Times
Colonist [Victoria, BC]
3 April
2019
In construction trade, ‘Don’t be a tool’ drive aims at
cultural shift
An
experienced carpenter ordered Tom Sigurdson — then a newbie in construction —
to collect a box of three-quarter-inch holes. Sigurdson clearly recalls that
day four decades ago. He went to the supply shed and came back with a 50-pound
box of washers. The older worker said: “ ‘You fool.’ He called me all kinds of
names.” Sigurdson was ordered back, and he returned with a 50-pound box of
nuts. The older worker exploded. “He just was berating me.” When [sic] Sigurdson asked what he wanted them
for. “He looks at me and this is when he started to laugh. He said, ‘So I don’t
have to drill.’ ” Everyone else on the worksite “had a good laugh because I was
green.” […]
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Shanghaiist
4 April
2019
Yet another Chinese traveler detained for throwing
“good luck” coins before boarding flight
[…] Yet another
Chinese traveler has been detained after throwing coins just before boarding a
plane as a way of praying for a safe flight. This latest incident occurred on
Tuesday at the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport. Surveillance camera footage
posted online shows a man in a red jacket flipping coins off a gap in the air
bridge before stepping onto the plane. […] This is now at least the sixth time
that this kind of thing has happened in China in the past two years. […]
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New York
Times
27 March
2019
‘Dog Suicide Bridge’: Why Do So Many Pets Keep Leaping
Into a Scottish Gorge?
[…] Residents
of Dumbarton, which is northwest of Glasgow, began calling Overtoun, a
century-old bridge that stretches across a 50-foot gorge, the “dog suicide
bridge.” […] Local researchers estimate more than 300 have sailed off the
bridge; tabloid reports say it’s 600. At least 50 dogs are said to have died. Some
say there are rational explanations involving the terrain and the scents of
mammals in the gorge that may drive the dogs into a frenzy. Other explanations
take on a more paranormal tone. […]
