Thursday, August 29, 2019

Rodent in Peanut Butter (VA) – Strawberry Tart = Swinger Signal (France) – Child Lifting (India)



WTKR-TV [Norfolk, VA]
28 August 2019

Yorktown man believes he found dead rodent inside his peanut butter jar

YORKTOWN, Va. - Jacob Fisher says he bought a jar of JIF Creamy Peanut Butter in May of this year, and since then he has made dozens of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for himself and his 2-year-old toddler - until a few weeks ago. […] At his home on Wednesday, Fisher showed us what he claims is a small, deteriorating mouse inside the jar. He has kept the jar and the half-eaten, half-made sandwich in his freezer for weeks. […]

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The Local [France]
29 August 2019

Is there really a French dessert that is a secret code for swingers?

If invited round to a French person's house for dinner it's common to take a dessert or pastries with you, but turn up with a tarte aux fraises and you could be setting up quite the misunderstanding. That's because there's an urban myth in France that offering a strawberry tart to a friend or neighbour indicates that you are in the market for a swingers evening (une soirée échangiste in French, just so you know what you're signing up for). […]
 

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Hindustan Times
28 August 2019

Fear looms large in western UP amid rumours of child lifting, frequent mob attacks

[…] “A person visits a neighbouring village, hears a story about some child lifting gang lurking around, comes back and narrates the story to his neighbours. This process goes on like a chain reaction although nobody has seen any member of this ‘gang’. The whatsapp messages mention no sources but caution people, especially women, to be careful of unknown visitors, including beggars and ‘babas’. One of these messages claims that a gang of 15 to 20 people, including women and children, was wandering the streets in search of kids from whom they extracted vital organs after kidnapping them.” […]