Black Gangs Steal Asians' Gold (UK)

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2011/07/15/cops-scotch-gold-raid-rumours-in-worried-small-heath-community-97319-29056442/

Birmingham Mail [UK]
15 July 2011

Cops scotch gold raid rumours in worried Small Heath community

by Mark Cowan, Birmingham Mail

UNFOUNDED rumours circulating via text that Asian families are being robbed in their own homes by gangs of black men for their gold jewellery have been blamed for leaving a community in fear.

The messages contained wild claims that a woman had a hand and fingers chopped off and 80 homes in Small Heath had been raided in the past fortnight.

But police chiefs dismissed the details as urban myths and revealed that there had actually only been six such break-ins targeting Asian gold since February. [...]

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2011/07/16/climate-of-fear-hits-small-heath-after-rumours-97319-29063465/

Birmingham Mail [UK]
16 July 2011

Climate of fear hits Small Heath after rumours

by Nick McCarthy, Birmingham Mail

RESIDENTS and shopkeepers in Small Heath have spoken about how the community is living in fear.

Asian jewellers spoke out after the Birmingham Mail revealed yesterday that the area had been swept by what police have called ‘fabricated’ myths about gangs of black men targeting householders for gold. [...]

Donkey Kababs

http://www.emirates247.com/news/restaurant-shut-after-donkey-kabab-rumour-2011-07-14-1.407775

Emirates 24/7 [Dubai, UAE]
14 July 2011

Restaurant shut after 'donkey kabab' rumour

By Staff

Saudi authorities shut a famous Arab restaurant after health inspectors discovered massive hygienic violations during a raid triggered by rumors that it secretly serves donkey kabab, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

Environment and health department inspectors stormed the restaurant in the southern town of Khamis Mushait and discovered that most of the meat served there had expired while foodstuff stores lack safety conditions.

“The inspectors found out that the rumors about donkey kabab were not true but discovered massive violations of health rules,” Sabq daily said. [...]

Midget Castle (Cabazon, CA)

http://www.recordgazette.net/articles/2011/07/11/news/doc4e162aad9c973968879802.txt

Record Gazette [Banning, CA]
11 July 2011

Urban legends of the Pass

BY BILL BELL

[...] One of the most interesting urban legends of Cabazon is the one of the circus train that allegedly derailed in Cabazon in the 1950s or 60s. Several members of the circus chose to remain behind after the train and track were repaired. They settled in Cabazon and kept many of the circus animals.

I spoke with a retired post office worker who remembers a troupe of these circus workers who would walk to the Cabazon Post Office with several of the animals on leashes. She particularly remembered a bear on a leash walking along with the troupe. They were described as “little people” and at the time disparagingly called “Circus Midgets.”

They reportedly built a small castle out of the abundant rock in the area. After numerous attempts I finally found the rock castle on property located between Esperanza and Dolores avenues, one day after it had been destroyed by fire. It was in the middle of a scorched grove of Eucalyptus trees and all that remained was the chimney, the doorway and a few feet of the rock wall. The doorway was very low and I had to duck to get under it. Inside the still-smoldering structure were remnants of chairs and tables built to the size of children’s furniture. The caretaker of the property confirmed that it had been a rock castle built by “little people.” [...]

Devil Worshippers in Ellen Trout Park, Texas

http://lufkindailynews.com/life/community_news/article_4522d61c-aaa0-11e0-a58c-001cc4c002e0.html

The Lufkin Daily News [TX]
10 July 2011

Rumors of devil worshipping in Lufkin, many of which take place at Ellen Trout Park, have been circulating at school lunch tables since the 1980s

By JESSICA COOLEY/The Lufkin Daily News

[...] Charlotte Henley, Ellen Trout Zoo director of educational services, has lived in Ellen Trout Park, not far from the stone benches, for the last three decades and had no knowledge of the devil worship rumor until she got a phone call from a Lufkin Daily News reporter last week. She didn’t have to do much asking around before finding a source close to home.

“I talked to both of my kids who are now grown and they had heard the same rumors — rumors of people being over there sacrificing animals and tying rags to trees,” Henley said. “My daughter told me that any tree they tied a rag on was supposed to die.” [...]

