Stourbridge News: Magician can't believe his eyes as poo seeps through his ceiling
That's not sewage, it's the ghostly ectoplasm of Paul Daniels, you fool.
Spotter's Badge: Alex
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Playground vandalism anger
Essex Echo: Local ingrates vandalise playground just two weeks after it was unveiled
Kids grow up quickly in Essex, don't they?
Spotter's Badge: Justin
Kids grow up quickly in Essex, don't they?
Spotter's Badge: Justin
Saxon long-house anger
Norwich Evening News: Kiddiewinks sad as arsonists set fire to their school project Saxon long-house
The head teacher's upset too - that classroom was going to house a bunch of year 7s next term.
Spotter's Badge: Siofra, Dave
The head teacher's upset too - that classroom was going to house a bunch of year 7s next term.
Spotter's Badge: Siofra, Dave
Friday, April 29, 2016
Got the wrong Birmingham anger (plus follow-up)
Birmingham Mail: Couple lose their dream Las Vegas holiday because they booked their flights from Birmingham, Alabama instead of Birmingham, UK
This is the kind of Jeremy Kyle level idiocy upon which this country is built. Well done. Well done, everybody.
Spotter's Badge: Adam, Everybody
But wait, what's this coming up on the blind side?
Coventry Telegraph: Wrong airport couple given a free Vegas holiday by Virgin in what is not - NOT - a publicity stunt
Well, shit on that --- where's my free holiday, Virgin?
This is how we ended up making celebrities out of TOWIE and Geordie Shore.
Spotter's Badge: Rob R
This is the kind of Jeremy Kyle level idiocy upon which this country is built. Well done. Well done, everybody.
Spotter's Badge: Adam, Everybody
But wait, what's this coming up on the blind side?
Coventry Telegraph: Wrong airport couple given a free Vegas holiday by Virgin in what is not - NOT - a publicity stunt
Well, shit on that --- where's my free holiday, Virgin?
This is how we ended up making celebrities out of TOWIE and Geordie Shore.
Spotter's Badge: Rob R
Car wash anger
Portsmouth News: Woman claims hand car wash workers snapped her car key
Amount of sympathy shown in the comments: Zero
Spotter's Badge: Kenn, Jonathan
Amount of sympathy shown in the comments: Zero
Spotter's Badge: Kenn, Jonathan
House hit by lightning smugness
Great Yarmouth Mercury: 'It was like a war zone,' says man who helped get two people out of a house struck by lightning
Camo jacket. Story to tell. Like a proper war zone.
"When I got to the house, the adrenaline just kicked in. I wasn’t worried about me, I was worried about the people inside."
Spotter's Badge: Dave
Camo jacket. Story to tell. Like a proper war zone.
"When I got to the house, the adrenaline just kicked in. I wasn’t worried about me, I was worried about the people inside."
Spotter's Badge: Dave
Smoking on the beach anger
Mordialloc Chelsea Leader: Beachgoers urged to 'Beat the Butt'
Heh. Beat the butt.
Spotter's Badge: Rob J
Heh. Beat the butt.
Spotter's Badge: Rob J
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Huge pothole anger
Bury Times: Business owner, large duck, want large pothole filled in
The one person you'd expect to be in hi-viz - the local councillor - hasn't got her hi-viz. Poor show.
Spotter's Badge: Paul
The one person you'd expect to be in hi-viz - the local councillor - hasn't got her hi-viz. Poor show.
Spotter's Badge: Paul
Motor trade red line anger
Bexley News Shopper: Long-established car sales company says it will go out of business if council paints double red lines across the front of its forecourt
In which one of the commenters tries a cheap "Would you buy a used car from these men?" gag and gets taken to the cleaners by the tough-looking guy on the right.
Spotter's Badge: Neil
In which one of the commenters tries a cheap "Would you buy a used car from these men?" gag and gets taken to the cleaners by the tough-looking guy on the right.
Spotter's Badge: Neil
Little Mix anger
Chronicle Live: Small person discovers the cruel reality of going to a concert and not being able to see anything
I've seen the tops of the heads of some of the finest musicians in the world. And Status Quo.
Spotter's Badge: Michael
I've seen the tops of the heads of some of the finest musicians in the world. And Status Quo.
Spotter's Badge: Michael
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Rubbish biscuits anger
Daily Advertiser: Woman complains that there are only 'crappy' orange creams left in her work tea room
Biscuits? As a result of a Freedom of Information request, we're no longer allowed biscuits.
