Are you ready for this? Here’s the headline.
Mr. Bean left his wife for a woman twice his age.
The actual text doesn’t follow the headline down the rabbit-hole. Comedian Rowan Atkinson, who plays Mr. Bean, is 62. His new wife is 32, not 124. No one is 124 years old.
The headline, etc., comes from Telegrafi, an Albanian news service.
I used to write headlines, as part of my job as a newspaper editor. Sometimes a mistake would happen–but nothing on the scale of this whopper.
Lately I’ve been wondering, “Doesn’t anyone know how to write news anymore?” Like, they give you a catchy headline and it turns out to have nothing to do with the text. I see that a lot, these days.
Read the news carefully. It might be drivel.