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Strange and Bizarre News... mainly in Florida · 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, eighth day of December. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me.
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It is graduation day for Columbus State University, so in a very short
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while I'll be heading over to Columbus State University and performing my duties of reading
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the names of the graduates. Excited about that, always happy to be asked
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to do that, and I'm flattered. I take it very seriously. I
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try to get all the names right. I'll do my best. I promise
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I'll do my best today to get the names right, and I take a
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lot of pride in it. I give it my all, and I want
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to get every name the way the parents wanted the names to be read.
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That's my goal. I try, but I'm looking forward to it. I've
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been doing this for several years now, and when I first was asked to
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do it, I thought, sure, I can do that, and you
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know, got in and talked with every student. Try to talk with every
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student if I can, at every ceremony to try to make sure I get
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as many names right as possible. I was jokingly told about fifty percent of
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the names were correct. Before I started doing it, and I thought,
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I can get closer to ninety I think, and then I have somewhere I
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feel like I think I got all those right. I maybe miss one or
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two. I don't know, but I get pretty close. I try anyway.
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I hope I have another good day of reading names. And congratulations to
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the graduates who'll be walking across the stage today. We're a week away now.
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One week from today I will probably be having makeup put on as I'm
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getting ready to perform at the Columbus Ballets Nutcracker, and I'll be in the
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role of Mother Ginger again this year. I've talked about it quite a bit,
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and I just want to remind you. Tickets are available through the Columbus
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River Center's website. Don't get them from other sources. Get them through the
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River Center. Follow the links from the Columbus Ballet dot org and that is
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the website. And when you go to Thecolumbus Ballet dot org, first thing
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you're gonna see is a photo of me in a giant dress, standing seven
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feet six inches tall, ah with the wig. Probably a little taller than
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that now that I think about that, probably about seven eight, seven nine
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somewhere around there, Me and some of the tabithas from the past, the
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girls who dance with me I have just referred to as tabithas over the years
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because just being honest, it's hard to remember all the names of the years
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when I've had you know, like last year there were thirteen girls, So
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just calling them all tabithas my shortcut. But you'll see the photo there in
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the first thing you'll see is the link to where you can sign up if
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you would like to participate in the Mother ginger Tea event, which is scheduled
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for Saturday the sixteenth. Now, the reason I'll be getting made up a
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week from this morning is because we do a school show on the Friday.
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So Friday the fifteenth, there'll be a school show that morning and then so
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we'll perform, and then that evening we'll have basically a full dress rehearsal that
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is basically another show. There will be some folks in attendance. Then those
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tickets aren't for sale. Then we have the Saturday show in the evening.
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In the Sunday matinee show, those tickets for Saturday and Sunday you can follow
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the links there on the Coolumbus Ballet dot org. Or if you'd like to
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be a part of Mother Ginger's Tea, that is going to be on Saturday
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at lunchtime. That's Saturday, the sixteenth, so fifteenth school show. You
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can't come to that unless you're in school and you're already scheduled. Saturday is
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the sixteenth, and that is the Mother Ginger Tea at lunchtime, and then
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the Saturday evening show at the River Center, and then Sunday there's a matinee.
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Those are the times. All that information is waiting for you. Now,
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if you get your Mother Ginger Tea tickets, there's a ten percent discount
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that will get you your tickets for the Saturday show or the Sunday matinee.
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I think I got all that right. Go to the Columbus Ballet dot Org.
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At the very least you'll see me and a couple of photos, and
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then there's a gift in there of me too, throwing snow. That's what
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I'm doing as Mother Ginger, but I always look forward to that as well.
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So excited about that show. Let's talk about some strange and bizarre news
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because it's Friday, and this is when we talk about some strange and bizarre.
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Now new stories that have gone on all around the world. Let's start
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in Florida. Man who just got out of prison was arrested again earlier in
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the week for obstructing a police investigation. Police knew he had just gotten out
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of prison, not because they recognized him or because they checked his record or
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anything. No, he was wearing a T shirt that said I just got
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out of prison. Police in Clearwater received a call about a man entering an
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unlocked car that was parked outside an apartment building. He was described as a
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white man in tan shorts and a black T shirt that read I Just got
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out of prison. Officers found him blocks away and questioned him about the alleged
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burglary. He said that they refused to cooperate and he would not tell them
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his name. The only thing he said was call my lawyer, probably another
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indication, you know, that might tip him off too. They placed him
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under arest, took him to the police station, book him. Based on
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his fingerprints, they were able to identify him as forty six year old Michael
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Gordon, who was released from prison back in March, now charged with obstruction.
