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Strange and Bizarre News: Snake on a Plane and a Butt on Fire · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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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, twenty sixth day
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of January. I'm West thanks for joining me. Almost done with January.
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February is coming up fast, coming up fast, and for you know,
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it'll be election day the way it's no it's gonn Once we get in the
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full swing of the election stuff, that's when I think it's going to seem
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like it slows down. It's just gonna come to a screeching halt and it
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won't be going quite as quickly. But that's all right. Who needs it
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to feel like it's going by quickly? I think it needs to slow down
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a lot. And I know I'm just showing my age, because you know,
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you get older, it just seems to go by much more quickly.
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It's Friday, so let's get into some strange and bizarre news stories. We
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will start on an airplane, because this is just one of those stories that
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makes a lot of people cringe. But not if you're Samuel L. Jackson,
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this wouldn't bother him at all, not in the very least, because
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it involved a snake on an airplane, A flight from Bangkok to Pouquette.
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It's like two of the best names. I mean, just reading them.
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You know, it's the pronunciation on Pouquette, but when you look at it,
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there's that temptation to pronounce it, kind of the way that it looks
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like it's spelled. But anyway, that was the flight. A passenger noticed
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that there was a snake in the overhead bind and alerted a flight attendant.
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Make sure you don't alert them too many times. You'll be labeled a philip
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and then they'll want to punch you or whatever if you miss that. That
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was a few shows back. Well. The crew located some passengers to another
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area of the plane while they tried to capture the snake. A flight attendant
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first tried to get the snake to go in to an empty water bottle.
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That's not gonna work, come on, man, but then ended up using
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the bottle to basically nudge a scrape I guess, just kind of push the
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snake into a large plastic trash bag. The crew assumed it was the only
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snake on the plane, and then they sent passengers back to their seats and
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kept the snake put away for the rest of the flight. Air Asia's head
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of corporate safety told scene, and it was a very rare incident. Same
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thing happened two years ago. I think it was less than two years ago,
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because it was in twenty twenty two. I don't think it was in
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January. So you know, as long as it doesn't happen every year,
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I think you can get away with saying it's a very rare incident. It's
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not very common, thankfully, it's really not very common. But it does
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make you wonder exactly how this happens at all. I mean, it's a
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snake. Could you go back to your seat if that was you? That's
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one question I've got for you. Let's go to another plane story. Because
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you may have at some point had to sit, especially on a long flight,
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in a middle seat. A lot of people will pay extra to make
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sure they're not in that middle seat, especially on a long flight. It's
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not great. I've done it. I've done it on a fourteen hour flight
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from LA to Sydney. It's not fun at all in the middle it's just
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not And I was much younger, much younger when I did that particular leg
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of that flight. But there is a worse option on a plane, there
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is a worse seat to be in for any length of time. A man
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who was on board a flight operated by Indian discount airline spice Jet, use
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the bathroom during the flight and got stuck inside. The lock on the door
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malfunction and he could not get out. He eventually was able to get the
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flight crew's attention and they were not able to open the door from the outside.
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Flight attendants inform the man they didn't have the tools available that could open
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the door and he would have to stay inside the bathroom for the remainder of
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the flight, which is a little more than an hour. The crew worked
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to keep the man calm, advise him to find a way to secure himself
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as the plane prepared for landing, and once it arrived, technicians were able
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to get on board and get the man out of the bathroom. He was
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given medical support as needed, and Spice Jets said it regrets the incident and
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they're going to make sure this guy gets a full refund for his troubles.
