Is the HDM trying to cash in?
www.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/news/Schoolboy-drowns-Thai-water-park/article-1158990-detail/article.html

"A British schoolboy whose father is believed to be from Hull..."

and then the next line:
"Nathan Clark, 14, from the Isle of Man..."

But Hull isn't on the Isle of Man. Unless they're confusing the Isle of Man TT race with a load of spotty gluesniffers racing stolen mopeds around some of Hull's more vibrant estates.

Edit: Or maybe I just can't fucking read.

Anyway, it's a tenuous connection to get the story onto the frontpage of the website. Anyone seen a more tenuous news story?

Plus I agree with the comment by Anon..
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 13 Jul 2009, 14:11, 5 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Maybe
just maybe, and this is mental I know, his father? right? moved.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Mon 13 Jul 2009, 14:12, Reply)

People able to move before having children shocker.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 13 Jul 2009, 14:13, Reply)

Maybe he doesn't live with his dad, or they've moved?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 13 Jul 2009, 14:23, Reply)

I read this in the Metro this morning
and was torn between grief and hilarity.
I was particularly torn by the mental image of the Father (himself a pipe engineer) demanding the opening of the pipes, whereupon his dead son pops out and then he goes mental and beats a Thai bloke with a spanner.

I just don't know how to feel.
( WormuIus, Mon 13 Jul 2009, 14:39, Reply)

It's the HDM,
they're always making tenuous links. After all, how often can they report on little Wayne's ASBO, or the conditions at Hull Royal?
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 13 Jul 2009, 16:23, Reply)