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Strange and Bizarre News with Another Flying Pasta Story · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Friday morning, tenth day of May. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me.
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Graduation day for Columbus State University as always, really excited to be a
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part of it. Last night was the hooding ceremony and I was there for
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reading names and special announcements from the graduates. Great to be a part of
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that and looking forward to calling names for today's graduation ceremony. Going on three
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ceremonies today throughout the day at Columbus State University, my alma mater. I
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getting an opportunity to be part of it. And I say this all the
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time. I get excited about the chance to do it. I feel like
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it's one of those jobs that not a lot of people want. I've met
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other people who do names at other ceremonies different places, high schools and things.
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Most of them just kind of got it by default. They didn't want
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to do it. They're not particularly excited about doing it. They've asked,
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hey, would you be okay if we recommended you for my school? And
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sure, you know, if it fits in with my schedule. I'm glad
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to do it. Columbus State asking me to do it several years ago,
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and I said sure, And I said, well, you know, it's
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kind of a rough gig. Not a lot of people get the names right
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and when they do it, And I said, well, you know,
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I'll put the work in and i'll do my best and I'll try to get
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as many as I and I aim for that ninety five, you know,
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to ninety eight percent. I don't think I could get one hundred percent.
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I've had a couple of ceremonies where I think I got them all right.
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I mean, I really do. I think there's been a couple of the
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individual ceremonies where I've gotten all of them right, but I may be wrong.
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You know, it's this one up and then you just get onto the
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next one. Like sports man, you gotta have a short memory sometimes and
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some of them really stand out and you never forget them. I've told this
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story before, but I had a name once. The girl's name was Olivia.
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Her middle name started with an R, and I read Oliver, and
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I caught it and corrected it. But by that point, I think her
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family was already laughing and making a bunch of noise and having a good time
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with it, and then I left the building thinking I blew it for Olivia,
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Poor Olivia. And then just a few months after that, she was
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hired to work where I was working at the time. I did not know
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it was her right away and I met Olivia. She looked at me funny
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a couple of times, but I mean, it's me. I get used
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to people looking at me funny sometimes. And then about I guess. By
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the time the next graduation ceremony rolled around and I was talking about doing it,
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she said on that subject, She's like, we're cool now, right,
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And I said, what do you mean. We've always been cool,
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haven't we? No, No, but I mean we're friends now, so
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I can tell you this. And I said, what's that? And she
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said, you called my name at graduation a few months ago, and I
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said, oh my gosh, you're Oliver. I didn't realize it. I
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had no idea. And when I'm calling the names, I don't really see
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the students, so I didn't really see her when I called her name.
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Maybe looked over to watch her walk across the stage, but from my angle,
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I'm not seeing her face. So it never occurred to me that it
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was Oliver that I was working with. But anyway, some of them stand
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out just because they're difficult names, and I try to get those right.
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I had a couple of parents come up and shake my hand. I've been
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given a standing ovation from a table of graduates when I walked into a restaurant
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after a graduation ceremony a few years ago because I got all of their kids
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with difficult names correct. So those kind of memories, and I appreciate the
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opportunity to do it. And I think Columbus State for letting me be the
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voice of Columbus State University's academics. My good friend Scott Miller, the voice
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of athletics. I got academics lockdown. So it is Friday. It's time
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to dive into some strange and bizarre news from around the world. We'll start
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with the story that I'll be honest. When I found it, I thought,
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I think I've already done this story, and I realized, no,
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no, no, this is the second story like this in a very short
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amount of time. This is not the same one. So if you remember
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a similar one, you're like me. You knew it sounded familiar. In
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this case. The other one I guess happened in Indiana. This one happened
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in Florida. Man was arrested after a road rage incident where he attacked another
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driver with pot with a sicy, sicy, saucy pasta. I never realized
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that was tricky. Gotta get all that out before I do graduation. Later,
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he attacked another driver with saucy pasta. There you go, cops in
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Saint Petersburg said. Forty six year old Nolan Goins was upset about another driver's
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glaring headlights and reacted by pulling up next to him and throwing a container of
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pasta at him out the window. The victim was covered in red sauce and
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pasta and called police. Cops arrived and caught up with Goins, who had
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the same red pasta sauce stains on his arm that was his throwing arm.
