Headline writing – think before touching a key.

by | Mar 22, 2010 | Just plain weird, Strange Thoughts

A BBC article caught my attention with the following headline :

Woman ‘force-fed babies vomit’ at Bromley nursery

Whilst the article itself is a rather grim description of a child carers cruel and unusual methods, I don’t think the headline quite comes across as the writer intended (give or take an apostrophe of course).

It still doesn’t beat my all time favourite which was seen on the front page of the Sheffield Star some year sago :

OAP held face down in snatch.

Snatch being typically a rather more popular euphemism for vagina than robbery.

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