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New Plymouth councillor complains cycle lane separation barriers will ruin his sports car (www.rnz.co.nz)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz
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Does this headline seem fair to you? He's a former ambulance driver, and his complaint is the new cycle lanes will prevent vehicles from moving out of the way of an ambulance. The headline presents this as him being concerned about damaging his car should he accidentally drive over one. It seems like a very clickbaity way to present the article if you ask me.

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[–] [S] -4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That phrase does not appear in the article. Why are you using a quote that doesn't exist?

would prevent him pulling his sports car out of the way for emergency services vehicles in a timely fashion.

This is the crux of the article, which both you and Dave seem unable to comprehend. It seems like a reasonable concern to me.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    This is the crux of the article, which both you and Dave seem unable to comprehend. It seems like a reasonable concern to me.

    Because it's clear that's not actually an issue, on account of the massive median strip.

    That phrase does not appear in the article. Why are you using a quote that doesn’t exist?

    This isn't an uncommon use of the tool - kind of a mocking TLDR I guess. In this case I can understand it's not necessarily clear that it's use it satirical. Edit: Turns out the quote was of the body text from this post

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago

    The whole point of this post was to query whether RNZ represented his views fairly with the headline, as I felt they did him dirty.

    Somewhat disappointingly, most commenters seem to have missed that point.

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  • [+] [S] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    He quoted your text you dingus.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Did you not read the entire comment chain?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I did. And you said, and I quote:

    That phrase does not appear in the article. Why are you using a quote that doesn’t exist?

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Because he used the quote symbol for something that wasn't a quote.

    Quoting something I said, in a manner that completely changes what was said, and presenting it in a manner that makes it sound like it came from the article is shifty as hell.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You are the only one who thinks any of that. It was perfectly clear he was quoting you. And no, he didn't "completely change what was said".

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    his complaint is the new cycle lanes will prevent vehicles from moving out of the way of an ambulance. The headline presents this as him being concerned about damaging his car should he accidentally drive over one.

    VS

    him being concerned about damaging his car should he accidentally drive over one.

    You don't see how this changes anything?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As mentioned by DarkThoughts, he is quoting something that exsists: Your own text in this post.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    him being concerned about damaging his car should he accidentally drive over one.

    This does not appear in the article, which is heavily implied by the way he used it.

    He's also used the quote in a way where it completely changes what was said, which isn't cool either

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