"You're asking me if I've heard anything about who might be breaking into all those cars in the neighborhood? I hear a lot, and one thing I can tell you is that people are mad as hell about that new stop sign." Which logical fallacy best describes this faulty reasoning?

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The response diverts attention from the issue of car break-ins to an unrelated topic, the new stop sign, which is a red herring fallacy.

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