Your Mind-Boggling ‘Human Interest’ Story Of The Day

As you will now be aware, we here at Defamer Australia from time to time like to draw your attention to the wonderful world of what we like to call “second page” news. They’re not the front page stories everyone flocks to read, but rather the offbeat filler that makes up the rest of the paper.

Back in ‘the old days’ this stuff would occupy a small, pictureless paragraph at the bottom of a broadsheet page, but thanks to the wonders of the internets, anything’s game for a front page website pull piece – witness today’s winner, from News.com.au:

The story itself is rather grisly and grim, but boy if those News.com.au clowns don’t know how to make an otherwise harrowing tale of rape and murder look like the long lost Carry On installment.

Nice work, team – now see what you can do with that totally weird and wacky story about the Dad who drove his kids into the dam!