Some of them are damned imaginitive...

My favourite:
Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36pm traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19pm at a speed of 35 mph.
I don't get this one, though:
The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr. Pepper can.
There shouldn't be a full stop after Dr on a Dr Pepper can, anyway...