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Strange and Bizarre News with the GOAT of Weird News Stories · 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, sixteenth day of February. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me.
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Rolling on into a holiday weekend. Monday is President's Day weekend, so
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it's a holiday that it's not really one of those big ones, but they
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do like car sales and electronics sales. I don't really know what's the significance.
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I guess it's that sort of it's an opportunity holiday. I guess because
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there's some holidays you just don't want to do that with, you know.
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I mean, some people do it anyway, but it just seems really inappropriate
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to have, like the Martin Luther King Day car sale, right, it
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just doesn't feel okay. They do it for a Memorial Day, I know,
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and that one doesn't seem like it should be should it President's Day?
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It's a little different. Seems like it should be clear, free and clear.
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I think suppose it depends on which presidents, you know, because some
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of them you're not supposed to honor in any capacity, no matter how many
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good things they did, if they did any bad things at all, you
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can't acknowledge them. You're not supposed to rip their statues down for crying out
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loud, even the ones that had nothing to do with the bad things.
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Right, Abraham Lincoln, you got well, he'd had something to do with
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some of the bad things, but in the opposite way. But anyway,
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So it's a holiday weekend and uh time, because it's Friday. I almost
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didn't do a show today. The kids are out of school today, and
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I thought, man, I should just take the day off, but I
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thought, no, I'm going to take Monday off. So the very least
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I can do is a symbol for you, a group of strange and bizarre
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news stories as we get ready to kick off a weekend that doesn't have any
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football. I don't know when that UFL starts, but even if that's there,
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it's not the same. I mean, God bless them, it's just
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not the same. I mean, it may hold things over, it'll be
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a band aid for a while. I guess, I don't know, but
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it's just not the same. I mean, I really don't even know when
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it starts, you know, I don't know. I mean, I guess
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I could look it up when the first games will start. Let's see if
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I can pull up the schedule here for it kicks off March thirtieth. Well,
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there you go, so we got time weekend without football. Officially it's
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the weekend without football, not even the UFL March thirtieth, though that's good.
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Still not the same, but you know, it's the merging of leagues,
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so maybe they'll do well. All right, let's start in Florida.
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So many times we start in Florida, we end up in Florida at the
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per I would like to think I should go back and see if I can
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find the last time we didn't end up in Florida. At some point on
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this segment, Florida woman was attacked by a two thousand pounds bull. Yeah,
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that's you. Usually not a good positive outcome to a story, but
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I'm going to tell you right now spoiler alert. This bull attack has a
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happy ending. Okay, not often does it. Sometimes the happy ending is
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just, hey, the bull didn't kill the person. It's a little bit
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more than that. In fact, this bull saved this woman's life. Her
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name teal Maul. What a name? Teal Mal was on her ranch in
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Brooksville, Florida, when she looked outside and saw her son getting whammed.
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I guess that's the word she gave by a bull named Barry that they keep
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as a pet. Now, this story is good already. I mean,
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that's a pretty good That's a good start to any story. Got a good
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silly name. We're in Florida. It has the word whammed in it.
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There's a pet bull named Barry. I mean, this is already a good
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story. It gets better, though. Teal, acting like a good responsible
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ran out to protect her son and tried to block the bull. See it's
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getting better. It's getting better. However, the bull ended up goring her,
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knocking her down to the ground. Her brother in law drove over and
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a tractor and pushed the bull away. It just keeps getting better. He's
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on a tractor. He's pushing the bull away. All right. Now's where
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the serious stuff comes in. Teal mull, by the way, was taken
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to the hospital with bruises to her face and body and a broken rib.
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That part's not good, okay, But there's a good part to this story.
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She had no idea that the bull attack saved her life, because a
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scan taken of her chest after the bull attack, doctors noticed a tumor which
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ended up being lung cancer. Had she not been in the hospital, she
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might not have caught it until it was too late. Instead, she had
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surgery to remove the tumor and received good news late recently that the cancer had
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not spread to anywhere else in her body. How about that? I mean,
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this may be the best overall strange and bizarre news story we've ever had.
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It's got a happy ending, it's got a great name. There's a
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tractor, a pet bull, somebody getting whammed. It's in Florida. This
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is pretty good. This is a contender for one of the best all time.
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One of the goats, if you will the bulls. I don't know
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all right. A stingray that lives in an aquarium in North Carolina has some
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explaining to do, and I guess at some point the answer to many questions
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will come because Charlotte the only stingray in the tank. However, Charlotte is
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somehow pregnant. Workers at the Team Eco Aquarium and Shark Lab in Hendersonville,
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North Carolina, are stumped. Charlotte has never been in a tank with another
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stingray. She does, however, share a tank with two white spotted bamboo
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sharks named Larry and Moe. A possible explanation for all of this is that
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somehow Charlotte, I guess, seduced one of those white spotted bamboo sharks.
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Although it's not very likely, there is a possibility that she's somehow impregnated herself.
