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Strange and Bizarre News with a Special Appearance by OJ Simpson · 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, twelfth day of April. I'm Wes, Thanks for joining me.
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Was a significant news day yesterday, and we're going to get into our
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strange and bizarre news that we usually do from around the world. We'll dive
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into that coming up in just a few minutes. But a significant moment happened
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yesterday. What was an announcement that came yesterday? The event, actually,
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I guess took place on the tenth the passing of OJ Simpson, seventy six
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years old and I guess succumbed to his battle with cancer. The announcement that
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came on social media came on his I guess Twitter page. Yes, Oj
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Simpson was back on Twitter or on Twitter. I don't know he was on
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it before, but he was on Twitter. And his family or someone on
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their behalf that was posted on behalf of the family wrote on April tenth,
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or father Orenthal James Simpsons to come to his battle with cancer. He was
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surrounded by his children and grandchildren during this time of transition. His family asked
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you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace from the Simpson family and it
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was at the real OJ thirty two was his Twitter handle, so soon after
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that and I say on Twitter this was X. Of course the family of
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Fred Goldman. I'm sorry, Fred Golman, the father of Ron Goldman,
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who was one of OJ's at least in the civil case victims. And it
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was interesting to me that media was basically saying that OJ was an acquit did
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a murderer when in the civil trial he was found guilty. Therefore that makes
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him a convicted murderer. I mean that's you know, he didn't go to
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jail for murder. He went to jail for something else all together, stealing
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something that apparently belonged to him at gunpoint. But that's another discussion altogether.
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So Fred Goldman, father of Ron Goldman, reacted to the news. I
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guess I told NBC News the only thing I have to say is it's further
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reminder of Ron being gone all these years. It's no great loss to the
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world. It's a further reminder of Ron being gone. And I think that
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that's one of the things that often gets forgotten in you know, this is
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one of those things that became such a pop culture event that continued on for
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so long, and I guess now to some degree there will be some rest
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to it. And you want peace for Ron Goldman's family and loved ones,
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and O'lee Nicole Brown Simpson's family, which includes some of OJ's family, so
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hopefully they'll find some peace in all this. But the cultural impact OJ Simpson
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had on society in general, and I've talked about this on radio and here,
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and I think it's important just to note there's a few things that I
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think we could lay at the feet of OJ Simpson. First of all,
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this notion of twenty four hour news, this twenty four hour news cycle that
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we have is to some degree goes back to OJ Simpson, not him specifically,
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but if you remember the white Bronco chase that was happening during the NBA
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Finals, and TV stations just couldn't figure out how do we cover both of
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these things, And ultimately it was let's put a box in the corner with
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the car. I think at times they had the basketball game on in the
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corner and the car was the prominent story. And I just that was the
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beginning. That was when the decision got made that you know, we have
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to do more than just a headline news situation we have to have and then
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all these networks happen. I can't help but also think that a big part
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of the OJ trial and the defense of OJ Simpson that ultimately got him acquitted
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in the criminal trial, was using a blanket excuse of race, that OJ
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Simpson was being prosecuted because the police were racist, that everyone's racist. Ultimately,
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they were digging up any information they could on remember the firman, the
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police officer involved. But I can't help but feel that there's a significant place
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in our history that all ready had obviously a long and horrible history with race
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relations, and I think personally that this particular case did not help that.
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I think it's made it worse since then. I think that we learned then
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from that trial that if you just throw around racism, it's enough to create
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that little bit of doubt. It's almost like the notion of a conspiracy theory
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when someone says, well, we never landed on the moon, and you
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can't prove to me that they didn't film it in a a sound stage somewhere.
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Well, no, you can't prove that they didn't do that. You
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can't. There's no way to prove that, but that doesn't make it true.
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And that's true. I think in many cases when racism is thrown around,
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are there still examples plenty of examples of racism? Yes? Is it
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racist to blame racism on things that have nothing to do with racism? I
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would argue that it is. I certainly think it was used in that manner
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with O. J. Simpson. I certainly think that it was certainly incorrectly
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used. But ultimately, paraphrasing Chris Rock's Hale take on the Johnny Cochran defense
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is you know he he said, well, I'm gonna try to get the
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Chris Rock quote right. He said about using Johnny Cochran after the OJ trial
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that people said, if you use Johnny Cochran, you're gonna look guilty.
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And he said, well, which is it? Would you rather look innocent
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in jail or look guilty at the mall? And you know, that's a
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defense lawyer's job is to defend their client, and that's what he was hired
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to do, as was you know, Robert Kardashian. And that's the other
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thing that I think is unforgivable for O. J. Simpson is if not
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for these murders, we wouldn't have gotten the Kardashians. So that's three things
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that O. J. Simpson had a significant impact on in pop culture.
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You could make a case too that I don't know that the Caitlyn Jenner story
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would have been so prominent. I don't know. I don't know how all
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that would have played out if not for the Kardashians. But anyway, OJ
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Simpson dad at seventy six, and it takes nothing away from obviously the crimes,
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from the murders, from the robbery, the gun robbery at gunpoint,
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even if it was his possessions, he doesn't take that away from that,
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just like you can't go back and say, and I know a lot of
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people looked up to OJ when he was a player. They looked up to
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OJ as a sideline reporter, they looked at up to OJ as a spokesperson,
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as an actor. All of those things, all that comes crashing down
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at the point when you know these crimes happened. So there you go.
