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The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start your day.
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You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show. Friday morning, twelfth day
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of January. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me kicking off this Friday here
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together another day to dive into some strange and bizarre news stories from around the
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world. But before we do that, I just wanted to mention this because
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I noticed something popped up a news source that I was checking out, and
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it mentioned a certain talk show host. I've told you before. One of
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the things that I don't typically do is watch other or really listen to very
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much. Occasionally I'll dip in if there's a particular topic that I'm curious what's
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being said about it from different places, But more often than not, I
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avoid a lot of the different shows because I don't want to say something that's
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been said on another show. I don't want one of my observations to seem
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like I got it from somewhere else, because that's not what I do here.
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Occasionally, there are hosts on other shows that will say things similar to
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me, and I'm just letting you know that if I am the one who
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is second to the punch it's not because I've heard it there. That's not
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what I do. If they're second to the punch, I am tempted to
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assume that they listen to the show and that's where they got it from,
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or that it's become such a popular topic because I talked about it, that
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it's made it into the ether, if you will, and that they've heard
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about it and that they're now talking about it. I won't say that that's
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the case either. I can say that the first isn't the case the former,
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but the latter, I don't know. It's probably a coincidence that this
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particular host is now saying this, and I haven't even heard exactly what was
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being said about it. What I saw was that the White House or someone
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in the government at some high level has responded to this theory, calling it
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a conspiracy theory, basically saying that there's no truth to this conspiracy theory that's
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floating around. That the push for someone who didn't already need push, but
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the extra push that Taylor Swift has been getting in a number of different outlets
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and venues is basically a means of getting her poised for being a major player
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in the election. This year. I still believe that to be the case,
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but according to the White House as a conspiracy theory. Now, I
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don't know what this particular TV talk show host has been saying about it.
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I haven't heard. Okay, it's not someone that I would say I never
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listened to. I have not heard this person in any way speak about Taylor
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Swift as she pertains to the upcoming election. But I do know that Taylor
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Swift has been someone who has advocated for candidates in the past, all Democrats.
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As far as I know, I've never heard her speak about anyone else.
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She was very active in the last two elections. So I do think
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that this is still something that's going to happen, and I do think trying
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to raise her awareness a little bit more is part of what's going on.
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I will stand by that. I don't know what this other person said for
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the White House to respond to it, but basically saying that it was nonsense
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and that wasn't the case. Now, I don't know if this other person
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basically it was Jesse Waters, that's who it was on Fox, but it's
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I don't know exactly what Jesse Waters had to say about it. I have
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no clue, So I don't know if there's something specific that makes it more
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of a conspiracy thing on his regard or not. I can just tell you
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that whether this is very much orchestrated and organized for her to be something because
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I can see her in Chicago at their convention, I can see her doing
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TV commercials, and that wouldn't be out of the ordinary. I believe that
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those things are going to take place. I do believe. And now you've
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got a couple of states that are trying to push for sixteen year olds to
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be able to vote in elections, saying that they deserve to have their voices
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heard. So I'm just as there's a push for that, there's a push
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for undocumented people in the country illegals to be able to vote in some places.
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It's not shocking to me to think that there is a possibility that someone
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has big plans for Taylor Swift with this election. That's all that I'm saying.
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So if the White House thinks I'm a crazy kook for we know that
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conspiracy theory seems to be the latest way to say that it might be true.
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Because every conspiracy theory that's popped up here in the past. You know,
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well, not everyone, but many of them you've been able to come
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back around and say, oh, so there is some truth to it.
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All. Right, let's jump into some strange and bizarre news. If that's
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not weird enough, let's get into this. A subway customer in Stuart,
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Florida, ordered a foot long sub his way what he wanted. I guess
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his way would be burger king, but with subway, I mean, you
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get it the way you want it. He just didn't get it exactly how
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he wanted it. Police say. Fifty four year old Alberto de Barros watched
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his sandwich being made, had no problem with it till he unwrapped it noticed
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the foot long had not been cut in half. Probably not a big deal
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for most people, but you know it's not necessarily the case if your name
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is el Berto de Barros. The man went crazy, started shouting at the
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sandwich maker, picked up his uncut foot long, and threw it at her,
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striking her in the mid to lower body section. It's very specific on
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the police report. De Barros left the shop and was followed out by the
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worker who took a photo of his license plate. Police were called and able
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to track de Barros down. He admitted to getting angry about his sandwich not
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being cut in half, but then told him he threw it at the counter
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and not at the worker. He was arrested and charged with battery. Okay,
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so a couple things to digest here, And I'm not in any way
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defending this. That's awful that he's throwing stuff at the employee, but sometimes
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we're at that point where we're just one sandwich not being cut away from having
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that last button pressed. You know what I'm saying. I'm not advocating it.
