When The Same Thing Has Two Meanings

In reading about today’s sentencing of the complete dimwit who accepted the keys to a Ferrari F430 Spider – (that was not his) – from a valet parking attendant from Melbourne’s Crown Casino in May this year, I found an interesting comparison between the two major newspaper outlets in Melbourne.

From this article from The Age, the culprit was found guilty, and “jailed”.

From this Herald Sun article, the same culprit was found guilty, but “not jailed”.

So which is it, was he jailed, or was he not jailed? Technically, he was. He was jailed for four months, to be served concurrently with an existing 35-month sentence for an unrelated matter – so he’ll serve no additional time. Interesting that the same result can be interpreted in two completely different ways!