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All right, let's get into its Friday. Let's transition over. I this
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is more time than I intended to spend on OJ, but I want to
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jump into some of these stories let's start in Oklahoma, where a woman stopped
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by police and a stolen jeep told officers they were mistaken because the vehicle was
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actually given to her as a tip from a waffle House customer. Angela Harrison
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claimed she was at a gas station just an hour before and ran into a
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former customer of hers when she was working at waffle house. She said the
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customer gave her ten dollars cash and also a Jeep Liberty as an early birthday
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tip. Although Tulsa police don't want to discourage waffle house customers who would like
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to thank their server by gifting them a car, they had some doubts about
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her story because the vehicle had been reported stolen last year, and they had
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surveillance footage of the car from January with her in it. Harrison stuck to
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her story and said she had no idea how she could have been in the
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vehicle back in January when it was just given to her an hour ago.
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Officers provided one explanation for it, you're lying. Harrison was arrested charge with
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possession of a stolen vehicle. A lot of waffle house jokes could be made,
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but we'll just leave it at that a train in Scotland was forced to
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return to the station after a member of Darth Vader's Galactic Empire frightened some of
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the passengers, who apparently are not familiar with Star Wars. A man who
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was headed to a comic book convention was dressed in a full Stormtrooper costume,
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complete with blaster. The prop weapon worried some riders, who alerted authorities and
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forced them to bring the train back to the station. The cosplayer was met
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at the station by police, who escorted him off the train and brought him
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to an office to be questioned. Once officers determined he wasn't a threat,
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they gave him a ride back home so he could get a bag to holster
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his blaster so he wouldn't frighten anyone else. They also asked him not to
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wear the Stormtrooper costume out in public. He's just trying to go to a
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convention. Man. Let the guy live, all right. You knew we
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were eventually going to get to Florida. Florida man under arrest after he argued
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with police they were violating his right to be drunk, disorderly and naked inside
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a garbage can on a public sidewalk. I mean, it's not in the
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Bill of rights. But it's not not in the bill. I don't Coups
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in Saint Petersburg said they found the real life Oscar of the Grouch sitting inside
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a trash can, completely naked. Is Oscar naked in there and smelling of
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booze? Well that's the difference, isn't it. As they pulled him out,
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he was unsteady on his feet refused to provide his name. He then
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argued that he had every right to be drunken naked in the trash can and
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briefly resisted arrest. Thirty four or sorry, thirty five year old? I
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was looking ahead at the name. Wiley wyl Y. James Weeks was charged
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with disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer. Not surprisingly, it isn't his first
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arrest for being drunken naked in public. It might not be as last either,
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I'm just saying. Also in Florida, a woman called nine one one
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a week ago for help removing an unwanted house guest. It was an eight
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foot long alligator. It's not unusual to see gators walking outside of homes in
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Florida, but Mary Holland Beck's visitor had actually gotten inside her home and was
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just hanging out in the living room. She was in another room of the
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house when she heard banging on the screen door and thought it was maybe one
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of her neighbors in the community trying to get into the wrong house. When
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she entered the living room to get to the front door, she was greeted
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by the enormous alligator. Mary says she had two thoughts immediately go through her
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head. Oh my gosh, I have an alligator in my house. And
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oh my gosh, I have an alligator in my house. How am I
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going to get rid of him? She called the police. They brought along
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several wildlife officers to help remove the intruder from her home. Mary says the
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gator came from a nearby pond and was shocked that none of her neighbors noticed
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the gator walking along two different yards and crossing a street to get to her
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house. Hey, sometimes wildlife just blends in, baby. Sometimes it happens
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and you don't even notice that they're there. And maybe that's what was going
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on. Ah, if you happen to have a box of old grenades lying
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around, you should let local authorities know, so they could come over and
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pick them up. Don't take them to the police station and say, hey,
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look what i've got here. A California resident walked into a Pleasanton police
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department last week and dropped off a box of grenades he found in his garage.
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He believed them to be an eight. He was wrong. Officers determine
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the grenades were alive called the bomb squad into the lobby to pick them up
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and move them to an area where they could be destroyed. It's not exactly
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clear how old the grids were or how they turned up in the person's garage.
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I would think that's a good call ahead scenario. You don't want to
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walk anywhere with live grenades or dynamite or things it might be. Even if
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you think it's not going to blow up, you probably don't want to walk
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into any building and say, hey, look at this. Isn't this neat
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all? Right? We're gonna give back to Florida for our final stories.
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A pair of Florida friends took their love for partying partying to new heights by
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sneaking into a construction site and throwing a rager on top of a crane.
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Residents in Naples called the police to report seeing two eighteen year olds climbing up
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the fifty foot crane and pumping loud music from the top. Police responded to
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the construction site and had to scale fences and other obstacles to reach the crane.
