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[muckefuck]

Nothing can make me feel my parser is broken like a news headline. I sometimes wonder if my brain works so differently from that of the target reader that I'm the only who's baffled by journalists' stabs at brevity. Here's tonight's puzzler. Do me a favour and guess what it means before you check your answer at the BBC page where I found it.

Tube death team to brief family

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[aadroma.livejournal.com]

I was thinking it was a team of people who went around killing people with tubes. Like, big ones. That hurt, and kill, and stuff.

"Sorry, Mrs. Goldman, but little Billy has to die." "Can't you wait until he cleans his room?!?"