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56 Funny Times People Were So Mad, They Ended Up In The Local News (New Pics)
What’s worthy of the front page? A government corruption scandal? An unexpected ending to a much-anticipated sports match? Or the daily horoscope?
A little bit of each, perhaps. But sometimes, all it takes is one very irritated person to steal the headlines.
The Facebook group ‘Angry People in Local Newspapers’ collects these unforgettable clippings, proving that—whether the complaints themselves are valid or not—regional publications can do what the serious nationals will never be able to.
Hopefully, these characters sold enough issues and generated enough clicks to warrant more, because, heck yeah.
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The landscape of local news in many parts of the world has changed dramatically in recent years as people have turned away from print and television and moved toward digital media.
In the United States, for example, attention to local news has been steadily declining at least since 2016. In 2025, 21% of Americans said they follow local news very closely, down from 37% in 2016, according to a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Americans turn to a range of sources for their local news, and while some traditional local news sources, such as TV and radio, remain common, a growing group gets their local news in other ways.
About two-thirds of Americans (65%) said they at least sometimes get news from their local TV news station – down slightly from the 70% who said the same in 2018, though this remains one of the most popular sources of local news.
Americans’ use of local newspapers is decreasing, too: 36% of U.S. adults said they get news from their local paper at least sometimes, compared with 43% in 2018.
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Loosey Goosey 1 day ago (edited)
All jokes aside, it is not unheard of for people to go into cardiac arrest at a funeral due to the stress and because funerals are often attended by large groups of old people. Also, these defibrillators are common in the UK now. You see them outside supermarkets, churches, train stations, etc. Many decommissioned phone boxes have been turned into defib stations. This one is probably in a place accessible by the public, and anyone can open it by ringing 999 in an emergency and being given the code by operators.
Rising shares of Americans are getting local news at least sometimes from online forums or discussion groups (52%, up from 38% in 2018) and from local government agencies or officials (40%, up from 30%).
The sharpest growth in usage came from other online-only sources. As of last year, 42% of U.S. adults get news at least sometimes from a source that publishes online only (and was not included in any of the other categories), almost triple the share that relied on these sources in 2018 (15%).
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Brittania Kelli 1 day ago
Reward: Fame!? You're not even getting paid! For a second I thought no one would turn up then thought about the prevalence of conspiracy theorists and science deniers in that neck of the woods.
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Many U.S. adults also get local news from people in their community, such as family, friends, and neighbors.
Nearly three in four Americans (72%) said they often or sometimes stay updated thanks to other locals, up slightly from the 66% who said the same in 2018.
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sturmwesen 1 day ago
I wish they would put more where I live. Right now they send my pakets kilometers away because it is "full". You can't live more central than us. why aren't there more and bigger ones in a central area with so many people?
When it comes to individual topics, they range from useful daily information like weather and traffic, to civic information about local government, crime, and the economy, to cultural news about the arts and sports.
Roughly two-thirds of U.S. adults (68%) said they often get news about local weather – double the share who often consume news about crime, the next most popular topic.
Interestingly, adults 65 and older are more likely to get news about all of these topics than those ages 18 to 29, reflecting the broader difference between the age groups in attention to news.
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Loosey Goosey 1 day ago (edited)
Apparently her house was subject to conservation rules. It's still a bit weird to tell someone what colour they can paint the house they own. She should move to Brighton. Everyone paints the front of their house in funky colours in Brighton. Many houses even have murals painted all over them.
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Julie S 1 day ago
I actually agree with her, we used to be called the Garden of England not any more. I live or used to live in a nice little village, but they are currently building 700 houses on the farmers fields 100 yards from my house. In total they are building 13,000 new homes in my town and it's not even a decent town.
There are other differences that hint at how local news needs vary across demographics. And some of them are pretty intuitive. For instance, Americans who live in urban areas are also more likely than those in rural areas to say they often get local traffic news (32% vs. 24%). And parents of children under 18 are about twice as likely as those without young children to often get news about local schools (30% vs. 14%).
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Brittania Kelli 1 day ago
Named the Tupperware gang, because they kept co.caine in Tupperware containers and hid the Tupperware stashed along country lanes. They are suspected of importing over a million pounds into the Suffolk area.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 day ago
"Black mariah" is a nickname for a police van. Back in the 70s they were black.
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However, weather is the only topic about which local news consumers are highly satisfied, with two thirds (63%) saying they are extremely or very satisfied with the news they get on the topic. Among those who get news about local traffic and sports, just over four-in-ten say they are highly satisfied with the news they get (44% and 43%, respectively).
Only about a quarter of those who consume news about the local economy (26%) or local government and politics (25%) say they are extremely or very satisfied with the quality of this news, although about twice as many respondents in each category say they are somewhat satisfied.
Who can call the surveyors and tell them to include angry people as a category for next time? It’s clear who the winners would be!
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Marie Adamson 1 day ago
I tried to buy a house back in the 90s. My parents were going to gift me the deposit, but the bank turned me down. They said I had to prove that I had saved the money for the deposit, and it cannot be gifted.
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ABC NrEleven FCK CENSORISM 1 day ago
Can anyone explain a "five-a-side pitch" to a non-native speaker? I have an assumption what it means, but am not sure.
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Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 day ago
Not one of these is as good as a headline from our local paper about 20 years ago: "DRIVE BY YOGHURT ATTACK ON CROCHET TEACHER'S HABERDASHERY".
SheHulk 1 day ago
Recently in Malmö, Sweden. Heard this first on the radio then saw it on my newsfeed. Strangest headline ever: "Corpse on a dolly was actually sexdoll - heavy police action". This really made my day! Especially since s**t like this doesn't often happen in Sweden. 🤣🤣🤣 My translation.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 day ago
Not one of these is as good as a headline from our local paper about 20 years ago: "DRIVE BY YOGHURT ATTACK ON CROCHET TEACHER'S HABERDASHERY".
SheHulk 1 day ago
Recently in Malmö, Sweden. Heard this first on the radio then saw it on my newsfeed. Strangest headline ever: "Corpse on a dolly was actually sexdoll - heavy police action". This really made my day! Especially since s**t like this doesn't often happen in Sweden. 🤣🤣🤣 My translation.
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