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Strange and Bizarre News with a Superb Owl · 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 second day of December. I'm West thanks for joining me.
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Christmas is pretty much here, right, I mean, it's Monday,
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it's Christmas weekend. If you're traveling somewhere kind of not very far, it's
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maybe a travel day for you. If you're doing airports this weekend, it's
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going to be madness. There's a lot of people that are going to be
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traveling. There are a lot of people who you know, didn't really do
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much traveling the past few years. A lot of folks are trying to make
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up for lost time and get their traveling in this year and maybe going places
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they haven't gone for a few years. So I wish you well. Maybe
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you're on the way to the airport now as you're listening. I don't know,
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maybe you're sitting on the plane and you're getting ready to go. But
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I wish you well in the holiday travel endeavors. If you're on the road
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and you're just driving and you're going somewhere, that's probably a bit more like
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the speed for this part of it. You know, it's Friday morning.
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You know you may even have to work today, So I hope you're not
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having to go very far wherever it is that you're going. But I hope
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you're getting time with loved ones, family friends, whoever your loved ones are,
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even if it's just a bunch of cats, you know, house full
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of dogs, whatever your loved ones involve, I hope you're having that and
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you're enjoying your holiday this weekend and into Monday, because you know, Christmas
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without loved ones, you know, even if it's cats and dogs. Let's
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jump into some strange and bizarre news, because that's what we do on Fridays,
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and it's Friday, so let's jump into a couple of these strange and
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bizarre stories. We're starting Montana. We don't really have a lot of Montana
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stories, do we. A Montana man under arrest after cops caught him driving
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a stolen moped and he had a syringe hanging from his Police spotted a man
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on a bright orange moped and it matched the description of an orange moped that
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had been reported stolen. They pulled the driver over and explained to them that
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he saw the moped park near a dumpster and assumed someone was throwing it away,
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so he took it. However, officers were more interested in the hypodermic
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needle hanging from the piercing in his ear. He was asked to remove it
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and put it down on the sidewalk, which he did, and he attempted
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to explain that he believed the substance in the syringe was a wash, but
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didn't really explain what that meant. The needle was later tested and found to
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contain methamphetamine. Shocker twenty eight year old Kenneth Cobert could be Cobert Probably Cobert
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was charged with drug possession. The owner of the moped chose not to press
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charges. Well that's nice of him. It's it's the holiday season, so
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whoop you do? Bi Willie bop a. This just sounds like Steve the
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Pirate from Dodgeball, doesn't it. Don't want to be swashbuckling Pirate was arrested
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last week in Alabama, but won't share the cell with his trusty sidekick.
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Police responded to a call about a man pounding on the door of a home
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with his pickup truck park nearby. The homeowner said that they asked the man
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to leave, but he refused. When officers arrived, they found thirty eight
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year old Timothy Brandon Bowers sitting in his truck with a blank stare and a
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parrot on his shoulder. Cops noticed several weapons in the truck and asked Bowers
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to get out. When he refused and became aggressive, cops deployed a taser
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and placed him under arrest. Bowers insisted there was nothing wrong with him and
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he was simply high on mushrooms. The parrot was unarmed. That's good,
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I was wondering about that. When the taser went off. He was unarmed.
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Taken away by animal control. Bowers was arrested, charged with possession of
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a controlled substance, battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer,
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and a trespassing There's all that. A drunk driver crashed his car into a
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building in Louisiana and then put in reverse and fled the scene. He did
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not realize he was leaving a whole lot of evidence behind, in fact,
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a trail of it. As police responded to the scene of the hit and
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run and found the damage on the building, but no car. They found
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a long trail of debris, including shattered glass and car parts that led them
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from the building to a nearby bar. Officers followed the trail and it took
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them right to the damaged car when the drunk driver who was inside was just
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having a drink. Maybe not as first of the night, I don't know.
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Officers arrested the driver charged him with driving while intoxicated, reckless operation of
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a vehicle, as well as hit and run, so I assume that maybe
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he'd already had a beverage for the night. Three armed robbers in Colorado got
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to experience theft from both sides of the crime last week and as police in
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Commerce City say that three armed men wearing masks robbed a check cashing business and
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planned to escape in a getaway car that was parked outside, but when they
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ran out of the business, the getaway car had already gotten away. Another
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thief then made off with the vehicle, leaving the three criminals stranded with no
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ride. Police showed up and apprehended two of the thieves, but they managed
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to get away. The third managed to get away. The bizarre crime still
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under investigation, so there you go. A Florida man accused of poisoning his
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nephew was placed under arrest and no one in the family seems to be upset
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about it. Police say that forty five year old James Leech purchased a meatball
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sandwich at a market and then asked an employee for a bottle of vizine because
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he had dry eyes. The employee saw him pour the contents of the eye
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drops over the sandwich, and he questioned Leech about what he was doing.
