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Strange and Bizarre News: Check Your Toilet · 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, thirty, first day of May. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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joining me. Final day, Final day June. About to happen tomorrow and
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then we'll roll on into this sixth month of the year. Man, it's
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flying by, it is zipping right along. Let's dive into some strange and
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bizarre news stories this morning. We begin with a couple of cautionary tales that
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basically say, depending on maybe where you live, I don't know. I
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mean, it's one of these stories is in Russia, the other here in
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the States. I will just tell you this. I know everybody always asks
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me about Australia and some of the animals in Australia, the dangerous wild animals.
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Probably the most frightened I've been by one of the exotic animals. It's
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not even one of the dangerous ones. It's nothing venomous. It's not one
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of the spiders, it's not one of the snakes. No, no,
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no. One of the most startling things that's happened to me on more than
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one occasion. While there is it. You Sometimes you go into the bathroom
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and you find a tree frog in the toilet. You know that happens sometimes
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not overly scary when it's a tree frog, it's you know, concerning that
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it's in the toilet, and especially if it's in the middle of the night,
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which did happen to me before. But just always good to check the
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toilet in the middle of the night when you're going to the bathroom. As
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a couple of people we have stories about that will definitely do that for the
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rest of their days. Let's start in Moscow, as a woman woke up,
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stumbled into a bathroom and found a fully grown albino Boa constrictor in her
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toilet. She did what anybody would do, immediately slammed the bathroom door closed
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call police. Soon after officers arrived, it was determined that the large snake
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was a pet belonged to another resident in the apartment building, likely got out
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of its terrarium and slithered into a bathtub drain and started to explore plumbing in
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the building, ultimately exited through the woman's toilet. Not the first time the
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snake has gotten out of its enclosure. Two years ago, it showed up
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in the stairwell of the building and terrified another residence, so maybe that's why
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they were able to quickly get to the bottom of what was going on.
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I have questions. I don't know if you've ever seen a fully grown albino
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boa constrictor. I have. I've held them, a couple of them.
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They're bigger than pipes, and I know that snakes can get into small,
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tight spaces. I just wonder how big the pipes are of this toilet,
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is all I'm getting at, and why one and know why? But anyway,
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that's pretty awful. Right. Slightly less awful but still startling. Is
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something that happened to a Miami Dolphin player. You may have seen this story
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in the news. Jalen Phillips, third year player for the Dolphins, went
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into his bathroom and found an iguana in his toilet. He shared the video
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of the iguana and his toilet, saying, this is some Florida stuff.
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He didn't say stuff. He said he had no idea where it came from
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and how it got into his toilet, but added, I just want to
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know if he came up through there like a ninja turtle, or he was
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living in the garage or something. Either way, Phillips decided not to remove
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the iguana on his own. He paid for an exterminator to take care of
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it, and Phillips said, got to check the toilet every time I go
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now. And I think based on these two stories and even maybe if you
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want to reference my story about the tree frogs in Australia, you would just
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want to have a check, have a peek. That's all. Also on
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the subject of snakes, this is a different kind of story. It doesn't
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involve a toilet. California man says he was the victim of an attempted murder
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when he received a package in the mail that contained a rattlesnake. Sixty year
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old Elijah Bowles called nine one one after he picked up a package from the
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post office and found a live, two foot long rattlesnake inside. Investigators say
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the box was marked fragile and had a return address from a home in Palm
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Coast, Florida, although it was actually shipped from Hayward, California, two
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weeks earlier. The snake was packed in cotton to conceal the sound of its
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rattle. Bowles says he doesn't know who sent it, but added that's attempted
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murder if you ask me. The case is still under investigation, and was
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discovered that a similar package was also mailed to his Florida home. Bowl says,
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I'm trying to figure it out. Do I have any enemies. I'm
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not a gangster. I'm just a truck driver. So have you been in
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any arm wrestling tournaments in the eighties, because there were some of those guys
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that were pretty upset and over the top. Maybe one of them. I
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don't know. I'm just trying to think truck driver. I don't know.
