Nixta Sinks

If I, as an 8-year old, can realise that I don't have icicles hanging from my nose on the way to school, but rather snotcicles, why can't a (presumably fully-grown) CNN writer/editor combo prevent the following from appearing on their good-for-nothing (except a quick view of the DOW) website?

There was less biological decay than Ballard expected although much of the ship was covered in icicles of rust.

Idiots. Fucking idiots.