Americans Blame Canadians for Flooding

http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/556350/Don-t-be-mad-at-Canadians.html

Minot Daily News [ND]
4 July 2011

Letters

Don’t be mad at Canadians

Wendy Friess, Estevan, Sask.

I don't understand. I am hearing all sorts of rumors about how Minot is angry with Canadians. The stories include slashed tires, keyed vehicles, and refusal of service to Canadians while in Minot. [...] It is very sad that we are now scared to bring our families and our business to your city.

Comments

MomOfSix
Jul-04-11 5:45 PM

It only takes one incident to ruin a city's reputation and there have been more than just ONE incident. We were planning a few trips to Minot this summer and fall and we have canceled them all. I know people personally from Manitoba who have been told to "take back their water" (ridiculous since the water from Minot flows TO Manitoba, not from) and two people who have been refused service and one other who had hotel reservations that were not honored because they were Canadian. [...]

http://www.leaderpost.com/news/Minot+battling+rumours+that+Sask+residents+being+harassed+blamed+flooding/5054515/story.html

Leader-Post [Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada]
5 July 2011

Minot battling rumours that Sask. residents are being harassed and blamed for flooding

By Will Chabun, Leader-Post

REGINA -- As if Curt Zimbelman doesn’t have enough problems, there are the rumours.

The mayor of Minot, N.D., is facing an epic disaster that has flooded huge parts of his city.

Eleven thousand people -- a quarter of its population -- are unable to return to their flooded homes.

Now, there’s an assault on the city’s tourism industry via rumours that are running rampant north of the border. They hold that Canadians are being verbally harassed, shunned and even having their vehicles “keyed” and tires slashed -- because of a misplaced belief that Saskatchewan somehow is responsible for the floodwaters that engulfed Minot and other centres along the Souris River over the last three weeks. [...]

Giant Catfish Caught in Buggs Island Lake

http://www.newsleader.com/article/20110706/NEWS01/107060315/Buggs-Island-Lake-catfish-legend-grows-grows

News Leader [Staunton, VA]
6 July 2011

Buggs Island Lake catfish legend grows and grows

Written by
The Washington Post

MECKLENBURG COUNTY -- Talk to fishermen here and you will hear the legend of Buggs Island Lake: A Navy diver sent to recover the wreckage of a small plane encounters a fish the size of a man on the lake's bottom. He bolts to the surface and refuses to dip a toe into the waters again.

The yarn seemed as dubious as any other fish tale -- until two weeks ago. An angler hooked a 143-pound blue catfish in this reservoir along the Virginia-North Carolina border; it smashed the state record by more than 30 pounds and could be a world record. [...]

Death by Electric Fan (South Korea)

http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110704000552

The Korea Herald
4 July 2011

Summer death revives fan death myth

By Kang Yoon-seung

A man reportedly died on Monday morning after sleeping with an electric fan running.

The 59 years-old victim, only known by his surname Min, was found dead with the fan fixed directly at him.

The police revealed that although Min used to suffer from relatively high blood pressure, it was not serious enough to require medication. They are still investigating the cause of death.

Meanwhile, deaths near electric fans happen occasionally during summer, which leads people to propagate myths about danger of sleeping with them on. [...]

Dad's Bet on Jimmy Mulville

Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles (London: Penguin Books, 2010), p. 403.

The Zanzibar swarmed with media people. Jimmy Mulville was often there. This sharp, witty, fast-brained Liverpudlian had been something of a legend in Cambridge, having left the year I arrived. He had gone up to read Latin and ancient Greek, and a less likely Cambridge classicist you could never hope to meet. The rumour was that his father, a docker from Walton, had come home one night when Jimmy was seventeen and said, 'You'd better do well in your A levels and that, son, because I've just been to the bookies and put down a bet on you getting all A grades and a scholarship to Cambridge. Got a good price too.'

'Christ, Dad!' Jimmy is reported to have said in shock. 'How much did you bet?'

'Everything,' came the reply. 'So get studying.'

They say that today's schoolchildren now suffer more exam pressure than my generation ever did, and generally I have no doubt that this is true, but I don't suppose many have had to endure pressure of the kind Jimmy did that year. He duly obliged with the straight As and the scholarship.

It is too good a story for me to check up and risk the disappointment of it being proved a distortion or exaggeration.

