Pune Mirror
[India]
21 August 2019
Citizens resort to vermillion-mixed potion to keep
stray dogs at bay
Residents of Kasba Peth, an area infamous for being
infested with stray dogs, seem to struggle to come to terms with canines
residing in their locality. […] For the lack of a better alternative and unable
to cope with the human animal conflict, they are now filling plastic bottles
with water mixed with vermillion and placing them outside their residences and
stores in the vicinity. The potion seems to have driven away 90 per cent of the
strays from the area, they claimed. […]
Navhind Times [India]
11 October 2018
What’s in the colourful
bottles?
Have you ever noticed how bottles filled with blue,
purple, pink, and red liquid are kept outside several houses in Goa? These
bottles are either placed just outside the entrance or in the compound or the
garden area. While some people have placed just one or two bottles, others have
surrounded their compound with these. Sounds strange? Well, the reason is even
stranger! With stray dogs and monkeys often causing a nuisance by invading
private property, it turns out these bottles are a way of keeping them away. […]
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Washington Post
22 August 2019
A new high school will have
sleek classrooms — and places to hide from a mass shooter
[…] A $48 million major construction project at
Fruitport High School [in western Michigan] will add curved hallways to reduce
a gunman’s range, jutting barriers to provide cover and egress, and
meticulously spaced classrooms that can lock on demand and hide students in the
corner, out of a killer’s sight. […] [Architect Matt] Slagle said he was
careful with his design. His firm also designs prisons, and he said it wanted
to strike a balance between security and a welcoming presence without the
pendulum swinging too far in either direction. […]
[Years from now will students believe that the school
was originally designed to be a prison?]
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2018/01/23/creating-campus-was-jester-designed-by-a-prison-architect
The Daily Texan [University of Texas at
Austin]
23 January 2018
Creating Campus:
Was Jester designed by a prison architect?
Towering above neighboring buildings on
the south side of UT’s campus, many students joke that the dull, dreary-looking
Jester Center looks like a prison. Some even believe that a few of the
dormitory’s inner features parallel those of a penitentiary. “I went into the
showers and I had to bend to reach the showerheads, and someone told me the
architect had designed it so that prisoners couldn’t hang themselves,” said
nutrition freshman Jerrica Garza, a resident of Jester East. “Makes sense I
guess.” Arguably, the most widely-believed urban legend about UT’s campus is that
Jester was designed by architects specializing in prisons. I was really hoping
this would be true, but it’s actually just cringeworthy folklore. […]
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Index-Journal [Greenwood, SC]
23 August 2019
Officials: DQ burgers aren't
made out of people
As a blizzard of rumors circulated on social media in
the aftermath of a coordinated raid in Abbeville, Greenwood and Orangeburg
counties by federal agents on Wednesday, the most outlandish may have been that
a popular fast food restaurant was using a wince-inducing ingredient in their
burgers. Greenwood County Coroner Sonny Cox and state health inspectors are
clear, however: Dairy Queen’s ground beef patties are not made out of people. […]
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