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I'm not defending it. I'm just saying we've all kind of been there
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where you feel like you're just right there, and apparently this guy was right
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there. I'm not again not what he did was wrong. You can't do
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it. Sounds crazy, but again, you know, maybe if the sandwich
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had been cut, that guy has a perfectly normal day for the rest of
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the day. So just but no, you know, go home, especially
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if you're taking it home, cut it in half. You can tear it
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in half. Well, I don't know about tearing a subway sandwich in half,
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but you probably could couldn't you A diehard soap opera fan in Massachusetts got
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herself into a real soap opera scenario and faces attempted murder charges. Sixty four
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year old rock sand Duchette, a big fan of Bold and the Beautiful,
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is accused of trying to poison her seventy three year old husband because she believed
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that the soap opera star Thorst and Kay asked her to do it. The
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drama started back on December third, when Paul Ducheset fell ill after eating a
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bowl of soup and went to the hospital. The couple's daughters suspected something wasn't
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right and believed that her mother may have poisoned her father. She grew a
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span vicially suspicious after seeing text messages on her mother's phone from someone named Thorston
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asking her to send him money and urging her to get rid of her husband.
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Then, after her father recovered, he told her that the last thing
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he remembered before getting very sick was eating a bowl of soup that Roxanne had
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made for him, and it tasted very bitter. The Thorston that was on
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her phone was certainly not the real Bold and Beautiful star. He was a
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scammer who'd made her believe that he was an actor or the actor builket her
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out of eight thousand dollars. Her daughter contacted police and said they questioned Roxanne,
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who admitted to texting with Thorston, but denied poisoning her husband. When
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officers asked for her phone, she refused and kicked an officer in the groin.
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Roxanne was then taken under arrest and charged with intimidation of a witness,
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resisting arrest, a salt and battery on a police officer, and attempted murder.
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How about that story? Imagine being the Thorston k I don't watch the
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show. His character's name is Ridge Forester. That's a good soap opera name,
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isn't it Ridge Forester. That'd be a good weather man named too,
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isn't it. Florida woman named Miracle spent Christmas Eve and jail for attacking her
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boyfriend with a Christmas tree, got out of jail in time to celebrate New
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Year's Eve at home, and then got in trouble again. Remember Miracle rivera
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she'd use a Christmas tree In her latest attack. She used a glass vase
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to strike her boyfriend, who suffered injuries to his face. Miracle, who
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was ordered to stay away from the twenty four year old boyfriend. After Christmas
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Eves attack, was arrested again and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon
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and domestic battery. That's an addition to the battery charges from the Christmas tree
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attack. Yeah, this is the woman who attacked him with a Christmas tree
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like a week before. So watch out groundhog Day. Who knows which?
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Who knows which? It probably felt like groundhog Day when she got a he
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got attacked the second time buyer. Don't you think? Three in Taiwan were
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recently hospitalized after eating laundry pods and didn't even do it as part of an
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ill conceived TikTok challenge. All three people who got violently ill actually received them
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in the mail as part of a bizarre election giveaway from a candidate running for
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president in the country. The three pack of laundry pods came in a clear
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packaging with a photo of the Nationalist Party candidate who you he, a reminder
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to vote for him, instructions on how to use the pods. Despite the
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instructions, one of the sick and constituents said they thought the pods were candy
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and ate them. A campaign spokesperson said, in the next wave of house
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to house visits, we will not distribute this kind of campaign material. We
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will also stress our villagers throughout the grassroots organizations that they are laundry balls and
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not candies. So that's probably good. This sounds like something that would you
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know, if you're going to vote for Trump, eat this. You know,
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I get those in the mail. If you do, don't eat it.
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Don't eat it at all. Sounds like the old You know, if
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you're voting for our candidate, election day is Tuesday. If you're voting for
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the other candidate, the election day is Wednesday. Sounds like that old trick,
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except you know, with poison. Park officials in Canada are urging drivers
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not to allow any moose to lick their car. Probably sounds like a weird
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warning, but it's necessary because apparently moose in Canada walking into the roads and
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getting killed. Motorists in snowy Canada keep slowing down and stopping on highways to
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allow moose to lick the road salt off their cars because they like the taste
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of road salt. Parks Canada spokes First and Tracy McKay says Unfortunately, this
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kind of puts the moose at risk being injured or killed if they get hit
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by a vehicle. You think the more motorists that slow down for the moose,
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the more likely it is that the animals will lose their fear of the
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road. Park officials are trying to figure out other ways to keep moose from
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walking into the road. For now, all they could do is warren drivers
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not to let the moose lick their cars. Don't do it. You may
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want to do it, you know, you may want. We went to
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the Pine Mountain Wild Animal Sofari once and a zebra bit the mirror on our
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car, you know, the external one, not one of the internal ones,
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but just bit it, just started chaling down on it. We thought
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we got to get out of here. But his mouth is still attached.
