Jihadists Posing as Medics – Filipino Deported Because of Sandwich – Scary Clown (Birmingham, UK)

https://factcheck.afp.com/false-police-alert-about-islamic-state-jihadists-posing-medics-has-spread-country-country

AFP Fact Check

 7 November 2019

This false police alert about Islamic State jihadists ‘posing as medics’ has spread from country to country

A hoax message claiming that jihadists from the Islamic State group are masquerading as medics offering people free blood tests -- while actually injecting them with the HIV virus -- has been circulating in various countries since 2017. The hoax, which has previously spread everywhere from India and Nepal to Ghana, has re-emerged recently in Kenya alongside a claim that three people were arrested over the plot in the city of Kisumu. […]

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https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2019/11/08/1966882/foodie-nightmare

The Philippine Star

8 November 2019

Foodie Nightmare

[…] This week, an even more frightening story that could be true, could be fake news, or urban legend has spread among local netizens about a Filipino traveler who absentmindedly carried a luncheon meat sandwich in his pocket or bag all the way to Japan and ended up being made to choose between paying a very large fine or be deported. For the record, I have heard two versions of the story. The other version puts the absentminded Filipino in Taiwan but also ends with his deportation to Manila. True or false, the tales do call attention to our habit of carrying food during our travels as well as bringing back home pasalubong or baon from abroad. Many Filipinos still don’t believe that you can also be stopped at the NAIA-DA quarantine and find any and all meat products from Asia confiscated. […]

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https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/investigation-launched-chilling-killer-clown-17293345

Birmingham Live [UK]

21 November 2019

Investigation launched as chilling 'killer clown' lurking in woods terrifies Solihull schoolkids

Youngsters were left 'petrified and shaken' after reportedly spotting a menacing clown lurking in a nature reserve as they made their way to school. The man - allegedly wearing a red clown wig, with a painted face and holding a red balloon with a picture of a knife - sparked terror after being spotted in Smith's Wood Nature Reserve on Wednesday morning. He spooked schoolchildren on their way to Smith's Wood Academy, on Windward Way, reportedly telling them to 'come here'. But the children - understood to be aged around 11 - fled the scene and reported the incident to their school. […]

Scary Clown (Sandhurst, UK) – Clock Tower Cow (West Virginia University) – Malay Pricing (Singapore)

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/terrifying-clown-emerges-woodland-sandhurst-17131276

Surrey Live [UK]

23 October 2019

Terrifying clown emerges from woodland in Sandhurst and sends children running

A man has described the "surreal" moment he saw a clown emerge from a woodland in Sandhurst after children had run screaming away from it. Jonathan Wood, who lives in Sandhurst, was cycling through Thibet Woods on Sunday afternoon (October 20) when a group of "terrified" children ran up to him. […] "I announced that I was calling the police," he said. "Then he proceeded to take his mask off, and one of the kids recognised him and was like: 'You scared the hell out of me'.” […]

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https://www.insider.com/west-virginia-university-haunted-woodburn-clock-tower-cow-legend-2019-10

Insider

25 October 2019

Inside West Virginia University's haunted clock tower, where students say they hear the tortured moos of a cow slaughtered in a prank gone wrong

[…] Legend has it that some of the school’s first students took a cow from a farm owned by the university and lead [sic] it up to the top of the tower for the whole student body to see. The students, not knowing that cows can't walk down stairs, didn't plan how to get it down. According to the legend, they were then forced to kill the cow, chops [sic] up its body, and walk down the pieces from the tower one by one. The clock tower is boarded up and off-limits [to] the public. But rumor has it that students walking by can still hear the cow's haunted mooing. Insider reached out to a West Virginia University student to find out just what's going on in the school's haunted tower. Armed with a camera and a fair dose of courage, […] Casey Johnson gained access to the tower and scavenged for clues. […]

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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/debunking-myth-malay-non-malay-033140922.html

Yahoo! News [Singapore]

25 October 2019

Debunking the Myth of ‘Malay’ and ‘Non-Malay’ Pricing

[…] Known to Singaporeans as a racially-motivated form of price discrimination, Malay pricing, as you would expect, commonly refers to those who look, or are Malay being charged a cheaper price for the same item than your Chinese Singaporean. Little has been said about this curious phenomenon, yet it seems like everyone agrees it’s “a thing”. We’ve all heard about a friend of a friend who was charged “more” for his meal as compared to his Malay pal. Maybe it’s even happened to you. But this is where it gets tricky: much of the evidence behind Malay pricing is anecdotal. […]

Smiley Face Killers – Hand Shaker Leaves Puncture Wounds – Threatening Clown

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/smiley-face-murder-serial-killer-drowning-death-882042/

Rolling Stone

13 September 2019

Why Three Investigators Blame a Rash of Drowning Deaths on a Gang of Killers

[…] Hurley and McNeil are part of what the now-retired Gannon, fellow former NYPD detective Anthony Duarte, and criminal-justice professor Lee Gilbertson have called an “epidemic” of college-educated young white men who have disappeared from nights out with friends and were later found dead in local rivers. Like Hurley’s death, most of these cases have been ruled accidental or undetermined drownings, with many blamed on alcohol consumption. But since 2008, Gannon, Duarte, and Gilbertson have argued that these deaths are instead the work of a ganglike organization of domestic terrorists — what has been coined the Smiley Face Killers because of happy-face graffiti found at purported crime scenes. […]

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/18/police-hunt-elderly-woman-bizarre-bus-assault/

The Telegraph [UK]

18 September 2019

Police hunt elderly woman after bizarre bus 'assault'

Police are hunting an elderly woman who is suspected of launching a bizarre assault on two bus passengers who were left with puncture wounds after shaking her hand. Lincolnshire Police said the incident happened on August 6 on a bus that was travelling between Skegness and Lincoln. The two male victims had spoken to the woman briefly before she shook their hands and got off the bus at Horncastle. A short time later they realised they both had small puncture wounds on their hands. […]

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https://www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/parents-warned-after-killer-clown-16932984

My London

17 September 2019

Parents warned after 'Killer Clown' terrifies schoolboy in Brentford

Parents in Brentford have been warned to keep their kids vigilant after a man wearing a "Killer Clown" mask left a child on his way to school terrified this morning (Tuesday, September 17). The child encountered the man in a mask when he got off a bus at the Travelodge near Kew Bridge at 8am. The man is reported to have shouted at the boy "I’m going to get you". […]