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Strange and Bizarre News with Dog Urine Garnishes · 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, twenty fourth day of May. I'm Wes, thanks for joining
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me. Memorial Day weekend kicking off summer, unofficially, kicking off all these
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discussions about oh, let's be the solstice and all. No, it's just
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it's summer. Memorial Day happens. It's summer. When the kids are out
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of school and it's Memorial Day. It's summer. That's just the reality.
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Accept it. It's okay. It doesn't have to be any of the official
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scientific, meteorol, logical whatevers. It can just be summer. And just
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a quick reminder, Memorial Day is a holiday to remember the fallen, those
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who made the ultimate sacrifice. This isn't Veterans Day weekend. It's not the
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fourth of July. This is not Independence Day. This is not a holiday
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to It's not New Year's that's not it either. This is not a fireworks
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holiday. There are people in our area who have served. Right we have
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a giant military base. We have people in our neighborhoods all around us that
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have served. They may be mourning someone this weekend or on Monday, specifically,
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and they may have served in combat situations. The last thing that they
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deserve is allowed explosions overhead while they're trying to remember a fallen friend. Okay,
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we may also have spouses of the fallen, children of the fallen.
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They're all around us. Let's not be disrespectful and careless and have zero compassion.
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Memorial Day is not a fireworks holiday, in spite of all of the
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attempts to make it that. And I guess I shouldn't say attempts because there
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will be fireworks fired for Memorial Day for some strangeries. And people think Memorial
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Days like yeah America. There's an underlying tone of that in there. There
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is people get made great sacrifices so that we could have freedoms. People made
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sacrifices so the world could have freedoms. But that doesn't mean this is about
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yay America. Let's blow some fireworks up. Just be considerate and respectful of
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people who you know, maybe they have some PTSD, maybe they don't want
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to remember all of the explosions and the booms when they lost a friend,
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or knowing that they lost someone in a combat situation, or whatever it is.
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So just remember that as we get into this weekend. It is Friday.
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That means it's time to dive into some strange and bizarre news from around
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the world. We're going to start in Pennsylvania, not in Florida, but
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Pennsylvania. You know, the whole deal with the porch pirates. People come
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up, they see that you've had a package delivered, they run to your
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front porch, they grab the package, they run away, and you know,
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more often than not, hey, they get away with it. But
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here's a case of someone who is pretty pretty bold. Montgomery County in Pennsylvania.
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An Amazon delivery driver dropped off the package and started walking back to his
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van to retrieve another package. The owner of the home, identified as Henry,
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opened his front door reached down to pick up the box. Another person,
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not the delivery man and not Henry, ran up to the porch,
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grabbed the package from Henry's hands, and then ran away to a waiting getaway
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car and jumped in. So there's Henry, there's the Amazon delivery man who's
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got a separate box he's trying to deliver, just standing there like what just
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happened. The theft was captured by Henry's doorbell camera. They stolen package reportedly
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contained six iPhones for his family and worth thousands of dollars. That's pretty bold.
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Be careful look around when you're trying to pick up those packages from your
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front porch. All right, now, we'll go to Florida. A Florida
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man wanted by police on charges assaults and weapons charges. And he thought he
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was going to get away from the police. He thought he had a good
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hiding spot, one of those things that maybe you would see on the show
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Cops. Thirty one year old David Jackson had been on the run from deputies
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until they received a tip that he was hiding out inside a home in Pensacola,
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and officers executed a search warrant of the house and found no sign of
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him until they walked into the laundry room and found him squeezed inside a front
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loading dryer. And they say it was a pretty small one at that According
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to the police report, Jackson was pulled out of the laundry machine and arrested.
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I say he was wanted. He was wanted. He's not wanted anymore.
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So he was wanted by police. They got him. They found him
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inside a front loading dryer. So there you go. Let's go to New
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Zealand. I was going to stay down Under and I know New Zealand is
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down that way, but really Australians kind of own that term. A New
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Zealand man got in some trouble after he decided to jump off of a boat
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and land on top of an orca. Video taken by his friend show the
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fifty year old diving off of a boat into a pod of killer whales and
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landing on top of one of them. He can be heard proudly saying that
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he touched it and then asked his friends if they caught it on video,
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which of course they did, because that's why we know about it. The
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clip was posted Instagram and widely circulated. Eventually, the Department of Conservations saw
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it and was pretty shocked. They have fined him three hundred and sixty five
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dollars for the stunt and issued a reminder that it is illegal to disrupt orcas.
