Random Newspaper Headline Catchers

[trustysteed]

You know those billboards people put outside news agents with a attention-grabbing headline about some article in the localnational paper etc? In the hope that you will go in and buy the paper.

Today on my ride home I saw one in Bristol that said 'Teenage pregnancy drops 5% in city'

Who would actually think 'oh that's interesting' and go in and buy the paper? Surely not enough (if anyone) to sell their daily quota.

Anybody else see these completely random billboards?

 

[ComedyPilot]

'Trustysteed in obscure thread title attention-grabbing shocker'

 

[trustysteed]

you got me

but at least i'm not asking to pay to read it!

 

[accountantpete]

This might!

 

[ComedyPilot]

you got me

but at least i'm not asking to pay to read it!

Good luck in getting me to buy a paper. I haven't in over 25 years.

 

[surfgurl]

Our local paper has had bills such as "Dentist Retires" and last week "Pylons could be a terror target" Also "Tortoise used in raid"
I should point out my husband is the journalist who writes these.

 

[slowmotion]

I like the billboards that leave an enticing air of mystery, presumably to encourage the punter to discover who the villain/hero is...ones like...

"Top politician in vice shock". Fabulous stuff.

 

[Cubist]

My favourite was a particularly lurid headline about a local dignitary arrested or whatever, and one newsagent kept the same billboard headline outside the shop for three weeks!

 

[Over The Hill]

"STANDARD PERSON OF THE YEAR"

was not about Mr Average but actually made more sense being in the Somerset Standard.

They often seem in that odd language only local papers use, where people are "slammed".

Our local rag tends to lead with someone with a miserable face moaning that the council has not done something or other.

Best local event for a decade was this car hitting a house

on the first floor!
I drive past there quite often and the house now has the hole bricked up but I still cannot see how the car got up there. Just to the right of picture there is a small bank up to the garden but really not much to take off from.

 

[slowmotion]

Slammed, shock, scare, scandal, horror, rocks, plunge, crisis, deadly, mystery, stalker, armed, killer, bug, crash, top, Bankers, thugs, boffins, tragic, drugs czar, warns, arctic weather, cold snap, killer storms....and of course...Climate Change..

Hey, I could get to love that job as a billboard writer. The problem is that life seems a bit more sedate here in London.

Edit: and let us not forget gang, and monster

 

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on the first floor!
I drive past there quite often and the house now has the hole bricked up but I still cannot see how the car got up there. Just to the right of picture there is a small bank up to the garden but really not much to take off from.

Maybe they had access to Army Surplus?

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1995-04.html

 

[661-Pete]

Doesn't work, nowadays. Surely the first thing our 'headline-caught' punter will do, is rush home and read the whole story on the web, for free .

Our local paper has had bills such as "Dentist Retires"....

Well that might turn out be a headline catcher for the tabloids, supposing that said dentist happened to be the last surviving NHS dentist in the UK ...

But I suppose the real story was more mundane.

 

[slowmotion]

But I suppose the real story was more mundane.

"Teeth nightmare for locals"?