Surely this was a deliberate play on words by the headline writer.
Reminds me of the (allegedly genuine) headline in a British newspaper during the North Africa campaign in WW2:
Eighth Army Push Bottles Up Germans
Ouch!
I saw one in the local paper a couple of years ago that I wish I had sent to Jay Leno:
Cops Forced to Shoot Man with Knife
My wife and I caught this one ourselves a few years back in the Concord, NH newspaper. She might even still have it. Exact headline:
“Couch Fire Leaves Man Homeless”
My all-time favorite, about a University of Washington – University of Oregon women’s basketball game:
HUSKY WOMEN POUND DUCKS
I recall hearing of a newspaper story about a trip that went wrong. A travel agency had promoted a deluxe excursion to Irelend, with visits to all sorts of famous attractions, top-class accommodations and food, etc. The customers came home complaining of fleabag hotels, terrible food, broken-down busses, etc. The headline was “Tour allure a lie”
The best one was after the Scottish soccer/footy team Caledonian Thistle won, 3-1, against Celtic in a Scottish Cup match:
Super Cally go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious
Title of an intel report during my Iraq deployment: Insurgent goes fishing with RPG. A little overkill, no?
There’s a headline writer who deserves a raise! Headline writing is an art (especially back in the days of print journalism where they had only “x” characters of space to play with), and this person’s a master.
When Solaris was released, there was controversy over George Clooney’s nudity. The headline-
Big Stink Over Clooney’s Butt
Swear to Og.
No question about it.
If not a raise, the writer deserves at least a luxury tour of Ireland. 
I’m confused. What could it be besides a guy living on a couch and it burning up?
It started as a couch fire and burned down his whole home, in my estimation.
Similarly, a chiminey fire or toaster fire could also leave one homeless, without requiring the person to live in a fireplace or kitchen appliance.
For a story about a blood drive: Red Cross Out For Blood.
A friend used to pray for the day the Miami NBA team would win the championship in hopes of the following headline:
Of course, this is the same friend who used to wait for great plays by Olaf Kolzig so he could quip
We are looking at the headlines themselves and that one has a double meaning. Besides, why did it list the intermediate fire? It was a house fire that left the man homeless.
I can only assume they listed “sofa fire” as a proxy for “stupid smoker fell asleep” so we could all feel a little moral superiority without even having to read the article. 
I bet there’s a porn site somewhere devoted to that very thing.
And that! :eek:
A National Enquierer Classic:
It seemed a dwarf had conned many people using a fake “Talk to your dead loved ones” psychic scam. He was arrested and released on bail, which he proceeded to skip.
Headline covering the story read:
“Small Medium at Large”
FML