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A Let's go to Mexico for our next story. As surveillance cameras captured an
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insane street fight that took place between a mariachi band and a street performer who
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breathes fire. So here's the deal. Y'all know that there's areas where street
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performers or vendors, if you're selling hot dogs, if you've ever been to
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a city like New York where they're like, there's areas that you're like,
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this is my spot. Other people can't get in your spot. That's your
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spot. If you're even if you're the performer, you're there. Let me
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say justa even if you're a perform I'm saying you know, performers have the
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same kinds of ethics, the same code. I didn't mean to say justa
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street performers or performers, all right, I don't I don't want to get
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any mail, you know, I don't want any hate mail from the street
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performer people. I acknowledge you as an artist, myself as a performer,
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as a dancer. I'm telling you you're also. It wasn't a cut so
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street performers. I'm just saying it's you would think like if you have a
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permit for a hot dog stand pretty clear, this is your space. If
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you're a street performer, maybe it's first come, first serve. That's what
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I meant. That's all I meant. No harm was meant. No street
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performers were harmed in my part of it. I don't know how it fared
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for these people. Let's find out. The fire breathing performer and the Mariachi
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band were fighting over a certain really good spot for tips. I guess the
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two acts were as a restaurant that's called El Inferno. The story just gets
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better as it goes. Video showing the fire breather being chased by the Mariachi
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performers, who put the fire breather into a headlock. Then the mariachi performers
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showed up and surrounded them, so he started blowing flames at them and actually
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set a couple of them on fire. When it was all over, only
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the fire breather went to the hospital with injuries. I assume at some point
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maybe arrest were made, but it doesn't say if anybody was arrested in all
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of it. Interesting that the guy that was, you know, spitting fire
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is the one that was injured and not the people that he caught on fire.
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But you know, maybe they were. They did the stop, drop
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and roll. They know that in Mexico, they know. Let's go to
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Kentucky, where a man named Henry Earle passed away the age of seventy four,
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having gone the last seven years of his life without an arrest, which
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is kind of impressive for him considering his long history of being arrested. Earl
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had become a local celebrity, and he was believed to be the world's most
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arrested man, with at least fifteen hundred busts. I mean, he's like
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the Otis Campbell of his time, isn't he Earl's first arrest came in July
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of nineteen seventy when he was busted for carrying a concealed weapon. Since then,
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he's gotten to familiarize himself with a judicial system, as well as become
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comfortable inside the Fayette County Detention Center, where he has spent about six thousand
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days of his life. Most of the offenses in alve things like public intoxication
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and disorderly conduct. Earl's last arrest occurred back in twenty seventeen when he was
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collared for public intoxication. He died at a nursing home where he lived the
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past several years. So like a folk hero, you know, he's like
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a folk here and he's now passed away. So I assume they'll be paying
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proper tributes and respects for him, all right. If you've speaking of Australia
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and long flights, and there are some long flights, there are long flights
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to Australia, and there's some long flights with an Australia And sometimes people,
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especially on the really long international flights, say they get a little more comfortable
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than they should. Sometimes sometimes you just you don't blame them, You just
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go. You just need to be comfortable. If it's a flight within the
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country. You know, it's a little, it's a bit much can be,
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especially if the person decides to get completely naked on the plane. See
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that's too much anywhere. You're not even cutting them slack on the long flight.
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This was a flight from Perth to Melbourne, three and a half hour
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flight, and the passenger got up from a seat naked and ran through the
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cabin, at one point, even knocking down a flight attendant. The in
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flight disturbance caused the pilot to turn the plane around return to the airport in
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Perth, where the naked flyer was arrested by police. He was then taken
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to the hospital for evaluation. Charges unclear. The airline apologizing the passengers for
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disturbance and the detour. You know, it doesn't seem to me like that
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should specifically be like their fault, right, I don't know that the airline
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owes everybody the apology. It's the naked guy, you know, running around
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being a naked gown an airplane. Nobody wants that. I always like stories
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when people throw food, I mean sometimes I say always, I usually do.
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Sometimes they're bad. This one, it's a cinnamon roll Florida woman was
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arrest in charge of battery after she threw a cinnamon roll with a man.
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Police were called to a transitional housing facility in Saint Petersburg to deal with a
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fight between a thirty seven year old Anne Marie Luna and forty nine year old
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man. The arguments calls is unclear. Nobody knows what they were fighting about,
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but at one point Luna is accused of picking up a cinnamon roll and
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throwing it at the man, striking him in the back of the head.
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The attack was captured on surveillance cameras. The victim was not injured, according
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to police, by the cinnamon roll, but wanted to press charges just the
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same. Luna was placed under arrest, charged with misdemeanor battery, released from
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jail after posting five hundred dollars bond. What kind of cinnamon roll is it?
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The ones that you make at home? Was it a cinnabon? I
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mean, cinnabon could hurt somebody. They're big. I mean they're all light
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and fluffy. I don't know how much damage you're gonna It depends on how
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much icing was on there, maybe how hard she threw it. I don't
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know. I don't know California mom who took her kids to Pismo Beach.
