Gang Initiation Rumor: Sorority Members at UH To Be Shot

http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/2015/05/12/uh-students-scared-by-shooting-rumors/27159247/

KHOU-TV [Houston]

11 May 2015

UH students scared by shooting rumors

HOUSTON – Some University of Houston sorority members no longer feel safe staying in their house because of online rumors. […]

Social media rumors suggested that gang members in a red car plan to attack sorority women. Over the weekend, shots fired outside the Vue Apartments off-campus triggered those threats. […]

http://www.khou.com/story/news/local/2015/05/11/uh-security-increases-after-rumored-sorority-threat/27146321/

KHOU-TV [Houston, TX]

11 May 2015

UH security increases after rumored sorority threat

http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Rumors-of-Bloods-gang-threat-against-UH-sororities-6256186.php#photo-7962331

Houston Chronicle

11 May 2015

Rumors of Bloods gang threat against UH sororities unfounded

By Craig Hlavaty

Coat’s Chinese Characters Read “Condensed Milk”

Denys Parsons, Funny Amusing and Funny Amazing (London: Pan Books, 1969), p. 47.

CHINESE PUZZLE

The American woman tourist insisted on buying the material for a coat, and brushed aside the protests of the Chinese salesman. She just loved that authentic Chinese lettering on the material.

But when the woman collected her new coat and put it on, Chinese children kept following her in the street, says Gene Gleason in his book ‘Tales of Hongkong’ (Robert Hale, 25s). And in a restaurant everyone stared at her in amazement. They seemed intrigued by the Chinese lettering, which was across her chest. At last, the woman’s husband asked a waiter to explain the characters. The translation was ‘condensed milk’. -- Weekend

Coded Teddy Bears on Honduran Taxis and Buses

http://fusion.net/story/130557/why-are-hondurans-terrified-of-taxi-drivers-with-teddy-bears/

Fusion

5 May 2015

Why are Hondurans terrified of taxi drivers with teddy bears?

by Tim Rogers

There’s a troubling new trend on the streets of Tegucigalpa these days: taxi drivers with teddy bears.

And no, it’s not some creepy pedophile thing.

According to Honduran social media and newspaper reports, cabbies and bus drivers who have stuffed animals sitting on their dashboard, hanging from their rearview mirror, or tied to their vehicle’s front grille could be signaling gang members.

Though no one seems to have fully decoded the teddy bears’ secrets, it’s rumored that different colored stuffed animals mean the bus driver is or isn’t paying extortion to certain gangs. A stuffed animal displayed through the windshield could be a signal to gangs that the driver isn’t paying extortion at all, but is willing to cooperate with gang members if they stop the vehicle to rob the passengers onboard, according to the social media fretting of Hondurans. […]