And if officer shows up explain you didn’t have gray hair or a cane or mention needing one during the balance test?

Ironically, when I tried to load Wired’s story about this travesty, Wired quickly hid the content with pop-over asking me to subscribe.

What do you check two hours later?

Journalists have avoid committing libel.

In an active-voice headline they would need to add a word like “allegedly” or “reportedly”, which they could have done.

If they report a claim that someone committed a crime and the person is found to not have actually done so, that’s grounds for a libel lawsuit.

So reporting on alleged crimes is done carefully.