BBC News
12 August 2019
£15,000 on wine at the Shard
for first date? Viral story not true
By now most of us have probably heard, read about or
perhaps shared the story of THAT "expensive Tinder date". In summary:
A first date with a Tinder match. The Shard in London. Three bottles of wine. A
£15,000 bill. A 10-year direct debit to pay it off. The tale went viral a week
ago after a screen recording of it being told in a WhatsApp group was shared on
Twitter. But as good as the story is, it turns out it never happened. […]
A similar (but true) report:
NJ.com [New Jersey]
3 November 2014
Bamboozled: What happens when
a 'thirty-seven-fifty' bottle of wine really costs $3,750
[…] Joe Lentini, after a business dinner at Bobby Flay
Steak at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, experienced sticker
shock. […] The total bill was $4,700.61, including tax. The bottle of wine,
Screaming Eagle, Oakville 2011 -- cost $3,750. "I thought the wine was
$37.50," Lentini said. […]
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South China Morning Post
13 August 2019
Japanese belief in link
between deep-sea fish sightings and quakes is just a superstition, say
researchers
A long-held belief in Japan that sightings of deep-sea
fish foretell major earthquakes is simply a superstition, according to a
research team from two universities. The researchers from Tokai University and
the University of Shizuoka reached the conclusion after comparing earthquake
records with cases in which deep-sea fish were found beached or caught in
fishing nets over around 90 years. […]
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The Independent [UK]
14 August 2019
RNLI says story of parents
who billed them for £7 lilo after coastguard saved their child 'is anecdote
from 1980s'
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has
said the story of parents who sent them a £7 bill for a destroyed inflatable
lilo after their child rescued from the sea was "an anecdote from the
1980s". Mike Carter, president of RNLI’s Porthleven & District Branch,
told a recent meeting about rescuers scrambling a helicopter off Porthleven,
Cornwall after a girl drifted out to sea. According to his account, a crew
member jumped into the water and saved the child and both were winched to
safety - but the lilo was left in the water and the girl’s parents later sent
the RNLI a £7 bill for its cost. […]
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