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DONKEY: Man Fakes A Medical Emergency To Police After He Couldn’t Afford Bill At Red Lobster · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: You're trying to be a fake-ass Charlamagne. Some donkey today
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  Speaker 1: has just sold himself. I've been watching, Charlamagne. I was
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  Speaker 1: ready for you. I'm a donkey.
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  Speaker 2: I never heard of a donkey the other day.
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  Speaker 1: What is it? Say it again, Charlamagne. I'm a donkey. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you are a donkey. Everything that Charlamagne is saying is true. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: talk of the day for Tuesday, October 6th, right? It's
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  Speaker 1: October 6th? Yes, October 6th.
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  Speaker 3: Goes to a 26-year-old Georgian man named Abdul Hakeem Rashid. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Abdul decided he wanted to eat at one of the
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  Speaker 3: greatest fine dining institutions this planet has ever seen. And
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  Speaker 3: that place is Red Lobster. Drop on the clues bombs
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  Speaker 3: for Red Lobster. I will never turn my back on
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  Speaker 3: that red crustacean, okay? One of the joys of my
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  Speaker 3: life in recent years was going to Red Lobster because
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to support what the new CEO was doing.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all know the CEO, the brother named, um... Damala, I
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  Speaker 3: think his name, Damala Adamalakan.
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  Speaker 1: You asking me?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm not. Damala Adamalakan, I think that's it. Dropping
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  Speaker 3: the clues bombs for Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Adamalakan. Well, anyway, I went to Red Lobster and my
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  Speaker 1: kids loved it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that lobster shrimp pasta with those cheddar biscuits have
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  Speaker 3: stood the test of time. So, Abdul, I understand why
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  Speaker 3: you wanted to get some of those Land and Sea classics. But, Abdul,
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  Speaker 3: what does your Uncle Sharla always tell you? You have
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  Speaker 3: to act your wage, okay? And look, I know times
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  Speaker 3: is hard for folks nowadays, but the problem isn't that
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  Speaker 3: you don't have any money. The problem is the decisions
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  Speaker 3: you make when you don't have any money. Let's go
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  Speaker 3: to Fox 5 Atlanta for the report, please.
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  Speaker 2: He couldn't pay the bill, so police say he called
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  Speaker 2: 911 instead. They tell us 26-year-old Abdul Hakim Rashid was
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  Speaker 2: at a Red Lobster in Douglasville when he realized he
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  Speaker 2: couldn't pay his $ 63.
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  Speaker 4: 77 tab.
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  Speaker 2: So according to police, He told staff he was having
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  Speaker 2: a medical emergency, then called 911 himself. But when officers
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  Speaker 2: and first responders got there, they say they found nothing wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators allege the emergency was just a ruse to get
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  Speaker 2: out of pain. Rashid was arrested and faces charges including
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  Speaker 2: theft of services and unlawful conduct during a 911 call.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sick. I'm just broke. Okay. This is what
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  Speaker 1: donkey of the day is all about. Teachable moments. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: These beautiful life lessons. God puts right in front of us. Abdul, Abdul, Abdul,
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  Speaker 3: my brother. We've all had moments when the money wasn't money.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: But there's a difference between being broke. and making decisions
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  Speaker 3: that can make you broker. Okay, this man allegedly didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to deal with a $ 63. 77 problem. So he created
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  Speaker 3: a $ 4, 500 problem because that's how much his bond is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, not only did he not do his jail math.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't do any math at all. OK, but this
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  Speaker 3: is a textbook jail map example. You know what jail
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  Speaker 3: map is. Can you afford to do whatever it is
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  Speaker 3: you're about to do? OK, he created a problem that
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  Speaker 3: was 70 times the amount of the original problem. And
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  Speaker 3: that's not even factoring in the attorney. He probably going
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  Speaker 3: to have to pay. OK, ladies and gentlemen, today's lesson
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  Speaker 3: is very simple.
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  Speaker 1: Act your life.
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  Speaker 3: Wage okay don't make an expensive decision trying to avoid
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  Speaker 3: a cheap problem all right you get a parking ticket
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  Speaker 3: Don't want to pay it.
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  Speaker 1: Ignore it. Now you got late fees.
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  Speaker 3: OK, you owe somebody some money instead of calling them
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  Speaker 3: and say, hey, man, I don't got it right now.