Cockroaches in Vacuum Gassed

New Scientist, 25 October 1962, vol. 16, no. 310, p. 222.

Letters

The great vacuum cleaner mystery

Sir, -- Mr Green's interesting article, The trouble with cockroaches (11 October), prompts the following story of an experience of a friend of mine some years ago. Returning late from the club one Saturday night he found everybody in bed, but his kitchen floor alive with cockroaches. Being of a tidy mind he sucked up as many as he could in a vacuum cleaner. Then the thought that they were not dead but merely snug in the cleaner prompted him to connect it by rubber tubing to a gas tap, and to fill the cleaner with gas. He retired happily to bed and slept late. Next morning his wife found the cleaner and thought she would clean up a little: she switched it on and it promptly blew up! The representative of the manufacturers was called in, and he confessed that he had "never seen one go like that before." My friend kept his silence and eventually got his replacement vacuum cleaner. I dare say any surviving cockroaches were highly amused.

R. J. Morley
73 Egmont Road
Sutton, Surrey

[This letter is also reproduced in Denys Parsons, Funny Ha Ha and Funny Peculiar (London: Pan Books, 1965), p. 9.]

River Nile Poisoned by North Sudan

http://www.sudantribune.com/Juba-s-population-panics-over,39316

Sudan Tribune
24 June 2011

Juba’s population panics over rumours of water poisoning

June 23, 2011 (JUBA) – The urban population in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, panicked on Thursday after rumours that the river, which supplies the population in the city with water, had been poisoned by the North Sudan government just days ahead of the region’s independence. [...]

Number 39 Shunned in Afghanistan

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/21/136496527/forget-unlucky-13-in-afghanistan-beware-39

National Public Radio
21 May 2011

Forget Unlucky 13. In Afghanistan, Beware 39

by Ahmad Shafi and Najib Sharifi

[...] Many cultures consider certain numbers to signify luck or disaster. In Afghanistan, 39 is taboo.

It's hard to find a credible story to explain what exactly it means, but everyone knows it's bad. Many Afghans say that the number 39 translates into morda-gow, which literally means "dead cow" but is also a well-known slang term for a procurer of prostitutes -- a pimp.

In Afghanistan, being called a pimp is offensive, and calling someone a pimp could carry deadly consequences. Similarly, being associated with the number 39 -- whether it's on a vehicle license plate, an apartment number or a post office box -- is considered a great shame. And some people will go to great lengths to avoid it. [...]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303654804576347201745546630.html
The Wall Street Journal
15 June 2011
A Symbol of Paid Companionship, No. 39 Is Afghans' Loneliest Number
Associated With Prostitution, the Digits Bring Ridicule to an Unlucky Few
By DION NISSENBAUM

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/15/uk-afghanistan-number-idUSLNE75E01T20110615
Reuters
15 June 2011
Cursed number "39" haunts Afghan car owners
By Hamid Shaliz

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/15/afghanistan-curse-of-number-39
The Guardian [UK]
15 June 2011
The curse of number 39 and the steps Afghans take to avoid it
Car owners with 39 licence plates lament the stigma of a number associated with pimps and prostitution
Jon Boone in Kabul


http://www.iol.co.za/news/back-page/curse-of-no-39-haunts-car-dealers-1.1109021
The Independent [South Africa]
31 July 2011
Curse of No 39 haunts car dealers
By Mustafa Kazemi

Dog's Microchip Wedged in Restaurant Customer's Teeth

http://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk/news/local/ackworth/on_the_brink_of_ruin_1_3438639

Pontefract & Castleford Express [UK]
6 June 2011

On the brink of ruin

A CHINESE restaurant boss says his business is on the brink of bankruptcy after a vicious rumour claiming a dog’s microchip had been found wedged in a customer’s teeth swept the Five Towns.

Wai Wing Lee, manager of Eastern Court Cantonese Restaurant in Glass Houghton, claims hundreds of diners have been driven away by false reports that a dentist recovered a chip from between a diner’s teeth when he complained of toothache after eating at the Oriental buffet. [...]