Spotter's Badge: Dan
Biscuits? As a result of a Freedom of Information request, we're no longer allowed biscuits.
Spotter's Badge: Dan
Litter picking council jobsworth anger
Kent Online: Litter-picking volunteer told he can't leave the rubbish he's collected at the local tip
You sneak it into a neighbour's bin in the dead of night. Everybody knows that.
Spotter's Badge: Gabby
You sneak it into a neighbour's bin in the dead of night. Everybody knows that.
Spotter's Badge: Gabby
Missing Eurovision hoodie anger
Newark Advertiser: Couple furious after Royal Mail collection office gives their Eurovision Song Contest merchandise to the wrong person
And they had it specially made to cope with their freakishly long arms, too.
And they had it specially made to cope with their freakishly long arms, too.
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Ice cream van innocent until proven guilty anger
Liverpool Echo: Ice cream man loses his licence after (allegedly) running somebody over
Not running people over is probably the minimum standard for ice cream vanning.
However, he's also accused of using foul and abusive language ("No you can't have pissing hundreds and thousands"), selling cigarettes and - worst of all - chiming out of hours.
Spotter's Badge: Mal
Not running people over is probably the minimum standard for ice cream vanning.
However, he's also accused of using foul and abusive language ("No you can't have pissing hundreds and thousands"), selling cigarettes and - worst of all - chiming out of hours.
Spotter's Badge: Mal
Slow speed intenet anger
East Anglia Daily Times: No high speed internet for this chap, even though cabinet is outside his house
That's not an internet cabinet, they're bins. Dial up for you, sir.
Spotter's Badge: Mark, DH
That's not an internet cabinet, they're bins. Dial up for you, sir.
Spotter's Badge: Mark, DH
Gardener's World anger
Edinburgh Evening News: Gardeners angry at the BBC for bumping Gardener's World for snooker
They're bumping it for a three-hour special on watching paint dry next week
Spotter's Badge: Richard
They're bumping it for a three-hour special on watching paint dry next week
Spotter's Badge: Richard
Rats in next door's kitchen, what am I gonna do anger
Southampton Daily Echo: Man counts at least 100 rats coming out of the hovel next door
And jdging by the numbers of [deleted] in the comments section, no prizes for who the readers are blaming for this situation.
Spotter's Badge: Mick
And jdging by the numbers of [deleted] in the comments section, no prizes for who the readers are blaming for this situation.
Spotter's Badge: Mick
Monday, April 25, 2016
Mouse ate my Battenberg cake anger
Chronicle Live: Customer 'exceedingly angry' after mouse eats his Mr Kipling cake
See what they did with the headline there?
Spotter's Badge: Ian, V, Everybody
See what they did with the headline there?
Spotter's Badge: Ian, V, Everybody
New Zealand mobile phone coverage anger
Sun Live: Mobile phone coverage is patchy in some parts in NZ
She's not scratching her head in confusion, she has fleas*
* Lie. She is IN FACT scratching her head in confusion
Spotter's Badge: Dave
She's not scratching her head in confusion, she has fleas*
* Lie. She is IN FACT scratching her head in confusion
Spotter's Badge: Dave
Grimsby not in bloom anger
Grimsby Telegraph: This year's Grimsby in Bloom display likely to be Grimsby in DOOM due to lack of sponsors
See this flower made from the roughly cut lid of a catering-sized tin of pineapples? Guess where it's going...
See this flower made from the roughly cut lid of a catering-sized tin of pineapples? Guess where it's going...
Factory site anger
Derby Telegraph: Old factory site could be bought by council to become homes
The Pet Shop Boys haven't aged well.
The Pet Shop Boys haven't aged well.
Sunday, April 24, 2016
My wife ran off with that bloke off the television anger
Liverpool Echo: Dear God, please send down a plague to smite Robson Green. Amen
Sounds fair.
Spotter's Badge: Mal
Sounds fair.
Spotter's Badge: Mal
Richard Madeley drone Twitter mob anger
Plymouth Herald: Drone owner demands apology from TV's Richard Madeley for chasing him down the road in his boxer shorts
New tag: Angry people demanding an apology from Richard Madeley, because I think it might get a lot of use.
Spotter's Badge: Hazel
New tag: Angry people demanding an apology from Richard Madeley, because I think it might get a lot of use.
