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Side Effects Include What? · 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, eighteenth day of August Time. Wes, thanks for joining me.
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Haven't done some weird news in a while. I thought we could dive
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into some strange and bizarre news stories. We've got several that involve animals,
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but our first one it takes us down Under to Brisbane, Australia, one
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of my favorite cities in the whole world. Like some Brisbane Australia thought about,
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you know, if we ever moved to Australia, that'd be a great
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place to live. Well, their first story involves Brisbane, Australia. Neighborhood
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in Australia recently went dark because someone tried to staple an advertisement to a power
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pole. Power suddenly went out for about a thousand people in a section of
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Brisbane, even though there was no severe weather going on at the time.
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Cruise and instigated the source of the outage and were led to a power pole
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where they found a scorched advertising sign for a local business lying next to a
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staple gun that had clearly been burned. An official at the power company said,
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we have no idea what state the person was who tried to post the
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sign because they fled the scene, but their actions could have been fatal or
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at least led us severe burns. We have a network protection in place for
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the community safety, but that doesn't mean it's okay to interfere with electrical assets.
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I'm just guessing that they maybe if someone went in for treatment for burns,
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or if the advertisement wasn't too burned up, maybe they could just get
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a phone number off of the ad and maybe figure out who might have been
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out stapling the ads to power poles. But anyway, all right, let's
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get into a couple. Well, I'll do an animal story, yet I
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want to do this one first. Canadian man who is a bit of a
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lockpicker was a safe cracker, if you will, was invited to Baltimore to
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crack a safe at the request of the owner of the safe Red Emma's bookstore
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Baltimore. Found a large mystery safe inside the store, but it was locked
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and there was no combination, so the owners of the store put out a
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call for safe crackers to come in and open the box. A bus driver
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in Manitoba named Rick Amazzini took up safe cracking as a hobby twelve years ago,
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answered the call, flew to Baltimore and got to work with his special
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safe cracking tools. He expected to crack the safe, he said, in
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about an hour, but he said the lock was stubborn and it wasn't performing
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the way that it should have been performing. So he gave up after a
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day and he did some research at home, returned the next day and was
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finally able to open it. The store owner had promised to split the contents
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of the safe if there was anything of value inside, but all they found
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with some empty wooden drawers, paper clips, somebody's old paste. Stub Rick
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said he wasn't disappointed because he was mostly in it for the experience, but
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the store owner was very disappointed, and he says, I know from experience
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that there really never is anything in there. The store owner was very excited
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because he doesn't have the letdowns that I've had where I opened up the safe
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and there's never anything in there. Hews They always think it's going to be
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filled with gold and diamonds, and of course it wasn't. It was just
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some wooden drawers, all right, animal story, Here we go. Customers
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and workers at a Sioux City Target store were surprised over the weekend when they
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found a six foot Columbian red tailed boa constrictor hitching a ride in a red
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shopping cart. They didn't know it. They knew it didn't come from inside
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the store. It's not like it had a price tag on it. They
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figured out that it slithered into the cart while it was outside in the parking
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lot and took a little ride. When it was wheeled back inside, police
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recalled and they sent animal control to check out the situation. They safely removed
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the snake and are investigating whether somebody may have abandoned their pet in the parking
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lot, whether it was intentional or all, whether it was an accident or
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you know, how it happened. Maybe a snake. I don't know.
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I would think it almost certainly had to be. I don't know. It's
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crazy, isn't it. A Michigan family nearly this says croaked. That's the
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way the stories written. When they found a live frog and a bag of
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spinach that they bought from the supermarket, Amber Warwick says when she got home
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with a package of Earthbound Farms organic spinach and her daughter opened it up,
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screamed when she saw the frog inside. Amber was relieved that the frog didn't
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become part of their meal. She just said, thank god, I didn't
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eat the frog. She planned to return the spinach with the frog, but
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the frog hopped out of the bag and she just let it go free.
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However, she did take the package back to the store and received a refund.
