This is the challenge: The BBC choose a news story and readers have to come up with a pun headline.

"This week was a story about police trying to trace a lorry-load of whisky which was stolen while the driver took a shower at a motorway service station. The truck was driven off from Reading Services in Berkshire and later found abandoned but empty."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor...unorama_9.shtml

with the competition winners and 167 replies on the bbc page, it's going to be tough to come up with any new puns for this one, but we're poets, we can do it! Come on!

Personally, I just can't see any new puns, so mine is a tongue-twister:

He Wished He'd Watched His Whisky When He Went To Wash

My brain can't think up any more, but I loved 'Lorry driver dis-spirited by theft' by MCK. Very good.

Except possibly 'Missing, Presumed Drunk' or something along those lines. Which I'm sure someone else will have thought of.

Hi

Hold the front page. What about:

MUCKY TRUCKIE UNLUCKY!
Hooch Heist: Cops seek 100% Proof

(I'll get my coat!)

Truck-load of booze took
on motorway toilet break

- stolen by an unknown thief -

the stock of spirits split - vanished
into a black-gargle market.

An empty cab at Reading
and ghost chase so far for
forces investigating.

~

Case's like this constantly
happen.

~

Ghost chase for stolen spirits.

Just as well you don't work at a newspaper, Ovid! Those headlines would just keep on rolling ... until they fell off the page! :D