Prison unit manager on drugs charges
-Dominion Post headline
First reading this headline, I parsed it thus:
Prison unit manager, on drugs, charges.
I was imagining some sort of last straw situation where this manager person pawed at the ground, snorted, then ran at their opponents.
Then I realised the folly of my ways. Surely the article was a prison unit manager on drugs charges - talking about drugs charges, giving their opinion on such things.
But, no. Apparently this manager is “on charges of drugs”. Quite how one can be “on” charges is beyond me - but not beyond a newspaper headline.
At that moment, I spotted another headline:
The horse raced past the barn fell.
