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  • Yeah, Canadian media falls for ULs, too

    From danny burstein@dannyb@panix.com to alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.cecil-adams on Thu Jun 20 23:04:43 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.urban

    Ontario woman pulls the "omg, someone tied some
    fabric to my car door handle" FEAR deal...

    And one of the usually coherent news/web sites spreads it

    https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/06/ontario-woman-warns-string-car-door/

    _____________________________________________________
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  • From Snidely@snidely.too@gmail.com to alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.cecil-adams on Fri Jun 21 11:48:52 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.urban

    danny burstein wrote on 6/20/2024 :
    Ontario woman pulls the "omg, someone tied some
    fabric to my car door handle" FEAR deal...

    And one of the usually coherent news/web sites spreads it

    https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/06/ontario-woman-warns-string-car-door/

    _____________________________________________________
    Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
    dannyb@panix.com
    [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

    Well, the two things that get the most clicks are fear and sex, right?
    So there must have been a blonde somewhere in that parking lot flashing
    us, to make sure all the clickers were catered to.

    /dps
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  • From Don Freeman@Don@cosmoslair.com to alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.cecil-adams on Sat Jun 22 12:25:16 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.urban

    On 6/20/2024 5:04 PM, danny burstein wrote:
    Ontario woman pulls the "omg, someone tied some
    fabric to my car door handle" FEAR deal...

    And one of the usually coherent news/web sites spreads it

    https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/06/ontario-woman-warns-string-car-door/


    One would think that if this were really a reliable news site they would
    have noticed that it originated on TicTok and just moved on, or at least
    set of alarms bells and investigated it further.

    Don "will ignore TikTok for sanity" Freeman

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  • From drew@drew@furrfu.invalid (Drew Lawson) to alt.folklore.urban,alt.fan.cecil-adams on Sun Jun 23 01:14:16 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.folklore.urban

    In article <v574ud$3sfdv$1@dont-email.me>
    Don Freeman <Don@cosmoslair.com> writes:
    On 6/20/2024 5:04 PM, danny burstein wrote:
    Ontario woman pulls the "omg, someone tied some
    fabric to my car door handle" FEAR deal...

    And one of the usually coherent news/web sites spreads it

    https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/06/ontario-woman-warns-string-car-door/


    One would think that if this were really a reliable news site they would >have noticed that it originated on TicTok and just moved on, or at least
    set of alarms bells and investigated it further.

    There are far too many sites with "articles" that amount to:

    1) Someone made a claim on social media.
    2) We did not verify this claim.
    3) We want to spread it as far as possible.

    Google News in particular is inclined to send those my way.

    Don "will ignore TikTok for sanity" Freeman

    Drew "Be angry about my fast food bill"" Lawson
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    and forget about the mess they've made
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