SunStar Cebu headline today: “RTC disables Ronda Mayor”.
In my hangover, I saw Judge Leopoldo Cañete zap Mayor Esteban Sia with a Taser gun.
This weird headline should warrant another classic Cheking Seares column on the unfortunates’ unfortunate choice of words. Since he’ll probably be too embarrassed to write it, I’ll venture to write it, if I have enough monosyllabic words (as is his preference):
“Disable means to make unable or unfit. But court can’t do that. It can only declare mayor to be unable or unfit.
“Good thing I am not a court. So I shall now proceed to disable the headline writer.”
