Obviously this is scary and unsafe but what a bloody legend though.
That ain’t shit, if you’ve heard the phrase “riding the rods” it’s a reference to belting yourself to a moving train cars brake rods to sleep for the night.
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/riding-rods-while-freighthopping-trains-photos-video-73572
I know there are more extreme things but if you’re gonna say that someone riding 400 ks on a truck bed because of shenanigans is not shit, I’m gonna insist that you personally have done something more extreme.
It’s hyperbole bud.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A man who stowed away beneath a B-double trailer instead of paying for a short taxi ride home is lucky to be alive after he ended up travelling nearly 400 kilometres on metal racks suspended barely a metre off the road.
Truck driver Pardeep Dahiya said he was driving a Sydney-Brisbane freight run and had stopped in Nambucca Heads for a short nap at about 1:30am on Friday.
Mr Dahiya said he initially thought to phone the police and report the stowaway but instead took pity on the man and gave him some water and offered him a seat inside the truck, rather than under it, to ride further north.
When the conversation between the pair became hard to maintain, Mr Dahiya revised his decision and called police from a service station at Coomera, on the northern Gold Coast.
Acting Inspector Peter Miles said the 43-year-old had told officers he climbed under the truck at Nambucca Heads, hoping to hitch a ride to Coffs Harbour where he planned to disembark at a red light.
“There’s bumps in the road, objects potentially flying up and hitting you, the types of speeds involved, side wind shear and all of those forces that might have affected [his] grip,” he said.
The original article contains 533 words, the summary contains 206 words. Saved 61%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
I don’t know who owns you, bot, but you are really really inreliable and they should put you back in the box where your summaries won’t mislead people.
That summary seems ok. What did it miss?
It was just inreliable.
That’s unpossible!
I have noticed some bad ones on the past but people seem to correct them, if you come across bad ones report them as misleading and I’ll remove them.
Looks like someone’s opened an issue about it on GitHub so the owner should be aware of the problem: https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyAutoTldrBot/issues/18
The worst thing about this bot is that people trust it. I shouldn’t have to follow it around, check the summary and the article, and write a summary of its mistakes. That it is thoroughly unreliable should be broadcast when it is used.
Yes that’s the problem - people won’t read the article not knowing the full story, or in some cases not knowing the correct story. This has an adverse effect on conversations, though in saying that it is still quite useful to see if I’m interested in the article. We have a few options:
- Banning the bot
- Opening a PR to add a disclaimer to the bot
- Making @dalekerrigan@aussie.zone automatically reply to every summary in our communities
I’m inclined to go with the third one however it may come off as a bit spammy
I’m fine with any of those options. The bot is a menace.
I’ve made a post to discuss these concerns to see where everyone stands on it: Discussion on Concerns over Auto tl;dr bot (if link doesn’t work it’s pinned to !australia@aussie.zone)
