Possible misleading headlines

[Sussex Nomad]

Got any good ones? I just looked on the BBC footy section and saw;

Forest's Cox out for two months

Surely that's illegal?

 

[Box of Frogs]

 

[Sussex on Leith]

There's an occasional series in the Viz letters page celebrating headlines that newspaper sub-editors have managed to slip past their would-be superiors. Can't remember many of them but my favourite was the story of the theft of various woodworking tools, under the headline "Saw snatch".

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Crawley Observer years ago reported a young lad wrecking some street furniture with the headline YOUTH KICKED IN BOLLARDS.

They also printed the same line twice in a report of a flashing incident noting that the man was "...on a bicycle (!?) and had short black curly hair and had short black curly hair"

 

[Barrel of Fun]

As seen on here previously.