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They placed him under arrest. He was charged with battery booked into county jail.
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He also has a long rap sheet of offenses, including selling drugs and
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battery. Believed to be his first defense involving pasta. Maybe not his first
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one with garlic bread. Now, I may have made the same joke last
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time. Saucy pasta I did it. I can do it. I can
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I'm good. I'm good for I'm good for graduation today, saucy pasta.
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There we go, all right. Things that you probably shouldn't do. Skydive
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without a parachute, hand feed sharks, go bungee jumping without measuring the cord
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first, or at least making sure someone who knows how to measure bungee cords
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did it. How about getting drunk and kicking a two thousand pounds wild animal
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at Yellowstone National Park. According to the National Park Service, forty year old
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man from Idaho was arrested by park rangers after receiving a report of someone harassing
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I heard of bison and kicking one of the animals in the leg. The
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man was then injured by one of the animals before he fled the area.
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Rangers caught up to him and his friend as they tried to drive through the
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park. The man and his friend were said to be intoxicated and both arrested.
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The extent of the man's injury unknown, although he did receive treatment while
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in police custody. Forty year old was charged with being under the influence of
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alcohol, disorderly conduct, and approaching wildlife. His friend was busted for driving
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under the influence and disturbing wildlife. Things that you should not do. Don't
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kick animals, especially not ones that are a lot bigger than you. I
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mean, you shouldn't kick them anyway. And I suppose you could make a
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case it's better to kick the big ones than the small ones. But seventy
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six year old man in Montreal had a wild bathroom experience. It's just a
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reminder, look before you sit whenever you're going to the bathroom. The unnamed
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man was sent to the hospital after he was bitten by a diseased rat that
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was lounging in his toilet. All right, remind me not to use the
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bathroom in Montreal. The man spot of the road as swimming around and reached
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his hand into grab it, and that's when he got his hand bitten right
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on the finger. Himself over to the hospital, where he was given a
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tetanus shot and sent home. Several days later, began to experience fever,
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headaches, abdominal pain, so he returned to the hospital. Tests at the
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hospital determined he was suffering multiple organ dysfunction and sepsis, and was ultimately diagnosed
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with leptospirosis and infectious disease likely transmitted by rat bites. He was given antibiotics
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and other treatments, and after his symptoms finally improved, he was discharged from
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the hospital. Leptose sporrosis. Maybe did I get it right? Saucy pasta?
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All right? As long as I can say saucy pasta, I'm still
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in the zone. All right. So how about this story. There was
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a guy who lives in Pennsylvania, Barry tanger got two letters from the IRS
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last week. It's about that time of year getting letters from the IRS.
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First one he opened was the expected one refund check for nine hundred dollars.
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He was like, yes, there we go, got my nine hundred bucks.
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Second letter he opened was a bill in the amount of thirty four point
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five billion dollars. Tandret said, I knew it was an obvious blunder.
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I don't even make over one hundred thousand a year, so there's no way
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I could owe anywhere near that. Tangart immediately reached out to the Pennsylvania Department
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of Revenue spoke to a customer service rep who said, Wow, you've had
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a good year. Tangar replied, I wish the matter has been corrected,
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and TANGRT never really got an explanation for what exactly it was that caused the
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mistake. I went to pick up some medicine recently for one of my boys,
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and for some reason, it rang up an insane amount of money.
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Not quite that much money, but this particular medication rang up at the pharmacy
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ninety thousand, four hundred four dollars and fifty one cent. They had to
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avoid it out and run it through again. Second, go through fifty one
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cents, So you know, it's not quite the same as getting a thirty
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four point five billion dollar bill in the mail from the irs. Still kind
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of scary when you're trying to get some medicine home to your kid, though.
