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Strange and Bizare News with That Guy Who Shouldn't Be Driving · 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, seventh day of June. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me.
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Strange and Bizarre News gathered together, a collection of it and one of
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my favorite strange and bizarre news stories of all time. You probably have even
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seen it, but I have to talk about it because I've yet to talk
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about it on a Friday morning. It involves and there's a video of this,
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and if you haven't seen it, you need to see it. A
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Michigan man who thought he was doing the right thing when he tried to join
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in a zoom call for his court case while he was driving and he was
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pulling into the parking space. But that's what made things worse for him.
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The defendant named Corey Harris, died into a zoom call as he was in
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st to by his public defender. When he joined the call, the judge
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immediately realized the defendant was driving a vehicle. The judge, who was there
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to oversee Harris's case about driving on a suspended license. Yeah you see where
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this is going, asked Harris if he was really driving a vehicle right now?
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Harris responded, actually, I'm pulling into my doctor's office actually, so
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just give me one second. I'm parking right now. The judge had to
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process what he had just seen out loud, and he said, this is
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a driving while license suspended case and he was just driving and he didn't have
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a license. He then ordered Harris to turn himself in to the county jail
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and case without bond, and Harris, I guess did so. So this
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was in Michigan. And yeah, it's worth watching just to watch the look
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on the guy's face because he's still on the zoom call he gets caught.
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Yeah, that's not smart. You gotta think. And clearly the guy was
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thinking he's driving while he doesn't have a license, and it's a zoom call
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for his case about driving without a license. So that's great. It's one
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of the best ones ever. A Florida man, declaring war on Big Brother,
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decided to go around Seminole County destroying license plate readers because he didn't like
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law enforcement being able to surveil him and others. He didn't get all of
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them, though, because he was eventually caught by one of those cameras.
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Thirty five year old Eric Fieldler was arrested and charged with twenty two counts of
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property damage along with theft and burglary. Police started noticing missing cameras on May
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sixth. About a week and a half later, eight more went offline.
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Investigators reviewed surveillance footage and I saw a Honda minivan in the area and a
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man on a bicycle near the cameras. Last Saturday, police deployed a helicopter
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to track the minivan and watched as it drove to six locations where cameras were
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installed. They then saw Fielder take a bicycle out of the vehicle and ride
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up to several camera locations, where he dismantled the readers using a drill.
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He was then followed to a residence where he was placed under arrest. Police
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later learned that just days before he started removing the equipment, he was interviewed
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by a local news reporter about license plate readers and said, when you realize
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you're being tracked every day going to the grocery store, church, or school
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and you didn't have any say in it, it's a little concerning to me.
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So that also doesn't bode well. It's not quite a zoom call for
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your case, but that really sets you up for a problematic situation. All
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right, most criminals think about breaking out of jail. Joseph Leedy not like
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most criminals. Forty year old Florida man marches to the beat of a dumber
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drum. On Monday, he broke into jail by deliberately driving his car into
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the lobby of Martin County Jail. Did he tell them right before he did
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it, I'll be back. Dressed only in a women's blouse and no pants.
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Leady get out of the vehicle, poured motor oil on the lobby floor.
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He said he wanted to set fire because he came here to kill police.
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He then threw black rubber snakes on the tile floor and then said the
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devil made him do it, and then proclaimed his hatred for former President Donald
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Trump. Leady charged with four counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer
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and criminal mischief. All right, here's some helpful advice if you ever have
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to be in the Philippines, don't park your truck at a trash dumping site.
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A driver parked a Ford pickup truck at a day designated garbage area to
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well, it was not two but it was ended up, blocking access to
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dumpsters where locals bring their trash. Fed up by the obstacle in their way,
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the locals decided to dump their trash on and in and all around the
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truck, ultimately burying the truck in garbage and making it nearly impossible for the
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driver to get the truck out. No word on I guess if he actually
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did get his truck out. Dinnertime spiraled into a chaotic food fight at a
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Chipotle restaurant in California last week Vallejo, California, to be exact, and
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a pair of angry customers tried to attack a worker behind the counter. Scene
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was caught on video as two women were seen shouting at the cashier before jumping
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up on the counter and throwing food at workers in the kitchen. Onlookers watched
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and took video of the horrifying scene, which carried on despite some attempts by
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people to break it up. It's unclear exactly what set these women off.
