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No Bears This Week But We Have a Possible Goldilocks · 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, twenty ninth day of September. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining
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me. By popular demand, we continue on with our Strange News segment on
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Fridays. Had some requests to keep it going, so we're going to keep
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it going. This may become every Friday, most Fridays at least. There
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may be occasionally a story that comes up we need to talk about, but
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in this case, we're just gonna keep it going. We did it last
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week, you know how sporadically, which is working kind of the weird News
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Fridays, the strange news happenings on Fridays, it seems like a good way
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to kick off most weekends. And we're winding down the end of a month
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and kicking off a weekend all in one shot today. Last week in this
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segment we talked about we had multiple I think we had four stories that involved
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bears. Sometimes that happens with animals. They'll be stories that you know,
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seem to be it seems random and you go, oh my gosh, there's
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like four stories involving, you know, bears doing things. But I guess
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it's that time of year for bears to be getting ready for, you know,
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hibernation and things. Some of these stories were you know, certainly much
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further north for us, So maybe that's what they were getting ready for.
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I don't know, Or people were just kind of being careless bears were moving
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around. Maybe it was an area where food was a little sparse. I
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don't know. I know sometimes it seems like we'll have stories. It'll be,
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you know, four or five shark attacks happening on a coast in an
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area, and people are like, oh my gosh, this has happened a
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lot. And sometimes there's an explanation, you know, sometimes there's some sort
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of an explanation for it that makes sense, like food, you know,
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being scarce in an area, but when it's kind of all spread around,
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like the bears in hibernation, I guess is the best guess. I don't
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know, But this week no bear stories, not directly. We have one
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that kind of fits in the Goldilocks theme. Maybe we'll start with that one.
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In Florida, a woman broke into a stranger's house decided to make herself
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comfortable. She had a meal. When she started trying on the victim's clothes.
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I don't know if the meal was porridge. I don't know if it
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was. You know, she had to get the temperature just right. I
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don't know if she tried to sleep in anyone's bed, But the fact that
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she was eating a meal and trying on her clothes, it's a little Goldilocks
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esque, right. Police recalled to the swanky home after a maintenance worker who
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was taking care of the place saw a suitcase in the kitchen and heard a
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dog barking. Once inside, they found Luisa Villa, who was sitting at
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a table eating a sandwich. Okay, it wasn't porridge sandwich. The fifty
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four year old maybe it was a porridge sandwich, or maybe she had a
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side of porridge. I don't know. The fifty four year old who lives
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nearby told the deputies that she owned the beach house, pulled out forged documents
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to prove it was her home. I only Goldilocks did that. Though.
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Via was charged with resisting an officer, larceny, fraud, and burglary.
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Those are the charges that she was hit with. All Right, this story,
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I mean, it's one of those things where it sounds funny and then
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I feel like once you really start to think about the details, it makes
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it a little less funny. It's really sad, but I'm gonna tell it
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anyway, just because it's weird. Now. They don't all have to be
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comical and funny. They just have to be weird. And this is a
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weird story, all right. Thirty year old Mary Markhart was in an argument
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with her daughter, whose age is not revealed by the way. That's where
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this starts to get because the mom is thirty, so you can imagine this
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is a kid, probably a kid at best, a teenager and barely a
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teenager, but probably a kid. So Mary Markhart decided to grab the nearest
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things she could find and throw it at her child. Happened to be raw
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chicken. An entire raw chicken, I think. Police did not say where
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the daughter was hit with the flying chicken. Age not provided either. Police
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were called and they placed Markhart under arrest. She was booked in charged with
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domestic battery. She was bailed out a day later in ordered to stay away
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from her daughter. Markhart had previously been arrested in twenty eighteen for headbutting her
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husband, so the age it had to be a small kid, right,
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like ten year old. Maybe I don't know. It had to be so,
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I mean, that'd be my guess. But there's no age in the
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story, all right, speaking of ten year olds, this is a better
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story for a ten year old. I not so much a good story for
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the people who lived on the street nearby, but it's a good story for
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a ten year old. I guess we all know kids like the talk of
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trucks, right, you know the play with the talka truck, you pile
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your dirt in it, you dump it out. I didn't really I probably
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played with him as a kid. I have more memories of my younger brother
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playing with him. My son's played with them and enjoyed them. But this
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kid in Pittsburgh decided he wanted a much bigger model. Police receive reports of
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a stolen construction vehicle, specifically a Bobcat that was tearing down the streets,
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dammaging cars and property. Doorbell camera footage showed part of the Bobcat's rampage.
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Officers arrived on the scene and found a ten year old boy who was wearing
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a hard hat. By the way, at least he knew to be careful.
