Don't mean to get anal about the news quote you read (I understand you were being facetious) but, for others, that's why we use the capital 'N'. However, since the advent of the Internet, grammar has taken a beating, not to mention spelling. Although the capital 'N' denotes a proper noun like Nice, France, especially in this case, where it is also a word - nice, it is in opposition to or confusing a main theme of the quote. In this case, it shouldn't be used at the beginning of a sentence. That's only common sense. The headline I read yesterday said something like, "Nice truck driver plows into holiday crowd" when it should have read, " (Deranged or terrorist) truck driver plows into Nice, France holiday crowd."
Hopefully my miserable attempt at explanation didn't mangle the grammar too much.