Caption Competition: Head-Clutching Guy

From looking at the points scores, the winner of the previous caption competition was 0id. Time for another one, courtesy of the endless recycling of stock images that the media use for mental health news stories.

This week, the BBC report a tragic rise in suicides during 2011.

The number of people taking their own life in the UK rose “significantly” in 2011, latest figures from the Office for National Statistics have shown.

Some 6,045 people killed themselves in 2011, an increase of 437 since 2010.

This is awful news, requiring sensitive and thoughtful reporting. Which makes it unfortunate that they’ve chosen to illustrate it with what appears to be Rufus Hound experiencing some difficulty with his iPod headphones.

Suicidal man

 

Give your caption suggestions in the comments thread. Vote your approval for a caption by clicking on the thumb-up icons. (Thumb-down votes will be ignored) At some arbitrary point we’ll count the votes to declare a winner.

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About Zarathustra

Trained as a nurse, currently working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Co-editing the Not So Big Society blog. May possibly be an incorporeal being called Phil Dore. All views expressed are in a personal capacity and not necessarily the views of my employer.

11 Responses to “Caption Competition: Head-Clutching Guy”

  1. Red Dwarf experienced an unfortunate navigation error while Holly was distracted trying to get his toupee to sit straight.

  2. Boo, Z, I was going to do a wig gag!

    How about ” D’oh, there go my keys, down the drain…”

  3. I crrrush yourrr head like grrrapefrrruit, so …

  4. “Wide headed man practices extreme compression technique in bid for normal dimensions”

  5. “Victor in head raffle raises prize aloft”

  6. “Meditation suitable for use in superglue mishaps”

  7. “Over-literal man applies for head teacher role.”

  8. “Local head-in-hands-man “head in hands” over ‘head in hands’.”

  9. Merciful dark decends as man prepares to peel head ‘like orange’

  10. Mr Smith finds out that he will now be subject to daily Work Capability Assessments, as he foolishly told ATOS that “every year I have a about 2 or 3 days when I don’t feel suicidal”.

  11. “The shame of supergluing ones hands to ones head”.

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