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Strange and Bizarre News with a Really Big Alligator · 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, March twenty second. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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Getting ready to roll on into this weekend. And as we do on Fridays,
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we talk about strange and bizarre news that happens all around the world,
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and we'll start today in Taiwan. Because two college students in Taiwan came up
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with a great idea that they thought would mean they were going to make some
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bank and they came up with an insurance fraud. Well, we'll get into
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it. It's not good. I mean, I want to make the joke.
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They want to have a leg to stand on, but I guess that
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gives away part of what they did. Investigators say the two men came up
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with the idea to defraud an insurance company by claiming that one of them suffered
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severe frostbite, went a little far with it. One of them, identified
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only as Chang, took out a policy covering disabilities, injuries, and health
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from five different insurers. The idea was that they would builk insurers for at
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least a half a million dollars. Days later, they decided to drive their
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mot motorcycles out in the bitter cold, and it would seem possible that they
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could have suffered frostbite. So then they got back home and said, let's
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figure out how to make sure we have the frost bite. So Chang soaked
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his legs in dry ice for ten hours. Yes, he did indeed suffer
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frostbite, but it was so severe that it required hospitalization and ultimately he needed
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to have both legs amputated under the knee. He was discharged from the hospital
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and then filed insurance claims with all five companies. One of them paid about
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seven thousand dollars. The others got a little suspicious decided to investigate. First
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thing that they looked into was the temperature on the night that they claimed they
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were outside on their motorcycles and determined it wasn't cold enough to cause frostbite.
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They eventually learned about the rest of the failed scheme and notified police. That's
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a big want want I mean, first of all, the fraud things they
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don't usually work out anyway. Second of all, this is what I mean.
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I don't know if the plan was to actually lose his legs or not,
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but I suppose there had to be a moment where they've amputated his legs.
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He's maybe recovering in the hot I don't know how that works. And
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then suddenly he's like, well, let's file the claim. Maybe at least
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we'll make the money. And then no, he doesn't even get that just
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didn't work out at all. How about this? I guess somebody needs to
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call bookman from Seinfeld. A book about psychedelics that was checked out of the
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High Plains Library in Willed County, Colorado in nineteen eighty seven was finally returned
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thirty seven years overdue. And the reason it took so long for the book
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to be returned is, well, I mean they bought a book on psychedelics.
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There was a handwritten post it stuck to the book inside the cover that
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explained, sorry so late, it's been a long strange trip. The library
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took to Instagram and joked, far be it from us to suggest that a
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book on psychedelics may may have affected someone's perception of time. So but at
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least it's backward it belongs now someone else can enjoy a long strange trip.
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I suppose, I don't know. A Canadian woman's effort to clean out her
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late father's home almost literally blew up in her face. Kedrin Sims Brockmann said
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that she and some family members were going through her father's belongings when she opened
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up a toolbox and found a live grenade inside. She told u CTV News,
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we went into his toolroom, which was always like nobody ever went into
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his toolroom. That was a sacred place. I was looking for something and
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then I opened up the toolbox and there was a grenade. And Brockmann says
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she remembered her father once owned a grenade, but thought he got rid of
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it. She called police. They contacted the Canadian Army, who sent an
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officer to the house. He observed the grenade and determined it to be live.
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Army personnel secured the grenade and took it away, presumably to somewhere it
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could be safely detonated. Brockman says that the story isn't very unusual for anyone
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who knew her father, who was, in her words, a unique character.
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So police in Minnesota of arrested two Texas men they believe behind a wide
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theft ring involving calculators. Police arrested twenty three year old Zachary Fininon and a
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thirty year old Antonio Griffin Junior after they were caught in a Target parking lot
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with five thousand dollars worth of stolen calculators. An investigation discovered that the men
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drove from Dallas all the way to Minnesota to steal graphing calculators and it actually
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swiped about eighteen five hundred dollars worth of calculators from eight Target stores. Both
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men face up to ten years in jail if convicted. A lot of phones
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have calculators on them. Now, I mean, I know they're not graphing
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calculators, but a lot of them have calculators on the phones. Now.
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I just wouldn't think a calculator would be such a hot demand item. But
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anyway, all right. Police in Vero Beach, Florida, arrested a couple
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who decided that the front of a pop store would be an appropriate place for
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a quick doing the old hibbitidibity if you catch my drift. Shocked on lucers
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called nine one one to report the couple was exposed and going at it in
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front of the fast food restaurant, plane view of passers by. When police
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arrived, they found forty four year old April White and seventy year old what
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Arnold Mackie with their pants down and actively going at it in full view of
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motorists driving by. White insisted she did nothing wrong and was confrontational with officers.
