Yogi, Administer of Karma?

Libertyman sends in this interesting story:

Convicted killer may turn out to be hungry bear's last meal 

If this doesn't fall under the heading of karma, it certainly takes the concept of drive-thru windows to a scary extreme. The corpse of a man eaten by a bear found in the Canadian woods turned out to be convicted murderer Rory Wagner, who had fled a halfway house in Kamloops.

That's the rather fantastic-sounding headline and the first third of the story. However, it links here, which has significantly more background on the "killer" in question. It was second degree, and the man Wagner was convicted of killing had been implicated in a sexual assault on a relative of Wagner's. Wagner also didn't flee from the halfway house, he was granted day parole, and there's no indication in the second article whether he died before or after his day parole was up.

Isn't it interesting how a news story can be changed? In the first article, you almost want to root for the bear - you've got a killer on the loose, escaped from a halfway house, only to meet a grizzly end [pauses to let groans die down]. The second article changes things dramatically - imagine, if you will, that the man Wagner killed wasn't innocent, but skated on a technicality and sought Wagner out to gloat. Wagner gets angry, knocks him down, he hits his head the wrong way and dies. Wagner goes to jail, after 15 years gets limited parole, and then has a heart attack while enjoying the solitude of the woods he has missed for a decade and a half.

It's amazing how different the two versions are, isn't it?

That is all.