News Headlines - weird, funny or just memorable

[ali_alic]

Yesterday's thread by Funkymoped reminded me of the headline (from the Sunday Sport of course) "Greenfly ate my Lover" I just had to buy it for that story, turns out his lover was a cabbage, he wasn't able to save her, if she had lived she would have been a "vegatable all her life" (a quote from the article - honest). Any other headlines that stick in your mind for any reason?

[B00]

The obvious one has to be :-

"Freddie Starr ate my hamster"

[dogfish]

Two stories stick with me from the Aberdeen Press & Journal
The wonderfully provincial headline, "Police Seek Man with Ferret"
And a quote from the story of an escaped convict, "He was last seen when sent to clean the outside of the prison gates".

[oligopoly]

The Sunday Sport is a very funny read. I remember buying one in Feb 2005. One of the headlines was 'woman groped by snowman'. the story starts off all serious about how the police were called in and they were appealing for witnesses, and then the last sentence said '... but the woman did admit to having a few drinks....'

[ali_alic]

I remember the editor of the sunday sport speaking on a show (maybe "have I got news for you") and they were talking about the B52 bomber found on the moon story. He answer was "So?? Prove me wrong" And they actually got an expert to say whether a fighter pilot in the 40's would have taken enough oxygen to survive on the moon for 50 years!! Classic. That and the story of the red London bus found in the Arctic.

[unruliejulie]

the funniest story i ever read was about a train full of passengers spotting a man doing unmentionable things to a cow as they sped past a field.

Also one about a bloke who had been giving a chicken one,on a mountain somewhere.He was caught with feathers on his d**k! Can't remember exact details about it cause it was about 16 years ago but i had the image in my head for years, still do..

[BigDogsWang]

I like the article in the Times today about the piano they found halfway up Ben Nevis.

Apparantly some old boy carried it to the summitt about 30 odd years ago for charity, but dropped it over a cliff on the way down.

[Xollob]

Nothing against the French, don't get me wrong, but I did enjoy this Sun headline from 1990:

Up yours Delors!