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The Bears Are Back In Town · 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, twentieth day of October. I'm west thanks for joining me.
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We are closing in on the month of November. I know we still have
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Halloween to get through. I hope you're prepared for that. That's coming up
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fast. I guess next weekend will be the weekend of all the Halloween parties,
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and a few people ask are people going to be trigger treating actually on
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Halloween? Are they going to be doing it on the weekend. Typically they
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only move it when it's on Sunday. I know sometimes they've done it,
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like for Monday, but because this year it is on a Tuesday, they're
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doing trigger treating at most places, I assume on the actual holiday. I'm
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a big fan of that. That's what we did when I was a kid.
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I can't think of a time when I was a kid when they ever
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moved it. I do understand as a parent why it's a little more convenient
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if you do it on other days. And perhaps some of the churches and
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things that like to do trunk retreats and those kinds of things, maybe they'll
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be doing things on the weekend, but the actual day itself of All Hallows
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Eve on Tuesday, will be the day for trigger treating, and it's about
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the same time as always. So there you go, just giving you the
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heads up on trigger treating. I know people have those questions and a lot
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of things. Everybody always asks every year. That's one of those things,
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so and another just quick heads up. I mentioned this earlier in the week
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I'm mentioning it again because as you're getting into this weekend, we have on
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the twenty first and twenty second this Saturday and Sunday, Apple TV the app
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is offering you an opportunity to watch It's Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown for free.
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You don't have to be a subscriber to Apple TV. You just go in
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and watch it. If you're already a subscriber, you could watch it anytime
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you want to. I suppose they own the rights to it now it's not
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coming on ABC anymore. There was a point, I don't know if it
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was last year or two years ago, at some point they offered it up
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to the networks and they were able to air at one time. But this
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weekend your chance to watch it and get ready and then of course, a
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lot of Halloween parties and things will happen next weekend and then the actual holiday.
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But I mention it because we're going to go basically, we're going to
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quickly transition from a Halloween obviously to Thanksgiving, and then the focus certainly becomes
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Christmas. Christmas decorations and things will start popping up. All the radio stations
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will start by thawing Mariah Carey soon, whatever that joke is. But I
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want to mention this because the officially the announcement has come out. I think
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I'll probably jump the gun on the show talking about the fact that the Nutcracker
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dates had been set. Now they're officially set. I don't know that I
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was supposed to say them when I said them, but now it's okay.
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You know, the Kramer Cats th hera out of the bag deal. So
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December sixteenth and seventeenth, or the official days for the Nutcracker from the Columbus
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Ballet at Columbus River Center. I want to mention this too because I believe
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tickets are now on sale and you want to get them on the River Center
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website. That's your best bet. There are a lot of people that are
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and This happens with a number of shows where I don't know, they get
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tickets and then they resell them on another site, or they do some sort
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of a brokerage deal and they mark them up big time. You don't want
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to do that. You want to buy them at the actual price on the
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river Center website. Don't mess around, don't buy them from someone else.
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Just go through the Columbus River Center and get your tickets. That's easy.
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That's all you want to do. Go to the River Center, make sure
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you're on the river Center website, and get your tickets. That's the best
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way to go. Don't pay hundreds of dollars for a twenty five dollars ticket,
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is what I'm telling you. If you see ticket prices that are showing
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one hundred and fifty dollars for the Nutcracker for the Columbus Ballet in Georgia,
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that's not the right price. I don't know what they do in Ohio.
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I don't know what they do in Mississippi. I don't know. I have
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no idea. I don't think they charge Columbus Mississippi, maybe Ohio. I
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don't know. It can't be a better show than what you're getting in Columbus,
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Georgia with me as mother Ginger. I'm just telling you that right now,
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I don't know what the mother Ginger looks like at the Columbus Ohio Ballet.
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I have no clue, but I'm telling you right now, this is
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my fifth year. Once again I plan to bring it. It's Friday.
