Thursday 27 September 2007

Nut Screws Washer And Bolts

This little gem of a story produced what I think is my favourite newspaper headline. The article was quite serious, but as the victim was fine I think it only fair to share it with you.
I am unsure of dates, as this was passed on to me by someone else, but you should never let the truth get in the way of a good story anyway.
A cleaning woman was minding her own business and washing the office hallway as usual at 7pm, when the office workers had gone for the day. She swished her mop from side to side, like James Brown passing the microphone from one hand to the other. Whilst she did this, a loon had escaped from the local nuthouse, and was on the loose in the same town. This man was a dangerous cookie, and had a history of minor sex offences, and general inhuman behaviour. The man went for the nearest place that looked like safe cover, yes.....the same office block. He could see no lights and plundered in. As he tacked his way around the corridors he slipped on the wet surface and slid straight into the woman washing the floor. Let's call her Edna, as that was her name. He bundled her into a store room and miserably attempted to rape her. This was the serious part of the story. Anyway, there were other cleaners in the building who came to Edna's rescue and she was saved from the loon by her washers in arms. The loon went back on the run and fled the scene without capture. He is probably a politian by now or managing a League One football team. I digress. The Sun newspaper got wind of the story via a local tinpot gazette and printed the following headline, which I think is superb. NUT SCREWS WASHER AND BOLTS.
I thought the article was about plumbing.........I was wrong.

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

nuts screws washers and bolts was a story in madd magazine that i read in the 80s, was about how newpaper headlines can misrepresent the facts. Was about a story of a rich family named nuts which owned hardware stores and laundromats. The son made a few girls in the laundromats and skipped town. Hence, nuts screws washers and bolts.

Athman, from Kenya.
P.S. Don't ask why i was reading madd magazine when I was six :)

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Unknown said...

I actually remember the article from the 70's and it wasn't about washer women. The story was an AP or Reuters feed from Australia, I even remember the text which went something like this: "A Sydney man arrived at the emergency ward at ____ Hospital complaining of pain in his groin, upon examination doctors found the man's penis tightly encircled by 3 metal washers. The man fainted when bolt cutters were brought in to cut away the washers and then left the hospital hurriedly without explaining how he got into the predicament."
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