Saturday, October 26, 2019

Scary Clown (Sandhurst, UK) – Clock Tower Cow (West Virginia University) – Malay Pricing (Singapore)



Surrey Live [UK]
23 October 2019

Terrifying clown emerges from woodland in Sandhurst and sends children running

A man has described the "surreal" moment he saw a clown emerge from a woodland in Sandhurst after children had run screaming away from it. Jonathan Wood, who lives in Sandhurst, was cycling through Thibet Woods on Sunday afternoon (October 20) when a group of "terrified" children ran up to him. […] "I announced that I was calling the police," he said. "Then he proceeded to take his mask off, and one of the kids recognised him and was like: 'You scared the hell out of me'.” […]

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Insider
25 October 2019

Inside West Virginia University's haunted clock tower, where students say they hear the tortured moos of a cow slaughtered in a prank gone wrong

[…] Legend has it that some of the school’s first students took a cow from a farm owned by the university and lead [sic] it up to the top of the tower for the whole student body to see. The students, not knowing that cows can't walk down stairs, didn't plan how to get it down. According to the legend, they were then forced to kill the cow, chops [sic] up its body, and walk down the pieces from the tower one by one. The clock tower is boarded up and off-limits [to] the public. But rumor has it that students walking by can still hear the cow's haunted mooing. Insider reached out to a West Virginia University student to find out just what's going on in the school's haunted tower. Armed with a camera and a fair dose of courage, […] Casey Johnson gained access to the tower and scavenged for clues. […]

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Yahoo! News [Singapore]
25 October 2019

Debunking the Myth of ‘Malay’ and ‘Non-Malay’ Pricing

[…] Known to Singaporeans as a racially-motivated form of price discrimination, Malay pricing, as you would expect, commonly refers to those who look, or are Malay being charged a cheaper price for the same item than your Chinese Singaporean. Little has been said about this curious phenomenon, yet it seems like everyone agrees it’s “a thing”. We’ve all heard about a friend of a friend who was charged “more” for his meal as compared to his Malay pal. Maybe it’s even happened to you. But this is where it gets tricky: much of the evidence behind Malay pricing is anecdotal. […]

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