Category Archives: Bravery
Trapped in the bog
This could have ended in horrible tragedy, but it didn’t, and that means we’re allowed to laugh at it. Reading Post, 6 November 2010 (story): Mum and daughter rescued from bog A mother and teenage daughter were rescued when they … Continue reading
Filed under Bravery, Health & safety gone mad
That’s when good Neighbours…
Sometimes, a barefaced crime is the easiest to get away with. Not in this case, mind. Maidenhead Advertiser, 4 October 2010 (story): Bungling burglar stole neighbour’s curtains for his home It was curtains for a burglar who was rumbled after … Continue reading
‘We are coping with the situation and have been able to keep the carvery in operation’
The frenzied, overworked nature of modern day journalism means news reporters must ensure they have no flies on them. Except, that is, for when their paper sends them to cover a plague of flies. This signalled the collapse of society … Continue reading
Here in my car, I feel safest of all…
…I can lock all my doors / It’s the only way to live / In cars. The local news is a cruel world. Who’d have thought a vicious readership backlash would result from a seemingly innocuous feel-good story about a … Continue reading
Filed under Bravery, Getting oneself in the paper
Stop crowing about it
Although pigeons are and always will be the most evil form of the avian species, The nether regions expresses sincere and heartfelt sympathy with those currently facing the menace of this crow in Catford, south London. Mind you, people who … Continue reading
Filed under Bravery, Getting oneself in the paper, Heartless bastards
‘Swan eyed polling card like a piece of bread’
The multitudinous hurdles encountered by The Great British Public in attempting to exercise its vote in the recent general election have been well documented in the national media. But the turnout on 6 May wasn’t only limited by the damp … Continue reading
Filed under Bravery, Sensational headlines, Upstanding locals
Rat up loo-ille
Just imagine the scenes. Lewisham and Catford News Shopper, 19 March 2008: Woman on toilet attacked by rat A DISABLED woman was horrified after being bitten by a rat which came up through her toilet while she was sitting on … Continue reading
Penis palaver
It’s a famous old joke, I know, but how many firefighters does it take to free a penis from a steel pipe? Southern Daily Echo, 7 January 2010: Southampton man cut free after getting penis stuck in steel pipe A … Continue reading
Filed under Bravery, Upstanding locals
Tanned by the critics
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 … Continue reading
Filed under Bravery, Getting oneself in the paper
