealing the giraffe’s tail, not its penis. It didn’t even have a penis. So Reuters had to issue a correction that switched the word “tail” for “penis.”
A special IHateTheMedia.com congratulations goes out to Reuters’ reporter Caroline Copley and editor Tim Pearce. If you ever get tired of those jobs at Reuters, we can surely find you something here at IHateTheMedia.com.
One other thing: nice use of the word “erecting” in the original story’s final sentence.
Source: RegretTheError.com
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Ah those David Hasselhoff loving Germans. The knee slappers that come out of that country are just endless….really a laugh riot – comedy gold.
Ich bin ein berliner!
the penis is a front tail. the tail is a rear echelon penis. what gives? just like we can reproduce from the front but not from side-b so the homo-logo-us organs show super-sym-me-try. there is a third organ – the giraffe’s long neck – but that is a story for another post(modernism).