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Someone on a forum I frequent pointed out this statement from a Department of Homeland Security press release about the H1N1 flu sweeping the nation (or not, as the case may be):

Anyone exhibiting symptoms is being referred to an isolation room where they can be evaluated by a public health official before proceeding to their destination*.

The asterisk guides the reader down to the bottom of the page, where the DHS notes that there was a typo in the original version of the page.  The original version read:

Anyone exhibiting symptoms is being referred to an isolation room where they can be evaluated by a public health official before proceeding to their destruction.

If there was ever a case of a small typo changing the meaning of a sentence drastically, I think this was it; I’m sure it gives fodder to the conspiracy theorists out there.  And always remember, Soylent Green is people.

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