CRIENGLISH.com [China]
30 June 2014
Police in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu province,
have dismissed the recent widespread rumors of binoculars being sold containing
needles tipped with a powerful anesthetic meant to incapacitate the unwitting
viewer, China Central Television reported on Sunday.
The rumor, of unknown origin, claimed that the needles
would pierce a viewer in the eyes when he or she adjusted the zooming knob on
the binoculars. The aenesthetic on the tip of the needles would incapacitate
the would-be patron, and his or her organs would be harvested. [...]