Double-take, # 93

It’s difficult to decide which category is the natural home of this mangle. Pop Spencer, who found it, remarks: ‘Jane Eyre and Moll Flanders available on the street.’

Link: Northampton Chronicle & Echo, ‘Two drug dealers from Northampton jailed for four years after being caught in undercover operation’

A second double take is afforded by the report’s detailed and rambling title, reproduced in the link above, which suggests that the writer has not yet grasped how headlines are supposed to work nor been taught the concept of pithiness.
cocaine and heroine