The websites of regional newspapers and their public comments sections can provide a cruel source of humiliation for those making it into the news.
Online coverage of what may, at first glance, have seemed a fairly run-of-the-mill ‘angler’s life saved by flotation suit’ story in Middlesbrough’s Evening Gazette quickly descended into farce as a result of this picture of the brave angler and Dad-of-five (aren’t they always?) being comforted in hospital by his wife Pam. Thanks to Graeme Bandeira for pointing it out.
You have to ask: what shades did the five kids come out as?
No doubt that outfit was just something she threw on. I suppose you have to make an effort when you’re in the paper. And I suppose if you’ve got an Evening Gazette login and enough time on your hands you have to make sure you have your say:
Whatever happened to freedom of expression?
People can be so kind.
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Never trust anyone whose skin is darker than their hair.
Ha ha ha, but what a shame most comments have been removed.
Not sure if it’s what you’re insinuating but I read it as “the suit” being Pam’s superhero-esque alter ego and the ordeal more about entering “the suit”… it kind of loses it’s thread at the end when it mentions £80, which seems a little on the pricey side.
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