Sunday, April 29, 2018

Murder Victim Made into Pies (Australian rumor)



The Australian
30 April 2018


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)



The Daily Princetonian
23 April 2018



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.” […]

Monday, April 23, 2018

Street Bollards Hide Surveillance Cameras (China)



South China Morning Post
23 April 2018


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. […]