Friday 18 March 2016

Story Time

ITV News got very upset by this picture today:
The story is here.  They claim it shows a parent driving along the M62 Motorway whilst reading to his children.

An un-named female passenger (passenger, yeh right!) in the car in front said,

"It was ridiculous. He hadn’t been looking at the road for a good five minutes. “My partner was driving, he looked out of the rear window mirrors and I glanced over then saw him. There were three kids. There was a child seat so they were quite young. “I couldn’t believe it. He was right behind us, his attention was on the book not the road. We were worried he would go into us.”

I would have put quotation marks around that lot but there are already too many in there - and not where they should be either.

The picture is credited as "MEN SYNDICATION "  which is nothing to do with gay porn.  Those of us in the North-West of England know that the MEN referred to here is the Manchester Evening News.  Their version of the story is here.  You can clearly see here where ITV News cut-and-pasted their story from - including the excess quotation marks.

The MEN highlight the word "driving" by putting it in capital letters.

I don't think they should.

I think that if the woman was genuinely concerned about the DRIVING going on there, she would be even more concerned by the TAILGATING going on there - both by the story-reading parent and by the lorry-driver behind him.

I think they are stuck in a traffic jam.

I think they are not moving.

and I think she is jealous of his Range-Rover.

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