Friday, January 27, 2012

Project #2 - Newspaper Article

Marshmallow Man on Fire
By: James Kartikahadi

     Mark Johnson was burned at the street when wearing a marshmallow costume to advertise "Markmallows tm", it happened at 12 noon in NYC.

     Mark Johnson, a 32 year old person has just been killed by the deadly fire. He died at 12:13 P.M. in Marsh Street, NYC. Mark was there trying to advertise "Markmallows tm" using a marshmallow costume then he attracted a 12 year old kid names Julian Reyner. Julian keep staring at Mark which was standing next to the campfire Mark set up for advertisement purposes, then suddenly Julian screamed "Huge marshmallow!!" and pushed Mark to the fire, Mark screamed and tried to find water, but the fire made Mark unconscious.
     Mark's body turned into ashes when the ambulance and the firefighters came, his whole body was badly injured, he was dead before the ambulance cam, Julian Reyner was brought to court and declared guilty for killing a person, he was sent to jail for 15 years and 5 months. "It was a terrible sight," said Mary Johnson, Mark's wife.
     Because of the incident, the mayor of NYC made a law of not to light up fire in the street unless you get special permission from the mayor himself.

     There's a possibility that Julian wasn't the one who killed Mark, people rumored that there was another kid who was in the scene of the crime, but fled away after the incident, the kid's name and face is still unknown until now, the police are starting an investigations to find the mystery kid.
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