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That means it's time to do some strange and bizarre news stories. And we
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are at that point in the year where it's officially cool down. We know
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that, you know, it feels like winter is creeping up on us very
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quickly. It feels like fall now. So we've had quite a few over
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the past few weeks. Bear stories, bear related news stories. This is
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no exception. We've got two this week. They're both pretty good pull in
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a Garfield deal and the other is I mean, well, we'll get to
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it, all right. The other has a sweet tooth, and I'll just
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say it that way. He's we got a Garfield one first, and then
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we've got one that's very much a kindred spirit with my son, eleven year
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old son Luke. All right, and I'll explain that. Let's start with
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the Garfield one latest bear episode in Connecticut and a large bear entered a home
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and stole a full lasagna out of the freezer. Owner of the home watched
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the encounter on her home surveillance camera. The bear crawled into the house through
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an unlocked window and then walked into the kitchen where it found the lasagna and
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grabbed the tray and left through the open window. Helena Wholis owns the house,
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as the lasagna came from a nearby restaurant, which her mother owns.
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So the bear clearly knows a good thing when it smells it sounds like a
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good ad for the restaurant. Local officials warning residents to be aware of bears.
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They're still looking to you know, feed before they get into hibernation season.
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So that's the head up, heads up that they issued to the folks
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there in Connecticut. I suppose with the number of these stories we've had,
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it doesn't really matter where you are. If you're in bear country, make
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sure your windows are closed and get some less appealing at least scent wise less
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aromatic. It's in the freezer, though the bear's not smelling it in the
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freezer anyway. All right, My son Luke is a big fan of any
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kind of gummy snack, gummy bears, any kind of those sweet and sour
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things, those sour patch kids, stuff like that. He can't eat him
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now because he's embraces. I think he's managed well without his favorite snacks.
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But there's a bear in Canada that apparently also likes them. A large black
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bear went into a convenience store in Canada and it was just looking for gummy
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bears. The owners of the store in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, were
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shocked to see the bear wander into their store early on a random Monday morning,
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and they were immediately terrified that it was going to go on a rampage
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through the store, but instead sifted through some candy bars and found a seventy
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cent pouch of gummy bears. He then calmly took it outside and ate them
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in the parking lot. The owner of the store, Karen de goosbriand probably
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something French sounding. I don't think I've probably slaughtered that, who owns the
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store with her husband, said I thought it was cool. Obviously the bear
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has a sweet tooth. Yeah, but you got customers that probably would like
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to come in the store and know that there's not really any bears in there,
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Bye Candy. But anyway, that's a fun story. I guess it
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all ended well that the bear decided to just move on. How about this
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one? A man in Spain has been arrested in charge with faking heart attacks
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at twenty different restaurants to avoid paying his bill. Prosecutor say the fifty year
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old man Fred G. Sandford No scammed free meals at restaurants in Spain's Costa
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Blanca region by the theatrically faking. I guess he had good bit of acting
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skills heart attacks as soon as he was done eating. Each time he would
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clutch his chest, faint on the floor, call out to Elizabeth No,
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the lead led the restaurant staff each time to call for an ambulance. It
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worked at least twenty times at different restaurants, and then finally one restaurant owner
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suspected that it was a faked heart attack and instead of calling the ambulance,
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called the police. They had also shared a photo with other restaurants warning to
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look out for the scammer. A group of restaurants have filed a joint criminal
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complaint against him and are seeking to get him locked up. So there you
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go. No word on if his son, who happens to be a big
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dummy, was with him each time he effect a heart attack. It's enough
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with the San franc jokes. All right, all right, this one,
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I gotta do it though. This is a bear story, but it's not
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it's not a it's not a bear story, all right, Does that make
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sense. It's a bear story, but it's not really a bear story.
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You've probably heard the term if the van's a rocking, don't come a knock
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in. Well, in Arkansas, that was a van that was rocking and
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police went a knock in. Anyway, the police officer spotted a shaking vehicle
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parked outside a storage facility that had been broken into more than a dozen times.
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He went to investigate, opened the door, found a fifty five year
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old man, Theodore more Gavin, who was having a good time with a
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stuffed teddy bear, you know what I'm saying, having a good time.
