12 Strange Headlines We Didn’t Notice At The Time
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These disturbing and occasionally uplifting headlines encapsulate just some of the significant historical events that have taken place since newspapers were becoming popular and widely available to people all around the world. Exceptional headlines like these are extremely powerful, thanks largely to their succinctness: each sends a sense of historical importance to a potentially massive audience in just very few short words. Going to read these headlines today transports us emotionally back as far as how we perceived when we first heard it on the news.
It is indeed a real tragedy of the human mind that deadlines are usually bad: the incredible headlines we'll look at here complement positive stories we may not have noticed before. The purpose of news is to sell newspapers, and it appears that killing hope is more financially beneficial to the media than hope or achievement. Nonetheless, alongside news of military conflict, environmental disasters, and mass killings, you'll find news items of hope and triumph over adversity below.
A woman in Atlanta was charged hundreds of dollars because she... went to the E.R., waited, and then left. Here's the complete story, as well as 11 others:
![WEIRD WORLD In Maryland, a lawmaker who's also a surgeon tried to combine those jobs. Terri Hill showed up in virtual legislative meetings while literally in the middle of surgery - and got fined a total of $15,000 for it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/7/803497.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD In Kansas City, one guy robbed a store and took nothing but $100 of toilet paper. After his card was declined, he tried to leave with a cart full of toilet paper anyway and pulled a gun on an employee who tried to stop him. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/1/803491.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD Dozens of fish crates appeared instead of luggage at Heathrow Airport. Passengers waiting for their luggage at the conveyor belt were pretty surprised when nothing but frozen fish started rolling past them. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/2/803492.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A small penis march, aimed at combating stigma, was held in Los Angeles. Dozens of people marched in the Small Dong March organized by two YouTubers who encouragingly suggest to own that truth. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/4/803494.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A town in England is putting up a bronze statue to a beloved goose. Derek the Goose (who was actually female) lived in the Watchet harbor for over a decade, and townspeople are raising funds for a memorial to her. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/6/803496.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A guy in a murder trial in Argentina was thrown out because he was meowing. Не was charged with double homicide and, during his trial, kept meowing like a cat for some reason and refused to stop - so he got kicked out. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/5/803495.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A judge in Singapore had to issue an arrest warrant for a sleeping teenager. Не faced charges including trespassing in the Singapore Zoo, but his parents couldn't wake him up for the trial, so the law had to get involved. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/3/803493.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD In Florida (of course), someone tried to rob a restaurant with finger guns. WAFFLE HOUSE The Sheriff's Office arrested the suspect and confirmed, thankfully, that nobody was harmed in the incident at a local Waffle House. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/8/803488.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A guy in Hull, England complained that Pizza Hut's tomato sauce is too sexy. Pizza Hut. Не didn't like the shake, squeeze and squirt label - Pizza Hut apologized, but that wasn't enough and he called his member of parliament. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/7/803487.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD Fisher Price is cashing in on nostalgia by creating a mobile phone. It looks exactly like a Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone, complete with a rotary dial in rainbow colors, but it's actually a working, Bluetooth-equipped phone. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/9/803489.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD A truck driver is winning against New Jersey's state Senate president. State Senate President Sweeney In the race for a Senate seat, that is-he's ahead of the Senate president by 2,000 votes, despite having spent a total of $153 on his campaign. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/8/6/803486.jpg)
![WEIRD WORLD In Atlanta, a woman had to pay an ER bill despite, uh, not going to the ER. Well, she was in the waiting room for a while, and then left after some time - apparently, that was enough for the hospital to charge her $700. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/4/9/0/803490.jpg)