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Some Strange News Stories, a Few Involving Bears · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show.
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Friday morning, twenty second day of September. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining
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me kicking off your Friday with me. As I do occasionally on Fridays,
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I like to accumulate some of the strangest news stories from the week, and
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this is one of those weeks because we have, for some reason several news
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stories that involve bears. No, I'm not talking justin fields. I'm not
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talking about the Chicago Bears. I'm not talking about the Schwarzki dub Bears.
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I'm not talking about that. I'm talking actual bears. We got a number
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of those stories that we'll talk about this week, including some in Disney.
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That's a really, really strange story. I will start in California, though.
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A woman came home to find her house had been broken into, and
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she says that she knew immediately wasn't the work of people. She knew it
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was the act of a bear burglar. I don't know, not a cat
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burglar, bearbar, I don't know. Chelsea Mapanda of Sierra Madre noticed that
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the side door to her home was open. She called nine one one after
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looking through the kitchen window and seeing that the refrigerator door was open and food
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was scattered all over the floor, she knew it must be a hungry animal.
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She felt like it was a bear that had gotten into her house.
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She says, I automatically knew that a bear was in my house because we'd
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been alerted that a bear wasn't around. The bear helped himself to fresh honey
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and mangoes. Well, of course he did. I mean if there was
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a picanic basket, maybe, but no. Police were sent to the house
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confirmed that there was a bear inside. They secured the area around the house
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and waited for the Department of Fish and Wildlife to arrive to help get the
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bear out. The well fed by this point, bear found its way out
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before they arrived. Chelsea later called it a fun invasion, said I'm very
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chaotic, so the situation fits me. That wouldn't That is not how that
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would have played out here. My wife would not have said I'm chaotic.
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This is a good situation. I mean, she would have been concerned for
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the bear, and so would I, but more concerned about the bear tearing
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everything to shreds inside the home and not really going it's just a little chaos,
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all right. More Bear stories coming up. We'll go to New Hampshire,
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where a man was accused of carjacking led police on a chase that ended
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when the police basically had him come right to them, he crashed into the
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police station. Fifty three year old Barton to Bando was speeding away from police
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in a stolen van that it had been involved in an earlier armed robbery when
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he lost control of the vehicle and crashed it right into the Manchester Police Department
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headquarters. He then got out of the van tried to make a run for
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it though the police through the police's parking lot, and he refused to comply
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with officers orders. They chased him and took him into custody. To Bandeau
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charged with reckless conduct with a deadly weapon, receiving stolen property, possession of
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a controlled drug, resisting arrest, criminal mischief, armed robbery, and I
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guess it's a pretty good list. I mean, they probably could have found
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something else to put him on their whip, but that's that's where they stopped.
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So, you know, California man decided that riding a horse with an
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open container would be a good idea. Highway patrol officers in California were on
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duty when they spotted a man riding a horse carrying an open container of alcohol.
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He suspected the rider must have been intoxicated if he was riding on a
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horse on a highway, and his suspicions were correct. Now there is a
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case documented case of that not being the case is then that would be in
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the Walking Dead. When Rick was riding his horse into Atlanta, he wasn't
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intoxicated. Since the California Vehicle Code applies to anything used for transportation, including
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a horse. The man was placed under arrest and charged with driving under the
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influence. The officer held onto the horse until it could be safely returned to
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its stable. So there you go. I A mysterious yellow line is causing
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Florida motorists to scratch their heads and you know, grip the wheel. A
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little tighter painted yellow line stretching twenty three miles along the southbound lanes of I
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ninety five from Jacksonville to Saint Augustine suddenly appeared and no one has any idea
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how it got there. All they know is it's incredibly confusing because drivers think
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they're supposed to do something, but don't know exactly what it is that they're
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supposed to do. The Florida Department of Transportation says they believe the yellow paint
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must have spilled from a truck, and they have yet to identify the source,
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and an investigation is on going. In the meantime, the department says
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it's going to equip a street sweeper with a wire brush to try to lift
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up the yellow paint. My only real surprise here in all of this is
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that this hasn't happened in Atlanta, because we get a lot of crazy Atlanta
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stories with traffic and things, so I'm just kind of surprised something like this
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hasn't happened there before. All Right, Motorists in Houston did a double take
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on the road when they noticed that an electronic construction sign flashed a strange and
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inappropriate message at them. Drivers saw the sign, which it first read due
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to the weather, and we're shocked when it flashed go blank yourself. Some
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were able to get photos of the messages and shared them on social media.