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/yorkshire_restaurant_owners_fears_over_dog_chip_rumours_1_3453105
Yorkshire Evening Post [UK]
6 June 2011
Yorkshire restaurant owners’ fears over dog chip rumours

Arizona Fires Set by Illegal Aliens

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/us/02wildfires.html

New York Times
2 June 2011

As Arizona Fire Rages, So Does Rumor on Its Origin

By MARC LACEY

PORTAL, Ariz. - It is a dramatic tale: that illegal immigrants being pursued by the Border Patrol started one of the nation's largest wildfires, which has burned up more than 70,000 acres of national forest along Arizona's border with Mexico since it began almost four weeks ago. But the authorities say that despite the tale's being repeated often by some residents of the rugged countryside here, they do not know for sure if it is true. [...]

Hotel's Early Morning Bell

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/column-8/column-8-20110530-1fcw1.html

Sydney Morning Herald
31 May 2011

Column 8

[...] "The Hydro Majestic Hotel at Medlow Bath is due to reopen next year," we're told by Ross Langford-Brown, of Randwick, who asks: "Is there any truth in the story that in times gone by, a bell would ring early in the morning to ensure that visitors would return to their correct rooms?"

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/column-8/column-8-20110531-1femh.html

Sydney Morning Herald
1 June 2011

Column 8

[...] Equally devoid of scandal and innuendo is the explanation offered for the Hydro Majestic Hotel by Jo McGahey, of Belrose: ''My mother-in-law, whose father built and owned the Hydro, was most insistent that the (in)famous ringing noises in the early am originated from the ancient plumbing system. I guess that may have been possible.''

But maybe we're too far along the Great Western Highway. ''No, Ross Langford-Brown, it wasn't the Hydro Majestic,'' insists Michael Morton-Evans, of Mosman, ''but the Carrington Hotel in Katoomba, which had a notice at the top of the stairs on the first floor, which read: 'Guests are requested to be in their own rooms by the breakfast gong.''

Free Condoms Contain Sperm

http://news.am/eng/news/61397.html

NEWS.am [Armenia]
31 May 2011

Armenian Red Cross denies rumors on sperm-contaminated condoms

YEREVAN. – Armenian Red cross association denied the rumors that condoms provided by association contain sperm.

“Condoms are not out of date and are not sperm-contaminated,” informed program coordinator on preventing HIV/Aids Ekaterina Vardanyan in her interview with Armenian News NEWS.am.

Earlier Armenian Red Cross offered condoms to the young couples for free in the Yerevan Lovers’ Park without age discrimination. According to the rumors, those condoms were out of date and contained foreign sperm.

Turkey Neck

[Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humour (formerly Punch Digest for Canadian Doctors) was a Toronto publication which ran from 1990 to 2007.]

John Cocker, compiler, Stitches: Off-the-Wall Tales from the Doctor's Office, Hospital, and Operating Room (Toronto: Stoddart, 1993), pp. 23-4.

He Swears This Is True!

During a quiet moment on call one Christmas, a colleague related an experience that had occurred exactly a year earlier. A young lady had presented herself at the ER with a gash on her forehead and a rather sheepish grin on her face. On the way to the examining room the nurse had determined that the patient had struck her head on the coffee table, and then had pressed for details.

"It's all rather embarrassing, really," the patient said. "My husband John and I had come to spend Christmas with his sister Cathy here in Inverness, Nova Scotia. He was all tired out, so he went to take a nap on the couch while we were getting supper ready. Anyway, we ran out of poultry seasoning, so I went out to get some more.

"Now, you see, Cathy's full of the devil, right? She took the neck of the turkey and snuck down to the living room, pulled the zipper of John's pants open, and stuck the turkey neck there proud as a flagpole.

"The last thing I remember before coming to was walking through the door, seeing Johnnie sound asleep, and the cat gnawing away at that piece of turkey!"

Honest to God, this is true!

-- Dr. John Levine [director of palliative car in Inverness, Nova Scotia]

How Robbers Mark Your House (South Africa)

http://www.iol.co.za/capeargus/how-robbers-mark-your-house-1.1075708

The Independent [South Africa]

30 May 2011

How robbers mark your house

STAFF REPORTER

A STRAY cooldrink can in front of your property could be a potential marker for robbers, according to the Western Cape Provincial Police Board.

The board said criminals using coded markers was a reality, and was not just urban legend. [...]

