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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

headlines

sometimes they are just so good you don't really care about the story.
my current favourite is from the bbc.

man with shoe fetish walks free .
you have to hope that the writer of that headline knew what he was doing. true it is a dire pun but it has made me smile.

the chap in question was found with 100s of pairs of shoes in his house, and confessed to 8 robberies (he would sneak up on his victim and steal the shoes from her feet). he has been given a suspended sentence.
said chap admits he was very wrong to do what he did and the judge has told him to get the best treatment to rid himself of his "unfortunate fixation".

if only he had explored the internet a bit more he would have found he could pay used shoes very easily.

while i appreciated the trauma it may have caused the ladies concerned, all i can do is smile at the badly punned headline.
i doff my cap at that headline writer. tonight they are my champion of champions.

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