Showing posts with label Best of APILN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Best of APILN. Show all posts

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Holiday from Hell anger

Bury Times: Family return from Holiday from Hell

The best bit about this photo is the fact that it was taken in 1974 and they haven't aged a day.

Spotter's Badge: Jason, Karen

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Easter completely and utterly ruined anger

Kent Live: Disappointment, horror after severed human head found during Easter Egg hunt

I never read the stories, I think that's what's happening here.

Spotter's Badge: Rob C

Thursday, February 02, 2017

"Are you my mummy?" anger

Colchester Gazette: Man wears gas mask to council meeting, makes an exhibition of himself

Normal for Clacton, to be honest.

Spotter's Badge: Chris

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Monday, December 05, 2016

Christmas jumper think of the kiddiewinks anger

Coventry Telegraph: Small boy's birthday UTTERLY RUINED because click-and-collect order wasn't ready when they turned up at the store

We urge you to click through for a veritable gallery of woe. It's hard to imagine how this family will manage to carry on following this disappointment.


Spotter's Badge: Everybody

Friday, November 18, 2016

Who changed the locks on the notice board anger

Wigan Today: With all the world's problems solved, local groups come to fisticuffs over the lock on the parish notice board

There will be deaths over this, mark my words.

This is exactly the kind of non-story which made me start this site. Well played, everybody.

Spotter's Badge: Linzi, Michael

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Something about bees anger

ABC Tropical North: Something about local council zoning rules and bees, I dunno

I know what you're thinking: Why doesn't the dog get a bee suit?

Spotter's Badge: Kris

Friday, September 23, 2016

Clothes pegs on the nose anger

Somerset County Gazette: People who live in the countryside find out that farming can be a bit smelly sometimes

Photographer: "I brought a couple of clothes pegs"
Angries: "Are you sure we won't look ridiculous?"
Photographer: "Of course not" *click*

Spotter's Badge: Nicola, Dave

Thursday, September 22, 2016

So angry even the dog's wearing a gasmask anger

Kidderminster Shuttle: Something about pollution, I dunno, just look at the picture. LOOK AT IT

It's great when you've got a hobby the entire family can share.

[Not certain that's a dog, to be honest. It could equally be a very hairy child, a common phenomenon in the Kidderminster area which they don't like to talk about]

Spotter's Badge: Tim

Monday, August 15, 2016

Rashid and Phyllis: The heroes we deserve star in Phone Box Anger

Rashid and Phyllis: The heroes we deserve
Essex Chronicle: Pair of pensioners stage sit-in at phone box to prevent The Man from taking it away

Luckily, the Essex Chronicle is there, live-blogging the entire dreadful episode as The Man is forced to resort to dirty tricks to get them to pack up and go home.

I remember when this was all phones
For a whole afternoon, the aged twosome defied authority and the march of progress, being the people who give a monkey's in a world that no longer cares.

NONE SHALL PASS (Until about tea-time, then I'm off home)
But in the end, when Phyllis and Rashid's backs were turned, The Man nipped in with his angle grinder and big lorry with a crane, and now the town of Billericay is light to the tune of one phone box.

Will the world forget the example of Rashid and Phyllis? Those two sprightly pensioners who put their foot down and cried "ENOUGH!" when a giant corporation bullied its way down their street? The only people who dared to say "NO" when BT ignored their 12-signature petition?

Yes. Yes we will.

RIP PHONE BOX U R IN HEVEN NOW WITH DA ANGLES N PRINCESS DI SLEEP TIHGT SWEET PRINCE xxx

And click through to read the whole live blog. It is a work of genius in a world that is just another shade greyer tonight.

Friday, August 05, 2016

Scam letter anger

Bristol Post: Man who keeps falling for scams angry that he keeps getting 500 scam letters every month

Easily talked into a terrible photo as well, he says cynically.

Spotter's Badge: Rob A

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Goat attack anger

Bradford Telegraph and Argus: Woman left with bruised leg after being followed by a hungry goat after their shopping

A superb study in the inate horror of the human condition in the post-Brexit world.

Spotter's Badge: Pablo

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Cardboard fish finger anger

Daily Record: Mum finds a piece of cardboard in her toddler's fish finger, not chuffed at £10 compo offer

SHE IS FEEDING HER TEN-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER RAW FISH FINGERS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BAG AAAAARGH THINK OF THE KIDDIEWINKS

Spotter's Badge: Ben

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Nudist beach anger

Sunshine Coast Daily: Nudists forced to cover up on local beach

And this guy makes it sound like it's a bad thing.

Photographer: "Would you mind posing in the buff?"

Naked man: "Yeah, no worries"

Spotter's Badge: Rob J

Saturday, April 23, 2016

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

Friday, April 22, 2016

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

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.

Woman in background: "Nope"
Spotter's badge: Becki

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Missing road sign anger

Dundee Telegraph: Confusion, head-scratching as road signs go missing

Absolutely textbook, right down to the carpet slippers.

Spotter's Badge: Doug

Friday, April 08, 2016

Piers Morgan anger

Wolverhampton Express and Star: Piers Morgan says something unflattering about Dudley, Dudley responds through the medium of mime

Piers Morgan on a stick. Everybody's a fan of that.

Spotter's Badge: Gordy

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Far too similarly named hotel is driving us up the wall anger

Lancashire Evening Post: Conference centre frustrated that local hotel has changed its name to one almost exactly the same as their own with HILARIOUS results

In all the years I've been doing APILN, this is - I believe - the first ever story we've had where somebody is actually pulling out their hair.

Alternatively, the photographer turned up at exactly the right time to see the results of an in-house superglue prank.

Spotter's Badge: Gareth