Sunday 15 May 2011

Oh, The 'Gazette' Knows The Value Of Marketing...


Come on, don't you want to buy a copy now, to find out just what happened? I know I do! And so does Macheath!

Mind you, now the hot weather's here, we can probably expect more like this one, from the 'Echo':



A headline that prompts the question 'Well? Was he done, or did he need a few more minutes?'...

5 comments:

Mick Turatian said...

'Well? Was he done...

Well probably, because isn't the victim always to blame?

Laban said...

Comments at the paper. It reminds me of a day nearly 20 years back in my area when Travelling Family A ambushed Travelling Family B as they left the post office with their giros :

"To be more correct, it was a Wok, A frying pan, A glass dish and a gardening fork and about 20 people against 4"


"My two sons unfortunately witnessed this first hand yesterday afternoon. Although there appear to be a number of jokes posted, it wasn't really very funny for those people who were running trying to get away from them as it wasn't just pans, but knives also."

Macheath said...

Laban, I had the same thought; I wonder if that's the reason behind the surprising lack of information available online - in this day and age, that usually means no official press releases have been put out.

After all, a mass brawl in a busy shopping street involving 24 people - some of them armed - and several arrests could usually be expected to feature in more than one small local paper, could it not?

Macheath said...

PS, Thanks for the link, JuliaM!

JuliaM said...

"Well probably, because isn't the victim always to blame?"

Heh!

"...reminds me of a day nearly 20 years back in my area when Travelling Family A ambushed Travelling Family B as they left the post office with their giros..."

I think you might have hit the nail on the head...

"After all, a mass brawl in a busy shopping street involving 24 people - some of them armed - and several arrests could usually be expected to feature in more than one small local paper, could it not?"

I'm a little surprised it hasn't made the 'Mail'!