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Strange News: Tank the Tortoise Has Been Found! · 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, sixth day of October. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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  We made it through this first week, didn't we. Well, we
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  got a little bit to go just starting the day, but we got a
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  little bit to go, and we'll make it through this first week of October
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  and we'll just zip right along to the second week of October. That's how
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  it works, isn't it. But inching our way closer to Halloween and then
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  of course Thanksgiving, Christmas, all coming up fast, coming up fast.
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  I hope you're prepared for how quickly this is all going to happen. It's
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  all going to go down. It's Friday morning. We continue our tradition of
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  some strange and bizarre news events from around the world, mostly around the country,
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  but a few of these are around the world. We do have a
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  bear story this morning, and but we're gonna actually start with a tortoise story.
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  Now, this is a story that began, I guess the end of
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  last week and has now come to a good conclusion. You never liked there
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  to be a bad conclusion with an animal story. You know, this has
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  a good conclusion. Spoiler alert. It was a week long man hunt for
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  an escaped tortoise, and it's come to an end when he was found safely
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  about two miles away from his home. Tank the tortoise as he's known,
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  left the Mahoning Valley Animal Hospital in Leyton, Pennsylvania. He lives there in
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  an outdoor pen. His owner, veterinarian Mike Nelson. I'm assuming that's not
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  the guy from Mystery Science Theater three thousand. I noticed that Tank had gotten
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  out of his pen by crawling through a hole in the fence. Since then,
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  he'd been on the loose. Nearby residents were asked to be on the
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  lookout for Tank and advised that he'd likely not gone very far. Turns out
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  he can move a little faster, maybe than anticipated. He was located two
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  miles away on private property. Nelson says, now that Tank is home safe,
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  he'll be equipped with a GPS tracker in case he gets any more ideas
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  about making a run for it. It's not really a run, is it,
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  if it's a tortoise. I mean, it looks like a good,
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  big, healthy guy. I'm looking at a photo of Tank. No surprise,
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  the guy is probably in good shape. He's in marathon conditioning. I
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  guess perhaps Tank heard about this next story that goes north of the border.
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  And I know Pennsylvania is a long way from Ontario, but here we go.
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  A highway in Ontario, Canada was became the site of what would be
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  an ultimate feeding frenzy for a tortoise. I think a truck overturned and spilled
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  a huge load of celery all over a stretch of highway. The Ontario Provincial
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  Police shut down traffic and issued an alert telling drivers there was so much celery
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  on Highway four hundred. A video of the spill. That's a weird amount.
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  There's so much. I guess that's the Mounties dogging. There's so much
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  celery on Highway four hundred. Video of the spill shows thousands of stalks of
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  celery strown across all lanes of traffic and a tractor trailer on its side.
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  The highway was closed for several hours while crews worked to remove the truck and
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  clean up all of the celery. Luckily, no injuries were reported. That's
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  where Tank was headed. He could have cleaned that mess up, and I
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  don't know. A couple of weeks. I mean, that's a lot of
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  so much is not really a good amount for one tortoise to eat, is
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  it? I mean, so much celery seems like it's too much. No
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  word on whether or not they had You know, they'd put cheese on or
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  peanut butter when we were in school. Remember that they still do the celery
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  with peanut butter on it in elementary schools. At least that used to be
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  a staple of the lunch trade, isn't it all right? Another story out
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  of the country Slovakia, as police were stunned when they got an image captured
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  by a traffic camera showing a speeding car on the highway with a dog behind
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  the wheel. Upon seeing the unusual image, police officers were dispatched to catch
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  up to the car and pull it over. That's interesting. It's real time,
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  like they're just watching these police videos. I guess these cameras so that
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  the police noted go. That's when they pulled the car over and found thirty
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  one year old driver. The thirty one year old driver human driver at the
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  wheel with his dog in his lap. He told officers his large brown dog
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  unexpectedly jumped behind the wheel and was driving. I'm sorry, and he was
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  driving, not the dog. Officers suspected he was allowing the dog to just
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  sit in his lap the whole time. The real driver was given a ticket.
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  They posted a message on Facebook reminding pet owners to make sure pets are
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  properly restrained while driving. I don't think do we have any laws that say
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  you can't have your pet in your lap when you're driving. I don't know
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  if we have those laws here. That may just be a Slovakia law.
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  It seems like a good idea, though I don't know. I don't know
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  how that works exactly. Unless it causes you to be distracted driving, that
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  would make a difference. A former employee at an art museum in Germany was
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  arrested for swapping out original paintings with fake copies and then selling the originals the
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  third this seems like a plot of a movie. It wasn't this a movie.
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  The thirty year old admitted to police that while he was working at the
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  Duchess Museum in Munich from twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen, he replaced at least
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  four paintings and auctioned off the originals. Prosecutors say that he used the money
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  to pay off debts and buy luxury items like expensive wristwatches and a Rolls Royce.