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A drunk Florida man got a new tattoo last weekend and ended up in
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jail. Not because of the tattoo, well, it's partly because of the
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tattoo, but it was mainly because he'd have the money to pay for it.
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Thirty three year old Max Ander, I'm sorry, Max, Alexander Craik
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can't I hope I don't have to pronounce this guy's name. At graduation,
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walked into a tattoo shop in Saint Petersburg and asked to have the waffle House
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logo inked onto his right leg. He was told that the yellow ink in
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the logo would cost him an additional one hundred dollars, so he declined that
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and asked for the logo in black and gray instead. I would think,
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if you want the tattoo and you don't have the one hundred dollars, but
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you want the waffle house logo, maybe wait till you got the one hundred
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dollars. That's the first tip. But he needed to wait until he had
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all the money because they finished his tattoo. He was charged two hundred and
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fifty dollars and he refused to pay. The owner of the shop called police
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to mediate and when the man refused, all offers to settle the debt.
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They placed him under arrest. They patted him down. He had six dollars
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and a driver's license in his pocket, so he was pretty short the whole
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thing. That's maybe why he was very ambitious if he wanted the yellow ink
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as well. Charged with theft and bonded out of jail. Police in Canada,
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this is a story that's not in Florida. We'll get back to Florida
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though. Police in Canada have a difficult job to do day in and day
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out, and officers, you know, never know what to expect. They
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certainly probably didn't expect to be punched in the face by a kangaroo, but
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that happened in the Toronto area as police were pursuing a loose kangaroo that had
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been on the loose for four days. The evasive marsupial had broken free from
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her handlers while being transferred between two zoo ohose. A witness called police to
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report seeing her hopping on the side of the highway. Before officers were dispatched
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to the area, they were briefed on the most effective way to subdue a
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kangaroo, which to grab its by its tail. I didn't know that I've
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been around kangaroo's nobody ever told me to grab them by the tail. So
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one officer tried to do that, but the kangaroo was not pleased and punched
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him in the face. A police spokesperson said the officer is fine. The
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kangaroo was eventually subdued and taken to the zoo to be examined. I don't
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know that grabbing them by the tail is the right move. I mean,
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that doesn't seem like a good move. There's not a lot. I mean,
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maybe a snake, you know, you grab it by the tail and
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throw it, I guess, but you know you don't want to. I
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mean, you can get it by the neck, but I don't know about
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for a kangaroo. That doesn't seem like a good plan at all. But
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I guess with the tail, they can't go back on the tail to kick
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you. So now that I'm thinking about that part, maybe I don't know.
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I am not a kangaroo ologist. A couple in the UK recently received
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an unexpected knock at the door by the bomb squad, who informed them that
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they were there to detonate a live bomb on their front lawn. Sign and
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Jeffrey Edwards have lived in the house since nineteen eighty two. When they moved
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in, the previous owner told them that a garden ornament in the front of
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the house was an old missile that was used by warships for the Royal Navy
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for training exercises during World War One and was a dummy, and Jeffrey liked
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it as a garden ornament and painted it red to match their house. It
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remained there for forty years until the authorities showed up and told them they had
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concerns that the century old bomb may have actually been armed, and they were
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right it was. The bomb squad determined that the bomb was live, it
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had very little charge in it, so it was safe to move from the
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house, taken to an open area where it was detonated. Jeffrey told the
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BBC it was an old friend. I'm so sorry the poor thing was blown
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to pieces. But you know better that someone came and blew it to pieces
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than it, you know, just blowing to pieces on its own, maybe
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while somebody was painting it red for example. All right back to Florida,
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a South Florida couple who has been known for their elaborate Christmas light displays over
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the past fifteen years. Will not be doing it anymore, not in their
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current house anyway, because they haven't owned the house the whole time. Kathy
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Hyatt and her ex husband Mark, who died in twenty twenty, delighted their
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neighborhood every year with over the top Christmas lights at their plantation at Florida House.
