We spent a lot of time on the gloom and doom surrounding the newspaper industry, but we can’t forget that newspapers have brought us some of the funniest moments this side of media. Here are just 39 of them.
Where possible, we have linked to the full article for context. Many of these articles are 8 to 10 years old, so they are not available online.

He Was Naked, On Crack and in Alligator’s Mouth – Seattle Times
Blind Man Bites Guide Dog In Drunken Rage – Daily Telegraph
British Helicopters Could Shoot Themselves Down — AFP
California Hopes For An Alien Invasion To Solve Jobs Crisis – Times Interface Supplement

18,000 Women Recalled For New Tests – The Times
Airline Travel Safer Despite More Accidents – Reuters
Alien Gangs Prey On UK — Daily Mirror

Suspended MP Accused Of Telling A Hundred Lies — The Guardian
Teen-Age Girls Often Have Babies Fathered By Men — The Sunday Oregonian
Woman Tries to Give Away Dad on Internet — AP

Deaf Magician Disqualified For Hearing — D. Telegraph.
Divorce Is Like A Lonely Gerbil — Times
Ex-Dictator Broke, Living With Mom — AP

Politician Says Too Busy to Cheat on His Wife — Reuters
Rector With Crowbar Seeks To Lay Nun’s Ghost — Daily Graphic.
Stephen King Impersonator Steals 5,000 Lobsters
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Man Tossing Knife in the Air Stabs Self in Head — AP
Official: Only Rain Will Cure Drought — The Herald-News
Platform Shoes Claim Another Life — Reuters

Law Prohibits Swearing Around the Dead — AP
Male Infertility Can Be Passed on to Children — Reuters
Man Fights Ravenous Moth With Sex — Victoria (BC) Times-Colonis

Fence Not Keeping Deer From Waltzing — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Hairdo Kills Mum – Daily Mirror
Husband’s Internet Date Turns out to Be His Wife — PA

Canada Could Face Sperm Shortage — Canadian Press headline
Chicken With Artificial Legs Dies A Hero — AP
Constipation Is Not the Root of All Evil After All — Reuters

Americans Driven To Suicide By Fear Of Death — Daily Telegraph
What is your favorite weird headline?
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