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He knew the importance of construction safety. He seemed to be having a
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good time. Best to get her say he stole the heavy machinery from a
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nearby construction site, and no reports of anyone being injured, just a lot
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of property damage. So I don't know how you, I mean, do
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you leave the keys in there? How does a kid know how to start
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it? I don't know. I don't know how. I've never driven a
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bobcat. I don't know how easy it is to get one started. But
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I guess if a ten year old can figure it out, I don't know.
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All right, if you own a business and you get robbed, you're
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probably going to call the police. Police in Tampa say a thirty three year
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old guy named Eric Thomas called to report a theft. When police asked for
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details about the alleged theft, he explained that he was selling marijuana and someone
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stole ten dollars from him. While he was talking with police, he had
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eleven baggies of marijuana in his hands. A subsequent search found two bags of
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cocaine in his wallet. Thomas was charged with a pair of drug felonies and
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then booked into the county jail. You know, the ten dollars probably seemed
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important at one point. The ten dollars probably seemed really important at one stage.
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I don't know if I'm gonna assume this guy wasn't thinking clearly when he
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made the phone call, right, I'm assuming that that's the case, But
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that ten dollars doesn't seem all that important once you get arrested. Right.
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Also in the subject of marijuana, a flock of sheep, I guess,
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broke into a greenhouse and eight six hundred pounds of medical marijuan on. It
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is happening in Grease. It doesn't say the city so man so. Dealing
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with excessive heat and floods over the summer Grease, it was tough for,
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you know, the folks that are growing the medical cannabis and doing it inside.
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I guess a greenhouse was probably one of the ways that they had to
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make do well. The sheep got in, found a way inside. Later,
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their shepherd found them, noticed they were acting strangely, and they said
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jumping higher than goats, which never happens. The owner of the farm told
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the press, I don't know if it's for laughing or crying. We had
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a heat wave and lost a lot of production, and we had floods.
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We lost almost everything. Now this the herd entered the greenhouse ate what was
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left. I don't know what to say. Honestly, there's really not a
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whole lot to say. There's probably some jokes, you know, it's probably
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a few. I like the fact that they were able to notice that they
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were jumping higher than goats. You know. That seems like it's setting itself
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up for something that's a straight I didn't know that it would make you jump.
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I didn't know that. I don't have a lot of I don't have
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any experience with it myself, not even the medical variety, so I don't
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know how all that works. But anyway, Florida man was arrested after dousing
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a car with gasoline and setting it on fire. But that's not even really
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the fun part of the story. I guess. Guy's name is Melvin Centron,
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and he was caught on a ring security camera porn gasoline all over a
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Jaguar vehicle and setting it on fire. One report said the car belonged to
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Centron's ex girlfriend, and another said it belonged to his cousin. Both reports
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were correct. Police contacted the owner and showed her the ring video. She
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identified Centron and told officers that he is in fact her cousin and also her
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ex boyfriend. The victim, who was not named, told police that she
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and her cousin had been dating and once lived together. After an argument,
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Centron allegedly left her home drove off in her car. He later informed her
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that he'd set it on fire. Arrested in charge with second degree arson and
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third degree grand theft. So doesn't say, you know, like third cousin,
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twice removed. It doesn't specify those things. It just says cousin.
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So I'm just going to assume they're like fourth or fifth cousins or something.
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I'm gonna hope that's what's going on here, or I don't know. Isn't
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that the movie The Days of a Gladiator? You know, the kind of
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thing happened back then, didn't it. An amateur poker player in California,
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This is a horrible story, by the way, this is awful. Amateur
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poker player in California admitted to lying about having colon cancer in order to collect
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thousands of dollars in donations so he could play in the World Series of Poker
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tournament in Vegas. Rob Mercer told the Las Vegas Review Journal that he made
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up stage four colon cancer diagnosis for his gofund me page in June because he
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needed to meet the ten thousand dollars buy in for the No Limit Holding World
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Championship. He ended up collecting more than thirty thousand dollars, scored a free
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hotel stay at the Bellaggio in Vegas, and then he was overcome with guilt
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and decided to come clean. Yeah, he said, I did lie about
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having colon cancer. I don't have colon cancer. I used that to cover
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my situation. What I did was wrong. I shouldn't have told people I
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have colon cancer. I did that as a spur of the moment thing when
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someone asked me what kind of cancer I had. But just because I admitted
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lying doesn't mean that he wants to give the money backed. In fact,
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he intends to keep the money because he believes he has undiagnosed breast cancer.
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Go fund Me, however, says you violated the terms of service, and
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everyone who donated has received an email saying that they are going to be refunded.
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I don't know what the process is for convincing yourself that you eventually are
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going to get breast cancer and guys can get that. But what a horrible
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way to get money from people so you can compete in the World Series of
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poker. Michigan State Police were called out to a lake in northern Michigan to
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rescue a woman who had become trapped inside an outhouse toilet while trying to retrieve
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her Apple watch. Police say they received an emergency call from someone reporting a
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woman heard shouting for help from inside an outhouse toilet near a boat launch.