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Found also in possession of meth and other drug paraphernalia. Go figure. Morgavin
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was arrested charge with drug possession, public indecency in possession of drug paraphernalia.
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No word on the status of the bear it's a teddy bear. It's not
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a real bear. I suppose I could have grouped it with the others.
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But it's not a real bear unless it's in your imagination, which apparently it
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was. In his flight from Panama to Tampa was forced to turn around due
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to very unfortunate circumstance. COPA Airlines flight was about an hour end of the
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trip when a passenger reported a suspicious package inside the bathroom. It was reported
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to the pilot, who made a decision to turn the plane around. Once
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on the ground, the plane was directed to an isolated part of the tarmac
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where passengers were evacuated in A bomb squad was boarded the plane and sent on
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board. The investigation determined that the suspicious package, the bomb, if you
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will, was a soiled adult diaper that was wrapped in a plastic bag.
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The plane was given and all clear and then allowed to take off and arrived
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safely in Tampa. All right, this one's not as gross. It's still
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not good. It's another flight story, but a flight unless you don't like
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blood. A flight in Mexico from Guadalajara to Mexico City was delayed more than
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two hours on the tarmac because of mosquitoes in the plane, an infestation,
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if you will. Passengers boarded the plane, took their seats, and were
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waiting to take off when a huge swarm of mosquitoes descended on the main cabin
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and began feasting on everybody. Passenger spent hours swatting the mosquitoes while crew members
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walked up the aisle with bugsy. Ultimately, the infestation stopped once they turned
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off the lights in the cabin and the flight took off. Officials explained that
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the airport in Guadalajara sits near an area with heavy vegetation, frequently flooding area,
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and ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes. So yeah, I mean, I
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gotta say this, I'd rather be on the one with the diaper. I
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mean, I know there was a panic, there was much more scare there,
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but I don't know that I want a lot of mosquitoes just because they
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liked me out man. When I'm around mosquitos, they just really really like
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it. All right, How about this one? This is a fun story.
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I remember back on October fourth, when we had the emergency alert test
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that went off nationwide test. Everybody's phones went off testing the alert system.
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It seemed harmless enough. Most people were told, Hey, this is gonna
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happen, you should plan accordingly. I know it was probably wreaking havoc on
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schools around the country as the kids were in school. Maybe they had phones
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in their pockets or in their lockers or whatever, and the phones were all
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going off. But what if you're a group of people that doesn't traditionally listen
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to media outlets and does not get a heads up that this alert was going
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to happen. And why might this group of people not necessarily get the news
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from media outlets. Maybe they are part of a community that doesn't really or
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isn't really supposed to have cell phones. Well, apparently, throughout some parts
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of the country and some Amish communities there were some members who, of course
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are expected to live without cell phones modern conveniences. When the alert went out,
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though, where several Amish people apparently got into trouble because they had phones.
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They'd been hiding, not expecting the alert, and they were outed for
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having cell phones secretly and being caught with modern devices could get you in a
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lot of trouble, including shunning. You don't want to be shunned. I'm
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not gonna mock shunning because nobody wants to be shunned. That's just a fact.
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How about this story. Sixty five year old Benjamin Scott's hole roid of
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Florida apparently had five tons of unwanted junks, so he unloaded it. I'm
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sorry, he loaded it all into a trug and then dumped it. I
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guess unloaded it there on the side of the road in Florida. Keys police
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noticed a giant heap of trash in the beginning of the month started investigation.
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They sifted through enough garbage to find sufficient evidence to trace it all back to
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Holroyd, who admitted to police that he was the one who had dropped the
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massive dump of items. He was arrested in charge with felony illegal dumping.
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A waste removal crew were on the cleanup and picked up more than ten thousand
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pounds of stuff this guy dropped on the side of the road. All right,
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how about this guy? And we were talking earlier about the holidays coming
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up, Well, we got a Santa claus impersonator. Apparently. Police say
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that they received a call from a homeowner since San Antonio, San Antonio police
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who was not home but got an alert from a surveillance camera the burglar was
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in his house. Officers arrived at the address saw the suspect leaving the home
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once the police. Once he saw police presence, he ran back inside and
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refused officer's commands to leave. After a standoff that lasted a few hours,
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police became concerned that they hadn't heard anything from him, and they worried they
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may have slipped through their fingers, so they launched a drone to search the
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area around the house, and that's when they found him trapped in the chimney.