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Once they got there, they ordered the teens to come down after lecturing
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them about how stupid dangerous it was. Officers arrested Jack Hoagland and William House
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for trespassing. Sometimes when the party, the urge to party strikes at any
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elevation. You just got a party, man, You just got a party,
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all right. Finally, police in Miami had to shut down traffic to
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some streets when a man who was later identified as Richard Smith climbed up a
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large cell phone tower and proceeded to disconnect power lines. Police say that he
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posed as a T Mobile worker and said hello to real employees as he walked
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past them and accessed the tower. He then began climbing and made it all
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the way to the top. Power was cut to the cell tower and police
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began negotiating with Smith to get him down, but when officers ordered him down,
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he answered, no, I'm not done working yet. He eventually climbed
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back down and was taken into custody and arrested. Authorities say the man's actions
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the break, let's talk a little bit about work. Do you have an
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office crush? If you do, you're not alone. Samst of people have
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a secret crush on a coworker. Surveys by the Society for Human Resource Management
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consistently find fifty percent of respondents admit to having a thing for somebody with whom
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they work. Whether people act on the crushes or not, it makes sense
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you spend a lot of time with your coworkers as a bond created through shared
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experiences. The workplace is a very special place for attachment, according to Helen
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Fisher, the chief science advisor formatch dot com, Because you spend the day
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with somebody, you're under the same pressures, you have the same understanding of
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all these people around you. I can't talk to my husband about people in
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my workplace. He doesn't know them. That's what she says. Humans are
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as she puts it in a pair bonding animal situation. That makes sense.
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It don't make sense. I have noticed too. With work, if you
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are in an office, one of the things that can unite a staff very
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quickly is dislike like the boss or of one coworker employee. So that's kind
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of on the other side of that, But it's something uniting about all of
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you not liking the boss, and when some of you do and some of
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you don't, that creates some weird dynamics in the workplace. I don't necessarily
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think everybody should not like the boss. I'm just saying that's one of those
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things that people will sometimes bond over. This idea of having a crush on
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a coworker, though, or a bond maybe not necessarily a crush. That
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all makes sense. That old adage of that's your work wife or your work
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husband or whatever is one of those byproducts that come with that. Also,
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speaking of work, there's a thirty eight year old letter that offered a woman
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a job to work at a company called next is being auctioned off at moments
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in time dot com for ninety five thousand dollars. There's a reason that this
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particular letter is being auctioned off. Next was a tech company owned by Steve
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Jobs, and the offer came directly from him. The letter contains a signature,
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and anything with Steve jobs a signature has historically been worth a lot of
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money. In the letter, addressed to Caroline Rose, the job offers a
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starting salary of fifty thousand dollars, but adds if you're as good as you
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tell us you are, and we expect your salary will increase some about that.
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Yeah, she would have had to work there two years to afford the
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letter that was sent to her for free offering her the job. Now that's
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pretty neat moments in time, I guess will be conducting that particular auction.
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Also a work related story, do you ever nap when you're on the job?
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Apparently if you do, you're like nearly half of Americans who say that
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they like to catch a quick nap while at work. According to a new
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survey from Sleep Doctor, forty six percent of people say they sometimes napp during
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the workday. Thirty three percent admit to doing it at least once a week.
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Eighteen percent say that they nod off several times a week. The worst
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culprits are actually men and younger workers between the ages of eighteen and thirty four.
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I was between eighteen and thirty four, especially between eighteen and maybe twenty
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two twenty three my early radio days, when I was doing weekends and overnights,
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and I had about four full time jobs and a part time radio.
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Well I say four full times. I was in school full time. I
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had two full time jobs and then the radio job, so yeah, and
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I think I had maybe another part time job in that window as well.
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Yeah, I napped. Any chance I could get any of those jobs.
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If I could nap, I would do it. I remember playing CDs on
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Sunny one hundred and putting my head down on the counter and napping for about
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three minutes with a little ding alarm to remind me to wake up up and
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change to the next CD. And I would sleep in three minute doses.
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That is absolutely a true story. Not every time, but sometime in those
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overnights. And then I would go home at six am, and I would
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sleep until I had to be in class, which was sometimes you know,
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seven forty five. So gotta do what you gotta do. I never really
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thought to sleep in the car at school. Finally, one last story.
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And this is apparently a story concerning the it color for fingernails. And I'm
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not really sure how that, but it's started as a trend in the month
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of March, and I guess Selena Gomez is at least partly responsible, or
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at least her manicurist. Maybe that's who is the one who is doing this.
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But it's the new it color for fingernails, and it's basically a butter
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yellow color that is being put on fingernails, and it looks like butter.
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I mean, I'm looking at a picture of the nails right now and they
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look like that they have butter fingernail polish on them. So if you're not
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wearing butter fingernail polish, you're not with it. Just know that. And
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I'm not talking peanut butter. I'm talking butter butter. So I don't know.
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I mean, I would think maybe you go with margarine if you're trying
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to cut out some of those extra fats. I don't know. I don't
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know what your other options might be, but this is definitely a butter color
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or like a baby poop mustard kind of color. I mean, that's where
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I would probably go. But when they said Butter. I thought, yeah,
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it looks like Butter. That'll do it for this Friday edition of the
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