Spotter's Badge: Hazel
Urban guerillas think of the kiddiewinks anger
Carlisle News and Star: Bed shop owner worried that the local kiddiewinks might hurt themselves playing on scaffolding around derelict building
Simply leave some of your unsold mattresses around the base of the structure, and - Hey Presto - it's an adventure playground!
Spotter's Badge: Neil
Simply leave some of your unsold mattresses around the base of the structure, and - Hey Presto - it's an adventure playground!
Spotter's Badge: Neil
Two years to fix a leak anger
Bolton News: Many pictures of an angry woman folding her arms against the backdrop of a mouldy ceiling
OK, three.
Spotter's Badge: Karen
OK, three.
Spotter's Badge: Karen
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Bloody great swastika Brexit campaign anger
Southern Daily Echo: Taxi driver makes his views about the EU referendum perfectly clear.
I am told by my employers - in the name of balance - that I am not allowed to make any public announcements on my voting intentions in the forthcoming referendum. I quite like having a job, so just leaving this story here for you - dear reader - to make up your own mind.
Spotter's Badge: Ben
I am told by my employers - in the name of balance - that I am not allowed to make any public announcements on my voting intentions in the forthcoming referendum. I quite like having a job, so just leaving this story here for you - dear reader - to make up your own mind.
Spotter's Badge: Ben
Rotten Apple anger (see what I did there?)
Watford Observer: Dad stages one-man protest outside Apple Store because they won't fix his daughter's MacBook
Two sides to every story: Rubbish laptop broken because of manufacturing problems vs student daughter spilled water on it.
Make your choice.
Spotter's Badge: TRT, and somebody else who didn't leave a name
Two sides to every story: Rubbish laptop broken because of manufacturing problems vs student daughter spilled water on it.
Make your choice.
Spotter's Badge: TRT, and somebody else who didn't leave a name
Fly-tipping vermin anger
Lancashire Telegraph: Warning over vermin as a result of fly-tipping in local not-exactly-a-beauty-spot
DONE A POO
Spotter's Badge: Karen
DONE A POO
Spotter's Badge: Karen
Giant fence one-man campaign anger
Huddersfield Daily Examiner: Man vows to carry on his ...err... unique protest against neighbour's fence until it is torn down
I know what you're thinking: Why has he crucified a garden gnome?
Spotter's Badge: Susie
I know what you're thinking: Why has he crucified a garden gnome?
Spotter's Badge: Susie
Friday, April 22, 2016
Bike lane anger
Essex Echo: 'Frustrated' councillors question new bike lane
Too right he's frustrated. Look at that pocket billiards.
Spotter's Badge: Cora
Too right he's frustrated. Look at that pocket billiards.
Spotter's Badge: Cora
Snake down the toilet anger
Solihull Observer: Six-foot-long snake found down toilet in charity shop
The photographer deserves some kind of national press award for this - work above and beyond the call of duty. Jon, you're a genius.
Spotter's Badge: Jack
The photographer deserves some kind of national press award for this - work above and beyond the call of duty. Jon, you're a genius.
Spotter's Badge: Jack
Maimed by a vicious swooping bird anger
Evesham Journal: Woman suffers Huge Hand Syndrome after being pecked by seagull
Look. Look at the size of the brute.
Look. Look at the size of the brute.
Didn't get a free ice cream because of the rules anger
Metro: Mum takes her sadface to the papers because her 11-year-old is too young to pick up a free ice cream from McDonald's Monopoly game
*Fifty-year-old blogger tucks into free McDonald's chocolate muffin* Sucks to be you, kid.
Also, why has mum got what seems to be a picture of a penis on the front of her top?
Spotter's Badge: Chris
*Fifty-year-old blogger tucks into free McDonald's chocolate muffin* Sucks to be you, kid.
Also, why has mum got what seems to be a picture of a penis on the front of her top?
Spotter's Badge: Chris
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Paid twice for a flight anger
Belfast Telegraph: Woman in dispute with travel company after over-paying for flight tickets
Googled the company's name. They don't seem popular.
Spotter's Badge: Joe
Googled the company's name. They don't seem popular.
Spotter's Badge: Joe
Missing cemetery flowers anger
Essex Echo: Volunteers dismayed as contractor digs up the flowers they planted at cemetery
These plants are important. The roots are the only thing that prevents the undead rising from their graves.
Is a zombie apocalypse what these jokers want? Because that's what's going to happen.
Spotter's Badge: Justin
These plants are important. The roots are the only thing that prevents the undead rising from their graves.
