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Strange and Bizarre News with a Flying Toilet · 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, fifth day of April. I'm West Thanks for joining me.
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Final weekday of spring break for many in the area. I know some schools
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had it, I guess last week, but here in the Carroll House will
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be winding down spring break. We're celebrating and we did some stuff to start
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the week, you know, for Easter weekend, and then some stuff at
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the beginning of the week. Our big plans for today involve more work on
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our kitchen that's still not finished. We had been told at one point maybe
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first of April it would be ready, and we thought, of course that's
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not going to be the case. But here we are now almost a week
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end of April, and I mean we're getting there. I don't think it's
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maybe by the end of April, but I don't know. I don't know
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if that's just ridiculously hopeful or optimistic or I don't know, but we'll see.
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It is Friday, and that means that it's time to talk about some
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strange and bizarre news from around the world. We will start in Florida.
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So many of these stories every week or in Florida. This first one out
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of Jacksonville, Florida. A woman walked out of her home in the morning
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last week and discovered that her car had been partially destroyed a lot of damage
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to it, about three thousand dollars worth of damage. Ultimately, we find
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out she thought somewhat had vandalized her car and she just thought better check the
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security cameras and see exactly what happened to my car in the overnight. Christy
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Barr says that her first first thought was somebody had maybe taken a BB gun
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and shot my car. I guess there were small dents and dings in it
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and holes in it, but the video showed that the vehicle was actually torn
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apart by two dogs. Apparently the dogs had been chasing a cat and the
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cat crawled up into the car and behind the engine of the car. The
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dogs tried to get at it by chewing off pieces of the vehicle. About
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three thousand dollars in damage, and at the time of publishing, they don't
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know who the dogs belonged to, or if they were just some wild dogs
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who live in the Jacksonville area. I remember once someone that I know was
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telling me that one of their cats had been shot by a pellet gun or
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a BB gun. But they thought it was strange that there were very like
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the accuracy of the shooter. And I said, is it possible you've got
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small dogs? Possible that one of the hawks that lives in the area tried
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to pick up one of your cats. And ultimately that's what we determined.
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We looked at the cats and decided it must have been one of the hawks.
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So anyway, it doesn't have anything to do with that. I just
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thought it was interesting when you've got animals that do things like that and it
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looks like pellet guns or BB guns. Obviously they need to do something about
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those dogs. That's pretty concerning for that whole neighborhood also in Florida. And
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this is kind of a weird story. This goes back to about a month
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ago, and I guess they're still trying to determine exactly the accuracy of this.
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But there was a story about some sort of a palette that came in
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NASA related from the International Space Station, came back into Earth carrying batteries and
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the expectation was that it would re enter Earth somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico,
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somewhere between Cancun and Cuba, and that maybe it could have possibly as
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it was falling, what didn't burn up could have reached Fort Myers. Well,
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there's a gentleman who lives in Naples who says that a piece of it
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crashed through his roof and went through two floors of his home and almost hit
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his son. And he is asking that they look into that and find out
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how this piece of this Pallett equipment palette, an EP nine equipment palette ended
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up in his home. And he's wanting some answers from the folks at NASA,
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and I hope he finds the answers that he needs, namely, what
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is this thing that crashed through my roof and through two floors of my house.
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That's an important question. Also in Florida, a man accused of getting
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a waffle House tattoo and skipping out on the bill pleaded no contest to theft
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charges because I mean, he just says all the money that he had was
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six dollars. This is familiar to a story that I think we talked about
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before. This guy's name, thirty three year old Max Kracant got the waffle
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House logo tattoo on his leg at Ink God's Parlor in Saint Petersburg. The
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total for the tattoo two hundred and fifty dollars. He said he only had
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six dollars and the police were called to the shop to arrest him. He
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admitted later he was drunk when he was asked asking for the tattoo. Ordered
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to pay a total of six hundred and seventy five dollars in fines. And
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you know, life with a waffle House logo on your leg. I guess
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this story was released on April first. You know, you have to take
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some of those stories with a grain of salt when it comes out on April
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first. All right, we'll now go to a different part of the country.
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Las Vegas. Homeowner named Odwin ordered for ordered some food through the food
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service app door Dash. Says that the driver made the delivery but also stole
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his cat. He provided doorbell camera footage which shows the driver leaving Odwin's food
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order at the front door, but Odwin's cat, named Milo, walks up
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to the driver, who picks him up while snapping a photo of the food
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that he had just delivered. Then in the footage, the driver puts the
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cat back down and then it ran to the front door, and says in
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the footage, seconds later, the driver walked after it picked up the cat
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walked away with it. Exactly what happened after that? Who knows if it's
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not on camera, except to say that Odwin says he has no idea what
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happened to his cat. There's some speculation on social media that maybe Oddwin's story
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isn't exactly what he says, but who knows. The guy's cat disappeared.