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Rare but not impossible. Charlotte is giving birth any day now, and
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they say genetic tests on the pups will reveal whether or not their stingrays or
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I should say stingraysed that has the same mom and dad, or a stingray
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shark hybrid, which kind of terrifies me just a little bit. That doesn't
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seem like that could have a good outcome for all of us. But it's
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exciting from a you know, animal biology concept, I guess it's pretty exciting.
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Armed police officers in England stormed a hotel after receiving a call about a
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man armed with a knife, only to find a Harry Potter fan practicing amateur
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wizardry. You know what, I didn't know we were going to already get
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a story that was going to rival the other one. I mean, this
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is pretty good. A call to the emergency line on Sunday reported a man
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with a large knife in the building officers rated the hotel and found their suspect
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by the elevator. He wasn't holding a large knife. He was holding a
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magic wand an actual magic wand not magic but an actual Harry Potter type magic
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Wand he wasn't, you know, didn't have his pants down. That's what
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I'm saying. It's not code for anything. The man was described as a
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forty year old Harry Potter fan who was making hotel guests a little nervous.
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One responding officer said, thankfully, no harm was caused to any resident and
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there was no sign of Voldemort. No charges were filed, so that's pretty
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good. A nice job by the officer as well. All right, back
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to Florida Police in Cape Coral, Florida, or on the lookout for a
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couple of Cookie Monster fans whose shoplifted from a low store flashed a gun at
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a loss prevention officer while they were at it. Police say the man and
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woman were wearing matching his and hersed cookie Monster pajamas as they cruised the aisles
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and gathered items they had no intention of paying for. This seems a little
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bit too common now, doesn't it. They just come in and take whatever
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they want. I don't know about specifically these people, but as they were
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walking out of the store, they were approached by a loss prevention officer who
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asked them to stop. The mail flashed a handgun and his waistband of his
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Cookie Monster pants, and the two walked out. The police have been searching
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for the public trying to identify them. They've posted pictures of them in their
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pajamas. I mean, if you're gonna go rob a place, at least
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put on a pair of pants. That's what I'm thinking. Could you at
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least put on a pair of pan You might end up in jail. Could
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you put on I mean, I guess maybe they just wanted to be comfortable
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they were in jail. A Canadian man arrested for trespassing at a public library
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in Ohio told police he had permission from a higher power to be there,
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so it was okay. Camil Kitchens Gittens I think I added letters. Camel
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Gittens is from Canada. We got another good, silly name, Camel Gittens.
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Camel is that a name? Let's see if I'm even Maybe it's carnal.
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I don't know. I had been wandering around Sandusky Ohio for the past
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year, spending a lot of time around the library. He had previously been
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arrested twice at the library for trespassing, and he told police that he had
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checked with christ who said it was okay for him to be there. His
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most recent arrest came last week, when he was found outside the building using
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an exterior outlet to charge his phone. He was charged with criminal trespass and
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was held on bond. So there you go, Carnal, I click the
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story. There's a typo. Camel's just seemed too good to be true.
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But Carnal, I don't even know that that's really any better. Carnal gettens
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either way, it's a silly name. I like it. Construction at the
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site of a future college camp in Florida. Here we're going temporarily put on
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hold after workers digging up the grounds found a World War Two era bomb.
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The crew was working in Brooksville, Florida, north of Tampa, at a
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site that will be the future home of the Wilton Simpson Technical College. Boy
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at Wilton Simpson, what can you say about that guy? The Sheriff's office
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evacuated the area within a half mile radius while it waited for a bomb squad
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to arrive. Experts checked it out and determined that the rusted and decayed one
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thousand pound bomb dated back to the Second World War and it was inert.
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It's believed the bomb was a remnant of an old military airfield that had been
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used for B seventeen and B twenty four training missions. It was removed and
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brought to McDill Air Force Base in Tampa and will be properly disposed so they
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can get back to building the Wilton Simpson Technical College. A man from New
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York did his best Florida man impression while on vacation in the suns Shine State.
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As the forty nine year old was visiting New Smyrna Beach. See he's
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not even a Florida man, but he's doing Florida man things, he decided
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to take his truck for a joy ride in the shallow surf. Cops say
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he drove his pickup truck around a gate and enter the beach, where he
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proceeded to drive in the surf as waves crashed into him. At one point,
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the wannabe stunt driver attempted to do donuts in the wet sand. Lifeguards
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watched in shock and captured the scene on video. Deputies eventually arrived and placed
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him under arrest. At one point, the man said, it's not my
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fault the truck don't surf, and also tried to justify it by saying that
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he had done the same thing in England. The man was charged with violating
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a county ordnance regarding driving on the beach. See he was driving in the
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beach. That would have been a better defense for him. I think station
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in Jasper, Alabama has been temporarily knocked off the AM dial thanks to thieves
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who stole the station's two hundred foot radio tower. Brett Elmore, the general
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manager of w j JLX, says the theft occurred last week and he was
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informed by landscaping crew who arrived at the site to do some work on the
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property, and they called him to tell him that the tower was gone.