Is a zombie apocalypse what these jokers want? Because that's what's going to happen.
Spotter's Badge: Justin
Council built bollards in front of our garden now we have nowhere to park anger
Bexley News Shopper: Council accused of 'bullying' for preventing couple from parking on their paved-over garden
I love these stories. You have to get to the very last two paragraphs to find out that the bollards were put in because they've not arranged to have a drop-kerb built, and were driving over the council's grass verge.
Spotter's Badge: Neil, Christina
I love these stories. You have to get to the very last two paragraphs to find out that the bollards were put in because they've not arranged to have a drop-kerb built, and were driving over the council's grass verge.
Spotter's Badge: Neil, Christina
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Communal garden for the elderly dispute spins wildly out of control anger
South Wales Evening Post: Bit of a tiff over a garden hose ends up with old boy going to prison following a bit of crossbow shenanigans
We've all been there.
Spotter's Badge: Rob J
A bit of South African anger
Pretoria East Rekord: "Please," says this chap not unreasonably, "Sort out the roads so people won't keep crashing their cars into my wall"
He's got that look that betrays the fact that he knows he's wasting his time here.
He's got that look that betrays the fact that he knows he's wasting his time here.
Be careful what you ask for anger
Dorset Echo: Residents ask council to stop local workers from parking outside their houses during the day, and now they can't park outside their own houses during the day
"We haven't been consulted on this," say the residents, "Apart from that consultation the council ran."
"We haven't been consulted on this," say the residents, "Apart from that consultation the council ran."
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Bike race celebrity tramp anger
Free Press Leader: Locals upset over road closures for bicycle race
Wait, that bloke on the right looks damn familiar...
Spotter's Badge: Rob J
Wait, that bloke on the right looks damn familiar...
Spotter's Badge: Rob J
Broken [cough] television and we [cough] can't afford a new one [cough] anger
Sunderland Echo: Couple left fuming (geddit?!) after being told their 40-per-day smoking habit is why their television broke
And the money shot is the first comment which reveals they could easily buy a new TV, if only they didn't spent ten grand a year on cigarettes.
Spotter's Badge: Anthony, Ian, Everybody
And the money shot is the first comment which reveals they could easily buy a new TV, if only they didn't spent ten grand a year on cigarettes.
Spotter's Badge: Anthony, Ian, Everybody
Doggers pooing in the park anger
South Wales Evening Post: Councillor wants doggers to think of the kiddiewinks and stop pooing in the park
You weirdos, at least do it in a plastic bag and fling it up a tree like all the actual dog walkers.
Spotter's Badge: Rob J
You weirdos, at least do it in a plastic bag and fling it up a tree like all the actual dog walkers.
Spotter's Badge: Rob J
Monday, April 18, 2016
Owl attack bus driver throws some shapes anger
Exeter Express and Echo: Bus driver claims his bald head is singling him out for attacks by vicious eagle owl
In a previous life as a human, a bald omnibus driver once made that owl walk home because he was 10p short for his fare. Now, it is time for revenge.
Spotter's badge: Becki
In a previous life as a human, a bald omnibus driver once made that owl walk home because he was 10p short for his fare. Now, it is time for revenge.
Woman in background: "Nope" |
Nosey Parkers Anger
Border Mail: Neighbourhood Watch chief concedes that Neighbourhood Watch isn't the force it once was
It's just him, and that badly-drawn face pinned to a pole. Thieves - fill your boots.
Spotter's Badge: Meredith
It's just him, and that badly-drawn face pinned to a pole. Thieves - fill your boots.
Spotter's Badge: Meredith
Urinating binman anger
Colchester Daily Gazette: Binman apologises to residents (including this person trying to avoid making eye contact with some garages) after taking a wee in the street
Click through if you want to see a genuine photo of binman wee. Does it look any different from wee belonging to people of other professions? YOU WILL BE AMAZED*
* No, you won't.
Spotter's Badge: Alice
Click through if you want to see a genuine photo of binman wee. Does it look any different from wee belonging to people of other professions? YOU WILL BE AMAZED*
* No, you won't.
Spotter's Badge: Alice
Vandalised allotment sheds anger
Eastern Daily Press: Allotment holders disgruntled over vandalism to sheds
Look at this poor bloke - all he's got left of his shed is three bamboo canes tied together with hairy string.
Spotter's Badge: Dave
Look at this poor bloke - all he's got left of his shed is three bamboo canes tied together with hairy string.
Spotter's Badge: Dave