Mistaken Identity - Paper reports a different Rick Smith dead

[Jack Ryan]

Oops

A West Chester student finds out from frantic friends that a local newspaper declared him dead in a traffic accident.

Rick Smith, 21, is from Norristown and is very much alive.

But the Norristown Times Herald Newspaper ran a story Monday with his ninth-grade picture saying that a man named Richard Smith was killed in State College in a hit-and-run accident.

The man killed was actually from Conshohocken.

Rick Smith from Norristown said he was very upset by the news report.

"I was shaking a little bit. Who wants to see that, your own obituary?" Smith said.

Smith's mother, Paula, was equally was upset.

Rick Smith says he feels bad for the family of the man from Conshohocken who carries the same name as his.

"There's always a wakeup call for everything," says Paula Smith. "You have to appreciate what you do have, not what you don't have."

The paper ran a correction on Tuesday. The newspaper's editor had no comment for NBC 10.

 

[iamwiz82]

What pisses me off is that this was probably a big story and then the correction is in a 2"x2" square shared with 5 other corrections.

 

[sswingle]

So acemcmac is alive?

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
So acemcmac is alive?

I was hoping that might be the case. Sadly... it seems to be otherwise. The newspaper merely wrote about the wrong person... i.e., a person who was not acemcmac.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
What pisses me off is that this was probably a big story and then the correction is in a 2"x2" square shared with 5 other corrections.

You are probably right. I don't have the actual paper to confirm.

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
So acemcmac is alive?

I read this article as some other dude with the same name was reported dead by a local paper, but acemcmac still was the one involved in State College. I am sorry for the confusion.

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
So acemcmac is alive?

I was hoping that might be the case. Sadly... it seems to be otherwise. The newspaper merely wrote about the wrong person... i.e., a person who was not acemcmac.

same

 

[WhiteKnight]