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Police say she smelled of alcohol, you think, and needed to be
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physically restrained. Mackie said he didn't mean to expose himself but wanted to take
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their tryst off to the side of the road, but White refused. They
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were both arrested for indecent exposure, and White received an additional charge of resisting
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arrest and disorderly intoxication. Drivers usually my encounter some wildlife while they're out driving.
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Once we were in Australia and we were driving and I actually collided with
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a cockatoo. We were driving along and the bird came down and just kind
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of grazed right off the windshield. We had a big laugh about it because
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it was a crazy thing to experience, but you know, we could see
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that the bird was okay, so we didn't feel too badly about it.
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But that kind of stuff happens. Jill, my beautiful bride, once was
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driving her car and a kangaroo in Australia slammed into the side of the car.
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People hit deer, things like that happened sometimes something that isn't as common
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the cockatoo, for one. But also this motorist in Maryland was driving along
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and this would be last weekend, and collided with a bald eagle. The
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eagle's backside got stuck in the car's grill, was still alive. The driver
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got out of the car, saw the bird was moving, called police for
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help. They sent animal control over and an officer was able to free the
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bird, which amazingly was not seriously injured. After a thorough examination, the
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bald eagle was released back into the wild. So that's a good end of
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the story. But that's crazy. Imagine a bald eagle stuck to the front
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of your car, not something you would expect to have a collision with at
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all. Or another animal story, a Pennsylvania woman was having maintenance work done
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to repair parts of her home and they somehow sealed her cat inside the wall.
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This sounds like an Edgar Allen post story, doesn't it. The woman
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who goes by the name of Jay on social media, cesspool TikTok shared a
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video with her followers, saying that she walked into her apartment and her scratching
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and meowing coming from inside the wall and thought and then realized that the workers
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must have trapped the cat inside the wall. She immediately called the main it's
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office. No one answered. She dialed nine to win. One operator advised
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her to kick a hole in the wall. You gotta be careful where you're
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kicking. So Jay took the advice, and although she wasn't able to kick
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in the wall, she was able to scrape away enough sheet rock to make
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a hole big enough that the scared cat was able to climb through. Cat
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was okay, and Jay demanding answers from the maintenance workers and wants him to
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repatch the hole, you know, without the cat inside. She also found
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a bald eagle inside the wall. No, no, she didn't. That
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would be crazy, THO, wouldn't it. A Florida man under arrest for
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leading police on a high speed chase could have been predicted though by his license
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plate. Nineteen year old Ashton Jarvis was riding a motorcycle with a fake Florida
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tag on it that read will run Cops. In Daytona Beach observed three motorcycles
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driving recklessly and recognize the fake plate from a previous case that they had with
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Jarvis. We talked about this story, didn't we, Deputy say. When
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Jarvis spotted them, he alerted the two other bikers and they attempted to flee
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when they got stuck in traffic. One of the bikers was immediately caught,
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two others got away. Jarvis at one point reached the speed of one hundred
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and forty five miles per hour. He was eventually stopped after riding in circles
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around a patrol car and was arrested. He told police that he ran because
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he was scared. Sounds about right. He also admitted to buying the fake
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will Run license plate on Amazon. Jarvis charged with possessing a counterfeit license plate,
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multiple counts of fleeing and eluding police. I mean, if this is
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the same guy and we did this story before, I guess we should put
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a pin in this one in case we have to do a similar version of
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this story again down the line. Coming home from a vacation is always challenging.
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You enjoy yourself, you have a good relaxing time. Maybe you want
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to get back to your bed, but It is a little tough sometimes just
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to come back home. It's especially tough if the government thinks that you are
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dead and declares you dead. This happened to thirty four year old Nick Faturos
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of Montreal, who returned home from a vacation in Costa Rica and read a
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letter from the Ministry of Justice seeking to collect an unpaid speeding ticket from his
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estate. Since Fateuros had died, he thought, oh wow, it's news
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to me. He says he's happy that he saw the letter before his mother
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did. Fateuros says that he tried to call someone at the ministry to prove
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he wasn't dead, but hasn't been able to get anyone on the phone.
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He finally brought the ordeal to the attention of CTV News and they were able
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to reach the Ministry of Justice. A representative at the office explained it was
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a human error and the collector of fines mistakenly used a letter template used to
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correspond with an a state, rather than the one normally used to communicate with
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a defendant. We apologize for the situation. The mistake will be corrected,
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but it doesn't let Faturos off the hook. For the speeding ticket. I
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would think they could cut him some slack on that. They declared the man
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dead and he wasn't dead. A heartbroken pet owner upstate New York is fighting
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to get his beloved pet back, just like anybody would when they have their
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pet taken away. The problem is what the pet is. It's an eleven
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foot, seven hundred and fifty pounds alligator. Tony Cavalaro says that he kept
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his gator named Albert in his backyard and allowed him to use the swimming pool
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for many years. But the New York Department of Environmental Conservation said Cavallero was
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also allowing members of the public to get in the water to pet Albert,
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and that's why they recently seized the enormous animal in the interest of public safety
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and health, safety and protection of the alligator. Albert is thirty years old
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old, blind has spinal issues. Cavallero had previously held a permit for the
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gator, but it expired in twenty twenty one. He never renewed it.
