Misplaced Modifiers

Not sure why this strayed across my brain this morning . . .

In a speech class at Venango Campus, Fall 1967, I remember a student saying:

Abortion is defined as the removal of the fetus by the Random House Dictionary.

I had to suppress laughing out loud, but then I used to chuckle at the misplaced/dangling modifiers in the English text book in high school study hall. Even then I was foreordained to be an English teacher.