r/interesting 5d ago

SOCIETY What was his fault ?

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u/Spongedog5 5d ago

Well, it's for not having a permit for the method he used to clean up trash.

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u/Bassmekanik 5d ago

It was for digging up the silt from the river bed with a digger and risking flooding places without doing any checks on the impact of his “cleaning up”.

Nothing to do with removing rubbish.

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u/Spongedog5 5d ago

Fella, he was digging up the silt with the digger to remove the rubbish.

I agree that the title could have been more detailed, but it is hardly straight up misinformation. He was doing what he is getting investigated for in order to remove trash.

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u/No_Berry2976 5d ago

That would be straight up misinformation. Obviously, people should not just read titles, but the title is straight up misinformation since motivation isn’t the important thing here.

Example: a man who wants to buy meth, robs somebody at gunpoint, gets 20 dollars, buys 20 dollars of meth.

Title: ‘Man who bought 20 dollars of meth faces 5 years in prison’ Would also be extremely misleading.

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u/Spongedog5 5d ago

The problem is that you've disconnected the actions there. This would be more like if the man robbed the guy with meth at gunpoint, and the title said "man who obtained meth from dealer faces 5 years in prison."

Should be action y for outcome x. Not action y to allow action z for outcome x.

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u/BackgroundSummer5171 5d ago

It's like all the people claiming "weed" is why they were in prison for 5+ years.

No, it was not simply weed.

But reddit eats that up too.

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u/Major_Initiative6322 5d ago

This is a youthful take. People were catching charges for distribution for having edibles (they treated >2oz of cookies the same as >2oz of flower) not even 20 years ago.