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Yeah, it's not a good thing to do. It's not a good
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thing to do that to any animal in the wild, none of them.
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They shouldn't be jumped on. An Alamama woman was arrested after turning a cemetery
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into her own personal floorist floral arrangements were consistently being stolen from a gravesite of
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Carol Gillian's grandparents, so she set up a surveillance camera to keep an eye
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on the plot, and then placed a new floral arrangement at the grave,
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and soon after it was gone, she reviewed the video footage and saw a
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woman walk up and just snatched the flowers. Gillian shared the video on social
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media and sent it to police, who identified the thief as Martha Bows.
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They executed a search warrant at her home and found the stolen flowers, along
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with other arrangements. Officers contacted her and gave her the opportunity to turn herself
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in, but she told them she could not because she was away in Mississippi.
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Then later in the day, investigators found her at the house and placed
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her under her wrest, charged with theft and desecration of a gravesite. Authorities
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believe that she's been stealing flowers and then selling them, so she's quite the
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entrepreneur. She's got the entrepreneurial itch. It sounds like, here's an idea.
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If you have a fireplace, one thing you should never burn in your
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fireplace. I mean, there's several things you should not burn in your fireplace,
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but one of them is gasoline. Firefighters responded to a report of a
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thick smoke coming from a home's chimney entered the home to find the residents completely
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overcome with smoke. The homeowner said that he'd been having trouble getting a fire
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started, so he poured gasoline over paper and then set it on fire in
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the fireplace. He achieved the goal of starting the fire, but you know,
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with varying love of success. I suppose because he can't live in his
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home anymore. The fire was extinguished in about an Iurn't officials issued a warning
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urging residents to never use gasoline or any other highly flammable liquids as an accelerant
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indoors. I mean, there's a lot of reasons that could still go wrong
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outdoors, but not really something that you should be doing indoors. All right.
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We know the cicadas. People have been talking about them for weeks,
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and that's something that we deal with, you know, around this time of
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year. Well, it's a little different and the people that have been complaining
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about the cicadas, this is a different problem altogether. Swarms of crickets taking
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over towns in Nevada and Idaho. In some areas, roadways completely covered and
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briefly shut down so the Department of Transportation crews could plow crickets off the roads.
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There's a specific type of cricket, the Mormon cricket, that is drawn
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to areas that are stricken by drought because they feed on dead crops and vegetation.
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They also travel in very large groups, so when they cover the road,
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residents say that it leaves behind a slick, bloody mess when they get
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run over by cars, and they smell terrible. So at least the cicadas
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are just making noise. And maybe you don't like the red eyes, I
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get that, but you probably don't have to look at them. If you're
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driving and running over crickets and they're popping and stinking and all that and slippery,
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that would be bad. So just be thankful, is all I'm saying.
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If you're not dealing with the Mormon crickets and you're just dealing with the
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cicadas, that's soothing. Sound of those cicadas off in the distance. Let's
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get down to Florida again. As a Florida man learning that even if you
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commit a crime and then say I shouldn't have done that and take it back,
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and I'm no longer in the state of drunkenness and high, so I
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can take it back, it's still a crime. Thirty two year old Daniel
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Siez accused of stealing a school bus in Sarasota, driving it to Miami and
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then turned around and drove it back. Stopped by police, He said that
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he was drunken high when he stole the bus and has since brought it back
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and he was not drunk or high anymore. They should be all good now.
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Police disagreed, rested him for grand theft auto and booked him into the
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county jail. So there you go. Can't just take it back. I
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mean some circumstances when you're a kid. I remember I once took something from
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a store. I just put it in my pocket and I wasn't thinking I
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was a kid. Then I got home and my parents were like, where'd
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you get that. I was like, I guess I put it in my
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pocket. And we went back and I told him I'm sorry, that's okay.
