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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Grumpy Celt" data-source="post: 3944771" data-attributes="member: 1019">I used to be a reporter and a news paper editor, so I have some insight into the matter. The first five paragraphs of a story are considered to be important and are usually reserved for a summary of the story with a Who, What, When, Where, How and a Why. So it is interesting that the reporter chose to lead off (the comment in the third paragraph) with a reference to D&D, as aside from being a somewhat salacious detail, it has no bearing on the story.  If anything the idea of D&D being synonymous with crime is losing traction in the mainstream, even if the hobby itself is not part of the mainstream. It seems like the reporter was trying to hard to find some “odd hook” to put into the first few paragraphs. A better hook would have been to play up the fact that a nice, mostly suburban, middle class family tried a poorly thought-out scheme to rob an armored car company. Doesn’t Hollywood they make comedy movies with plots like this?</blockquote>