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Lead said he was given the sandwich to his nephew and the vizine would make
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him, uh have to use the facilities out the backside. You follow me,
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it's gonna make him have to do the old tuosy shuffle uh and then
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pugus his brains out. That's what he said. So pugus brain's out and
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the old deuce you know. I don't know if that's true. They always
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said that about viazine. Leech left the store. The employee called police,
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told them what he'd done, and also added that he knows Leech and understood
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that he and his nephew did not get along very well. Well. I
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would hope not. I don't know if you're trying to make him vomiting.
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Tusie Police reviewed surveillance footage inside the market and clearly saw Leech pouring the viazine
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on the sandwich. They paid him a visit at his home, which he
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shares with his nephew, and discovered the victim had eaten half the sandwich and
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he was offered medical assistance but refused. Leech was arrested and charged with felony
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poisoning and ordered to stay away from his nephew. Well did he did?
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He? Did he get sick? I don't know. I don't know how
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that works. I don't know if that works. Does that work? I
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mean, I don't want to do that to somebody. I'm just curious if
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that's actually a real thing. Georgia man was arrested for stealing a bus,
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taking it for a joy ride, but continued making his stops on the bus,
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well not his, the real driver stops. The twenty eight year old
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got on the city bus in Atlanta didn't have enough money to pay the fare.
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When he was asked to leave, he refused and threatened the driver,
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who walked off the bus to report him to authorities. But while the driver
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was off the bus and keys were apparently left on the bus, the thief
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jumped into the driver's seat and yeah, sped away. Man later said his
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plan was to drive the bus home, but at one point he stopped at
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a waffle house to let a passenger off. Moments later, he drove off
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to a park to check out holiday lights on display. That's nice, just
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trying to enjoy the season. As he tried to leave the park, he
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got stuck because he couldn't figure out how to put it in reverse. When
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police caught up with him, they were able to then place him under arrest.
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So yeah, there you go. There was a crazy scene in New
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Jersey last week when a loose bull was spotted on the New Jersey Transit railroad
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tracks. Commuters were stunned to see a longhorned steer galloping on the tracks in
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Newark, and predictably pulled out their phones to capture the bizarre scene. Service
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on the rails was delayed about forty five minutes as authorities tried to corral the
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animal. The bull eventually left the tracks and ended up in a fenced in
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parking lot near Newark Liberty International Airport. I like that airport where it was
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tranquilized and loaded into a trailer. From there, it was driven to an
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animal sanctuary. It's not clear yet where the bull came from, although there
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are some slaughterhouses in the area. If it from a slaughterhouse, you can't
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blame it for getting out and trying to take the rails somewhere to get away.
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British woman had to be wondering is this the real life or is this
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just fantasy when she walked into a bathroom and saw the face of Queen singer
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Freddie Mercury staring back at her in the wall tile. Louise Kiernan posted the
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image, which seems to show the SuperStar's trademark mustache, as well as distinctive
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hair and eyes all over her social media accounts. Commenteurs also went radio gaga
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over the siding, with one calling it the spitting image of Freddy and another
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saying this is excellent. He just wants to break free. Luise is currently
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under pressure to open up the restroom for fans to view the apparition. So
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there you go, all right. People in one Virginia neighborhood are losing their
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cookies over a guy who's been creeping around their homes dressed up as a gingerbread
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man. A number of Arlington residents say the unidentified man has been lurking near
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their doors, sometimes trying to get in, but they didn't really know why
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he was trying to get in. One home owner said, it's kind of
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like a horror movie in this costume, the whole ordeal. What was the
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goal just to see if we were home to enter the house. It was
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not holly jolly, That's the quote from the person. Though police have yet
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to question the mystery man, One neighbor told a local news outlet he confront
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of the guy and he was told he was just looking for a friend's house.
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So that's kind of weird. It looks really creepy too, just looking
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at the video, it is really creepy. All right. Got a couple
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of bird related stories to wrap this all up. Just a couple of these
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things. First, cops in Saint Petersburg, Florida, arrested a thirty two
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year old Daniel Palomino at a wah Wah store after he allegedly got angry and
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threw spicy chicken at a coworker or at one of the workers there, I
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guess. The many complained that his Nashville Fried chicken order wasn't cooked enough,
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so we tossed the saucy bird at the worker, striking the victim in the
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eye. Police say that despite the worker getting spicy sauce in their eye,
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they did not actually suffer any bodily harm. Palomino was drunk in charge with
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misdemeanor battery. Palomino has a long rap sheet, including convictions for cocaine possession,
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theft, criminal mischief. First time though it involved any kind of chicken,
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or at least a spicy chicken, I guess this is the probably the
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first one that it involved a chicken all right. Finally, in the spirit
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of the holiday, a Kentucky family picked out the perfect Christmas tree for this
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year. They brought it home, set it up in the perfect spot in
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their living room, created it, and it was four days later when they
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discovered that there was an owl living in the tree. Michelle White says they
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had no clue the bird was in there, as it must have blended in
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really well with the branches. Their three dogs never found it. Finally,
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a carpet cleaner who was hired to work in the house while the family was
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away, noticed some branches on the tree were moving and decided to investigate.