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They let me slide. My parents said, I'm put the put the
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scare on me, you know, could take it to jail, but it's
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different when it's a school, all right. How about this man in upstate
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New York managed to turn his ticket basic traffic ticket into a felony. Twenty
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six year old Tyler Williams was pulled over in December issued a ticket for various
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traffic violations. Normally, people either pay the fine or they go to court
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and they protest it. What he decided to do was get on the internet
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and look for information about the officer who stopped him, and then he found
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where the guy lived, or at least his father lived, and he set
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the house on fire. Five month long investigation led police to Williams, who
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was arrested in charge with arson and probably going to be spending quite a bit
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of time in jail. Typically it's not a lot of time in jail if
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it's just a speeding ticket, right, all right. Pennsylvania man arrested for
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possession of guns and drugs got himself arrested again when he tried to steal the
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guns and drugs back from police. Thirty nine year old Michael McClellan was arrested
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after he was seen shooting guns towards a river. And pouring battery acid into
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the water. He identified himself to police and told them he had an active
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worn out for his arrest. When live ammunition was found in his pocket,
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he admitted that he's not allowed to own any firearms. Police noticed that he
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had two rifles and plane view inside his truck and asked to search the vehicle.
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McClellan declined, so police had the truck towed to the impound lot.
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The next day, a search of the vehicle turned up a large stash of
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drugs and ammunition. Three days later, police noticed a large hole cut through
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the fence of the impound lot and found bolt cutters in the back seat of
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McClellan's truck. Police have also have a recording of a telephone call between McClellan
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and an inmate in the county prison, where he shares his plan to get
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his truck back. McClellan facing a whole bunch of charges, including prohibited possession
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of a firearm, drug delivery, possession of a controlled substance, trespassing,
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criminal mischief, and burglary. Yeah, they don't like you to steal them
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back. I mean, they don't like you to have them if you're not
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supposed to have them. They definitely don't want you to steal them back once
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they take them from you, right. Florida woman who went to war with
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her Homeowners Association of her housing complex put the neighborhood at risk of flooding.
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The woman at odds with the HOA over a storm water pipe that is in
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the development. She claims it was somehow installed underneath her home without her knowledge
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or permission. The HOA says the pipe's been there since the eighties and it
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leads rain water from the development into a retention pond, or at least it
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used to. The woman. About a month ago, hired a crew to
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pour concrete into the drainage pipe, and that's caused rain water to overflow and
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put the complex at risk of flooding. Local government agencies say they cannot get
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involved because of dispute involves private property, but lawyers say that a judge could
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hold the homeowner liable for repairs to any damage caused as a result of flooding.
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Florida's Department of Environmental Protection says they are looking into the matter, and
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finally, this is an important one. Just telling you right now, I
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could have led with this one because it's that important. But I thought,
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no, I'll save this one for the end. I don't yet restaurants that
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like to put the garnish on meals on their plates right, put a piece
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of garnish, parsley, kale, some kind of edible flour. There's a
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restaurant, Japanese restaurant in Tampa and they say that according to a journalist I
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Guess in the Tampa area who did investigative work, found that the restaurant was
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putting a pretty green, leafy sprigs on the plates. And not only are
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they in edible, which a garnish should be edible, even if it is,
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you know, kale, the garnishes this restaurant we're using were foxtail ferns
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that restaurant workers pull out of the ground from an area behind the restaurant,
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and they were using the ferns as the garnish. Here's where it gets even
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trickier. Apparently, the plants line the sidewalk and are often the targets of
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dogs that urinate on them. They have video of dogs peeing on the plants,
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and some of those same plants have eventually ended up on diner's plates.
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The owner of the restaurant insists that the plants are decorative and don't come into
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contact with the food, but it is on the same plate, so I
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mean it's coming in contact with something that's coming in contact with the food.
