I could just be me, but reading that headline gave me a few seconds of hilarity as I tried to decipher it before reading! For a second I thought “The illegal is trying to have sex with his own face? And the horse destroyed it?”
I have always wondered if I had a reading disability at some point, sometimes I see signs or magazines, and my mind reads the words, but a completely different thing forms in my head for a second before my brain straightens it out and reads it correctly. Sometimes with really funny results. My wife of course, just rolls her eyes at me when I read something very straightforward and chuckle for a moment...
When you see a traffic sign that says “stop ahead,” are you tempted to grab your wife’s head and make it stop bobbing to the music on the radio?
When I read this article, I wondered why the police needed medical treatment.
In this case, you were right. The headline is as convoluted as it could be.