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The neighbors referred to it as the high at Extreme Christmas House. But
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an investigation conducted by the Boward County Property Appraiser concluded that the couple never actually
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owned the house. There was never a title on the property, and the
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deed was a forgery. The Hyats were squatters and had been living in the
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house tax free. Now, the Appraiser's office says that back taxes against the
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property total almost thirty five thousand dollars. Luckily for Kathy Hyatt, the statute
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of limitations for any criminal charges is up and local agencies are now working to
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determine who in fact owns the property and should pay the back taxes. So,
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yeah, it's kind of bold if you don't own the house and you're
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inviting people to come around and look at all your fancy Christmas lights. All
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right, this one is really really well, Let's do another Florida one before
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I do the really weird one. Florida man ordered to stay away from his
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wife after he was arrested for throwing a sausage at her. Police say,
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sixty one year old Ray Allen got into it. It's not the basketball player
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is it got into a verbal altercation with his wife at their home, and
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things got so heated up that Alan picked up a sausage and threw it at
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his wife, hitting her in the side of the face. Police recalled to
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the scene and arrested Alan for domestic battery. EMS workers also arrive to help
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Alan's wife clean sausage out of her eye. Yikes. Alan has been ordered
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to have no contact with his wife. Ah, all right, this is
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an Australia story, and it's an animal Australia story. And the kangaroo was
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not I mean, it's an Australian animal, but it wasn't in Australia.
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This one is in Australia. This is one of those things that make people
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not want to go visit Australia. And I'm telling you this kind of thing
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is not common. Sure, it happened in this case, but that doesn't
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mean it's common. And maybe this is a reason just to stay off your
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scale if you don't like stepping on the scale. So here's the deal.
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A woman in Australia stepped on her scale and she was inside her bathroom,
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actually I guess, and spotted a very young snake, young venomous eastern brown
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snake slithering into the small opening in the bottom of her scale in her bathroom.
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She immediately got on the phone called a snake catcher who came to the
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house and carefully removed the intruder. The woman believes this snake may have hitched
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a ride into the house on a mop that had been outside, so this
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snake was basically taken up residency inside the scale. All right, here's a
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really weird one. This is a weird one, and we're just going to
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jump into this. Here we go. While taking a test in a classroom,
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you know, people have to be quiet. They you can't speak,
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can't share answers, you can't look on each other's paper, maybe not even
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be able to get to go to the bathroom. Probably not allowed to,
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or it's probably not recommended anyway that you give live birth to a baby well.
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High school students in Indonesia were in the middle of a final exam when
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the teacher suddenly heard a lot of commotion and asked everyone to be quiet.
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Moments later, they heard a baby crying. The teacher walked over to investigate
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found a sixteen sixteen year old girl on the floor next to a live baby.
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A fellow teacher rushed the classroom with a school officer and transport to the
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girl and the baby to the hospital. Hours later, both the mom and
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baby were doing well. School officials and the girl's family said they had no
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idea that the girl was pregnant, and they just thought that she was overweight.
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That's all they thought. They thought she was just a little overweight,
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no big deal. Getting a chopped salad may appeal to someone who likes their
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leafy greens with a lot of different add ons, but a Connecticut woman was
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expecting things like carrot, celery tomatoes and shocked and disgusted when she bit into
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a bit of a severed finger. Alison Causey is suing the Chopped Creative Salad
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restaurant chain, claiming that she was eating a salad at a location in the
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Westchester County, New York location, when she suddenly realized that she was chewing
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on a portion of a human finger that was mixed in and it was part
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of the salad. The lawsuit states that the manager of the restaurant had cut
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off part of an finger while chopping arugola that's a vegetable, and was rushed
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to the hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, the restaurant allowed the arugula vegetable vegetable
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I should say, to be served along with a piece of finger that ended
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up in the salad. Cause, he says, the incidant left her with
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severe impairments, including dizziness, migraine, headaches, nausea, panic attacks,
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recurring neck and shoulder pain, seeking an unspecified monetary damages. Yeah, that's
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not good. That's pretty disgusting. And finally, a stretch of a highway
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in Ohio was shut down after two semi trucks collided and spilled chocolate and caramel
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all over the road. I believe this happened late last week. The crash
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occurred on a snowy Interstate ninety. It's Interstate ninety, just east of Cleveland
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around six am. One of the trucks hauling chocolate and caramel spilled the entire
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contents, leaving a gooey, sticky mess. No one was hurting the crash,
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thankfully. Traffic was diverted off of the highway while fire crews worked clean
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up the mess. So, yes, chocolate and caramel spilling. This sounds
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like an ad. Sounds like a commercial, you know, be a peanut
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butter and chocolate truck or whatever. But no, this is chocolate and caramel.
