![]() ![]() To learn more about the role that headlines play in what sorts of news people tend to seek out, we consulted an article titled The Current State of News Headlines, written by Joshua Scacco and Ashley Muddiman, faculty research associates at the University of Texas at Austin Center for Media Engagement. Thankfully, today we’ll be focusing on headlines that perplex us or get a laugh out of us! We can decide in a split second whether or not a headline sounds funny, grabs our attention, annoys us or upsets us. ![]() Without even reading most of these stories, their headlines alone have the power to influence how we feel about them. But one thing that this Twitter account makes glaringly obvious is that headlines can have quite the impact on audiences. Their bio notes that they share local news stories and headlines from “beyond” as well. ![]() The account mainly focuses on the UK, but they don’t discriminate. This page, which has over 56k followers, shares photos of the strangest and funniest headlines and bits of articles that the world has ever seen. And that’s what the Local News Twitter account is all about. But every now and then, it’s nice to take a moment to reflect on some of the most ridiculous and absurd headlines that have made the paper. And don’t get me wrong, it is important for us to be aware of current events, the good, the bad and the ugly. Sometimes it feels like the only things being reported are tragedies and atrocities. A user on Reddit shared an image of the banner declaring the reward.Watching or reading the news can be an upsetting experience. In a bizarre incident, an entire Bus-stop was stolen in Pune overnight and a reward of Rs 5000 was declared for anyone who’d help find it. #WATCH | Juice shop encroaches ATM, puts chairs inside for customers /IZigD4o4xS The ATM seems to have been pushed into one corner to make space for the customers coming to the juice shop. ![]() A juice shop in Amravati encroached on an ATM centre even with the government advising people to maintain distance because of covid-19 and banks asking customers to follow guidelines. Be it their teachers, parents, or the government. Juice shop encroaches on ATM centre, customers at risk On being questioned, he confessed that his girlfriend cheated on him with an auto-driver and duped him of all his money.ġ7. Case in point: a man from Ahmedabad was arrested for stealing phones from over seventy auto-drivers. The village panchayat decided that if both the women consented to being the two wives of the man, he could marry them both.Ī broken heart can make people do strange things. In an unusual event in MP, a man married both his girlfriend and the girl his parents had chosen for him in an arranged marriage setting. Man ties the knot with both girlfriend and girl chosen by family In india, where most weddings take place with the blessings of hundreds of relatives, a couple decided to get married at the Tamil Nadu and Kerala border so as to save the guests all the quarantine hassle.ġ1. Travel restrictions and compulsory quarantine made it extra difficult for people to tie the knot. Couple Marries at Tamil Nadu-Kerala border to avoid quarantine When experts warned that a swarm of locusts will be flying over India, farmers in UP used a “DJ vehicle” (that is traditionally used in wedding processions) to scare away murder hornets from crops.ġ0. There’s one thing so unique to India you cannot find it anywhere else – jugaad. The boy then handed it to his sister-in-law who made a sabzi out of the supposed methi leaves. Family Hospitalized After Eating Weed SabziĪ family in UP was hospitalized after a boy was given weed by his neighbour who referred to it as methi jokingly. However, after returning home, Police visited their homes with their travel records and pasted on the gate & explaining to their wives why their husbands need to be quarantined. They told their wives that they were visiting Bangaluru for business and actually visited Bangkok. Sadly for the two men in question, they were visited by the city officials once they had come back home due to their travel history. In a funny news story during lockdown, when two husbands from Ambala lied to their wives about a business meeting in Bangalore to be able to go to Bangkok, they hadn’t imagined they’ll be caught – and by the government, at that. When Quarantine Got Lying Husbands in a Tricky Position Also read: 21 Funny Signboards That Can Be Found Only In Indiaġ. ![]()
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