More from the Voice

The promised posting of news from Cape Town's tabloid, The Voice, is going to have to be a bit more irregular than the weekly feature I proposed last week. The problem is, the paper is wildly uneven. Some weeks it's brilliant, and some weeks, not so much.

There was one article that could have been a hands down winner over the past seven days, except it was written rather poorly, and it was, in some ways, even crueler than the one that ran away with the best headline nomination last week.

It was about a physically and mentally disabled man who ran away from home. Except he didn't really run, because to run, you first have to be able to walk. Instead, he rolled. And not in a wheelchair, either, because he didn't have one. He went end over end all the way across his rural town, until he found someone to give him a lift. When that ride came to an end, he rolled some more.

The guy is apparently still missing, though the newspaper didn't do anything to help refer people to the proper authorities if they spot him on the roll somewhere.

Remember how I said that sometimes the paper runs headlines in Afrikaans? That was the case with this one.



Click here for a larger view, to get a glimpse at the jaw-dropping audaciousness of the graphic that accompanies the story.