Headline acts!

Good headlines are a delight. The recent incident in which a number of pieces of an artist's works of art -- left outdoors for public display -- were stolen, providing the creative spark for some catchy headlines:

Sometimes a movie series -- in this case the several Lord of the Rings films -- leave an enduring impression:

This next one is really cool... so apt!...

... a gripping headline, this next one!

I'm sure the writer of this headline below had shallot of fun...

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Not all headlines work, though. RIP should be left to rest in peace as such, not tweaked this way!...

A bad juxtaposition of word and picture can spoil a headline (it is so easy to fix that; just replace the word "head" with "chief" and you won't need to imagine that this man's head is about to be probed)...

As for this next one, despite the idiom's intended meaning, the curtain was actually pulled aside!...

 Likewise, I imagined a large number of people about to be literally axed, reading this headline:

This one is kinda iffy (but I'll concede that others might find it creative):

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I have problems with headlines like this:

I just don't get it! If one really must attempt a play on words (not elegantly though), it would have to be "Flautists flaunt their flutes".

As for this one...

... since the word "sharking" here is used as a noun, what exactly is "sharking"?

I have two more examples of ambiguity; in this first case here, the sub-headline (the foreign students are attracted by the lower fees and the lower quality of education?):

As for this other example, a caption blurb, I'm getting confused over the genders...

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Okay, I'll wrap up with one more dig at the war between the clock watchers and the procrastinators: