Police priorities.

[Airspeed]

I have the utmost respect for our police, but less for reporters and typists.
Check out these from a local paper:


Both stories are true, the rabbit fine was for failing to control pests.
Laughed about the typo in the front page lead article.

[emfrat]

A few years back, the Hobart 'Mercury' reported that along with several motoring offences, a local 'youth' had been charged with "possession of an unlicenced forearm"

MikeW

[nigelb]

Looks like editors are needed down under!

Nigel²

[cstorey]

In the days of hot type, this sort of misprint was very common. Fritz Spiegl produced a wonderful little book in the 1960s "What the papers didn't mean to say " , with the Liverpool Echo being a major source , and my favourite from it was " The Duke of Edinburgh has shot so many peasants this year that there is a glut "

[emfrat]

In the hot type days, I believe it was the rule that any typesetter being dismissed left the premises immediately. According to legend, this was the result of a story appearing in Ye Times saying " Yesterday, Her Majesty Queen Victoria pissed over London Bridge to the cheers of a rapturous crowd of her loyal subjects..."

We made our own fun in them days

[Airspeed]

While we're on the subject, we shouldn't forget the New South Wales newsreader who advised that:

"A woman has been bitten on the funnel by a fingerweb spider."