Is there proof that the comment was committed with the line of code?

Of course once it was a identified a concerted effort could have been made to rectify the situation.

Sometimes a problem is identified working on some unrelated aspect of the software and the developer does not have time or scope to change the offending piece of code but wants to place a red flag.

Of course this example does not appear to be systematic approach to marking "fixme", unless of course their fixme tag is actually #scary.

Edit: Of course one would hope they have raised a rather high priority work item for this.