Garden path sentences

[pne]

"Fat people eat accumulates" and other garden path sentences

Comments

[mendel.livejournal.com]

This is great! Both "Fat people eat accumulates" and "The player kicked the ball kicked the ball" threw me for a moment, but the rest all sort of jumped out at me.

I think that "While Philip was washing dishes crashed to the floor" is simply missing a comma, though. (As does someone else in the discussion. In that case...)

[pne.livejournal.com]

I can't parse "The player kicked the ball kicked the ball"... oh, hang on.

Does it mean "The player to whom someone kicked the ball, in turn, kicked the ball himself"? I guess I didn't get it because it was an indirect object rather than a direct object.

[mendel.livejournal.com]

Right -- like "The player thrown the ball threw the ball", but with feet.

[leora.livejournal.com]

I second, third, or whatever this. I also feel that:
"I convinced her children are noisy."

is simply ungrammatical unless I am missing a possible interpretation. However:

I convinced her, children are noisy.

Is fine, but also not a garden path sentence. I like most of the examples, but I think using bad grammar as a claim to gardenpathness is just cheating.