I keep seeing this advert saying: “Always Place A Plastic Bag On Your Car Mirror When Traveling Alone, Here’s Why.”
I knew it must be some form of scam, but curiosity got to me.
No, I didn’t click the advert, I found out a safer way.
The clickbait ads were led to lengthy slideshow articles. Unfortunately, it was a waste of time, because the stories never ended up mentioning why a Ziplock bag should be put on a car mirror.
From: www.snopes.com/fact-check/ziplock-bag-car-mirror/
However, putting a plastic bag over your side mirrors will keep ice and snow from collecting on them in cold weather.
If you don’t have a passenger to clean the mirror for you, it might be easier to cover it with a plastic bag….
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So, you want everybody to know that you’re being single by yourself in a car so you can get robbed murdered or raped? I say bring a scraper and scrape the damn ice off don’t advertise your alone… hello world, wake up!
thanks for this post, they should be ashamed.
this is simple waste of time and joking to public. THIS IS SHAME to yahoo also who pubish any absurd thing at the protal without self checking what is there.Yahoo team should see the contetn before publish on it.
Yahoo employees are tits on a boar level of useless. They have zero morals, and will post an ad for anything, even when that ad will lead Yahoo readers to a site that infects their PC.