Tricky Titles

There are times when journalists seem to pick misleading headlines for their articles, leading to a bit of confusion to someone like myself who really only skims headlines in a news feed.

For example:
"Phone box crash sparks chain of events"

Oddly enough, this delightful headline had me imagining that the Doctor has crashed his TARDIS once more.  And this time in Australia!  Sadly, the reality is a bit more prosaic, with the story turning out to be about some hooligan having driven a car into a public phone box (I'm surprised that there are any about to be driven into in this day), causing the box to fall onto another couple of teenage boys, injuring them fairly badly.

This next one was just a result of timing - also, this is something that happened six or more months ago.  I've had it noted down for absolutely ages, but never dated it or saved links to the articles concerned:
"Dingo Charged With Assault"
 When I first read this headline, my first thought was of someone charging an actual dingo.  This was because a few stories earlier, the headline was in relation to Lindy Chamberlain once again going through the courts to get her daughter's death certificate amended to show that the child had been killed by a dingo.

However, it ended up relating to Aussie celebrity Ernie Dingo who'd gotten into a bit of strife at a public appearance after hitting a kid around the same time.

On a related note, just listening to someone talk can also lead to those sorts of misleading conclusions.

Such as:
David Suchet on the Orient Express is a wonderful little doco where Mr Suchet goes on the Orient Express and explores the history of the train prior to his portrayal of Hercule Poirot travelling on the train and solving crime as he is wont to do.

One of the little tidbits of information given, was that there was a spy who once travelled on the Orient Express disguised as a butterfly collector.  However, for some reason, my brain was working at some warp speed that let me imagine that the spy was actually on the train disguised as a butterfly before Mr Suchet had finished the sentence.

Alan Davis on an episode of QI had the same problem when they were all discussing aeroplane-towed gliders.  His mind apparently spun off to imagine some weird hybrid aeroplane toad.

I can't help but wonder if other people have ever done something like that.  Also, that there are times when our brains can work so fast, we can imagine strange scenarios in the space of two words.