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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: Now, I know you're gonna handle all the important uh stories in the big three here in just a few seconds.
- 0:04SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna try.
- 0:05SPEAKER_00: I thought I'd share this one with you because also it deals with your hometown, but a suspect has been arrested uh in back-to-back blowgun shootings in Cleveland.
- 0:14SPEAKER_00: Oh, jeez.
- 0:15SPEAKER_00: Now, that's an odd uh weapon of choice.
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: What's a blowgun?
- 0:19SPEAKER_00: Okay, so you know the long tube.
- 0:21SPEAKER_00: Uh and back okay, I'll describe it like this, because you're of the age you can remember like cartoons.
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
- 0:26SPEAKER_00: So can you imagine we're gonna go back to like Bugs Bunny or Saturday morning cartoons.
- 0:31SPEAKER_00: And they'd be out in the jungle and they'd have this long, like stick-looking tube.
- 0:36SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
- 0:36SPEAKER_00: And they'd be sucking in air to go to blow through it and go and it would go at you.
- 0:41SPEAKER_00: And then, like, you know, I don't know, Elmer Fudd would run up and be like, on the other end, and it would go, you know, hit you back in the throat.
- 0:47SPEAKER_00: And that was the so a blowgun, that's a weird description, but it is what it is.
- 0:52SPEAKER_01: Nobody always would hit their butt, and do you remember they would like jump up in there and he'd be like, What would he say?
- 0:58SPEAKER_01: Something Gamerga Troit or something like that.
- 1:00SPEAKER_01: I and he would be like, oh, ho ho ho ho.
- 1:03SPEAKER_00: So it's odd because it's something more you'd see in like the Amazon jungle than Cleveland, but there are parts of that city that are like the Amazon jungle.
- 1:10SPEAKER_00: So anyway, a man suspected of uh shooting two people in uh with a blowgun in back-to-back daylight attacks in the same Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood has been arrested.
- 1:21SPEAKER_00: The 42-year-old suspect taken into custody.
- 1:24SPEAKER_00: 42, and he's got what he get this at some flea market?
- 1:26SPEAKER_00: Got a set of logs.
- 1:27SPEAKER_00: I know, right?
- 1:28SPEAKER_00: Yeah, where do you buy a blowgun?
- 1:30SPEAKER_01: Jamie's flea market.
- 1:31SPEAKER_01: I guess that's a Cleveland reference.
- 1:32SPEAKER_00: That's um that's not for here.
- 1:34SPEAKER_00: Either way.
- 1:35SPEAKER_00: Uh anyway, the suspicion of felony assault following the two-day manhunt.
- 1:39SPEAKER_00: The attacks happened around 4 p.m.
- 1:41SPEAKER_00: Monday on the Clark Fulton neighborhood of uh West Cleveland.
- 1:45SPEAKER_00: A 56-year-old woman said a man uh who uh she knew so close to downtown from the area first assaulted uh and uh struck her, then confronted her again at a family dollar.
- 1:59SPEAKER_00: This is all coming together, parking lot, and uh and uh fired needles like darts at her uh at least five times.
- 2:08SPEAKER_00: Man, this guy could reload pretty quick.
- 2:10SPEAKER_00: Uh she had surgery to remove the uh darts uh that pierced her uh behind liver, believe it or not.
- 2:17SPEAKER_00: Oh, geez.
- 2:18SPEAKER_00: A short time later, a 40-year-old man was struck by a uh blow dart nearby.
- 2:23SPEAKER_00: Probably because his aim was bad.
- 2:24SPEAKER_00: And ran off before calling 911.
- 2:26SPEAKER_00: Officers later spotted and arrested a suspect uh and recovered the uh blow dart gun.
- 2:33SPEAKER_01: Yeah, if a guy's if a guy's carrying a blow dart gun, that's your guy.
- 2:36SPEAKER_00: It's an odd look or a walking stick.
- 2:38SPEAKER_01: By the way, the the phrase I was trying to look for whenever in Looney Tunes where they would get hit and then it would be in their bottom and then they would jump up.
- 2:46SPEAKER_01: It was heavens to murder Troid.
- 2:48SPEAKER_01: Oh.
- 2:48SPEAKER_01: So I'm like, what?
- 2:49SPEAKER_01: It's a whimsical mid-20th century American idiom used to express shock or surprise, utter bewilderment.
- 2:56SPEAKER_01: This phrase is famously known as the signature catchphrase of the pink anamorphic mountain lion snaggle puss.
- 3:04SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
- 3:05SPEAKER_00: Thank you very much for that.
- 3:06SPEAKER_00: You're welcome.
- 3:06SPEAKER_00: Hand me the blow gun.
- 3:07SPEAKER_00: And three, two, one, you're listening to Scott and Allie.
- 3:12SPEAKER_00: Scott and Allie's big three.
- 3:13SPEAKER_01: The Corning Police Department is now participating in what's called the Blue Envelope Program.
- 3:18SPEAKER_01: If you know somebody with autism and drives, you're gonna want to listen to this.
- 3:22SPEAKER_01: It's an initiative designed to improve interactions between law enforcement and drivers with autism anywhere on the spectrum.
- 3:28SPEAKER_01: This allows drivers with autism to store documents such as their license, registration, and proof of insurance in a distinctive blue envelope kept in their vehicle.
- 3:37SPEAKER_01: The envelope will be a signal to cops.
- 3:39SPEAKER_01: It's basically like, hey, you know, we know that this interaction might be a little bit different.
- 3:45SPEAKER_01: If you need an envelope.
- 3:46SPEAKER_01: Interesting.
- 3:47SPEAKER_01: I know.
- 3:47SPEAKER_01: If you need an envelope, please contact the Corning PD.
- 3:50SPEAKER_01: I think you know where they are, right off of Denison Parkway on NASA Civics.
- 3:53SPEAKER_00: If not, just go buy them at about 60, they'll find you.
- 3:55SPEAKER_01: Also, if you want to pay my parking ticket while you're there, you can.
- 3:58SPEAKER_01: Oh.
- 3:59SPEAKER_01: Still haven't paid that thing.
- 4:01SPEAKER_00: Dude, that just keeps going off.
- 4:03SPEAKER_01: It's 20 bucks now.
- 4:04SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be, yeah.
- 4:05SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be 25 soon.
- 4:07SPEAKER_01: Until they tell me.
- 4:08SPEAKER_01: I'm just kidding.
- 4:09SPEAKER_01: And a Binghamton man is charged with a hate crime after police said he made threatening social media comments towards New York State Senator Leah Webb.
- 4:17SPEAKER_01: James Crosby commented on a local news story post on Facebook that had Webb at a Juneteenth event.
- 4:24SPEAKER_01: They ended up arresting Crosby, and he's charged with making a terroristic threat as a hate crime.
- 4:29SPEAKER_01: I think people f forget like you can't just be a keyboard warrior and get to say whatever you want behind the keyboard.
- 4:35SPEAKER_01: Yeah, go get a blowgun.
- 4:37SPEAKER_01: All right.
- 4:38SPEAKER_01: And then twin earthquakes struck Venezuela.
- 4:41SPEAKER_01: The first quake with a magnitude of 7.2 occurred around six o'clock yesterday, followed by a second one, 7.5, less than a minute later.
- 4:50SPEAKER_01: The second earthquake was the country's largest since 1900.
- 4:54SPEAKER_01: And there is the big three.