Now i’ve got to say, the title alone made me want to read more. One of the big stories on the BBC news UK website was that very title, Ants inhibit “world without sex”. That just sums the UK up doesn’t it? People will want to read the news if its a story about some freaky breed of ant who have become a female only species, i’m not even sure how that’s biologically possible, but i’m not here to judge. We will respond to titles like “What a swine; my life as a pig” and “are all librarians dowdy spinsters?” but give us a real story like “budget to reveal depth of gloom” and we all stop listening. Why is it that the world becomes so wrapped up in the weird stories about alien sightings and mutations, but give us some nice juicy politics and we blank out? Well, i have the answer, because it’s boring! I’m as bad as the rest of the population. Put a paper in front of me about another bombing and i won’t pick it up, but if the front page is covered in a story about a magic teapot, or a women who burnt her own house down using only two sticks and i’m interested for hours.
My favourite story lately was one called “Hostage released for pizza”. It reads: An Australian prison guard held hostage for two days was released after a ransom demand for pizzas was met. Up to 20 inmates at the Risdon Prison in Hobart, Tasmania, seized the guard in a protest over conditions in the maximum security jail. Initially they made 24 demands to authorities, but eventually gave up their hostage after agreeing to 15 pizzas, Coke and garlic bread instead. ”At midnight, the final sticking point with the inmates was that they were requiring pizzas to be delivered. Our staff member was negotiated out with the delivery of 15 pizzas,” Graeme Barber, Tasmania’s director of prisons, told The Advocate newspaper. The guard is recovering from his ordeal at home.
Now, if that isn’t the world’s best news story, then i don’t know what is, also in news was “England fans found stranded in one way street”. The title alone is hilarious, because they WOULD be English, wouldn’t they? It reads: Two English football fans in Cologne lost their car after mistakenly thinking they had parked it on a road called ‘One Way Street’. The pair wrote down ‘Einbahn Strasse’ – which means one-way street in German – so they didn’t forget where they’d left the hire car. But when they came to find it again they found that every second street in the inner city was called ‘Einbahn Strasse’. It was only when they found a policeman that they were told the sign was to inform drivers that they were on a one-way street. They finally managed to find their vehicle hours later with the help of the German police.
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