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Police recalled, but the women had left before officers arrived. The employee was
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also gone. No arrest made at the time this article was written. People
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think that this kind of stuff only happens at waffle house. No, it
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can also happen at Chipotle, So you know it's not just It's not just
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a waffle house thing, is all I'm saying. A Florida man who was
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caught spray painting a wall in Saint Petersburg was arrested on vandalism charges, but
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he thought he had a pretty good idea for a get out of jail free
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card, so to speak. Police say that the thirty three year old,
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whose name was Ryan Howard, was arrested and found carrying a bag full of
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spray paint cans. When they asked him for his name and his ID,
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kept his mouth shut and didn't respond. Officers placed him into the back of
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their patrol car. Inside the car, he informed them that his name was
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mister Monopoly and that his birthdate was four twenty sixty nine. Her horror,
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mister Monopoly, you know, not really his name didn't really have a get
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out of jail free card either. When police learned his real name and birth
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date, he was charged with criminal mischief, resisting an officer, and providing
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police a fake name. He was sent directly to jail. Didn't collect two
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hundred dollars in passco and all that police in Cincinnati are warning residents there could
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be a potentially dangerous tiger. Dangerous tiger on the loose, but then there
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might not be. Authorities say that they received a report of a possible tiger
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sighting in the early morning hours near the University of Cincinnati and that officers were
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dispatched to that area but found no sign of the large cat. Officials at
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the Cincinnati Zoo, located about a mile away from the university, said that
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they did a head count of all of their tigers and that they were accounted
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for. So police continued to search and urged residents to stay away. But
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apparently, yes, all the tigers were accounted for, so watch out for
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tigers. Maybe I don't know. A woman walked into a Golden Corral restaurant
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in Arkansas for a meal and left with a baby. It's a buffet,
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but there's no babies on the buffet. Tavia Woodfork came in to eat with
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her family and immediately had a terrible stomach ache and headed straight for the restroom.
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She thought she was having painful cramps. Turns out they were yeah painful
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cramps, they're called contractions, and she gave birth to a baby boy in
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the bathroom stall at Golden Corral. She didn't even know she was pregnant.
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Woodfork says, I'm still in shock. She apparently had what's known as a
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cryptic pregnancy, which is when the mother doesn't even know they're pregnant. The
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baby, who's been given the name tomr Kylon Corral Woodfork, weighed six pounds
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and in good condition. Medical workers wielded Woodfork and her new baby out of
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the restaurant on a stretcher to a thunderous applause from staff and dinners. Golden
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Corral shared the news on social media, writing, welcome to the Golden Corral
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family tomorrow. You're the new record holder as the youngest fan of Golden Corral,
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and don't worry, We'll make sure mom is will taken care of with
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Golden Corral gift cards while she's taking care of you. I know somebody who's
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actually had one of these cryptic pregnancies, and to say that the baby is
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in good health is remarkable because in many cases when mothers don't know they're pregnant,
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they don't take care of themselves quite as well. So this is obviously
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a happy ending to the story if but still crazy. It's wild. And
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the person that I know who had the baby without knowing that she was pregnant
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and none, I mean, no clue, no hint, no nothing,
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just all of a sudden one day, my stomach hurts and here's a baby.
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A funeral worker in Nebraska was arrested for a bizarre and sick crime in
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which he allegedly broke into the home of a recently deceased person to steal a
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sex doll. It's not really where you think the story's going, and it
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takes that weird like you know Laars in the New Girl turn Right forty two
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year old rot It's a great movie, by the way. Forty two year
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old Ryan Smith worked for a funeral home specifically handling removals, transportation and bombing,
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cremations, and shipouts. And October investigators say that he and a co
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worker were dispatched to a home to remove the body of a deceased man.