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  The man told auction houses that the paintings had belonged to his grandparents and
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  great grandparents, and the auction houses claimed they had no way to know that
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  the paintings were stolen. I'm assuming they weren't like the real high profile paintings,
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  right, Not like it was the Mona Lisa. That's in a different
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  one, isn't it. In the end, the judge in the case considered
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  the man's confession and his genuine remorse and let him off with no prison time.
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  He will, though, have to pay the museum back sixty four thousand
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  dollars. So that tells you it wasn't the Mona Lisa right there, because
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  you think you can get at least least one hundred thousand, right, I
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  mean at least for that one, all right. Saint Louis. Back in
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  the States, Saint Louis, a woman was arrested after leading police on a
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  high speed chase for several miles with an unusual hood ornament on the car.
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  It was her husband, police say. Thirty eight years old Stephanie Boyd told
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  sorry, and her husband got into a verbal argument that turned physical inside their
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  home. Boyd eventually got into the couple's car and attempted to leave. The
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  husband jumped on the hood of the car to try to stop her, but
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  she decided not to stop. She continued her drive and her husband was clinging
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  to the car, and police chased her and then ordered her to stop.
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  She kept going anyway. The pursuit continued for about seven miles as boy drove
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  on the interstate and then through a construction zone. It sounds like a scene
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  from Smoking the bandit doesn't it. She eventually pulled over and was arrested for
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  domestic assault. Her husband not seriously hurt, but couldn't have had a good
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  day, you know. I mean that seems like it would have been a
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  really bad day. All right. This is a three legged bear store.
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  Now, this is a bear story from a continuing on from about a month
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  ago. And I don't think we did the store. I remember re it
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  to myself, but I don't think I did it on the show. So
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  a three legged bear that broke into a Florida home a month ago and stole
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  a bunch of white claws in the fridge maybe I did do this story.
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  Well, this three legged bear is back at it again. The bear turned
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  up again, this time at a house and a town and the town of
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  Heathrow in Florida. Tripod, I guess, is the name they've given the
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  bear. I was seen on the home security camera hobbling onto the back porch
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  nosing his way into the refrigerator. It's not clear in the video what if
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  anything he ate or drank. The owner of the house did not have any
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  white claws though. Tripod of course well known, and it's not hard to
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  notice it's the three legged bear from the previous stories. No one was hurt,
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  and I guess maybe he left a note that said, please get some
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  white claws. You know, just please get some white claws. An Indian
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  man suffering from a terrible stomach ache for two years went to the doctor and
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  informed the doctor that were found out from the doctor that the pain was probably
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  caused by his diet, which included a lot of random household items. Thirty
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  five year old Cold Deep Sing went to the hospital with a fever and severe
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  stomach pain. Doctors performed an X ray and were shocked to discover that he
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  had been eating various trinkets from around his house, about sixty things lockets,
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  chains, nuts, bolts, safety pins, magnets, buttons, earphones,
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  and more. He was diagnosed with the mental health condition known as pika.
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  Is that right where the patient compulsively swallows items that are not food. So
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  yeah, that's it's not good. That's an understatement. It says many of
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  the items that he swallowed were sharp and cast severe wounds inside his stomach.
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  See that's why it's not good. Doctors decided to operate. Took them three
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  hours to remove all of the stuff from his stomach, but despite the surgery
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  being a success, he was still in critical condition and on a ventilator.
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  So hopefully he can make a full recovery now that everything is out of him.
