Shooting self-harmers and re-joining the twins

It doesn't take long to skim through the office newspapers. They offer a pretty dreary account of alleged news. And the radio news bulletin in the work vehicle I cannot bring myself to turn on too often as I'm so thoroughly sick of bushfire-tragedy-catastrophe reportage.

Yet occasionally a news item or a headline can catch the ear or eye; and it can't but help bring a smile to my cranky face.

The big newspaper had this header during the last week:

Police Shoot Man Attempting Self Harm.

They have since changed the headline online to something less hysterically funny, which I think is a great shame.

Headline writers though are not the only ones unintentionally coming up with some good comedy.

After 32 hours of surgery the formerly conjoined twins from Bangladesh - Trishna and Krishna - have come out of their induced comas and have blown raspberries - or whatever the Bangladeshi version of raspberry blowing is - at medical staff. But that's not the funny bit. Now that the two little girls are awake and "neurologically sound", what have their nurses done? Pushed their cots together.