Sub-editing for beginners

Here's another one, from the front page of today's Daily Telegraph, and as laid out on the printed page:

Lightning hits man
with barbecue fork

And to think of all those years Malcolm wasted, pointing out the deficient expression in examples such as:

• There's a man at the door with a wooden leg called Fred. [What's his other leg called? Oi!]
• Woman with large chest needs man with van.
• Please wait for the hostess to be seated.
• Toilet out of order. Please use floor below.
  
• etc.

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