The Himalayan Times [Nepal]
15 July 2019
Plastic rice rumours: No
truth in them
Just when news about the entry of poisonous vegetables
in Nepal is settling down, rumours of plastic rice are making the rounds of
Kathmandu. Since the past few days, social media platforms like Facebook and
Twitter have been flooded with rumours about the sale of plastic rice in
Kathmandu. And without any proof, tips on distinguishing between real and
plastic rice have earned thousands of shares on Facebook. […]
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CNN
15 July 2019
If you flush drugs down the
toilet, you could be creating 'meth gators,' police in Tennessee say
(CNN) A Tennessee police department is warning
residents to stop flushing drugs down their toilet and sinks out of fear they
could create "meth gators." "Now our sewer guys take great pride
in releasing water that is cleaner than what is in the creek, but they are not
really prepared for meth," according to a Loretto Police Department social
media post. "Ducks, Geese, and other fowl frequent our treatment ponds and
we shudder to think what one all hyped up on meth would do." […] Police
warn that if the drugs make it far enough, they will end up being consumed by
gators in Shoal Creek. […]
BBC
19 July 2019
Tennessee town dispels
'meth-gator' myth
[…] Loretto Mayor Jesse Turner says the post was
clearly meant as a joke, but the humour may have been missed outside the
region. "People pay more attention [to police news] when they know there
is a little humour. I can't go anywhere without hearing something about meth
gators," he says, adding that the town of 1,700 people about 90 miles
(145km) south of Nashville are definitely in on the joke. […]
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Irish Mirror
14 July 2019
'Wishing trees' at Hill of
Tara falling from weight of underwear, handcuffs and other items hung from
branches
[…] The so-called “wishing trees” at the Co Meath
heritage site are in danger of collapse and the Tara Skryne Preservation group
is now appealing to visitors to the Hill of Tara to stop suffocating the trees
after one of the hawthorns fell recently. Also called fairy trees, it has been
a tradition to place strips of cotton to the trees in the hope of curing an ailment
which would disappear as the cloth decayed. But in recent years, visitors have
been tying hundreds of items including nappies, plastic cards, bras and even
handcuffs to the branches of the trees, which stand near the legendary Lia Fail
stone. Coins have also been hammered into the trees, causing fungal diseases to
develop in its bark. […]
[See also
Ceri Houlbrouk, The Magic of Coin-Trees
from Religion to Recreation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).]
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