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That's when he saw the small owl climbing higher up in the tree, he
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reached his hands in and grabbed it. He took a photo of the owl
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send it to the family. Michelle White says she was stunned and so happy
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the carpet cleaner was able to find it, because she would have left the
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house and the owl would have just stayed there without her. She said,
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I wasn't planning to come home, so the owl would have been stuck inside
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the house and she would have felt badly about that. It's a happy ending
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for the owl and everybody involved, so very Christmas vacation. Ask it's not
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a squirrel, Well, O, the owl would have eaten the squirrel,
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not the small owl. I guess if it was a baby. But anyway,
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Well, maybe you like to have wine with your Christmas cookies? Well,
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according to the experts, and I say experts, whoever gets paid to
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conduct studies like this, some of the experts have said they have found the
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perfect wine to go with your Christmas cookies. If you're eating chocolate chip cookies,
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they say, have a cabernet. If you like sugar cookies, they
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say you pair it with a Chardinay gingerbread cookies with zinfandel and Linser cookies with
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a seven yall blanc. So if you like other cookies, I don't.
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If you like oreos, it's just milk. It is not really an alcohol
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to go with it. So that's all we got. Are you a terrible
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gift giver? A survey found that two and five Americans admit to being terrible
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gift givers. Fifty one percent say that they wait until the last minute to
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do their shopping. How last minute you ask? Fifty percent said they purchase
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gifts on Christmas Eve. Thirty nine percent of even gotten something on Christmas Day.
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Yikes, no surprise. The top spots for these last minute gifts are
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grocery stores, drug stores, and liquor stores. I've heard the drug store
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thing. You know, grocery stores and liquor stores. I mean, I
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guess liquor stores are open on Christmas. Then that makes sense. You can
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actually get somebody, you know, bottle of something. If they it's so
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desire, maybe you can get them a Savin yard blanc to have while they're
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eating their lenser cookies. You know, parents know how hard it is for
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kids to part with their toys, even ones that they never play with anymore.
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Well, a suggestion on something that you can do that is in the
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spirit of the season and a nice thing to do with it. Have your
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kids pick a few gently used toys, books, games, dolls, place
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them unwrapped under the tree so Santa can then take them and deliver them to
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other kids who need more. I know a few people who do this,
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and I guess this trend has grown a little bit over the years. One
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of our traditions here in the Carroll household is when Jill and I are wrapping
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Christmas gifts, we typically, and this has been something that's been going on
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now for a few years, we watched the movie Love Actually, which you
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know, it's a you know, holiday movie with some holiday tones to it,
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but the premise of the movie it's, you know, it's a solid
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romantic comedy Christmas movie and it's something that we like to watch together while we're
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wrapping gifts. So here's a few facts about the movie Love Actually that you
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may or may not know that did you know Kira Knightley was only seventeen when
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they made that movie seventeen? She looks young. I wouldn't have guessed that
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she was seventeen until I saw this particular fact. The scene where Colin Firth
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and Lucilla Monese's characters jump into the lake, it was only eighteen inches deep.
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They had to squat down into the water to make it look like the
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water was deep. When Bill nihe signed up for the movie, know what
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part he was auditioning for? Is I how you say his name? I've
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never said it out loud. He was Billy Mack in the movie. Of
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course. All the footage that he throw airport is real footage. The scene
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with Hugh Grant dancing to jump by the Pointer Sisters was originally not set to
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that song. The original song choice was a Jackson five song, but they
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couldn't get the right so they ended up using Pointer Sisters, and he was
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not sure about doing it. I suppose he's glad he did. That became
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one of those really iconic scenes in it. Andrew Lincoln, who later went
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on to play Rick Grimes and The Walking Dead. It has the scene where
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he holds up the signs his character Mark to confess his love for Juliet.
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He hand wrote those himself. The word actually used twenty three times in the
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movie, and Joanna Olivia Olsen. I know Olivia Owls. I've hugged her.
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Had to be told to throw in a few mistakes during her performance of
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All I Want for Christmas Is You because she was too good and they wanted
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her to not necessarily be a professional singer. They wanted her to, you
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know, sound like a kid at a Christmas show at a school, so
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they needed her to tone it down a little bit. Nice girl. I
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met her years and years and years ago. All right, that'll do it
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for this Friday edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons.
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I thank you for listening. I hope you have a fantastic Christmas and I'll
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take a few days off. I'll take some days off next week, but
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I will catch you back here sometime after Christmas. This is the West Carrol
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