Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Water Caltrop Vendor Isn’t Selling Bats – Robbers Use Lasers on Female Drivers – Karen Silkwood’s Radioactive Remains



Taipei Times [Taiwan]
9 February 2020

Virus Outbreak: Water caltrop seller says bat rumor is a misunderstanding

A water caltrop vendor in Pingtung County has been receiving unwanted attention after a foreign tourist commented that the vendor appeared to be selling bats as food. People are jumpy due to reports of the 2019 novel coronavirus, with rumors attributing its spread to Chinese eating bats and other wild animals, said the vendor, who asked to remain anonymous. The rumors about his stall appeared to have started after the tourist mistook an image of a water caltrop on signage as being an image of a bat, he said. […]

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Fermanagh Herald [Northern Ireland]
8 February 2020

Police rubbish claims lasers are blinding female driver

POLICE have quashed fears that drivers are being distracted by people using lasers. Earlier this week a social media post sparked widespread reaction and shock as claims were aired that a woman travelling from Enniskillen toward Omagh was ‘targeted’ by this type of activity. […] The original post read, “Warning girls, a girl from work was driving from Enniskillen to Omagh this evening when a car behind her started flashing a laser in her back window. It was very blinding but she managed to get away and called the Police. Police said its been happening a lot as a way of getting female drivers to pull over and are then robbed so please everyone be careful.” […]

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Adrienne Rich, “Visceral Is Political,” Shameless Feminists: World War 3 Illustrated #50 (2019), p. 36. “Your best friend who works in Los Alamos says Karen Silkwood’s body parts are stored frozen in the rat lab ‘cause they’re too radioactive to bury.”

According to a 1994 AP report, after Silkwood’s autopsy in Oklahoma, some of her body parts “were removed and taken to the Los Alamos lab for additional testing,” but there is no mention that they were too radioactive to bury.
 


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