Bob Lutz, Car
Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business. New
York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2011.
There’s an old, presumably apocryphal tale about body
integrity, good body sealing, and absence of unsightly gaps around the hood,
trunk, and doors. It goes like this: To test for the car’s airtightness, Toyota
engineers would leave a cat in the car in the evening. The next morning, if the
cat was active and chipper, there was obviously too much air entering the car
somewhere. But if the cat was limp, listless, or near dead, this indicated a tightly
built car. Hearing of this cat test, a GM assembly plant also placed a feline
in the just-assembled car, shut all the vents and doors, and awaited the
morning. But, when the engineers came back to check the next day, the cat was
gone!
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Hindustan Times
3 August 2019
4 incidents of mob attacks on
‘child lifters’ in a day
Four people were attacked by mobs [in Patna] on
suspicion of being child kidnappers, in separate incidents across the state
capital on Friday. […] “We have not come across any social media messages. But
the rumour about child kidnappers is spreading by word of mouth. We are
conducting awareness drives (against rumours),” said an official in the state
police headquarters. […]
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India Today
3 August 2019
Tihar in fear as 'ghosts'
spook many of its inmates
Officials at India's largest complex of prisons are
having sleepless nights these days as they face an unusually difficult
challenge - convincing a section of inmates that there are no ghosts in this
world! Every day, some Tihar inmates claim encountering spirits, Mail Today has
learnt from multiple reliable sources. "Some say they are slapped for
doing something that's bad. Others feel haunted by late-night wails. When they
are able to sleep, they claim to have common, eerie nightmares," said an
official. […]
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https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/plaiting-not-marker-theft-police-force-dispel-urban-myth-693320
Horse & Hound [UK]
4 August 2019
Plaiting is not a marker for
theft: police force dispel ‘urban myth’
[…] The West Yorkshire Police wildlife and rural crime
unit issued a statement after a call on 27 July from an owner who found her
horse with a plait in its mane, believing it had been marked for theft. “Over
the last few years we have done a lot of research into this with many forces.
There are no proven links between plaiting and horse theft,” said the
statement. Wildlife crime officer and Horsewatch co-ordinator Shaun Taylor […] said
the force receives around one call per month about horse plaiting. “Nine years
ago we were getting three or four calls a week reporting plaits so we seem to
be getting the message out there but we need to keep putting it out there,” he
said.
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