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Elmore couldn't believe it, he says, I have been in the radio business
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around it all my life, and then in it professionally for twenty six years,
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and I can say I have never heard anything like this. I can't
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say I can say I've seen it all now. Thieves cut through the wires
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that secured the steel tower and then somehow just took off with it along with
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the equipment at the site. Elmore says it's a huge financial blow to the
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small station and will cost a lot of money to rebuild. As for the
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thieves, if and when they're caught, they'll be facing federal charges and could
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go to jail for a really, really long time. So I would hope
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you have insurance on that tower, right, I mean, I just took
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a two hundred foot tier. What are you gonna do with it? I
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assume there's something in the metal that they want for. I don't know.
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All Right, back to Florida. Close it out in Florida. A drunk
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Florida man catching a flight at an airport in Fort Lauderdale didn't have to remove
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his shoes going through security because they were already off, as was the rest
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of his clothes. Thirty six year old Martin ev Timov pulled up to the
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terminal and got out of his car completely naked. He then walked inside casually,
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strolled through the terminal and up to security, where he turned around and
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tried to leave through a restricted access door. He was ultimately stopped by sheriff's
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deputies and TSA agents who attempted to arrest him, but he resisted and officers
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had to bend him over a baggage conveyor belt to get him under control.
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Well, nobody wants to see that as a visual Now in my head,
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I don't even know what this guy looks like. I can just imagine the
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whole scene. He was then handcuffed and wrapped in a blanket. Evtamov was
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charged with resisting arrest, battery on law enforcement, exposure of sexual organs,
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disorderly conduct, and disorderly intoxication, and also of bending over on a conveyor
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belt. He was ordered to stay away from the airport. Now, if
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it's a conveyor belt, just seems like that could be a problem. If
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you're being bent over the conveyor belt, things are moving, you know,
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I just see it seems like a pinching hazard. There's a few problems you
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could have with the conveyor belt, right, you know, there could be
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problems. When I was in high school, I worked in the grocery business.
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At I was a cashier at a grocery store. It was a conveyor
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belts. It could be a problem. You know. I mean, I
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never had any problems anywhere close to that. I'm just pointing out the fact
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you get a finger like pinched in one of those things just being bent over,
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it would be a problem. It seems like this guy might have a
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lawsuit. You know, they put him in at risk, a high risk
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what an amazing and incredible couple of weeks SpaceX has had launch frequency, the
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significance of the launches that they've been having, some very significant launches that are
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upcoming. We got a different thing to talk about with SpaceX. We didn't
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talk about this on Meat of Stars this week because I just saw this this
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morning. But apparently, and you know, there's been talk for quite some
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time about going to Mars, colonizing Mars. You know, it's the stuff
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of science fiction, right Well. Elon Musk CEO whatever's title is, owner
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operator of SpaceX says that his company has a game plan to get a million
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people on Mars and that they will have a colony that will survive without support
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from Earth. So perspective, million people. Charlotte, North Carolina has nine
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hundred thousand people. Indianapolis, Indiana, nine hundred thousand people. Jacksonville,
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San Jose, Columbus, Ohio, so Jacksonville, Florida, San Jose,
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California, and Columbus, Ohio right out a million people. Dallas, Texas
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one point three million people. That's just for perspective on what we're talking about
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on Mars. Now. The next question, obviously would be when you compare
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the sizes of these cities, is how soon before the NFL will play a
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game there, you know, be a road trip for somebody. They'll go,
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they'll get to call that a home game, but they'll be there on
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Mars. They might have to stay long enough to play two teams and then
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they all come back. I don't know. I don't know how that works,
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but my point is give them time. We'll have we'll have an NFL
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team playing a game. One that'll be the next big step sometime in the
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distant future. Right, all right, So there's been this resurgence of cold
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weather, especially up in the Northeast, and I guess apparently around the country.
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I know someone who does this, by the way, but there's been
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a lot of people that are taking advantage of the cold weather by building their
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own private ice skating rinks in their yards, as some even using home built
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zamboni machines. And I guess. Now there's a social media group, I
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guess on Facebook, tens of thousands of members. They share tips on how
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to make your own home ice skating rink. I've got a friend, childhood
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friend who now lives in Maine and he has they do this at his house.
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They make their own ice skating rink. And I guess they play hockey
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or you know, whatever sports they can play. And he, you know,
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he does it. I guess just about every year. I don't recall
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seeing photos this year of it, but I do know that he does this
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very regularly. And I think his kids have a good time. They play
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hockey, they skate, they love it. So not a big shaker there.
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Oh, back to Mars again. As if flying humans to Mars and
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having them set up a colony isn't crazy enough, researchers will to cover that
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there are four types of bacteria that can make humans sick. Here on Earth
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that may be able to survive and thrive under the harsh conditions of Mars if
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taken up there by astronauts. The scientists from messing around with a bacteria and
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found that they can thrive in a Mars like environment with its lack of water,
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low atmospheric pressure, deadly ultraviolet radiation, and toxic salts. So as
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if you don't have enough to worry about, especially if you want to be
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one of those million people that goes to Mars and lives there with Elon Musk
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or whoever is going to be there. All right, that'll do it for
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