The funniest newspaper article this year (caution: not for kids)

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  1. Eric Graudins profile image59
    Eric Graudinsposted 14 years ago

    From Australia's northern Territory News.

    http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/1 … tnews.html

    The subheading for the first photo is a classic!

    And so is the bit about the $5 note.

    1. profile image0
      EmpressFelicityposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      LOL. Somehow I can't imagine my local newspaper reporting this story in quite the same way...

  2. wesleycox profile image71
    wesleycoxposted 14 years ago

    Wow, what a story.  Can't say that I have ever read a newspaper article like that before.  Made me laugh pretty well though.

  3. littledevil1983 profile image60
    littledevil1983posted 14 years ago

    he he. loved reading that, made me giggle, esp the money part, lol

  4. littledevil1983 profile image60
    littledevil1983posted 14 years ago

    he he. loved reading that, made me giggle, esp the money part, lol

  5. Stacie L profile image88
    Stacie Lposted 14 years ago

    well I guess the Aussies are a little more open when reporting than the US papers.. hehehe

  6. darkside profile image64
    darksideposted 14 years ago

    The editors in the Northern Territory must be a bit more relaxed and less serious than those on the east coast. I did see it earlier yesterday, and I had a giggle.

    Especially when she's stating the reasons why it couldn't have been the story that was 'blown' out of proportion and then ends it with "But $5 is a bit cheap for a..." big_smile

  7. Tom Cornett profile image79
    Tom Cornettposted 14 years ago

    They should have checked the back of her head for a steering wheel imprint.  smile

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      Am I dead, yet?posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Tom!

    2. darkside profile image64
      darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      And the back of her throat for bruising.

  8. Flightkeeper profile image67
    Flightkeeperposted 14 years ago

    It certainly didn't help that the crash happened in Humpty Doo after drinks at the Humpty Doo bar smile

    1. Catherine R profile image61
      Catherine Rposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      A perfect example of why I love Australia - where they call a spade a spade!  And the fact that there is a place called Humpty Doo.  Nice one.

      1. Flightkeeper profile image67
        Flightkeeperposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        Yes! It was funny that the lady wouldn't have any trouble admitting that her blow job would have caused the accident if it were true!

  9. mcbean profile image66
    mcbeanposted 14 years ago

    My fellow Australians are all class.
    I particularly like the photo: Beer on the table, smoke in hand. Your Mum would be so proud.

  10. Eric Graudins profile image59
    Eric Graudinsposted 14 years ago

    Here's another one that's just as funny as the first link.

    Again, from the Territory News

    The Subeditor who wrote the title was obviously in fine form that day !

    http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/0 … tnews.html

    1. AEvans profile image71
      AEvansposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      At least your headlines are hilarious! Here in the U.S someone would roll over if that was printed. They are still a little stiff you must keep these coming. lolololo big_smile

      1. Eric Graudins profile image59
        Eric Graudinsposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        Might be a while.
        We don't see too many which are that good! lol

  11. AEvans profile image71
    AEvansposted 14 years ago

    Hilarious!!!!! But she sure didn't mention where the $5 bill came from did she? heheheh big_smile

  12. jiberish profile image79
    jiberishposted 14 years ago

    BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.

    The 22-year-old journalism student shoved his backside against the window of a low-slung double-decker train when staff forced him off in Lauenbrueck for traveling without a ticket, a spokesman for police in the northern city of Bremen said.

    "It's a miracle he wasn't badly hurt," the spokesman said on Monday. "This sort of thing can end up killing you."

    Instead, dangling by his trousers, the man got pulled along for about 200 meters, all the while managing to keep his legs away from the wheels of the train.

    The ordeal ended when a passenger pulled the emergency brake. Rescues services were called in, causing rail services between Bremen and Hamburg to be suspended for over an hour, delaying 23 trains

  13. darkside profile image64
    darksideposted 14 years ago

    A few years ago there was a story in the Newcastle Herald about a guy who made videos of women kicking him in the nuts. It was his fetish. Unfortunately for him he paid a 16 year old girl to do it. Nothing else happened between them, just paid her a few hundred dollars for about a half hours worth of nut kicking.

    He had to go to court for it, and went to jail. Though I imagine he would have enjoyed his time in the big house. He wouldn't have to pay the guys in there to give him a good hard swift kick into the sack.

 
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