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Re:A heroin addiction fueled a former engineer’s bank robber... by Aardwolf on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:30AM (#20302984)
"A heroin addiction fueled a former Boeing engineer’s, 30-bank robbery spree"

Off topic, but I don't understand why the comma is there? Is there some English language rule dictating this one?

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Re:A heroin addiction fueled a former engineer’s bank robber... by ggambetta on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:34AM (#20303002)
Pretty sure that comma has nothing to do there.

Maybe it was transcribed from something Christopher Walken said?

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Re:A heroin addiction fueled a former engineer’s bank robber... by david-s on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:33AM (#20302999)
the original title has "yearlong, 30-bank" there. "yearlong" has been removed for some reason, but the comma remains
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Re:A heroin addiction fueled a former engineer’s bank robber... by tomhoward on Friday June 28, 2019 @07:51AM (#20303359)
It'd be because the original title exceeded the 80-char limit, so the submitter tried to condense it.
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Re:A heroin addiction fueled a former engineer’s bank robber... by zhaso on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:33AM (#20302998)
It shouldn't be there
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