Massachusetts man, 70, accused of trying to drown jet skier, 21, in chaotic lake fight

Bonus Material:

As a person of a certain age, I find the Post’s and other rags’ standard practice of describing every crime victim over 65 — and often as young as 60 — as “elderly” to be incredibly annoying. It’s as irritating and obnoxious as their affixing “beloved” to the subject of any misfortune, animal, vegetable, even inanimate: “Beloved teacher”; “beloved hamster”; “beloved pizza parlor” are all recent examples. But notice there’s no such characterization attached here to this (“elderly”) 70-year-old, when the editors wanted to slant the story in favor of the other actor.

“I’m a Journalism” indeed.

UPDATE:

Apparently, Chinese canines only rate a “beloved” two paragraphs below the lede:

Celeb dog with 1.5M followers is stolen and sold for just $26 — then eaten at restaurant

A celebrity pooch with more than 1.5 million followers was allegedly snatched from his family’s farm in China — then sold for just $26 to a restaurant, where he was slaughtered and eaten the same day.
The horrific ordeal has left his devastated owner, Chinese travel influencer Guo, seeking justice for his 8-year-old Border Collie named Chutou, who amassed the huge following on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, according to the South China Morning Post.
Guo left his beloved dog with his parents while traveling when a man and a woman on an electric scooter were caught on surveillance footage taking the animal from the Shanqui farm on May 11.

But in dog years, doesn’t 8 years also qualify for “elderly”?