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So here's just It's just if you're having food delivered, you know, keep
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up with your pets. Just keep up with him, that's all. And
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if you're delivering food, don't steal people's bets, all right. United Airlines
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flight from Frankfurt, Germany to San Francisco, this one's disgusting and warning forced
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to turn around because a maintenance issue basically turned the plane into a giant toilet.
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A maintenance issue on a Boeing seven seven seven was not related to the
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engine or a door plug, but instead a toilet. That's all they need
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is more issues with their planes. Shortly after you take off, passengers started
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to detect a foul smell. They said that was coming through the cabin and
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then human waste that followed the smell. That's the way it works. It's
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like, you know, you see the light and then you hear the sound.
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In the case of I guess fecal matter, you smell it and then
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you see it. I don't know, but they said the human waste was
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coming out of the lavatory and into the aisle. One of the toilets overflowing,
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and the crew had to call for technicians on the ground to help fix
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it. And when they weren't able to do that, the pilot, who
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had been circling the plane over the North Sea while the flight attendants attempted to
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fix the toilet, decided after nothing would work, that he had to return
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to Frankfurt. Passengers were unloaded and got hotels for the night, and then
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rebooked on flights the following day. Flight number two expected to leave the next
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day. All right, let's go to New Mexico where police basically this is
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an interesting way to catch a shoplifter, kind of old school, if you
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will. Albuquerque police say that a man walked out of a Walgreen store two
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hundred thirty dollars worth of items that he did not pay for. Officers on
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horseback immediately responded and went after the thief until they stopped him. The officer
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captured the wild pursuit on his body. The thief, identified as thirty year
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old Mark Cha Khan, was arrested in charge with possession of stolen goods,
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possession of drug paraphernalia, and evading police. That's old school. I mean,
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if they hadn't caught him, I suppose folks in the area would have
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been justified forming a posse. That's the next step. If the police don't
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catch you on horseback, then you go to the posse. Misusing nine to
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one one is a crime and it could land you in jail. It definitely
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will land you in jail if you use nine one one to threaten the dispatcher
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and the sheriff's department. Fifty two year old Michael Munsey of Port Charlotte,
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Florida right back to Florida facing some serious jail time after he repeatedly called nine
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one to one and threatened to light the operator on fire and said I'm going
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to kill you if you come near me. Minutes later, he called back
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threatened some of the sheriff's deputies by name, saying I want them beheaded.
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You are dead if you come near me. This is not a threat,
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it's a fact. He called back again and threatened to commit arson on the
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sheriff. The operator recognized Munsey's number from some prior incidents, dispatch deputies to
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his home, where he was located outside of an intersection and taken into custody.
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First, he denied making the nine one win calls, and then he
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fessed up to it, said he was only calling because he wanted some legal
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advice. He needs legal advice, So that's probably a little true now,
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maybe not so much at the time, or maybe the legal advice he needed
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was how much trouble will I get in if I make these calls? That's
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fair, you know, he needed to know the answer to that. A
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nine year old boy in California was stopped by police when he was headed to
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school driving himself. There minor traffic stop, I guess. California Highway Patrol
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in Oroville says that they spotted a car stopped oddly in the middle of intersection.
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When they instructed the driver to move out of the intersection, the car
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started to drive away. Quickly and led police on a brief chase. It
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ended in a dirt parking lot next to an elementary school, and after the
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vehicle stopped, it backed up into a patrol car, causing minor damage.
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As troopers approached the car, they noticed the driver was a nine year old
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boy, who told them I'm sorry, I'm just trying to get to school.
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Officers contacted the boy's parents and documented the incident, and then they escorted
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him to school. Police in England are on the hunt for a wanted fugitive
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and I don't know if they did this on purpose or not, but they
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hurt his feelings. Daniel Kellaway wanted connection with several investigations involving driving offenses,
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criminal damage, as well as threatening behavior. The police department put out a
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notice on social media asking for the public's help with locating him, describing the
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twenty nine year old as white, about five five feet nine inches tall,
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of average build, with brown eyes, receding brown hair and facial hair.
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I guess that struck a nerve. He did not like the line about his
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hair, and he commented on the social media post saying no need to mention
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the hairline and said I'm headed to Turkey to get it sorted and then we'll
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catch up. Kellaway's whereabouts or were unknown at the time of the story being
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written. When detective seys, So's certain that he'll eventually be caught and they
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will track him down. So there you go. I like the strategy,
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though, kind of poke the bear a little bit, try to get his
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attention. People can be sensitive about the hair. And finally, this is
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probably my favorite story of the week. A porch pirate making an attempt to
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steal packages from someone's front door, and this is the epitome of a trashy
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porch pirate. Omar Munnos of Sacramento had a package swiped from his front porch.