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The man had apparently tried to climb up the chimney to get out of
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the house, slipped, fell, and got stuck in the chimney. He
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spent several hours there before firefighters eventually came and pulled him out. He was
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treated at the scene, taken into custody, charged with burglary and evading police.
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And finally, one more of these. One more of these. This
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one also involves rooftops. A Phoenix man abandoned his car after police attempted to
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pull him over and attempted to avoid arrest by jumping along rooftops the batman kind
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of thing. Right after leaving his vehicle. Nineteen year old Jamie Shavera was
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spotted jumping into the backyard of several homes and then climbing onto rooftops. Witnesses
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say he was jumping like a monkey, and he seemed to know what he
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was doing. After attempting to jump ten feet from one rooftop to another,
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Chevara fell to the ground, landing on a recycling bin. On of those
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blue bins, he then attempted to run from police after falling on the recycling
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which is pretty impressive because it seems like that would probably hurt a little bit,
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before a canine unit was deployed and allowed officers to take him into custody.
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He's bitten pretty hard on the hand, apparently. Shaviro was charged with
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two counts of transportation violations and at least one count of criminal trespass and burglary,
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A new Gallup Pole says that teenagers spend a lot of time on social
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media, but you could be surprised about how much time. The survey found
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that the average team spends only four point eight hours a day scrolling through social
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media. The number is even higher for girls, who were on social media
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about an hour more than boys, about five point three hours a day.
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Seventeen year olds spend the most time five point eight hours per day on YouTube,
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TikTok, and Instagram. I mean about five hours. I mean,
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I know that mine don't come anywhere close to that. But you know,
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I've got a fourteen year old, almost fifteen year old, and he's not
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really on social media. He he is on YouTube, but that's it.
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But I would think as an average, that does seem like it's a little
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low, doesn't it. I mean a little less than five hours, But
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I guess it goes up based on ages and things like that. So,
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I mean, I can't speak to my experience. We're not ready to unleash
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our kid. The eleven year old is not. I mean, he watches
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some stuff on YouTube, but he's watching old sports games. He's watching old
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clips and highlights of football games or baseball games, is what he's doing.
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That's pretty much his whole thing. How about this, speaking of a social
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media this is something that I guess is trending on social media, and there's
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a discussion online about whether this is okay gender reveal parties, and not the
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gender reveal party, you know, because that's a discussion too. There's people
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saying that you shouldn't have a gender reveal party until the baby's old enough to
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tell you what its gender is. There's some people who say that you can't
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do that just over the just the sex of the baby. You have to
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wait and reveal the gender when the baby is ready to tell you. So's
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but that's not what this is about. I don't think. I don't think
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that its core. That's what this is about. This is about something else.
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Apparently. One particular the gender reveal party that's getting attention is one where
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a woman received an invitation for her friends a big reveal, and along with
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the invite, there was a note letting guests know that they should pay a
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twenty dollars cover charge to attend that would cover the cost of food and drinks.
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The person who was invited with the cover charge invitation asked on social media,
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do you think it's rude to have your guests pay for food if you're
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hosting it. She said she'll attend the party and pay the charge because it's
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a close friend. But she thinks it's in bad taste. The party is
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being held at a catering venue, and the mom to be added that she
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just doesn't want any gifts, And I see that's kind of the thing.
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If the twenty dollars counts as the gift, like that's your shower gift or
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whatever, then you know that's not so bad. But it is kind of
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interesting. I mean, that's a fair that's certainly not traditional, but curious
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to know what the eventual turnout is for this thing. But if it's a
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nice venue and it's twenty dollars a person and you're going to get food and
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drinks there, hey, and then you don't have to buy gift, it
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seems to work out, doesn't It doesn't seem completely unreasonable, all right.
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