The following are real strange headlines from various newspapers.

This document layout is copyright 1997-2003 Steven Ward (me).

I would like MORE. So if you have any just drop me a line to the address below.
On Thursday, September 07, 2000 this list exceeded 1000 headlines.

Unlike other headline lists on the web, this list is updated on a monthly basis and where possible I have listed the paper where the headline origniated.

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  1. "Bibles Sold To The Dead" Claim -- Bradford Telegraph & Argus.
  2. "Boom Box" Explodes, One Dead -- Reuters headline
  3. Babies Used To Sneak Drugs Into Prison
  4. Baboon Becomes A Landlady -- The Parrot (Ghana)
  5. Baboon Tossers Are Welcome -- Grantham Journal
  6. Baby Boomers Not Planning to Retire
  7. Bachelors Prefer Beauty To Brains In Their Wives
  8. Bacteria Go Bald And Lose Their Grip
  9. Bacteria May Make Bullet Proof Vests
  10. Bad Driving Causes Most Car Crashes -- London Evening Standard
  11. Bad Food Makes A Poor Picnic.
  12. Baker Stabbed Woman 99 Times In Self-Defence - Irish Times
  13. Ban On Soliciting Dead In Trotwood
  14. Banana Forced Officer To Have Sex
  15. Banana On Sodomy Charges - Guardian
  16. Bananas And Oranges Linked To Violent Crime -- Sunday Telegraph
  17. Bananas Get Animated
  18. Bangkok Launches Anti-Butt Campaign -- Arab News (Jeddah)
  19. Bank Drive-In Window Blocked By Board
  20. Bankrupt Association Termed In Poor Shape --Lawrence (Ka) Journal-World 7/12/77
  21. Baptists Halt Talks With Catholics -- AP headline
  22. Baywatch Star Objects To Fake Sex
  23. BBC Raises Dead To Give Comedy New Life -- Times.
  24. Bearded Lady Sues Dwarf -- UPI headline
  25. Beatrix Potter Bolied Squirrels -- Sunday Times
  26. Beavers Fly Flag In Uganda
  27. Belgian Man Saves Fish with Kiss of Life -- Reuters headline
  28. Bible Belt Leads U.S. in Divorces -- AP headline
  29. Bible Church's Focus Is The Bible -- Saint Augustine Record, Florida, December 3, 1994
  30. Bible Proofreaders Sweat the Small Stuff -- AP headline
  31. Big Black Hole Found In The Sky
  32. Bike Cop Finds Man With Crack -- Mt. Airy News in Mt. Airy, NC
  33. Bird Bath Takes Flight -- Bridlington (Humberside) Free Press.
  34. Bird Crime Up -- Dally Telegraph.
  35. Bishop Attacks Childless Couples -- Huddersfield Daily Examiner.
  36. Biting Nails Can Be Sign Of Tenseness In A Person -- The Daily Gazette of Schenectady, New York, May 2
  37. Black-Belt Prosecutor Leg-Locks Defendant -- Reuters Headline
  38. Blind Bishop Appointed To See
  39. Blind Man Bites Guide Dog In Drunken Rage - Daily Telegraph
  40. Blind Rioters Apprehended In Zambia
  41. Blind Users Stymied By New Internet Graphics
  42. Blind Woman Gets New Kidney From Dad She Hasn't Seen In Years
  43. Blue Skies Unless Its Cloudy --San Francisco Chronicle 5/29/??
  44. Body Found On Boat Seized By Bailiffs And Due To Be Auctioned -- Isle Of Wight County Press
  45. Body Of Unarmed Man Slain By Police Leaving For Africa -- Associated Press.
  46. Body Wants New Blood - Chingford Guardian
  47. Bold Plan To Put Capetown On Map - Sunday Times Business News (Johannesburg)
  48. Bomb Hit By Library
  49. Bookbinder Wants His Ashes Kept in Special Book on Library Shelf -- PA headline
  50. Boots Fined For Selling Underage Girl Dracula
  51. Boy Cooks Must Eat Own Vitals
  52. Boy Trapped Inside His Own Body Gets £3.3m -- Wolverhampton Express & Star.
  53. Boy Who Drowned Couldn't Swim -- The Province Vancouver, BC, Canada, 18th Or 19th September 2000
  54. Brain Bank Seeks More Deposits -- Reuters headline
  55. Bridge Sets 60 Mph Limit For Pedestrians -- Dundee Courier
  56. Bring Back The Bongs, Say Mps -- Metro.
  57. Britain's Radioactive Lobsters Upset Norway - Independent
  58. Britain Inches Grudgingly Towards Metric System -- Reuters headline
  59. Britain To Free Children From Soccer Slavery - The Times
  60. British Ducks Have Regional Accents, Researchers Say -- AFP headline
  61. British Gay Activists Scale Palace
  62. British Helicopters Could Shoot Themselves Down -- AFP headline
  63. British Left Waffles On Falkland Islands -- Daily Telegraph
  64. British MPs to Drink Ethically Produced Coffee
  65. British Push Bottles Up Germans
  66. British Soldiers Sue over Stress in Battle -- Reuters headline
  67. British Union Finds Dwarfs In Short Supply
  68. Briton Gored By Bull In Intensive Care - Daily Telegraph
  69. Brothel Found at Car Repair Shop -- AP headline
  70. Buddhist Monk Hacks Off Errant Abbots Head With Kitchen Knife
  71. Bug Spawns 100 Year Old Babies -- Metro (London)
  72. Bulge In Trousers Was Ecstasy
  73. Bull's Sperm Comes Under The Hammer
  74. Bull Swallows Autopsy Report
  75. Bus Driver Charged with Beating Rider Who Wouldn't Pay -- Houston Chronicle headline
  76. Butter Said as Deadly as Cigarettes -- AP headline
  77. Butts Slams Beer Ads Featuring Animal Sex -- UPI headline
Many thanks to Richard Edkins, Jon Hall, B G Dorgan and Hawkmoon for submitting quite a few headlines, Andy from Seagate for the trash compacter story, Colin Matthews, Mike Wilson, Jennifer Woodmansee, Newt, Dave Monk, David Cook, Lynda Featherstone, John McBride for informing me of my Googlewhack "Malaysian Gyrator" [ GoogleWhack ], Anna Tickle, Katy Smith, Jim Ness for the Air Head Fired source, Debbie Carter, Terry Shea, Steve Cawood of the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo.

Special thanks to [ Randy Cassingham ]

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