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Reviewed his security camera footage. The video showed someone disguised as a bag
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of trash slowly walking up to his front door. All you could see was
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the bag of trash and a pair of slippers that were attached to feet somewhere
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crouched inside the black trash bag. When the thief got to the door,
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they could be seen sliding the package under the bag and then slowly walking away
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from the door. Munno says the package wasn't anything very expensive and that he
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was even a little mused, he said. At first, I was kind
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of angry because it was something I wasn't expecting. But at the end of
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the day, it's kind of funny. I take everything in a good way
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because that's part of life, and if you see the bad way of everything,
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you're going nowhere. It's creative. It's a strange bit of disguise.
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I don't know how many trash bags move, so it's an interesting camouflage.
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But hey, apparently it at least worked once. For now, I don't
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know if they've caught the culprit yet, but it worked enough for him to
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the break, when your workday is over, is it really over? Or
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do you get emails, calls, texts from the office. Yeah, it
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happens a lot to a lot of people. It would be great to completely
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disconnect from work, and a proposed bill in California aims to do just that.
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A state lawmaker name Matt Haney from San Francisco has introduced Assembly Bill twenty
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seven fifty one, otherwise known as the Right to Disconnect Bill, which would
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guarantee workers in California the right to enjoy personal time after work hours without having
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to deal with work related matters. Hainey says work has changed drastically compared to
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what it was just ten years ago. Smartphones have blurred the boundaries between work
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and home life. Workers shouldn't be punished for not being available twenty four to
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seven if they're not being paid for twenty four hours of work. The bill
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would apply to public and private employers and is a similar bill to those already
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adopted by thirteen other countries, including France, Ireland, Mexico, and Spain.
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That's more big government stuff. I like it in principle. I like
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the idea of being able to say I'm off from work. I just don't
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know that we need the government involved. Do we need the government involved in
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telling companies what they can and can't do? I don't think so. According
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to a new survey, twenty two percent of adults in the US believe AI
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could write TV shows and movies that are more interesting than humans, while seventy
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percent said they would rather watch a TV show or movie written by a human
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than by AI. Forty two percent said that AI and humans could both probably
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produce entertaining content. So yeah. According to a new survey sponsored by Triple
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A found that sixty six percent of drivers are afraid of the idea of fully
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self driving cars. Twenty five percent of drivers are uncertain. While high tech
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features like automatic emergency braking and lane keeping assistance are popular with most people,
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it seems it will take some time for everyone to be comfortable just kicking back
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and laying the cars drive on their own. I do like the lane assistance.
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That's nice. I've you know, I'm all for that. That's great.
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I do like I look forward to a time when everyone I don't know
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what it's going to happen in my lifetime, but when everybody all the cars
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they're flying. I want flying self driving. Are they even cars at that
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I can nap. The lane assist doesn't let you nap. You got to
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I don't want that. I don't want it to take me somewhere I'm
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not supposed to go. I just want to go from point A to point
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B and have the option of taking a nap if I so desire. But
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I want to know that everybody else isn't just driving around like a maniac doing
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whatever they want to do. A couple things before the eclipse on Monday,
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there has been information floating around online that tells you that you're not supposed to
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eat during the solar eclipse, some sort of thing on social media. I
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don't know if this started with April first. I don't know when this started.
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But the idea is that radiation from the sun will be so high that
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it will poison any food that's being prepared during the solar eclipse. Straight from
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NASA, they say there's no truth to this myth, and you could go
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ahead and enjoy all of your solar eclipse themed foods comfortably. It's okay to
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eat, But why would you be eating if you're wearing your protective lenses,
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looking through the proper filtered lenses and watching the solar eclipse. I mean,
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why would you be eating if you could do that. But I suppose you
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could combine, you know, eating some very delicious with watching an eclipse.
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That's two great things at the same time. Also, according to a survey
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by Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, nearly one thre of Americans don't know
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that staring at the sun during an eclipse could damage your vision and cause severe
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blindness. Survey respondents thought that wearing sunglasses and briefly looking at the sun were
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safe for their eyes, even for a few seconds. Looking at the sun
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without proper art protection can lead to permanent blindness without any warning signs or symptoms,
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including pain. Staring at the sun during a solar eclipse not worse than
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staring at it in normal times. You shouldn't ever just stare at the sun,
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right, That's not something you should ever do. It's not worse during
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a solar eclipse. It's just that people are more likely to do it,
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and that's why it's got this perception of being so much worse. You should
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never stare directly at the sun period, full stop. That's it. You
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shouldn't stay at the sun, and just because you want to look at the
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eclipse doesn't mean that you should be staring at the Sun. Then it's all
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bad. Staring at the Sun. It's a giant nuclear reactor in the sky
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that you should never stare directly at, no matter the circumstance period. But
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enjoy it safely with the properly approved and rated lenses. You can do that.
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Just don't stare at the Sun now, don't stare at it during the
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eclipse, don't stare at it after the eclipse. Staring at the Sun bad.
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That'll do it for this Friday edition of the show. Thanks to our
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