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Folks in New York think they've seen it all, but not typically live
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animals roaming the streets. Maybe before you know, you get pizza rat and
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things like that, but not a whole I don't know what you know.
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You got a flock of some animals, a murder of crows. I don't
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know what you call. Dozens of chickens. Dozens of chickens were running around
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Brooklyn Heights on Monday, not far from the entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge,
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after the doors of the truck they were traveling in suddenly swung open. Witnesses
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said that the driver did not realize that were open and just kept driving.
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And that's when cages of chickens started to spill out of the back and some
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of the cages opened up, and that's when the chickens started to go out
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into the streets. And that's I guess when things get interesting. I guess
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it's just a brood or a flock of chickens. A flock of chickens that
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makes sense, no seagulls. I didn't know chickens as well, but I
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like brood. I like that. Police briefly closed traffic while officers and workers
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picked up the cages and chased after the freed birds. They were eventually picked
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up and taken to a secure location. I don't know if you've ever I
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know you've probably seen Rocky. You know it's not easy catching chickens. I
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can just tell you from personal experience working in an office. My good friend
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Mike once released a chicken from a little tiny cage. It had been mailed
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to someone kind of as a joke. In this office, and he thought,
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well, he didn't release it, he'd convinced somebody else to release it.
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Oh, look at the poor thing, and this other person let it
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go, and then it started to run around and poop everywhere, and just
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catching it in an office area is not easy to do, so streets in
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New York. I'm not entirely certain they've caught all the chickens, That's all
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I'm getting at. Are we sure all of the chickens have been of the
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brood have been gathered. I don't know. I don't know if we could
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ever really know the answer to that. A Florida man recently learned when you
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vandalize a police car, you get caught, you'll be in trouble, especially
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if you vandalize the police car by carving your name into it. Thirty three
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year old enderlin Leonce of Broward County is accused of scratching his own name onto
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the hood of a sheriff Deputies troll car. A witness watched him do it
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called nine to one one. When officers responded, they saw that a metal
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tool was used to etch out The name is enderlind Leonce officers did a check
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on the name and tracked him down to his home a short distance away.
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Leonce greeted officers and said, I did it. I committed the crime,
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and I should be going to jail. The officer agreed placed him under arrest.
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After a quick stop at the hospital for mental evaluation, Leonce was booked
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into jail. I mean, the confession was right there on the hood of
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the car, but it was nice of him to confirm it, to back
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it up once they arrived. All right. Finally, a Condor Airline flight
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from Mauritius to Frankfurt, Germany, reported seventy of the two hundred and ninety
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passengers on board felt sick and started throwing up. This sounds like a plot
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to a movie. It's unclear what caused the illness, and no members of
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the crew were affected. The pilot called ahead to the airport to have medical
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team ready for their arrival, and all of the sick and passengers were seen
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by medical professionals when they landed. The airline has already launched an investigation into
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the cause, and they're looking at the food which was prepared in Mauritius.
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Don't call me Shirley and all that, you know. Striker, Striker Striker
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Striker. Yeah, that's scary stuff. I can only imagine being on a
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plane with that many people getting sick. I mean, you've got to start
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thinking of the movie Airplane at some point. I would think it would at
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least be on your mind and you would start to be just a little bit
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Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, a software engineer has taken her
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hoarding to a whole new level. Hazel no last name given is a loyal
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Firefox user and has more than seven thousand open tabs on her Mac computer.
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She says she hasn't closed a single tab in over two years and has no
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plans to because she likes how they provide her with a trip down memory lane.
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She tells PC mag I like to scroll back and see clusters of tabs
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from months ago. It's like a trip down memory lane on whatever I was
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doing learning and thinking about. Mozilla, which is the developer behind Firefox,
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says leaving tabs open consumes practically no memory whatsoever, and they're working on new
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tools to help tab hoarders like Hazel manage their open Firefox tabs. I'm going
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to tell you right now, I've never come close to seven thousand, although
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I do feel a certain amount of vindication as right now, I look and
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I see how many I have, how many I have opened up right now?