Poison Gas Attacks on Beijing Subway

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2011-05/27/content_22652221.htm

China Daily

27 May 2011

Beijing police dispel rumor of subway poisoning

Police in Beijing have dismissed rumors of a poisoned gas attack on the subway system, urging commuters to stay calm after false reports circulated on the Internet, Beijing News reported on Thursday.

Reports that men are roaming subway lines 4 and 10 targeting young women with poisonous gas released from cell phones have spread widely on social networking sites sparking panic. [...]

Stolen Wheelbarrows

Harry Hershfield, Laugh Louder Live Longer (New York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1959), p. 166.

One of the better Communist stories. Every night, after factory hours, one of the workers would come out with a wheelbarrow filled with rubbish. The guard would examine it, find nothing and then let him pass. However, the guard was suspicious; that the fellow was stealing something, but he saw no proof. After months of the same procedure, he again examined the rubbish in the wheelbarrow and found nothing of value. The guard then said to him: "I know you're stealing something every night, but I can't discover what it is. Now, I'm being transferred from here to another city tonight, so I don't care anymore; but for my own sake, tell me, what are you stealing?" "Wheelbarrows," came the confession.

Tickets from a Burglar

Harry Hershfield, Laugh Louder Live Longer (New York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1959), pp. 162-3.

In their mail came two tickets for a hit-show. It was anonymously sent. The husband and wife tried to figure out as to who sent them. They called up all their friends, but they denied sending them. The husband then reported the situation to the box-office of the theatre. And was told: "If there has been a mistake in mailing them to you, the real owners of the tickets will also tell us about it. But if nobody reports by 8:15, then you have a legitimate right to use them." On that night, they waited in the lobby of the theatre, but still wondering to themselves: "I wonder who sent them to us?" All through the show, which they were now seeing, they still wondered: "From whom -- from whom?" After the show, and after a bite, they arrived home. Their place was a shambles, drawers scattered all over the place -- were completely burglarized. And on the table was a note, reading: "NOW YOU KNOW FROM WHOM."

Crying Child Lures Women

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/5/17/nation/8698156&sec=nation#13056570377341&if_height=291

The Star [Malaysia]
17 May 2011

Bakri: SMS about crying kids is a hoax

PETALING JAYA: Police say the SMS messages circulating about a syndicate which uses crying children to trap unsuspecting women in order to rob or rape them is fake. [...]

Secret Tunnel Under Wizard's House (Atlanta)

http://neighbornewspapers.com/stories/Tunnel-remains-mystery,171363?content_source=&category_id=&search_filter=&event_mode=&event_ts_from=&list_type=&order_by=&order_sort=&content_class=&sub_type=stories&town_id=&page=

Neighbornewspapers.com [Georgia]
11 May 2011

Peachtree Battle tunnel remains mystery

By Thornton Kennedy

[The house at 306 Peachtree Battle Ave. in Atlanta was built for Hiram Evans in 1935.]

[...] Evans was a former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and there have always been rumors of a secret tunnel. My father, Alfred Kennedy, said he heard the tunnel connected the house to the Cotton Exchange building just off the Buckhead triangle. Someone else said that the tunnel led to Bobby Jones Golf Course. I always heard the tunnel connected to the house across the street. The one constant in all the urban legends was that there was definitely a hidden tunnel. [...]

Soldier Refused Service (Klamath Falls, OR)

http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/article_aa22cf3a-7ad1-11e0-8d9f-001cc4c03286.html

Herald and News [Klamath Falls, OR]

10 May 2011

Rumors about gas station persist

By LEE JUILLERAT
H&N Regional Editor

Steven Graham said he was wearing his Army combat uniform when he walked up to the counter of the AMA Mini-Mart and put a can of beer on the counter and asked for a can of Copenhagen chewing tobacco.

"He said, ‘We have the right to refuse anybody,' then he pointed at my U.S. Army tag. He pretty much laughed at me so I left," said Graham, a member of the Oregon Army National Guard. [...]

Hotel's Broken Flagpole Not Meant to Honor bin Laden

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42930061/ns/us_news-life/

MSNBC
6 May 2011

Ohio hotel: Half-staff US flag not mourning bin Laden

An Ohio hotel has been fending off angry phone calls because a broken rope on its flagpole led some to think the business was mourning the death of Osama bin Laden.

