Whites searched 'for race balance'. Did they find it?

My first thought on seeing Metro's main front page headline today was: 'So did they find it?'



As it turns out, 'whites' is the object, not the subject, of the headline (which is written in the passive voice).

(UPDATE 19/07/09: As Garik points out in the comments following this post, 'whites' is actually the subject of this passive sentence.)

The first paragraph of the story clarifies the matter:

Police are searching white people under terror laws simply to provide 'racial balance' to statistics, it was revealed yesterday.

Last year I blogged about police stopping and searching commuters and schoolgirls at my local station...

All bags and coats cannot be reclaimed

Yes, I'm still on holiday. Here's something else I found down the back of my hard drive:



So I lose my ticket, and nobody can reclaim any bags and coats until the end of the night? That doesn't seem fair... and what a strange shift from the active to the passive voice in that sentence.

(I actually remember where I took this photo: on a work social in Battersea Evolution late last year. And I didn't lose my ticket.)