Panefully Stupid: KTVU Reports Car Break-Ins Decline, Glass Repair Shops Hardest Hit
http://twitchy.com/gordon-k/2026/06/20/panefully-stupid-ktvu-reports-car-break-ins-decline-glass-repair-shops-hardest-hit-n2429453
Ever read something so incredibly, mind-blowingly stupid you have to ask if it's being done on purpose?
KTVU (@KTVU) ~ A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/auto-glass-repair-businesses-suffer-oakland-break-ins-decline?taid=6a35f8d739b3a10001a60a6c&;utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=twitter
ROTFLMAO! I realize this is Oakland, CA, BUT ... this is ridiculously retarded. Goes to show that even the local Fox channels are not immune to the mindless stupidity of today's libtard "journalism."
Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) ~ Has NO ONE read Bastiat?
Shirokuma (@shirobruin) ~ I’ve never seen anyone unironically and literally use the broken window fallacy. Incredible.
Before we get into the righteous ridicule, we have to discuss a French dude named Frédéric Bastiat. We had to look it up, so don't feel bad if you haven't heard of him either. Apparently Bastiat was a very smart economist who, amongst his most well-known writings, came up with the 'broken-window' fallacy.
In short, the fallacy addresses the assumption that if someone unnecessarily breaks someone else's window, it is a net economic gain because the glass repair guy has buy a new pane of glass, putty and take a trip to fix the broken window. The economy grows and (almost) everybody wins! Not so fast, Bastiat retorts. The guy who had his window broken could have used his time and resources to make even bigger contributions in his specialized skill set.
As you will soon see, this little lesson in economic theory is relevant to KTVU Oakland's very silly article.
Perhaps the writers were looking for that famous New York Times trope: disaster strikes, women and minorities hardest hit. Who knows. But here's a case where mockery and education intersect.
djbocce (@djbocce) ~
Tim (@RealNewsTim) ~
santos-inistas (@JDabknee) ~ “Polio vaccine horrible for child coffin industry.”
Monkey Shakespeare (@nfinitemonkey) ~ "Fewer kidnappings blamed for downturn in sale of rope and masking tape."
John Noh (@NohSpinZone) ~ {Replying to @KTVU} Hey dipshits, this stupid article comes perilously close to one of your epic fails of the past.
Vicki (@scvic_travels) ~ {Replying to @KTVU} Do you even have a producer that reviews these stories before they get published?
They're not sending their best.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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