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Right, You shouldn't really put anything on a plate that isn't edible to begin
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with, but you definitely shouldn't put anything on theres it may have been urinated
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O dccolumbus dot com more West Carol Morning Show right after the break. How
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many great days do you have in a week? How many per month,
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how many per year? It's probably a lot more than you think, especially
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if you're a wine lover. A survey of wine drinkers found that they have
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ten extraordinary days a month or one hundred and twenty extraordinary days a year,
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and those who live in Hawaii, Idaho, or South Dakota are especially happy,
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say that they have thirteen extraordinary days a month. A survey also ask
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participants what to fined a joyful life. They said feeling happy, being healthy,
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having positive personal and family relationships, feeling comfortable, and that was at
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the top of the list. So there you go. So if you drink
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wine regularly, maybe you got more good days. Or if you don't like
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wine and wine gives you headaches. Probably not drinking wine gives you more extraordinary
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days. All right, This is one of those things. It seems like
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it would make sense, but apparently someone had to do a study to prove
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it. They say having extra money in the bank account is good for your
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brain. A study found that people who grew up poor and then became wealthy
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at a lower risk of developing dementia as they age. On the other hand,
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those who grew up with money and then wound up in a lower socioeconomic
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class had an increased risk of getting dementia later in life. Basically, they
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say improving your economic standing increases your brain health. Going the opposite direction though,
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financially having the opposite effect on your brain. I would think that this
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seems to kind of make some sense, but I don't know, maybe it's
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not quite as I just think that having the extra stress, maybe I'm just
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thinking of your health, not necessarily your brain health, but the added stress
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of having to worry about money or not having it anymore, especially if you
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once had it, it probably isn't great for your health period. So I
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guess it would make sense to me that it might not be good for your
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brain. Health. How much time do young girls spend on their phones?
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A lot? That's not going to be a surprise. A new study out
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of Finland found that some ros are on their phones almost six hours a day,
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causing not only social media addiction, but leading to increased stress, loneliness,
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and fatigue, as well as of course, poorer body image, health
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and mood. According to researchers, about seventeen percent of teen girls were likely
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addicted to social media and thirty seven percent showing signs of anxiety disorders. One
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of the researchers wrote, to the best of our knowledge, this is the
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first study to combine objectively measured smartphone use with validated measures of social media addiction
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and well being. The researchers say the solution is that parents should establish tech
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free zones and rules and encourage teens to spend more time on in person relationships.
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They also say lawmakers should have tech companies prioritize health and safety for this
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particular vulnerable group. All right, vacations are coming up. I know,
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schools out are almost out most places. I know, as you start working
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your way a little bit north, maybe they started a little bit later.
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So if you're not listening in our area where we record the show. You
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may still have some days left in school, but vacation time is coming up.
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We get almost to this weekend and it's about to kick off, and
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this is the beginning of the unofficial start of summer as of five o'clock today.
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So you'll be traveling and you may be staying in hotels. And as
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they say, eighty two percent of Americans plan to travel out of town this
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summer, and a new survey says that will include a hotel stay for most
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and if you're going to be in one of the ninety one thousand hotels and
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motels, smartertravel dot com has some recommendations on things that you should not do
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in a hotel room. And I've said this top one many, many,
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many times, and people don't listen. They just don't listen. But here
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you go. Don't use the remote control. Now, it doesn't mean you
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can't use it. It just means be aware of the fact that it's probably
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disgusting. And if you have an antibacterial wipe with you and you can wipe
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it down, you know. They also say that you could put the phone
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like in a bag, plastic bag and then you can touch the bag.
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I've seen people do that. In short, the remote control is disgusting.
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They recommend not leaving valuables around. Use the safe at the hotel. But
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if you've gone on social media, you know those safes are really easy to
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get into, just saying because the hotel has to be able to get into
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it right, there has to be an easy way to get into it.
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Utilize that do not disturb sign. Don't announce the room number out loud in
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the halls anywhere because people can overhear it, maybe even try to steal your
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key. Don't open the door if someone knocks without looking through the peep hole.
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Never prop the door open when you go down the hall to a vending
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machine. They also say don't go near the unless you're prepared to pay ridiculous
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fees. And they say watch out for bed bugs and don't drink water out
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of the tap. That's the recommendations. That's just some of the recommendations from
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smartertravel dot com. And finally, a US News and World Report and ranking
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of the best cities to live in in the US gives us our number one
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city to live in. And I've got friends there in Naples, Florida number
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two on the list. Boise, Idaho. That's random. Colorado Springs,
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Colorado. All right, I can see that. Greenville, South Carolina.
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I hear nothing but good things. Charlotte, North Carolina, Raleigh, North
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Carolina. How about that? Oh Andy Griffith would be happy. Huntsville,
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Alabama, Virginia Beach Austin, Texas, and Boulder, Colorado, rounding out
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the top ten of their best cities to live in. So yeah, Naples
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just edging out Boise and Colorado Springs for that top spot. So there you
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go. That'll do it for this Friday edition of the show. Thanks to
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