JoeyM
JoeyM Mod Squad
4/16/20 8:07 a.m.

 

Jay Leno Stops To Use Mechanic Skills On Stranded Man's 1953 Mercedes

 

https://autos.yahoo.com/jay-leno-stops-mechanic-skills-211746899.html

AngryCorvair
AngryCorvair GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/16/20 8:12 a.m.

the German classic wasn't running mechanically sound... turned out to be an issue with the brakes and brake fluid causing problems. 

cool story, poorly written.

JoeyM
JoeyM Mod Squad
4/16/20 8:24 a.m.
AngryCorvair said:

the German classic wasn't running mechanically sound... turned out to be an issue with the brakes and brake fluid causing problems. 

cool story, poorly written.

Accurate assessment. I'm guessing that while Jay was under the car he probably wasn't in the mood to talk to the TMZ paparazzi who's story was the basis

Professor_Brap (Forum Supporter)
Professor_Brap (Forum Supporter) SuperDork
4/16/20 8:41 a.m.

World needs more jays

dculberson (Forum Supporter)
dculberson (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
4/16/20 8:50 a.m.

That article rang all sorts of warning bells of a bot-plagiarized article. This sentence really stood out to me: "Leno, 69, was able to borrow some tools to tamper with the car." NOBODY calls working on a car "tampering" with it; there's no way that was originally written with that wording. So I searched and found this:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8190439/Jay-Leno-plays-roadside-mechanic-pulls-help-man-broken-vintage-Mercedes-Benz.html

which looks to be the article that the "motorious" web site stole and bot-modified with synonyms and then posted to Yahoo news. We really do live in the strangest time line.

JoeyM
JoeyM Mod Squad
4/16/20 9:14 a.m.
dculberson (Forum Supporter) said:

That article rang all sorts of warning bells of a bot-plagiarized article. This sentence really stood out to me: "Leno, 69, was able to borrow some tools to tamper with the car." NOBODY calls working on a car "tampering" with it; there's no way that was originally written with that wording. So I searched and found this:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8190439/Jay-Leno-plays-roadside-mechanic-pulls-help-man-broken-vintage-Mercedes-Benz.html

which looks to be the article that the "motorious" web site stole and bot-modified with synonyms and then posted to Yahoo news. We really do live in the strangest time line.

Yes, that is probably what happened.... And before that, the daily Mail probably scraped the TMZ site.  I'm just glad that the daily Mail did include the reference for their source.

https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/05/jay-leno-pulls-off-side-of-road-help-driver-1953-classic-mercedes-benz/

californiamilleghia
californiamilleghia Dork
4/16/20 10:29 a.m.

"Jay Leno steals gas from stranded  senior motorist "

Jay Leno ,  TVs bad guy was seen yesterday siphoning gas from under the hood of a disabled old Mercedes, 

Sham on you JAY .......

Now thats the way to write clickbait with lots of key words

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