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Though. Albert has been turned over to a licensed caregiver who will look after
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him until he can be transferred to a proper facility. Cavallero, who could
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still face charges, has hired a lawyer to bring Albert home. It's sad,
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you don't want him to be separated from his beloved pet. But the
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thing you may not know about alligators crocodiles, you know, they don't really
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take a minute and go, that's a person, I'm just gonna not eat
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it. That's not how they work. They have a couple of things in
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mind, and that's always what's on their mind, and eating is one of
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those things. One of the other things is, you know, the thing
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that was going on at Popeye's Chicken and that other story. That's the two
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kind of things that they think about. Even if you're a blind alligator and
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you have spinal issues, you still got to eat. Chances are the thing
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at Popeye's Chicken may not be on the table for him. There's not any
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other alligators around, but the eating part, which, by the way,
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eating also happens at Popeye's Chicken, it would still be heavily on the brain.
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Morning Show right after the break. According to a new survey, lots of
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men are self conscious about one thing in particular. Seventy two percent of millennial
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mail respondents said that they are anxious about their body odor on any typical day.
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Fifty two percent worry that they have bo and don't know it. Fifty
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one percent said that they don't know how to fix their body odor. Fifty
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nine percent said that they want someone to tell them if they have bad body
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odor. The body parts men are most concerned about when it comes to their
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bo armpits, neck, head and hair, arms and hands. The survey
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was done by Old Spice just for reference sake. You know, you have
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to think about the fact that somebody whose you know, job is to make
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people try to smell better in a lot of ways, is doing the survey.
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But it's interesting, isn't it? All right? More findings from it.
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Thirty five percent of the men's surveyed said that they have been broken up
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with over their body odor. Thirty eight percent said that they broke up with
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someone because of the way that they smelled. So there you go. Springtime
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means that romance is in the air. Romances in the air, and this
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whole coupling season, you know, they did that. We get into spring,
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people are going to be outside more sunlight and all those sorts of things.
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So I guess people want to do romantic trips. A coupling season.
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I guess technically though, was back in Thanksgiving to the beginning of the year,
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and then the decoupling, and now that people want to do romantic trips,
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I guess maybe that's really the way the coupling thing works. But the
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place that I guess people would like to go World's most Romantic Cities, no
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surprise, Paris is at the top of the list, of Venice, Santorini,
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Greece, Kyoto, Japan, Bali, Indonesia, Rome and Barcelona rounding
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out the seven I guess most romantic cities. I don't see Phoenix City anywhere
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on the list. I don't know how we didn't get Phoenix City somewhere on
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this list. You would think somewhere, maybe, like you know, seventy
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eight, just something somewhere in that. A new study says that intermittent fasting
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that's eating in small windows every day correlates with a much higher risk of heart
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attack. Doctors analyze more than twenty thousand people who said that they'd been on
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intermittent fasting diets for an average of eight years. People who restrict their eating
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to eight hours a day or less have a ninety one percent greater risk of
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cardiovascular disease. And even with the health benefits that some people experience, intermittent
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fasting does not reduce your overall risk of death. Doctors say, oh,
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well, nothing can reduce your risk of death. You're gonna die, that's
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a reality. What's going to reduce your risk of death? Nothing? How
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are you going to possibly reduce that? That's silly. Come on, that's
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just silly. Doctor say, more research is needed, but the results suggest
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that intermittent fasting might help in the short term, but should not become a
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long term habit. So, for what it's worth, if you want to
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reduce your risk of death, don't be born. I guess that's the only
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thing I can think of. I don't know what else you could possibly do
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to reduce your risk of death or already be dead. I suppose dead people
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have zero risk of death. That doesn't seem good, though it sounds rather
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bleak. That's not a good a good way to look at things at all.
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Oh I mentioned the trips, the getaways, romantic getaways. If you're
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planning a trip, they say don't book your flight too early, and they
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say, according to USA Today, they recently analyze flight costs and found that
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booking a domestic flight more than five months out is a mistake. They say
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the best fares are available between one and five months in advance, So if
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you're looking to book your travel for the summer, you should be in pretty
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good shape now. But if you're planning to travel for the holidays, you
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should you shouldn't do it now. For international flights, you should book anywhere
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between two and seven months in advance for the best fares. But that's kind
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of hard to do because you're trying to you know, especially if you've got
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certain windows that you can travel to make sure that you're able to do that
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and don't want to miss out on your opportunity to travel anyway. That'll do
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