Murder Victim Made into Pies (Australian rumor)

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/larrimah-cook-blames-pub-for-pork-pies-about-paddy-moriarty/news-story/893add13b2be1b51c2ded22b5e2cdd69

The Australian

30 April 2018

Larrimah cook blames pub for pork pies about Paddy Moriarty

To most customers, she’s the sharp-tongued pie cook who serves them tea and cakes at her quirky Devonshire tea house in the Northern Territory outback.

But now Fran Hodgetts is having to tear down a poster linking her pies to those of Sweeney Todd, the fictional, bloodthirsty “demon barber of Fleet Street” whose victims ended up in meat pies.

A placard plastered over another tourist sign for the old Gorrie Airfield near the NT town of Larrimah, 500km south of Darwin, last week advertised “Frans Sweeny Todd pies (sic)”.

The scrappy fake advertisement was apparently in reference to the disappearance of Larrimah resident Paddy Moriarty and a rumour around town that he had ended up in Ms Hodgetts’ famous buffalo, crocodile and camel pies. […]

Newman’s Day (Princeton University Drinking Tradition)

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2018/04/newmans-day-drinking-tradition-discouraged-by-paul-newman-may-still-exist-on-campus

The Daily Princetonian

23 April 2018

Newman’s Day, U. drinking tradition discouraged by Paul Newman, may still exist on campus

On April 24, some University students will partake in a decades-old tradition, “Newman’s Day,” in which participants drink 24 beers in 24 hours.

The tradition, especially popular at the University, comes from an apocryphal quote attributed to actor Paul Newman: “24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not.” […]

Street Bollards Hide Surveillance Cameras (China)

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2142932/chinese-police-deny-street-bollards-hide-surveillance-cameras

South China Morning Post

23 April 2018

Chinese police deny street bollards hide surveillance cameras

Police in a city in southern China have denied online rumours that they secretly installed surveillance cameras in bollards by roads, a news website reported. […] Black devices installed in the bollards, which social media posts described as cameras, were LED lights that flashed in the dark, police added. […]