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The sign apparently displayed the message for several hours before a city inspector showed up
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and shut it down. Houston Public Works said that they do not operate the
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signer investigating who may have been able to access the controls which are locked inside
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a box. Those troublemakers. You get those troublemakers, man, And they
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just make trouble, don't they. They cause a scene, is what they
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do. And that was a scene, man, that was a scene.
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All right. Let's get to another of our bear stories. A pair of
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angry bears rated a Crispy Cream van in Alaska and started eating donuts. Now,
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this seems more like appropriate stuff for a bear story when you're in Alaska,
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and it certainly sets up a lot of bear claw jokes. The van
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was parked outside a store in a military base and Anchorage, Alaska, when
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a mama bearon cup climbed through an open door and started eating donuts and other
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pastries. The delivery driver bang on the side of the van to shoot them
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away, but they were busy eating and apparently they were preparing for hibernation time.
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We're getting to that time of year, aren't we. The bears eventually
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climbed back out of the van and wandered off into the woods. A Canadian
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woman received a mysterious Amazon package in error and was able to I guess finally
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did get to the bottom of this whole thing, but was trying to work
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on getting things sorted out before people got the wrong impression because the package that
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showed up at her home her name is Joel angel Hart, was not not
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something that she had ordered, not at all. She opened up the box
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found more than a thousand condoms had been delivered to her, and she got
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angry when she noticed that Amazon charged her four hundred and ninety five dollars for
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the one thousand condoms. She said, we received this box and continue thirty
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boxes of condoms and had thirty four in each package. We have no idea
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why they were sent to us. We really can't understand what took place and
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why we received the package at our home. A cyber expert explained to her
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that it was likely that she was the victim of a brushing scam, which
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is when Amazon vendors send items to random addresses so they can artificially inflate their
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reviews. I don't know how that would help your reviews, and inflate is
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probably not the best word for the story. Amazon opened the investigation and determined
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that the vendor was shipping items to random addresses in order to clear out unsold
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merchandise from Amazon fulfillment centers. At first, Amazon told her they could not
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refund her for the condoms because they're non returnable they're personal items. They did
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some back and forth and eventually the company relented and decided to credit her card.
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So she was finally able to get some money back for it, or
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the money back for it. But I don't know, and I think they
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actually let her keep eventually let her keep the box, so maybe she was
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able to, I don't know, donate them. You know, there's a
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few places that you could donate them too, I would think. A homeowner
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in Alaska found a rattlesnake in his garage and soon discovered that it was worse
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than suspected. The man called a snake wrangler to come and remove it,
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and she found twenty Western diamondback rattlesnakes living in the garage. Fifteen of the
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snakes were babies and one of the five adults was pregnant. The owner of
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Rattlesnakes Solutions, a company hard to remove the snakes, said it was a
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new record for the most rattlesnakes ever removed from a home. He said there
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were so many skin sheds in the garage, indicating that they had been living
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there, as many as forty snakes actually living there at one point. So,
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of course the question begs, where are the other twenty snakes? What
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happened to them? Where did they go? Why did they not find them?
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All right? A couple more bear stories. We'll start with another refrigerator
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one North Naples, Florida. Black bear wandered into a family's garage, got
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into the refrigerator ate some frozen pizza, hamburger patties, bread, vegan ice
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cream that couldn't have gone over well, the vegan ice cream. Conrad Uppenhauer
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says he realized he had left his garage door open and tried to close it
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with an app on his phone, but he kept getting a message the door
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couldn't be closed because something was blocking it. When he went to check it
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out, he found the refrigerator door was open and food was spread all over
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the floor. He then reviewed the security camera footage and saw the bear that
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had walked in. It's just bizarre. They just what's going on with the
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bear? Why are we getting so many of these? Here's another one in
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Disney World in Florida, where earlier this week they were closed parts of the
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park at least because an actual bear was roaming around. Disney's animatronics are pretty
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realistic. You got the jamboree right, but apparently a wild bear spotted hanging
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out in a tree near Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in frontier Land, leading park
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officials to shut down frontier Land, Adventureland, and Liberty Square. The Florida
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Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was calling into handle the situation. The bear was
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safely captured and escorted out of the park. Once given the all clear,
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the rest of the park was reopened, including the Country Bear Jamboree, which
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probably I would think would have been maybe one of the places that this bear
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wanted to visit while he was there. I mean, you plan out your
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trip many times. I mean, if you go, you think these are
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the rides I'd like to check out, these are the attractions that I would
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like to go see, And I would think that a bear would do the
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share on social media, offering their followers hundreds of dollars off the cost of
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the scan. That's a strange one to me, I mean, I understand
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if someone said, hey, I'll give you a discount code and you can
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just X ray my ankle? Can we do that? I don't know.
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It seems a little weird. All right. That'll do it for this
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