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While inside the apartment, Smith and the other man noticed a realistic, life
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sized sex doll next to the deceased person's bed, and police inside the home
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at the time heard him talking about it. Smith and his coworker left the
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apartment with the dead body, and the apartment manager locked everything up behind them.
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Later that day, Smith returned to the apartment holding a body bag and
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told the staff at the apartment complex he was there on behalf of the Sheriff's
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department to collect the sex doll as evidence. The manager noticed that Smith had
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locked the dead bolt on the door, and when he finally came out,
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his shirt was untucked and his pants were in disarray. Smith left, but
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he asked a janitor to let him know when the manager wasn't around, presumably
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you wanted to go back to the apartment and this time to get the sex
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doll. He was arrested and charged with attempted burglary. That's just one of
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those weird stories, and it just gets weirder and weirder as you're going through
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it. That's weird. I mean, there's no other word for it,
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is there. It's just weird. I ord A man who got lost in
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the woods can now breathe the sigh of relief after police were able to find
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his location and rescue him, but he didn't enjoy his freedom for very long.
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Forty three year old Robert Lombardi, sorry, James, Robert Lombardi not
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to be confused with any other Robert Lombardy. I called police and told him
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he was in the woods, couldn't find his way out. Officers went to
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the area and searched the woods until they finally found him. After they told
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him he was safe, they informed him that there was a warrant out for
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his arrest for probation violation and then he would need to go to jail.
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Officers also found him in possession of marijuana, a glass veil containing methamphetamine,
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and drug paraphernalia. He was charged with violation of probation and multiple drug related
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offenses. Yeah, those people that call the police and say, hey,
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somebody stole my drugs, or hey, I'm lost in the woods, can
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you help me out? This is my name and who I am. It
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doesn't end well. I mean, it's not quite as bad is driving during
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the zoom. Call for your court case about your suspended license, but it
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doesn't end well. Typically, And finally, residents of Monrovia, California have
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to keep their treats locked up because they may get a visit from an unwonted
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visitor with a sweet tooth, not a child, not a kid coming around
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asking for sweets, oh no, it's a bear that recently broke into a
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home climbed out moments later with a package of Oreo cookies hanging out of its
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mouth. He didn't take anything else, though. A neighbor caught the cookie
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thief on video and it went viral, eventually earning the bear the nickname Oreo.
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The neighbor, Vena Cory, says that the same bear had once broken
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into her garage and ate a chocolate cake that was inside a refrigerator. She
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says, I feel I can't leave the window open with a screen because he
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literally took the screen out. So that's a little alarming for me. Other
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neighbors say that bears in the area have become more bold recently. So who
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doesn't like ice, coal, milk and an Oreo cookie? Or what?
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Did she have? A chocolate cake? I mean, you know, and
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you blame the bear. It's not Yogi, but you know, I mean,
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bears like sweets too, I guess. And it's pretty tempting when you
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just got it all out there with nothing keeping them out but a screen.
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Carol Morning Show right after the break. All right, as high school graduations
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happening or have happened, mostly in our area, but still happening around the
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country in places, you know, some kids getting ready to go off to
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college, getting ready to move out, maybe leaving home. Well, it's
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not happening quite as much as it was, and it says, according to
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US Census data, those days of parents sending kids off to college and celebrating
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the empty nest life not quite what it used to be. It says more
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than half of gen zers between the ages of eighteen and twenty four continue to
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live at home with their parents. This including college kids and dorms who live
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with their parents over breaks. A lot of factors believe to be contributing to
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the rising number of young adults remaining with parents, including inflation, student debt,
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rising rent prices. A recent Harris poll adding that forty five percent of
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adults under thirty live with their parents, which is at an eighty year high.
