Here's a headline I'd never have made up:
Gay man who tried to poison lesbian neighbours with slug pellets over three-legged cat feud walks free.
The serious aspect of it is that he was given a six month suspended sentence for... attempted murder. Which is even more bizarre than that headline.
Only the British justice system could come up with a result that outdoes a Daily Mail headline for utter madness.
Just when you think the world can't get crazier...
A note from the jury foreman read: "Can't convict. Laughing too hard."
ReplyDeleteChrist you can be a git Leg-Iron ... I already coughed my lungs up laughing twice today.
ReplyDeleteI think I might die if someone gives me a fourth dose of it.
Sir Henry, don't look at the picture on the next post unless you have a lung donor handy.
ReplyDeleteJP - good point. He'd still have had the six-month suspended for attempted murder, but he'd be in for five years for a homophobic remark.
Speaking of headlines that make reading the story redundant,an old fave of mine is "My wife ran off with the Chinese hypnotist from the Co-op bacon factory",from the good old N.O.W.sometime in the 70's (I think - tho' I have seen it anthologized since I saw the original.)
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