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It's a lot. I'll just say that I don't know how many.
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What the number is. It's well and truly across the screen and then some
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and I'm okay with it. I don't have a problem with it. I
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also have a lot of shortcuts. All oh, I've got multiple I've got
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multiple windows full of tabs. Maybe I do need to get a number on
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this. I won't do it now. I've also got a lot of shortcuts
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on my screen. I used to take a lot of flak from the uh
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our it guy at work who used to come in and just say, why
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what are you doing? What is going on here? And he would just
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start closing them. I'm like, what are you doing? I don't know
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if it's necessarily about a trip down memory lane, but it is about being
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able to pull something up that I was looking at before that I want to
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have access to, and occasionally I do need to go back and revisit something,
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so if it's just there, I don't have to find it. I
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know that there's a place to make shortcuts. I know that I understand bookmarks
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sorry. I know there is a way to do that. I got time
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for that, you know me. You know, have any bookmarks I've got
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I've got a bunch of bookmarks. I got lots and lots of bookmarks.
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It's hard to find. I'm just not that organized, that's all I'm saying.
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My kids pointed out how many I had open on my phone, and
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I think it was one hundred and sixty four just on my phone. That's
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not a lot. Seven thousand is way more than one hundred and sixty four.
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But you know, I'm glad to know that there's someone who has a
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bigger problem about it than I do. And I don't really necessarily find it
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a problem. I think it's just me being very time frugal, and that's
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all. That's what I'm saying. I think that that's what I'm convinced of
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anywhere, all right. So when you go on a road trip, it
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seems that a lot of people would like to take their dog shotgun on a
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road trip up A new survey found fifty three percent of dog owners would rather
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take a long road trip with their dog than a family member. The survey
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found that ninety two percent of dog owners take their dogs with them in the
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car. Thirty two percent said they do so because they feel guilty when they
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leave their dogs at home. Twenty five percent take their dogs because they believe
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their dogs don't like staying at home alone. So I wouldn't think you'd leaving
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them at home alone if you're on a long road trip. But how about
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those of us who like to take our family and our dogs on trips.
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I'm a big fan of that, and I like to I like to do
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that. I like our vacationing with our dog. I think that's it's nice.
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Gives them a chance to come with you and experience things, and you
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know, we get a certain amount of time. I gotta get real,
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like you know, cats in the cradle with your dog. But I'm just
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saying, you only get so much time with them. If you can take
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them with you on a trip, why not. And if it costs a
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little bit to, you know, take them to a place where you're gonna
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have to pay a deposit or whatever. Once it costing you to board your
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dog or pay somebody to house it or whatever. If that's what you're doing,
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Sometimes you get a friend who's willing to just do it, just to
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have a different place to crash, and you know that's that's fine, but
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you don't get to experience some of the hikes and things that you do with
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your dog. It's great. Uninspired that's the word that describes a lot of
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workers these days. A new survey found nearly forty percent of working Americans said
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that they never felt more uninspired at work than they do right now. Thirty
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eight percent of respondents said that they only feel somewhat productive at work, and
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thirty nine percent say that their work routine is stale. So there you go.
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Finally, people and they're sandwiches. If you've got kids, small kids,
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you know, if you don't cut it the right way, you can
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really upset them. I mean, if you've cut kids that need their sandwiches
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cut the same way every time. However, it can be something for adults
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as well. There's an Australian man who has caused a bit of a ster
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on social media not cutting them in half into rectangles or cutting them into triangles.
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This guy's name is Ryan Duff. He cuts his sandwiches into thirds and
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he refers to it as the Duff cut. His unique cut has been compared
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to the Mercedes Benz logo, leaving three equally sized pieces. It's divided folks
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on the internet, and I think it's partly that whole light. But they're
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supposed to be cut this way. You can't cut it into thirds. That's
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not the way that you do it. Well, that's the way Ryan Duff
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does it. That'll do it for this Friday edition of the show. Thanks
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