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Just keep in mind in November some of these stats as they lay out
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things going on with our economy and inflation and difficulties in life. Just you
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know, just something to think about as you're getting ready to vote, how
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things were five years ago and how things are now, and just kind of
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keep some of that stuff in mind when November rolls around June, of course,
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known for a lot of weddings. I know that's trend has changed.
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We've talked about that a couple of weeks ago, as fall weddings have become
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a little bit more of a thing. And I assume people that aren't fans
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of college football with us fall weddings. But anyway, so here's a story
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about a wedding. It's you know, a bridezilla as they call them,
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who's been getting slammed on social media because she has some extreme rules for wedding
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guests her wedding. And she says there's five colors that people aren't allowed to
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wear to her wedding. Five I've heard before something now, I've I've officiated
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a number of weddings, I've djayed a number of weddings. I understand that
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some people say I don't want the following things in my wedding. I have
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a friend who's getting married soon and having the ceremony, and it asked me
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about officiating it and said, we're not religious, we don't want anything religious
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in it. And I told him I understand that, and I respect that,
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but I for me to do the wedding as you're efficient as the minister.
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I feel that I need to at least say a prayer in the wedding
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and they said, well, we're not comfortable with that. And I said,
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I'm not offended. I hope I haven't offended you. And they said,
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no, certainly not. But that's just kind of you know, you
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hear stories like that, and that's something that you know, if that's what
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you want, that's reasonable to say, hey, we don't want anything religious
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in our wedding, and you respect it if you you know, and that's
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what you do for some people, and then for some people it's hey,
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I don't want this kind of music playing in my wedding. There was one
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wedding that I DJ'ed their wedding and they said, I don't care what you
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play. I don't want any meat loaf to play during the wedding. And
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I said, I'm kind of curious. I mean, I wasn't planning to
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play any meat loaf at your wedding, but I am a little curious.
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And they said no, it had something to do with like his ex girlfriend.
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And I go, okay, well that makes perfect sense to me.
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Certainly, we won't play any meat loaf. I'll make sure there's no meat
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loaf played at your wedding. I don't this whole idea of you know,
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there's rules about wedding. You don't wear white to a wedding if you're a
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woman, that's just something that you don't do. In this case, this
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particular bride has five different colors. They say they don't want people wearing to
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her wedding. She says, dusty pink is off limits because that color is
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reserved for the bride'smaids. Seems reasonable, Like that seems like you're one that
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you should be able to do. She said. Groomsmen had the exclusive rights
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to khakis, and then light green and slate were set aside strictly for family
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members. I mean, you start laying out and I get she's going for
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a thing here, but I mean you're cutting khakis out of the equation for
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the wedding, like you can't. It's one thing if you say, hey,
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all the groomsmen are gonna wear purple, you know, don't wear any
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purple. That's kind of reasonable, But you're cutting khaki out of the equation.
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It's like saying we're gonna go hunting, no camouflage. No one can
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wear camouflage except for my husband. He's the only one allowed to wear the
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camouflage or whatever. Yeah, good luck with all that. That sounds like
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that's gonna be a nice, fun, long marriage, all right. You
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know the experts about laughter being the best medicine, Well, researchers in Germany
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have found that medical assistants who use light humor, silly jokes, laughing about
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hiccups of daily life were happier and more confident work. On the other hand,
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those who had a darker side to their humor sarcasm, mean jabs,
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laughing at the misfortune of others tended to be less satisfied and less competent at
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their jobs. And this specifically was done in research to folks in the medical
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profession. Mas with a preference or light humor stated that they received more positive
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feedback in more more likely to feel that they were making a difference at work,
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according to Julia Raiki, who doing her doctorate at Martin Luther University in
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Wittenberg. So yeah, I would think this would roll over to most jobs.
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Light humor, not quite so dark, not quite so morbid and macab
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I don't know, keep it light, have a good time. I guess
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that'll do it for this Friday edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors
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