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Questionable 'news' about fines for incorrectly set car clock

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  • ElefantEd
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    facade said:
    And in my clickbait feed today-

    Motorists risk £5000 fine as clocks go back SHOCK! HORROR!! ROMP!!!



    (If you drive without your lights on between 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise you can be fined.....)

    As if anyone decides whether to turn their lights on based on the time rather than looking out of the window!
  • ChesterDog
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    You could easily find yourself handed a life sentence for driving without your clock set correctly.

    That's if you simply stopped to ask a passer-by the correct time, but they refused to tell you, which so angered you that you got out and clubbed them to death with your car jack so that you could look at their watch.

    Spoiler alert: this article will appear in Birmingham Live shortly.
    I am one of the Dogs of the Index.
  • molerat
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    edited 28 October 2024 at 11:40AM
    ElefantEd said:
    facade said:
    And in my clickbait feed today-

    Motorists risk £5000 fine as clocks go back SHOCK! HORROR!! ROMP!!!



    (If you drive without your lights on between 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise you can be fined.....)

    As if anyone decides whether to turn their lights on based on the time rather than looking out of the window!
    My car does it for me so I don't even need to look out the window  :o

  • Money_Grabber13579
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    edited 30 October 2024 at 12:41AM
    ElefantEd said:
    facade said:
    And in my clickbait feed today-

    Motorists risk £5000 fine as clocks go back SHOCK! HORROR!! ROMP!!!



    (If you drive without your lights on between 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise you can be fined.....)

    As if anyone decides whether to turn their lights on based on the time rather than looking out of the window!
    Some people don’t bother turning on their lights at all, irrespective of how dark it is…
    Northern Ireland club member No 382 :j
  • LightFlare
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    Manchester News are also “renowned” for their overly dramatic click bait headlines
  • facade
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    Manchester News are also “renowned” for their overly dramatic click bait headlines

    Anything ending in -news or -live is. I suspect they are all the same entity and the localisation is just a minor filter on a couple of articles.
    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
  • Nasqueron
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    facade said:
    Anything with a URL ending in -post is just sensationalist clickbait with very little truth or facts.
    If you click on it out of incredulity, you find that these "massive fines for all drivers" would only ever apply to the odd numpty who breaks an obvious, well known existing law through some bizarre set of circumstances only tenuously linked to their headline.

    If I knew what I had done to get birminghampost into my 'phone's clickbait feed I'd undo it!
    Every day I get headlines about massive new fines, huge new costs etc.


    One I actually clicked on (so they achieved their objective) was

    "Drivers face £1000 fine for not carrying a change of footwear in their car"

    Absolute tosh. It was actually talking about a specific instance of "not being in proper control" caused by wearing certain types of shoes. (presumably which only a birminghampost journalist would feel were appropriate for driving in)


    Birmingham Mail and the rest of the Reach family are just identikit template sites stuffed with adverts and overlaying videos all pushing clickbait titles. They will start with the snow ones soon (if you didn't clear your roof and snow slid onto your screen blocking your view you could be fined) and similar nonsense. It's all about getting people on their site to see adverts. I don't know what phone you use but on my Android phone you can select to not get content from a provider or a subject - though sometimes it's annoying as I might get say a baseball link and trying to opt out you only get "sport" not a specific one

    Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: 

    People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.

  • Nasqueron
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    Does no one not wear a watch these days?
    I didn't for years as I can see the time on computer or phone easily, I'd only have one on for sport now I have a fitness tracker I do wear one

    Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: 

    People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.

  • Nasqueron
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    ElefantEd said:
    facade said:
    And in my clickbait feed today-

    Motorists risk £5000 fine as clocks go back SHOCK! HORROR!! ROMP!!!



    (If you drive without your lights on between 30 minutes after sunset to 30 minutes before sunrise you can be fined.....)

    As if anyone decides whether to turn their lights on based on the time rather than looking out of the window!
    Some people don’t bother turning on their lights at all, irrespective of how dark it is…
    There are a fair few who seem to think DRL are enough, often the LED ones are just about bright enough that they don't realise and/or they don't have rears. I used to pass a few cars when I was cycle commuting where they had zero rear lights on even in the dark in a city and just the front DRLs because they didn't bother to check.

    Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness: 

    People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.

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