Taipei Times [Taiwan]
9 February 2020
Virus Outbreak: Water caltrop seller says bat rumor is
a misunderstanding
A water caltrop vendor in Pingtung County has been
receiving unwanted attention after a foreign tourist commented that the vendor
appeared to be selling bats as food. People are jumpy due to reports of the
2019 novel coronavirus, with rumors attributing its spread to Chinese eating
bats and other wild animals, said the vendor, who asked to remain anonymous. The
rumors about his stall appeared to have started after the tourist mistook an
image of a water caltrop on signage as being an image of a bat, he said. […]
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Fermanagh Herald [Northern Ireland]
8 February 2020
Police rubbish claims lasers are blinding female
driver
POLICE have quashed fears that drivers are being
distracted by people using lasers. Earlier this week a social media post
sparked widespread reaction and shock as claims were aired that a woman
travelling from Enniskillen toward Omagh was ‘targeted’ by this type of
activity. […] The original post read, “Warning girls, a girl from work was
driving from Enniskillen to Omagh this evening when a car behind her started
flashing a laser in her back window. It was very blinding but she managed to
get away and called the Police. Police said its been happening a lot as a way
of getting female drivers to pull over and are then robbed so please everyone
be careful.” […]
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Adrienne Rich, “Visceral Is Political,” Shameless Feminists: World War 3 Illustrated #50
(2019), p. 36. “Your best friend who works in Los Alamos says Karen
Silkwood’s body parts are stored frozen in the rat lab ‘cause they’re too
radioactive to bury.”
According to a 1994
AP report, after Silkwood’s autopsy in Oklahoma, some of her body parts “were
removed and taken to the Los Alamos lab for additional testing,” but there is
no mention that they were too radioactive to bury.
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