from http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/31/burning-body-near-calif-high-school/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r5:c0.000000:b0:z5 :
" Investigators believe the person was already dead when they were set on fire, KTLA.com reports. "
So the dead person set the investigators on fire? Tricky.....
(I'm actually all for the use of "they" as an indefinite singular pronoun--it's been used instead of the awkward "he or she" since Shakespeare's time at least. But I'm also a fan of clarity.... and in this case they had already identified the body as probably a man and referred to it as "he" for at least an entire paragraph.).
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