Badly Phrased Headlines.

stuey | 13:52 Fri 19th Dec 2014 | ChatterBank

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This writer, or editor, should get some kind of "silliness" award, I think. It's from a local paper: "Cops shoot man cutting his throat and wrists".

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sandyRoe

Nut screws washer bolts!
The headline over an account of a sexual assault by a mentally ill man on a laundress, who then went on the run.
From the Washing Post, I believe.

sandyRoe

* Washington Post ^

stuey

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I like the way you got "Washing" in there:)

BlackadderV

Jobs blow for shipyard workers!

Newcastle Evening Chronicle

mallyh

there was a chap on the chase from the isle of wight reporting on explosives, headline line was something like ..shell found on beach

stuey

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Mallyh, was the reporter Sandy?

andy-hughes

The News Quiz on Radio Four specialises in the unintentional humour of headlines.

Last week was one of my favourite, after a lady who runs a -ahem! - house of 'relaxation' was told the council were closing her down -

'Dominatrix refuses to go down without a fight!'.

stuey

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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2014/12/18/22140511.html

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