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  Speaker 3: You avoid them for six months. Now you've lost the
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  Speaker 3: relationship and you still owe them money. OK, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have no money to go out with your friends, but
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  Speaker 3: you're embarrassed to tell everybody you ain't got it.
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  Speaker 1: So you go anyway and you put the whole night
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  Speaker 1: on a credit card.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're paying interest on some hot honey chicken wings
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  Speaker 3: and Captain Migos.
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  Speaker 1: You done pooped and peed out three months ago.
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  Speaker 3: OK, it's never the problem that destroys you. It's your
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  Speaker 3: response to the problem that can hurt you. OK, now,
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  Speaker 3: to be fair, I don't know Abdul's financial situation. OK,
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  Speaker 3: the reporting doesn't establish whether he literally, you know, didn't
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  Speaker 3: have the sixty three seventy seven.
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  Speaker 1: I simply didn't want to pay the bill.
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  Speaker 3: But let's just say for the sake of the lesson
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  Speaker 3: and the razzle dazzle of the donkey, let's just say
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  Speaker 3: he didn't really have it. OK, well, Abdul, if that's
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  Speaker 3: the case. You don't get no cheddar cheese biscuits. OK,
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  Speaker 3: it's just that simple.
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  Speaker 1: All right. You was craving lobster and shrimp linguine. I
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  Speaker 1: get it. But you know what lasts longer than a craving?
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  Speaker 1: A criminal case. If you don't got it, you can't
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  Speaker 1: have it. And there is nothing wrong with.
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  Speaker 3: Admitting I don't have it right now. OK, there is
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  Speaker 3: no shame in not having money, but there should be
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  Speaker 3: shame in letting your ego make financial decisions for you. OK,
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  Speaker 3: Abdul called 9-1-1 because he couldn't afford Red Lobster. Abdul,
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  Speaker 3: do you realize those resources exist for people who are
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  Speaker 3: actually in danger? Somebody could have been having a heart attack.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody could have been in a car accident. Somebody could
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  Speaker 3: have been dealing with any type of real emergency. OK,
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  Speaker 3: but instead, emergency personnel had to respond to you not
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  Speaker 3: being able to afford the Lobster Lovers Duo. Okay, this
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  Speaker 3: is why Red Lobster don't do all you can eat
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  Speaker 3: shrimp no more. I don't know what that has to
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  Speaker 3: do with anything. I don't know what that has to
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  Speaker 3: do with anything. I just feel like it's people like
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  Speaker 3: Abdul who ruined the all you can eat shrimp for
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  Speaker 3: the rest of us.
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, Abdul, you couldn't afford Red Lobster. So I know
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  Speaker 3: you can't afford these charges.
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Listen to me, people.
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  Speaker 3: The advice I'm about to tell you can save your life.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes the most financially responsible sentence you can say is,
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  Speaker 3: I can't afford that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Accu-age. All right? Please give Abdul, Hakeem, Rasheed the
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  Speaker 1: sweet sounds of the Hamiltones.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now you are the donkey of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you are the.
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  Speaker 4: Donkey of the day.
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  Speaker 1: Yee-haw. And you can have Red Lobster at the house, okay?
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  Speaker 1: At Walmart right now. Red Lobster. Frozen cheddar baked biscuits.
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  Speaker 1: Ready to bake. That's right. Eight in a box.
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  Speaker 2: $ 4.
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  Speaker 3: 96.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then... Have you tried it? Are they good, though? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they are. My mother-in-law buys that mix, and she makes them,
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  Speaker 1: and they're really good. But, yo, he got to pay
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  Speaker 1: for the ambulance, too. For real? That's a whole nother bill, yeah. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're right. Because they came, and nothing was wrong with them, either.
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  Speaker 1: You're right. That's like another.
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  Speaker 3: When you said $ 4, 500, I'm like, that's about how much
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  Speaker 3: it is for ambulances.
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  Speaker 1: The ambulance, the bail. The lawyer, like you said. Damn, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Expensive biscuits for him. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for that donkey today. Now, when we come back,
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  Speaker 4: Miss Angela Rye will be joining us. She has a
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  Speaker 4: new show that comes out tomorrow at 9 p.m. It's
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  Speaker 4: called Cite Your Sauce. She's going to tell us all
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  Speaker 4: about it. It's the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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