Letter: Something stinks

EDITOR,
When I opened my mailbox today, I got a whiff of something horrible. Something was stinking up my mailbox. Flipping desperately through my mail and holiday catalogs, the smell grew stronger.
As I opened my Press-Banner to Page 3 of the Oct. 16 edition, I found the source of the stench to be emanating from the article written by Michelle Camerlingo regarding the upcoming 102nd birthday of Scotts Valley resident Beulah Sutton:
“And even despite the occasional flatulence that comes with growing older, her dignity remains intact.”
Are you kidding me? Do you seriously think that remarking on an elderly woman’s flatulence in a community newspaper keeps “her dignity” intact? Have Beavis and Butthead started editing the Press-Banner? Is Johnny Knoxville moonlighting as a staff writer? And that’s what you wrote about her in celebration of her birthday. I shudder to think what her obituary might read like — possibly an excerpt from MAD magazine.
I sincerely hope that Dallas Sutton, the woman’s son, demands an immediate apology from the paper’s staff and that some young, pithy intern does a fabulous, in-depth exposé on Ms. Camerlingo when she begins to exhibit physical signs of aging. In fact, I hereby nominate myself for that honor.
You should all be ashamed of allowing such rancid fecal matter to go to press. You stink.