Unfortunate Headlines

[choux]

I have no wish to minimize the seriousness of news items but the headlines can make one look twice.

http://www.chardandilminsternews.co.uk/news/16587134.display/

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/cork-man-drowned-while-walking-dog-1.606793

Feel free to add your own choice.

[ducksie]

The headlines are funny, I couldn't top them :) ha

[mallyh]

the one I mention the other day on another post ......shell found on beach

[ducksie]

That must have been a slow news day mallyh:)

[jno]

here was the famous WW2 one, "Eighth Army push bottles up Germans"

[bhg481]

and "German army marches back to front"

[Barmaid]

I cant do a link because my laptop is doing stupid things, but I had to laugh at one yesterday in the Peterborough Telegraph.

Police cordon off cemetary in Chatteris after human remains found.

Really?

[bhg481]

Remember a few weeks/months ago "Police find bodies in a graveyard"

[bhg481]

There was a very ambiguous one in our local paper the other week - "Commuters forced to stand on train". I had visions of some sergeant Major at the station shouting "You, you and you, get on the roof"

[Cloverjo]

I can't help thinking that the headline writers had their tongues firmly stuck in their cheeks while writing those. Unless they're so used to talking about Cork men and Chard businesses they don't even think about it.

Despite the seriousness of them, I had to chuckle.

[Cloverjo]

Just reminded me of something I read in the paper yesterday. Not a headline, just a report of a warning sign in the desert somewhere which read 'No water past this point', so everyone was diligently emptying their bottles in order to trek through 90 degree heat, without water. You've got to laugh.

[Bazile]

Some funny ones here -
https://list25.com/25-unintentionally-funny-newspaper-headlines/

[ducksie]

They're just so funny, I too had a good laugh out loud moment at them Jo, bodies in graveyards, the WW2 ones were funny and bazille I like your link - very funny

[jno]

oh dear, just tried googling. There must be an awful lot of dopey headline writers out there.

"Diana was still alive hours before she died"

"Tits bouncing back in warmer weather"

"Students cook and serve grandparents"

And a lot about the US politician Weiner that are obviously deliberate.

[chelle7272]

Some good ones here:
I paricularly like
Homicide victims rarely talk to police
and
Teen pregnancy drops off after age 25.....
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/lindawlewis/unfortunate-headlines/

[choux]

Whilst not an actual headline a news item in the local rag many decades ago reported on a poor young girl who was sexually abused in her tent at a girl guides campsite. The paper reported: "... he entered the tent and gave her one."

I had a very good friend at the time who worked at the local county council's social services department and when I told him of the paper's report about 2 weeks after the event he did not believe me. However, the director of social services had also seen the report and confirmed it was so worded.