Dangling Modifiers

I'll keep it short: I read this blurb in NYT about dangling modifiers ("As the Blues forward tried to deflect the puck past the goalie, he snatched it with his glove.").

Hardly any time at all later, I read this article at HuffPo, which began with this sentence:

"A friend of French money manager Thierry de la Villehuchet told a paper that he committed suicide in his New York office early Tuesday morning."

Wow. I've never heard anyone report their suicide to a newspaper before.