Narrative Lead Assignment

SF Gate (www.sfgate.com)- Steve Oswald isn't getting back the $156.94 he charged the city for cleaning a public bathroom. However, he did get the attention of city officials who promised to take better care of the bathroom — and honored his efforts Tuesday with the Golden Plunger Award.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/17/national/a125545D26.DTL

This article is about Steve Oswald who cleaned public restrooms and asked the city to reimburse hime for doing it. Because he did this, the city gave him an award for raising awarness to how dirty public restrooms really are.

I think the writer chose to do a narrative lead for this instead of a summary lead because it was such a small story there was no real reason to drag it out. It was better to get straight to the point and to whom the article was about.