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I suppose it's the other I mean the good news nobody was hurt.
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Bad news there wasn't vanilla ice cream truck. Maybe that would have been a
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nice addition to go with it. Maybe some chocolate chips could have spilled everywhere
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to go with it. You know, just work work their way around,
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you know, some marshmallows, some rocky road, you know, just mix
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it up right there on the road and bring in the kids with the spoons
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and just let them clean it all up. Today's show brought to you by
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right, we are an artificial tree home. I don't know that.
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Maybe as a small kid, I was maybe the only time I ever had
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a live or not. I guess it's not a live. It's live,
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but it's dying right when you cut it. Down, it starts dying.
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But a live tree in the house. We've always done artificial that I can
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remember. I don't remember ever having a live tree, even as a kid.
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Since you know, being on my own and married with kids and all
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that, it's always been artificial trees. That's what we have, not a
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live tree at any point. But the people who are hardcore live tree fans,
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it wouldn't want anything else. That's the Christmas experience for them. Well
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apparently, and this is something that I haven't experienced because of this, but
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it is possible that you're going to be bringing in some critters into your home
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because of your live tree. Insect Company out of Florida has identified a list
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of insects that are commonly found inside Christmas trees and could now be residing inside
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your home, and they warn you they're going to give I got some tips
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for you onto things that you should be doing to make sure you probably already
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have your tree up or you're in the process of doing and if you haven't
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already gotten around to it. So these are some suggestions that they give to
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make sure that your tree is bug free for the holiday season. They say,
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remove any bird nests that are in the tree. I mean, if
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you're getting a bird nest, that's kind of a bonus, isn't it.
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Do you pay extra for that? They say they could contain bird mites.
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They say, remove any prying mantis egg sacs. I don't know what they
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look like, but I like having like a prying mantis in the house.
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If there's eggs, they're really cute when they're small. They say, check
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for flocking that looks like snow on the branches, or needles that could be
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pine bark atal gids. I know you say that. Look for signs of
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scale insects and aphids. Look for small holes in the trunk of the tree,
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for superfine sawdust that could indicate pine bark beetles. They say, ask
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the Christmas tree lot to shake your tree so pests and needles get removed.
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That would be the first thing you should do is give it a good shake,
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maybe a tap on the ground. They say, shake your tree again
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before bringing it into your home. And they say avoid using aerosol pesticides indoors
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because they're flammable and should never be used inside with the windows closed. And
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they say you consider using a fake tree and that helps keep your home bug
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for you, And I didn't add that that was really in their suggestion.
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That's really in their suggestion. So oh, and they also recommend maybe leaving
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it in your garage for a couple of days, especially if you're gonna put
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some kind of a poison on it that's going to help kill any of the
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insects. And then that way it doesn't have to be inside your house.
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You know, you keep it in the garage or somewhere. You don't want
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to have it outside, I guess, because then you can get fresh bugs
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in it, couldn't you. And finally, is there a gift for yourself
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on your holiday shopping list? A survey done by American Express found that sixty
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six percent of millennial and gen Z respondents said that they want to reward themselves
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with a gift after they finish all of their holiday shopping. That's not good.
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What if somebody wants to buy that particular item for you? But I
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guess if you haven't express that you want it to anybody, then there's no
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chance of that happening. So I suppose you know that would be uh okay,
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then I guess, I mean, it's okay, do whatever you want
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to do. I'm an advocate for that. You've heard me say that many
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times. Do whatever you want to do. Just don't hurt anybody else.
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But you know, when it comes to gift giving, maybe give people a
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chance to buy that gift for you and don't run out and buy yourself.
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