Sad Faces in Local Papers

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:52 am

We've chatted about this, so put up your local favourites.
Here's some from the South London press to start you off.

Demented christian not allowed to wear jewelry like everybody else...

Boy not fed for being too thick to ask. He's OK, mother wants compo?

reporters sleep rough because their editor tells them to, no honestly!

And my favourite:

Woman's life ruined because Christmas tree not collected by bin men yet. Oh, they have. Oh well, run the story anyway...

MikeSC · **Joined:** Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:08 pm **Posts:** 252

Refused a passport because the mother's name on his birth certificate is fake..... but there is one passport he does have. A passport to MISERY.

Admirable Chrichton · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:33 am

There's a blog set up for these kind of photos. Stick the best ones up on this post and comment in true Mailwatch style

Angry people in local newspapers.

I'm absolutely sure none of these photoshots are even slightly set up, even ever!! :wink:

duckorange · **Joined:** Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:36 am **Posts:** 2

Admirable Chrichton wrote:

There's a blog set up for these kind of photos.

Angry people in local newspapers.

Yes. Yes there is. Run by me. ME!

Fflaps · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:39 am

Couple have never heard of contraception, demand bigger house.

Church of Jedi founder/local loser enters supermarket, refuses to take down hood when asked, asked to leave supermarket, claims religious discrimination*

Nice blog btw!

*This is totally true, story here

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:29 am

duckorange wrote:

Admirable Chrichton wrote:

There's a blog set up for these kind of photos.

Angry people in local newspapers.

Yes. Yes there is. Run by me. ME!

Well done. It's very funny!

Abernathy · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 10:35 am

From the Birmingham Evening Mail

Quote:

WHEN sisters Anisha and Dayna Gill were given gift cards for Birmingham’s Bullring, they were thrilled.

The girls, from Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, kept the cards, worth £30 and £50 each, until they knew what they wanted to buy.

The cards clearly displayed an expiry date in December 2012 so the youngsters immediately assumed they would be valid until then.

But the Bullring’s policy meant that the cards were only valid for 12 months from the date of purchase. Yet this term was not written onto the card.

It meant that when they went to use them, they were told they were out of date.

Disappointed, Dayna, 14, and Anisha, 12, now want to warn people out there who receive a card as a present not to leave it too long before they use it.

“We were really shocked to learn that they were out of date, despite there being an expiry of December 12 written clearly on the front of the card,” the girls said.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Fflaps wrote:

Church of Jedi founder/local loser enters supermarket, refuses to take down hood when asked, asked to leave supermarket, claims religious discrimination*

Nice blog btw!

*This is totally true, story here

He was on that Sunday morning cockfest with Nicky Campbell moaning about that at the time.

Fflaps · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:11 pm

Part of me thinks it's good to encourage and celebrate eccentricity; part of me is embarrassed to come from the same town as him. My brother knows him quite well and says he's a bit lacking in the old sense of humour department.

Fozzy · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:02 pm

I love it when they do a group photo of people looking sad, because there's always one that's secretly pleased about getting their photo in the paper and doesn't manage to hold the sad face long enough. Like the girl with the yellow collar in that top photo on Fflaps' post.

Nosmo King · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:28 pm

duckorange wrote:

Admirable Chrichton wrote:

There's a blog set up for these kind of photos.

Angry people in local newspapers.

Yes. Yes there is. Run by me. ME!

I doff my chapeau in your general direction.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Fozzy wrote:

I love it when they do a group photo of people looking sad, because there's always one that's secretly pleased about getting their photo in the paper and doesn't manage to hold the sad face long enough. Like the girl with the yellow collar in that top photo on Fflaps' post.

And the girl to her left massively overdoing it! :lol:

Abernathy · **Posted:** Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:27 pm

Fflaps wrote:

Couple have never heard of contraception, demand bigger house.

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LuciusAR · **Joined:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:09 am **Posts:** 766

This one always makes me laugh, the look of sheer terror in the old mans face is priceless. It's also a prime candidate for 'up the arse' corner in Viz.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:43 am

These err... ladies are sad because someone cancelled the advertising for their Panto.

Sounds like a public benefactor to me.

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