The rope left the U.S. flag stuck at half-staff outside a Hampton Inn in Springfield in western Ohio two days before bin Laden was killed, its assistant general manager Connie Smith told msnbc.com.

However, people started noticing the flag and assuming its position was in honor of bin Laden on Tuesday. [...]

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/hotels-broken-flagpole-not-meant-to-honor-bin-laden-1153594.html

Springfield News-Sun [OH]
5 May 2011

Hotel's broken flagpole not meant to honor bin Laden

By Andrew McGinn, Staff Writer

Girl Escapes Abductors (Philippines)

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/05/06/11/girl-escapes-abductors-cdo

ABS-CBN News [Philippines]
6 May 2011

Girl escapes abductors in CDO

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – A kidnapped girl in Cagayan de Oro was able to safely escape her abductors early Thursday.

Reports said the girl was snatched on Wednesday by 2 women wearing masks along a road in Barangay Carmen.

Onboard a black van, the abductors took the girl to a construction site in Barangay Camaman-an.

Reports said that according to the victim, she went unconscious after one of the abductors covered her nose with a handkerchief.

When she woke up, the girl said she was already in a house being constructed. Other kidnapped children were with her in the house. [...]

Authorities are investigating if the incident had a connection with the rumor of kidnapped children whose internal organs were being snatched and sold. [...]

Warning of Attack on Paris Metro

[This seems to be a garbled variant of the Grateful Terrorist, with the terrorist handing over the lost wallet.]

http://www.expatica.com/fr/news/french-news/police-seek-origin-of-paris-attack-rumour-officials_147253.html

Expatica
6 May 2011

Police seek origin of Paris attack rumour: officials

French police said Friday they were investigating the origin of a rumoured plan to attack the Paris metro which spread across the city amid tension after the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Paris police officials who asked not to be named said the rumour started when a metro user was warned on Thursday by a fellow passenger of an impending attack.

The fellow passenger handed the man his lost wallet and told him not to use the metro on Friday because an attack was going to take place. [...]

Dead Cat Found in Restaurant Freezer

http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/9001511.Cat_rumour_could_ruin_restaurant_business/

Salisbury Journal [UK]
5 May 2011

Cat rumour could ruin restaurant business

By Morwenna Blake

A FAMILY is facing the ruin of their business because of a malicious rumour being spread about their restaurant business.

Xu Qiau Wu and her husband Cai Ming have run The Dragon Chinese restaurant in Fisherton Street, Salisbury, for the past 11 years.

But the couple, who have a son at school in the city and a daughter at university, have been left devastated and unsure of the future after a rumour that a dead cat was found in their freezer.

Despite having no basis in fact, the rumour has spread like wildfire and has led to business dropping off by a third in just two months. [...]

Bin Laden's Body Washes Ashore

[File under unintended consequences. Dispose of Bin Laden's body at sea to prevent his burial place from becoming a shrine, make possible rumors of his body washing ashore.]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/rajkot/Osama-rumour-has-Rajkot-in-a-tizzy/articleshow/8162641.cms

The Times of India
4 May 2011

Osama rumour has Rajkot in a tizzy

Kulsum Yusuf, TNN

RAJKOT: Rumours that Osama Bin Laden's body had been washed ashore in Mandvi led journalists and policemen on a wild goose chase on Tuesday. [...]

Kidney Hunters in Malaysia

http://www.mmail.com.my/content/71180-police-body-hunters-kuching-merely-rumours

The Malay Mail [Malaysia]
3 May 2011

Police: Body hunters in Kuching merely rumours

Bernama

KUCHING: Police advised the people here not to panic over the circulation of a SMS or postings in social networking website Facebook claiming that body hunters are hunting for kidneys and livers in the city. [...]

Did Mumbai Get the Wrong CST Station?

http://www.mid-day.com/specials/2011/may/010511-mumbai-heritage-buildings-victoria-terminus.htm

Mid Day [Mumbai, India]

1 May 2011

Did Mumbai get the wrong CST station?

By: FIONA FERNANDEZ

According to a rumour fuelled by a few Australian websites, in the late 1800s, the plans of Bombay's Victoria Terminus (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus) might have been swapped with those of Melbourne's Flinders Street Station. Sunday MiDDAY sets the record straight by throwing open the controversial subject to some of the city's most respected historians and architects [...]