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Is that the way you say that Pismo Maybe Beach to collect seashells with a
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huge fine because they gathered up seventy two live clams. Think back to the
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Seinfeld episode when Kramer was emptying the lobster traps. That's basically what we have
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playing out here in the story. Charlotte Russ says she was enjoying a day
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at the beach with her five kids, were having fun picking up what they
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thought were clamshells, when she was then approached by the Department of Fish and
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Wildlife, an officer who informed her that she can't let your kids collect live
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clams. That's against the law without a license. Charlotte thought she might be
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let off with just a warning, but then she was issued a ticket.
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Care to guess how much that ticket was for? It was a lot eighty
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eight thousand dollars. I know, I didn't give you a lot of time
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to guess. I'm assuming you probably didn't guess eighty eight thousand dollars. Maybe
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you did. Luckily for Charlotte, she showed up to court to argue the
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ticket and the judge agreed to knock it down to just five hundred dollars.
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That's still a lot of money for an honest mistake. Though it's just kids
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picking up clams, right, She says, her kids learned a valuable lesson
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about wildlife regulations, and they know now that at a beach, don't touch
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anything. That's the message that you want. That's the message you want kids
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to have at the beach. Don't touch anything, keep your hands to yourself,
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don't have any fun. That's what you want. She sees the humor
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in it and decided to commemorate the incident with a tattoo of a clam on
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her arm. So there you go. She made light of it, and
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she's you know, she's out five hundred bucks, but she's got a fun
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story to tell for the rest of her life and it's immortalized in a tattoo.
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West Carol Morning Show right after the break. So there's new vending machines that
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have popped up throughout China that are causing concerns by people around the world.
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See the new vending machines aren't selling food, no drinks, now snacks for
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pets. No, they're selling actual live pets. Photos and videos of these
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self served pet vending machines have gone viral on social media, and they show
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live animals like cats, small dogs, and rodents that are dispensed when payment
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is approved, you know, like you're buying a candy bar bottle of coke.
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Some users on the Chinese social media app webo have reported seeing some sick
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and even dead animals inside the machines due to a lack of proper care.
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You think, you think that might not be a good idea. You think
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that could be a problem. It seems like it could be a problem,
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doesn't it. According to a new study, first time fathers experience brain volume
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loss. Researchers found that the more the new dads are engaged in parenting,
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the more their brains shrink. On average, men lose about one percent of
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their gray matter volume as they transition into parenthood. While it's only a loss
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of one percent in the bottom line is that there's a loss, and most
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would agree it's better to have more brain cells than less, right, Yeah,
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that sounds about right. It's hard the beginning, man, it's really
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tough at the beginning. I don't even remember it. It's tough, especially
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when you get to like a sleep that's happening when that first one. According
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to a new study from Pew Research Center, the Internet is disappearing. Researchers
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be happening on social media. About twenty percent of tweets disappear within the site
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within months of being posted. The results of the study that the vast amounts
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know, we've been told whatever you do stays online forever and ever and ever.
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You never have to you have to always be terrified about it, and
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it's always going to be there, and you can't get rid of it,
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that runs. The robot, name Chang Goong, stands five feet four inches
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tall and weighs ninety five pounds. Thanks to its three D vision and six
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I mean, this is like sky neet. We're done. Man five foot
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four ninety five pounds, but it's all metal. Man, all right,
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this is a cyborg. We're in trouble and runs three point seven miles an
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hour. Mmmm all right. Finally, according to a new study, daily
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marijuana use by adults in the US is now more common than daily drinking.
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Yep, no surprise there. Researchers found that alcohol is still more widely used,
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but starting in twenty twenty two and estimated seventeen point seven million people use
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marijuana daily or near daily, compared to fourteen point seven million daily or near
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daily drinkers. Another stat from the study that the median drinker in twenty twenty
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two reported drinking on four to five days in the past month, compared to
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fifteen to sixteen average days reported among cannabis users. Yeah, they work in
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all the places that I go to in a day. I smell it constantly
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all over everyone, and people puffe it and blow it out the window of
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their car while they're driving, which I'm pretty sure is still illegal. But
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people think that because it's not being enforced anymore that you could just do whatever
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you want to do. It's not a good idea when you're driving, not
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at all. It's still considered driving under the influence. You can't do it.
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It's not allowed. You're not supposed to do it. Why are you
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doing it? Maybe wait till you get home or at least back to work.
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You know people I think are doing it in the back room and then
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they come out, put it their earbuds and do everything they can to make
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sure they don't have to talk to anybody that'll do it. For this Friday
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