The Syd­ney Morn­ing Her­ald has had a series of rather unfor­tu­nate snip­pets pub­lished of late. I found them immensely amus­ing (per­haps I’m just child­ish), and thought I’d share two.

From the arti­cle Six stranded on Luna Park ride, the clos­ing para­graph reads thus:

“That acci­dent was believed to have been caused by a cap which blew off a passenger’s head and caught in the Mad Mouse’s car wheels.”

Just for the record, no-one was injured in this inci­dent — It’s just a crap sentence.

And then there was this head­line (prob­a­bly by now ubiq­ui­tous due to syn­di­cated news ser­vices — this one was from AP) — “Probe ordered into Sad­dam under­wear pho­tos.” I’ll leave the mis­read­ing of this to the reader… again, maybe I’m just childish!

UPDATE: The Sad­dam head­line didn’t make it to the next edition’s print, but no such qualms were had about print­ing the last para­graph of the Luna Park arti­cle… ahhh, journalists.

Tags: car wheels, head, Luna Park, news services, the Sydney Morning Herald