Headline...headscratcher

[sp1814]

Without looking at the comments section, how long does it take you to work out what the headline means?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/692441/Bread-bakery-staff-bank-robbery-stole-money-till

[sandyRoe]

Not long. I'll assume from the headline a would be thief left empty handed when the bakery staff told him to **** off.

[Jackdaw33]

Eternity. Apart from the misspelling of there, it doesn't make any sense.

[Jackdaw33]

I presume that 'their' is a misprint for 'thief'.

[Svejk]

The head baker told his new starters,' We knead the dough' and the rest is history.

[Mamyalynne]

He were after t'barm cakes and they were still in t'oven.

[Mamyalynne]

Completely missed that - well done JD.

[Cloverjo]

My first thought was that the person who wrote the headline should be sacked. (Referring to their/there/thief, as jackdaw said). Don't they have sub-editors on the online version of newspapers to check these things?

[Jackdaw33]

Had it not been for the misprint it would have made an amusing headline, given the double meaning of 'bread'

[-Talbot-]

Grammatical error ... Earth shattering news.

[sp1814]

Well done Jackdaw33

Took me about fifteen seconds, because at first I thought it was a mistype of 'there'.

[Old_Geezer]

I saw and tried to comment that it was "thief", but the Express is apparently one of those annoying places where you can write your comment without needing to log in but it won't post it until you log in, so I opted not to register and left it. Why they show a comment box if you can not use it, is beyond me.

[Gromit]

An Express article obviously written by unpaid interns during the school holidays.

[jno]

the headline will probably have been written by autocomplete, though.