Last week, those glorious comedians at the Star ran possibly my favourite headline in twenty years: "Gun nearly blew my balls off" accompanied by a cracking photo of a rather nervous young man, with his hands gingerly moving towards his mid-riff.

It's been a while since we had one quite as good as that. It had seemed that the days of wild headlines such as 'Freddie Star ate my Hamster", "World War two bomber found on the Surface of the Moon" and "World War two bomber mysteriously disapears from the surface of the moon" were long gone.

But this morning I came across another one which was just as absurd: "Welshman hit in Testicles by Baked Bean tin". This comes courtesy of the painfully funny Policeman's blog - a no holds barred, balls-out blog about the grim and often hysterical reality of being a British copper.

In a series of mishaps which TV's mad Mancunian Frank Gallagher would be proud of, what started out as fun in an all-day drinking 'bender' on a deprived council estate ended in a 12-hour armed siege and someone shot in the groin by a rubber bullet.

This week 39-year-old Dominic Peck, from North Walk in Barry, was beginning a two-year prison sentence after admitting false imprisonment and making threats to kill. He also faces the prospect of having his injured left testicle removed.

This, by the way is the same blog that made the observation that The Bill is not as close a representation of life 'in the job' as The Office is. Glorious stuff.