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When police arrived, they found the woman had climbed all the way into the
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toilet because she dropped her watch inside. And those aren't cheap watches, right.
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I don't know if they're worth climbing down into an outhouse to get,
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but they're not cheap. Rescuers had to remove the toilet and lower straps down
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into the receptacle to pull her out. She wasn't injured, and the good
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news is she was able to retrieve her Apple Watch. Hey, nicely done.
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Disgusting, but nicely done, didn't I just have not long ago a
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story about how smart watches are some of the most disgusting things that we have
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because we take them in all sorts of places we use them. They're in
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the bathroom there, at the gym, they touch things, and we don't
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typically clean them, you know, and a lot of times we're touching them
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a lot because you know, you're maybe texting or touching, so we touch
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them a lot and they're just disgusting. But it doesn't matter because whatever the
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condition of your smart watch, it's not more disgusting than hers. So just
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keep in mind one if you this woman's name is not given, but if
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you know this woman and you see her and you see that she's wearing that
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watch, you know where it's been, you know the ride, the wild
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ride that it's been on. And then keep in mind too that if you
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ever decide you want to buy a previously owned Apple watch from someone online,
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if they give you a really good deal on it, you know you I
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want to think twice about it. That's all. Uh, this is another
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gross story, but I'm gonna tell him anyway, just because it gives me
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an opportunity to make a really old like pirate joke or I don't know,
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like a navy joke. But a Florida man was busted for breaking into a
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docked boat and relieving himself on the deck of the Michael Paul was Bicky Weir's
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Becky maybe uh Senior. It's good to know that he's got a son,
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right. I was spotted on surveillance footage getting on the boat while the owner
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slept, rummaging through looking through the cabin for things. Couldn't find anything worth
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stealing, so the seventy five year old got frustrated and I swabbed the poop
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deck. I guess that's that's just the only reason I told the story so
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I could get to that joke. The victim called nine one one and they
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I guess. The guy was still in the marina, sitting on a bench.
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Police were able to detain him went to search his car. It was
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filled with items from another robbery that had been reported nearby. No word on
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whether or not he swabbed anymore poop decks. A highway in Washington State was
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shut down for hours last week after a semi truck overturned and spilled fish all
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over the road. The fish spill occurred on Interstate five and Arlington, north
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of Seattle, and caused a three mile backup of northbound lanes. The road
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was closed while crews worked to remove the truck and scoop up. I mean,
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at that point it's chum right. Cars were allowed to pass the mess
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on the shoulder. The driver of the truck was uninjured. Unclear what caused
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the crash, and finally, a Chinese woman was arrested for leading a massive
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fraud scheme where she managed to hold on to sixteen different full time jobs at
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the same time and not do any work. Wasn't this plot of a movie
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a few years ago that won an oscar? Kind of that was in Korea,
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though. The woman routinely went on job interviews and kept getting hired,
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but she would never show up to the jobs and didn't do any work.
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She continued to collect paychecks until the employer would notice and let her go,
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and then she would just get another job keep the scam going. She's accused
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of finding other people's jobs as well, finding jobs for other people in exchange
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for a commission. The scam worked for years and allowed her to afford a
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very vish lifestyle in China, but everything eventually fell apart when one of her
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former employees. Employers found a resignation letter from her on an online work group
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and figured out that she had been employed by another company while she was supposed
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to be working for him. The employer did a little more research and found
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proof that there were other companies she was employed by at the same time,
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and that's when he notified police. She was arrested while at a job interview.
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How about that she was interviewed for another job and she was charged with
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All right, So, if you manage to get your hands on Taylor
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Swift tickets this year and then turn them for a bigger profit, or for
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a profit at any kind, but especially if you've got a big profit,
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that's what researchers at the University of Florida say. They've created a new compound
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physical activity. Thank goodness, we need super mice running around. Can we
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get it in rat form? Let's do it. How about cockroaches. Can
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we boost the cockroaches and get them out running around. I mean, I
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think that could be useful, couldn't it. Don't you think so? I
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mean just saying, all right, some Americans apparently having kids because they fear
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missing out and then end up regretting the decision. Research from Rutgers University found
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that seven percent of parents in the US said they would not have had kids
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if they had it to do all over again. Basically, people who really
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weren't interested in having kids decided to do it because of social pressure, and
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what researchers found was basically the fomo fear of missing out. According to co
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author of the study, Christie in a Sharp, Associate professor at the Rutgers
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School of Communication and Information, says, because of social norms, anyone who
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are good. We know it's wrong to steal, but sometimes social norms have
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unintended consequences and punish people for their choices, including people who want to be
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child free. So there you go. All right, that'll do it for
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