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  So all right. A painful wedgie of sorts center of a lawsuit filed
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  against Walt Disney World. Emma McGinnis claims that she received the wedgy on a
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  water slide at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon back in twenty nineteen. She and her family
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  where they're visiting the water park, one of two on Disney property, and
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  took a ride on the Humonga Cowabunga two hundred foot slide that drops riders five
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  stories before shooting out in a pool of water. At the top of the
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  slide, riders are instructed to cross their legs at the ankles, but that
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  the lawsuit states, there's no explanation or warnings about what would happen if you
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  uncross your legs. According to the lawsuit, there was no warning that the
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  force of the water at the end of the slide can push loose garments into
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  a person's anatomy, aka a wedgie. It does say that because of a
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  woman's anatomy, the risk of a painful wedgie is more common and more serious
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  than it is for a man. McGinnis claims that she suffered a wedgy so
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  severe it caused injuries as well as scarring, mental anguish, loss of capacity
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  of enjoyment of life. She claims that Disney was negligent and is seeking damages
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  of at least fifty thousand dollars. Yikes, that's you know they got the
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  when you in school, you had the wedgie, and then you had the
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  atomic wedgie. I don't know what this qualifies as the super duper atomic wedg,
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  but that sounds incredibly painful. The Philadelphia Phillies allow fans to bring certified
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  service dogs or service dogs in training to games at Citizens Bank Park, but
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  one fan thought, well, I'm going to the game, I'd like to
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  take my emotional support alligator to the game. That's not gonna be good for
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  anybody. Joey Henny had a ticket to the game and basically tried to get
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  through the gate with his pet alligator, Wally. I guess Wally Gator right,
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  who he keeps harnessed on a leash. Henny says that Wally is harmless,
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  never bitten anyone. He even sleeps in the bed with Henny and likes
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  to give people hugs, even small children. Henny says Wally helps him battle
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  depression. I get the feeling that that's gonna be a story that's gonna have
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  a bad ending later, don't you think of eventually we're going to get back
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  to a really bad ending with that story. And finally, when you're trying
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  to sell a property, might not be a good idea to list in the
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  description of the property that it's probably haunted. Listing agent Erica Crystal Yucker is
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  trying to sell a Massachusetts house that was formerly a funeral home. The for
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  sale sign outside the Turgen Funeral Home in Millsbury, Massachusetts has an additional sign
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  attached to it with the words probably haunted. The house, which listed for
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  seven hundred and sixty nine thousand dollars, was built in eighteen fifty operated as
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  a funeral home since nineteen forty eight. Uker told the ABC affiliate there in
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  Millsbury. It's been standing for many years and certainly has some history to go
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  with it. I'm not sure if it's truly haunted, but given its age,
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  I suppose it's a possibility. I you know, I think that might
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  actually be a good marketing thing. This time of year, it's close to
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  Halloween. You say it's possibly or probably haunted, you're going to get an
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  opportunity maybe to get some weirdo that wants to buy it hoping that it's haunted.
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  Right, there's been some dead bodies in there. I would think most
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  people don't die at the funeral home. I mean, I don't know what
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  the logistics are on this whole haunted thing anyway. Do you have to haunt
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  the place where you died or do you haunt the place where your body was
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  stored? On ice? For a while I don't know, I don't know
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  how any of this works. I don't really get the logistics of the haunting
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  process. But she says it's possibly haunted. I think that could be a
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  way to get it sold. Got I would think that maybe if you get
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  into November, you get close to Thanksgiving, maybe drop the possibly haunted thing
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  from your description of the property. That's just my suggestion. Today's show brought
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  well. According to the World Economic Forum, the Global Gender Gap Report of
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  twenty twenty three is out and has ranked one hundred and forty six countries on
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  their gender equality based on employment opportunities, education, health, political power.
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  Gender Gap Report of twenty twenty three, Iceland number one, Norway, Finland,
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  New Zealand, Sweden, Germany, Nicaragua, Namibia, Lithuania and Belgium.
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  The US, by the way, ranked number forty three. How old
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  were you when you watched your first ever scary movie? Now, this is
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  one of those things where you know you can I think I kind of feel
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  like you can gauge a generation based on the answer to this question, And
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  I guess maybe it falls under the category of watched a scary movie, like
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  with permission, maybe not necessarily snuck around into it, because I think maybe
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  kids would do that now, but I mean with actual full permission of your
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  parents, maybe even encouragement of your parents. So a survey found the average
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  person remembers watching their first horror movie when they were about ten years old.
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  About fifty two percent of respondent said it scared them when they were young and
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  it still scares them today. That particular movie, I would say, Jaws
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  was probably the first one that I watched with permission from my parents. The
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  Halloween movies, I'm sure we're on in my house. My older brother watched
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  him, and he's not much older than me. But I used to do
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  the thing where I would stand sort of where I could barely see the screen
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  but just off to the side, and then if something really scary happened,
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  I'd run away. But and I guess you know you can obviously, you
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  know, some people will watch the classics. I don't know if I would
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  have watched something under the Cat, maybe the Birds, you know, maybe
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  a Hitchcock movie I watched before. I think Jaws is the first one,
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  and it doesn't still scare me, but it did. It messed me up
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  back in the day. I mean, I remember I remember for a long
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  time being afraid when I went to the bathroom that Jaws might come through the
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  tub, Like I was like, I mean, it's water, is it
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  possible that he could get through there? But you know, I was really
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  young. That gives you an idea. I was younger than ten when I
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  watched it. I don't remember exactly how old I was, but it was
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  when I was on TV. By the way, I wasn't in the theaters
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  watching Jaws, so I wasn't I wasn't able to do that. How early
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  but a survey found that more than forty three percent of respondent says it's
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  okay to put up decorations before November. One probably would. It's probably a
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  pretty I mean, the people who disagree with that, it's probably a heated
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  like. No. The people who think it's okay, they probably aren't quite
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  as enthusiastic about it, that's my guess. But the people who say no
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  to October Christmas decorations. They're probably pretty adamant. I would think that's just
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  my guess. All right, that'll do it for this Friday edition of the
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