It’s on display in the news article I linked on Right Angles:
A men?s restroom at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport has become the playground for men who want to pleasure themselves in public and try to pick up other men according to police. Since December, officers have arrested and charged 11 men with public indecency. The list includes University of North Carolina Professor Dr. Hugh Tilson and Spelman College Professor Lev T. Mills.
?He was masturbating while watching other patrons in the restroom,? explained B.C. Williams with the Atlanta Police Department. …
Police reports indicate men from North Carolina and Missouri have traveled to Hartsfield-Jackson and were arrested. One man focused his attention in the bathroom on military men and another performed sex acts with children nearby.
The first problem is an unclear antecedent. Who was masturbating? Two professors are introduced in the preceding sentence, but the onanist is identified only as “he.” (From later context, it appears the police officer was referring to Prof. Mills.)
The second problem is a misplaced modifier in the last quoted sentence. Was the man nearby performing sex acts with children, or was he near children while performing sex acts? From the context, it seems that the latter is the case, but on first reading it sounds the other way.
P.S. Mitch is going to be unhappy that I made this post above his last two on the Senate president pro tem, so please go check them out.
