Flower Sellers Get Roses from Graveyards (Mumbai)

http://scroll.in/article/663199/Do-Mumbai%27s-streetside-flower-sellers-really-get-their-roses-from-graveyards?

Scroll.in [India]

30 May 2014

Do Mumbai's streetside flower sellers really get their roses from graveyards?

Mridula Chari

Among Mumbai's more abiding urban legends is the one that the bouquets sold at traffic lights are actually floral offerings stolen from the city's graveyards. How else, the logic goes, could the vendors afford to sell flowers so cheap?

The truth, it turns out, is less morbid. Far from skulking around cemeteries at night and making off with flowers left there by grieving relatives, certain street sellers in south Mumbai have a far more reputable source for their wares: five-star hotels. […]

Park Waterslide Test Riders Go Airborne

http://www.kansascity.com/2014/05/23/5042658/schlitterbahn-verruckt-rumors.html

Kansas City Star

24 May 2014

Schlitterbahn: Verrückt rumors untrue, no test riders have gone airborne

By DUGAN ARNETT

Schlitterbahn’s record-setting Verrückt waterslide has garnered plenty of attention in recent months, as it gets closer to opening. But park officials are learning that attention can be accompanied by rumor and innuendo.

In the wake of the latest speculation surrounding the attraction — rumors that riders had gone airborne during a test run — a spokesperson for the Kansas City, Kan., waterpark on Friday denied any such occurrence.

“I can absolutely say that no test riders have gone airborne on the slide, because no test riders have gone down the slide,” said Layne Pitcher, chuckling. […]

Mass Shooters Are Democrats

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/az-congressional-candidate-says-mass-shooters-are-democrats/article_fa1efe8e-de13-11e3-a781-001a4bcf887a.html

Arizona Daily Star

17 May 2014

AZ congressional candidate says mass shooters are Democrats (with audio)

Becky Pallack Arizona Daily Star

FLORENCE — Congressional District 1 candidate Gary Kiehne made extreme comments about gun rights at a Republican primary debate Saturday.

Asked how he would protect gun rights, Kiehne said he owns more guns and ammunition than the other candidates and said everyone should own a gun.

When it comes to mass shootings, “if you look at all the fiascos that have occurred, 99 percent of them have been by Democrats pulling their guns out and shooting people,” Kiehne said to an audience of about 60 people. “So I don’t think you have a problem with the Republicans.” […]

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/kiehne-apologizes-for-saying-mass-shooters-are-democrats/article_d2750e68-df81-11e3-ab58-0019bb2963f4.html

Arizona Daily Star

9 May 2014

Kiehne apologizes for saying mass shooters are Democrats

By Becky Pallack

Arizona Congressional District 1 candidate Gary Kiehne issued an apology for the comment he made at a debate in Florence on Saturday.

Kiehne said at the debate: “If you look at all the fiascos that have occurred, 99 percent of them have been by Democrats pulling their guns out and shooting people. So I don’t think you have a problem with the Republicans.”

Here's the full text of Kiehne's apology:

"This past weekend, I made a comment about the political affiliation of perpetrators of gun violence in the heat of a debate. I've since learned that the information that I based the comment off of was inaccurate and incorrect.” […]