>>Maybe "officer delays family speeding to their dying mom"... but then if the author of the headline had ever thought about possible ambiguity, we wouldn't be talking about it now, would we?
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>Language is a tool not a prison, Be flexible and go with the flow then it all makes sense or doesn't seem quite so important.

The latter. I get it wrong quite often, maybe trying to get it as I go instead of waiting for the rest of the context. I've had good examples of sentences where after three words it changes the meaning several times until the end of the sentence.

>Hows your garden BTW
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>anything edilble ?

Nothing yet. This time of year the ocean cools it all down so the spring comes quite late. We even had a bit of frost yesterday morning. But by summer we should have homegrown tomatoes, cucumbers and a few other things again. Last year our lawn proudly displayed lettuce among the rose bushes :).