A garden-path sentence in the wild?

From François Lang: This headline (WP [11/1/24]) completely garden-pathed me–especially because of "watch strikes"! I've rarely encountered a garden-path sentence in the wild, i.e., not in the context of a linguistic discussion of garden-path sentences. "On Baalbek’s edges, the displaced watch strikes rain down on their city" Garden-path sentences and crash-blossom headlines are both botanical metaphors in […]