Dayton Daily News [OH]
18 February 2020
VAN VIDEO: Springfield man claims teen girl in danger;
police say ‘we’ve never had a complaint’
A video has been shared thousands of times on social
media. Behind the camera is a Springfield man who said he witnessed someone
inside a van trying to lure a teenager inside, but police claim they have not
had a single complaint. […] “We’ve had this for probably about a year, people
saying there is a white van trying to pick up females,” Lt. Lou Turner of the
Springfield Police Division said. “We have never had a complaint saying
somebody tried to pick them up.” […] When police check up on such incidents,
Turner said, “it’s always ‘it did happen’ and then you go talk to them and it’s
‘oh, well it happened to a friend’ or ‘i heard this from a friend.’” […]
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New York Times
26 February 2020
The Truth About Alligators in the Sewers of New York
Sightings over the decades have lent an air of
legitimacy to the century-old urban myth. Here’s how it all started.
They are big. They are vicious. Some say they are
albinos, because of a lack of sunlight. They are the alligators that supposedly
infest New York City’s sewer system, slithering through the bowels just under
the street level, feeding on rats and rubbish and terrorizing sewer workers
armed with guns for self-defense. These gators may be the city’s most entrenched
urban myth, one that has permeated pop culture and has become a recurring theme
in books, television shows and movies. […]
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The Jakarta Post [Indonesia]
23 February 2020
Child protection commissioner apologizes for saying
‘strong sperm’ could impregnate women in swimming pools
An Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI)
commissioner has apologized for claiming that women could get pregnant from
swimming in the same pool as men. KPAI commissioner for health, narcotics, and
addictive substances, Sitti Hikmawatty, conceded that she had made an
“inaccurate statement”. […] Sitti made the statement during an interview with
tribunnews.com, saying that women should exercise caution when swimming in a
public swimming pool with men or risk getting pregnant. “There is an especially
strong type of male sperm that may cause […] pregnancy in a swimming pool,”
Sitti said in the interview. “Even without penetration, men may become sexually
excited [by women in the pool] and ejaculate, therefore causing a pregnancy.” […]