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That's not a wild moose. That was a captive zebra. Some things get
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lost in the mail, but they're never really gone for good. Case in
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point, a letter to an Oregon family that they just received eighty years after
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it was put in the mail. The letter was addressed to Lewis and Lavina
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George of DCAB, Illinois, and it was sent in nineteen forty three,
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but it never made it to the couple. It had somehow gotten lost at
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the Decab post office and was not found until recently. When workers discovered it.
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They figured out that it never reached the car because the mailing address on
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the envelope had a street name but no house number. Lewis and Lavina George
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have passed away, but a worker was able to track down Grace Salazar,
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a relative who lives in Portland, Oregon, and shared the letter with the
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couple's daughter, Jeannette George. She said, a message from the past,
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seemingly showing up out of nowhere. That's pretty incredible. Everybody was just like,
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my god, you know, gobsmacked, just like what is this.
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The letter was from a cousin who wrote to express condolences to the couple who
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had sadly lost their first child the cystic fibrosis. Jeannette said, I got
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emotional about it. I mean, losing a child is always horrific. It
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is just sort of put me in touch with my parents grief and loss as
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my family went through before I was even born. And that's Jeanette speaking.
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It's a wild story, you know, I mean, it is sort of
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this look back in time. It's almost like a time machine, isn't it.
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Lord A man is suing Duncan after he got an unexpected jolt with his
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cup of Joe. Paul Keroak claims that in his lawsuit, he used the
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restroom in a Duncan location Orlando and the toilet exploded, leaving him covered in
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the contents of the toilet. Afterwards, he claimed he asked employees for help
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and they told him they were aware of the problem in the restroom and similar
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incidents had previously occurred. What Caroac claims the incident caused to emotional and mental
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distress to him, and that he's suing Duncan for negligence, seeking fifty thousand
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in damages. That seems low. If you had a toilet and its contents
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explode on you, that seems really low to me, especially if this is
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a problem that they were aware of. See, that's one of the things
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when it comes to these lawsuits. Are they aware that the floor was slippery?
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If they knew and they did nothing about it, that's a different scenario
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than just, hey, there was water on the floor. Were they aware
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that the toilet might explode? If the answer is yes, it's a different
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kind of lawsuit. Then crashing your car, getting naked and jumping into an
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aquarium in a Bass Pro shop is no way to go through life. This
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story's blown up big time, hasn't it. An Alabama man under arrest after
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a while seeing it bass Pro shop outside Birmingham. Police say forty two year
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George Owens went on a rampage which began when he crashed his car into a
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pole outside in the parking lot. From there, he stripped naked, ran
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into the store, into the cannon ball into a large aquarium. Police arrived
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and Owens climbed out of the tank. As they approached him, and he
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shouted at them and dove back into the water. That's kind of what my
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kids do when I say it's time to leave the pool. I mean,
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they're not naked and intoxicated or whatever his deal was, but they jump back
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in the water when it's time to go. As officers ordered him to get
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out, he continued to shout at them until he climbed out and fell to
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the concrete floor below and knocked himself unconscious. That though with my kids,
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yet I came to the cops came to as the cops were handcuffing him and
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tried to resist them. Owens was arrested and taking the hospital for mental evaluation,
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charged with public lewdness, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, assault on a
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police officer, criminal mischief, and reckless endangerment. It's a wild story,
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and yeah, there's video and pictures all online of all of that, so
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you know, just proceed with caution if you're going to look that up.
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You think people stealing packages off your front steps was bad, Imagine coming home
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from work and finding your entire driveway has been stolen. Amanda brought you of
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a Poka, Florida. Put her house up for sale and contractors were hired
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to do some work needed to be done, but removing the large circular driveway
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was not one of the things that they wanted them to do, but it
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didn't stop a crew from doing it. Amanda came home as she was stunned
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to find a circular pile of dirt in front of her house. It turns
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out that she and the construction crew were victims of something called an overpayment scam.
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The scammer contacted the contractor and asked him to perform work on a house
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that they don't own. When the work was done, the scammer sent the
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contractor a fake check written out for more than the agreed upon price. He
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then asked to be reimbursed for the overpayment. The contractor repaid the scammer,
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only to find out the initial check was fake. Amanda was basically out of
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luck. Unfortunately, I'm sorry, but fortunately for a story. It went
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viral and another contractor heard about it and offered to replace her driveway for free.
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So that's nice. That's a positive spin on all of it. It's
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