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MLeake · October 4, 2009, 02:39 PM

I am pretty sure it should have read, "Thourot set it down facing his wife. He should have set it down facing down range, which would have been considered proper safety procedure."

Either the writer was lazy, and was probably also trying to conserve line space by condensing two sentences, or, the writer originally wrote it as two sentences, but the editor botched an effort to condense two sentences into one.

October 4, 2009, 02:39 PM	#21
MLeake Senior Member Join Date: November 15, 2007 Location: Outside KC, MO Posts: 10,128	Badly written sentence. I am pretty sure it should have read, "Thourot set it down facing his wife. He should have set it down facing down range, which would have been considered proper safety procedure." Either the writer was lazy, and was probably also trying to conserve line space by condensing two sentences, or, the writer originally wrote it as two sentences, but the editor botched an effort to condense two sentences into one.