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Tailor Farms, which is Earthbound Farms parent company, says they're investigating how
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it happened and make sure that it never happens again. I got an idea
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about how it could possibly happen. It was, you know, spinach,
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and you know, maybe there were frogs outside. I mean, I would
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think it goes through some sort of processing, but I don't know that it
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goes through enough processing that it's gonna eliminate any chance of there being an animal
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in there. I don't know how about this. There was a woman in
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Ohio placed an order through Instacart, and twenty eight hundred dollars was the approximate
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total that it came to, and she said, I don't think that's right.
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Joe McCormick says she ordered two hundred and eighty two dollars with the groceries
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from Kroger. Not only did she not receive her order, but she was
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charged twenty seven hundred eighty three dollars. McCormick says, my heart stopped because
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I'm thinking panic mode. Something is happening, and I have to react very
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quickly, and I didn't even know where to start. She started by getting
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in touch with the Instacart shopper, who told her there was a mistake and
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that the charge was canceled. Only it wasn't. The enormous charge remained in
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her account until she finally spent an hour on the phone with her bank,
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which was eventually able to get Instacart to cancel it. In the end,
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Kroger apologized for the mistake it refunded the full amount. On top of that,
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they offered a twenty dollars gift card as an apology, which was later
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increased to two hundred and fifty dollars when McCormick told them that the original offer
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wasn't enough. I wouldn't think so. Twenty dollars is a mild, you
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know, compensation for it. So good on them for at least trying to
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make it right. With the two fifty that's closer to where it should be.
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Every couple wants a memorable weddings, certainly, and Colorado newlyweds Brandon and
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at Kaylin Martinez and their guests will be talking about their wedding for a long
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time. And just as the bride and groom were about to exchange vows and
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their outdoor ceremony, yep, heavy rain just dumped down over them and the
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guests, just a sudden downpour. After the ceremony, the wet crowd moved
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to the reception tent, where the celebration was interrupted by a large bear that
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crashed the party and devoured the entire dessert bar. Caitlin says, end up
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being the perfect Colorado wedding. It sounds like it, she said. Life
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doesn't always go to plan, and it's how you get through it. Really
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that's important. That's a great attitude. Thank goodness. She wasn't a you
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know, Bridezilla. That would be rough. I can't even imagine what she'd
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be going through. We've got some more animal stories, how about this and
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toilets Tucson, Arizona Reptile wranglers were called to the home of Michelle Lesprin,
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who had jet can't be right, just return home or trip to Nashville and
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lifted the lid of her toilet to find a coach whip snake staring at her.
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She says, I slammed the lid back down when I saw it,
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and then called a snake wrangler, but the elusive snake was no longer in
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the toilet when the snake catcher arrived. It took the expert three trips to
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the house over two days to finally catch the snake. Coach whip snakes are
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not venomous, but are known to become aggressive when handled by people, and
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I would think maybe when you put your butt right above them, just a
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guess. Meanwhile, in Florida, a couple recently found an iguana inside their
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toilet in their guest home. Crystal Collins says she and her husband have lived
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in Florida most of their lives and we don't do lizards, though, she
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said, we both looked at each other like what are we gonna do?
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Adding I joked about burning the house down. That seems a bit much for
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an iguana. The people with the snake and the toilet that they couldn't find,
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maybe they should consider burning their house down, But they didn't burn the
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house down. They called a friend over who's able to grab the toilet lizard
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sounds like a good nickname, and released it back outside. A supermarket in
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Austria was forced to close down because of a venomous spider whose venom causes a
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very interesting non traditional side effect when this particular spider bites men. In particular,
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workers at the store discovered a four inch black and red spider and called
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police. Emergency workers came in and searched for the spider, but could not
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find it. Based on the description, it was believed that the dangerous intruder
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was a Brazilian wandering spider, which has been known to travel to Europe in
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cases of bananas. Its venom is extremely dangerous and has been known to cause
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convulsions, blurred vision, hypothermia, and long lasting sometimes painful. You know
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with the via does you know viagra has the warning if it's contact or doctor
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if it's more than four hours, those kinds of side effects is a possibility.
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The supermarket was immediately shut down and remained closed because the store had to
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be cleaned and disinfected, and they had to do a lot a lot of
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investigating. Right, there's a lot of investigation that have stappen When you have
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