This local council just won social media with its gritter naming competition
 

This local council just won social media with its gritter naming competition
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For a while, Britain experienced the Boaty McBoatface phenomenon — public institutions asking citizens to name boats/gritters/vehicles and getting swamped by a whole lot of ridiculously inappropriate names.*

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Now local authorities are starting to wise up and they're preemptively hijacking any attempt to sabotage the vehicle-christening.*

When asking for suggestions to name two new gritting vehicles, Doncaster Council posted this shady tweet: "Keep em clean and be original - we'd prefer not to spend the next few days trawling through responses of Gritty McGritface and Gary Gritter." Read more...

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