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I mean an hour in a bathroom. I don't know how expensive spice Jet
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is for airlines. I've been on some flights I've paid some fees to fly
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that I would gladly wait in the bathroom for an hour just to get the
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refund. I mean, I'm just being honest with you. I'm a thrifty
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guy, and I mean, if you're telling me that hanging out in the
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bathroom, I mean, I don't want to do it. But if it
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means a free flight, you know, again, it depends on how much
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Spice Jet charges you for the flight. A Louisiana man who was accused of
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dealing drugs from his small apartment was arrested after cops found him hiding in the
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dryer. Police say they suspected twenty six year old Darren Pittman was selling crack
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out of his apartment, so they secured a search warrant. Dropped by to
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pay a visit. Officers were met at the door by a woman who yelled
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loud enough for anyone inside the apartment to hear that Pittman was not home,
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but officers say that they saw someone in the kitchen, so they went in.
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The woman was later arrested for obstruction. They were met by an eighteen
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year old man who argued with him about the legality of their warrant and physically
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tried to prevent them from securing the police and searching it. He was also
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arrested on the spot for obstruction and zis police with a few places left inside
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the apartment to check, Pittman eventually was found inside the dryer. He was
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arrested in charge with felony and misdemeanor drug offenses. So it seems like a
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cramped place to try to hide, but he was out of options. I
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suppose, I don't know. Chinese man lucky to escape serious burns after a
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ghastly caused a back draft that briefly set him on fire, The man identified
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as Ben Tuzi got the brilliant idea to set his fart on fire. He
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decided that he would get a friend to hold the lighter to his backside and
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then you know, like the fart, and apparently it caused a big enough
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of a reaction that it set his pants on fire. He panicked and then
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rolled around on his bed trying to extinguish his butt that was on fire.
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And did it um unclear if he suffered any significant burns. Yeah, you
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know, I know the old uh. I think when you're a kid,
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especially if you're a boy, not to be sexist, but especially if you're
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a boy. It's probably been discussed before. Hey, like my fart,
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this is an adult with another adult. I mean, I don't know,
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don't know the context of it. I just know the guy set his butt
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on fire trying to light a fart. An Indiana man with late night munchies
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couldn't get a couldn't take no for an answer from a buffalo wild wings,
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and he ended up in jail. Police say twenty five year old Justin Carpenter
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went to the chain restaurant at midnight placed in order for fried pickles. The
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staff said that the kitchen had closed. Carpenter really wanted the fried pickles and
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proposed a deal. He told all the workers, all of the miners,
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that he would give them all drugs if they fired up the frar and dunked
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some pick in there for him. He told them he had marijuana, cocaine,
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ecstasy in vape cartridges. The workers did not take him up on his
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offer and called police. Carpenter, who was wearing an ankle monitor connected to
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a prior drug conviction, left the restaurant before officers arrived, but tossed some
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baggies of marijuana to the manager and said give those bags to the kids.
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Police located Carpenter's vehicle at a nearby gas station placed him under arrest for multiple
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felony and misdemeanor narcotics charges. So a lot to digest here. I mean,
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it seems almost like it's a business proposition, right. He's kinda he's
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doing the old like let me get you hooked kind of thing first one's free,
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it sounds like, but he also trying to get himself some I haven't
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had the fried pickles at Buffalo Wild Winks, so I don't know how good
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they are. I do like a good fried pickle. He should have used
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the Tommy Boys strategy. Remember when tom Boy was able to convince them to
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go back and cook something for him after he wanted wings, wasn't it?
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He wanted some wings, and he was able to convince them just by being
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nice and being clever. All right. A contractor in Seattle was remodeling a
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bathroom and a home when he made an unexpected discovery a grenade. Vadam Karkhavey
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says he pulled out the old bathtub and was shocked to see what appeared to
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be an old grenade inside the wall. He said. MY first thought was
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to get out of there. He said. I rushed out of there,
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took a breath, and actually went back in and recorded the situation, zoomed
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it on my phone, took a closer peek, and I'm like, that's
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a freaking grenade. He posted video of the grenade on his company's TikTok page.
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Thatdam called the Seattle Police Department. They sent in the bomb squad and
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authenticated the explosive device and said it was inert and they told him it was
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likely a World War two grenade that an old veteran brought home from the war
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and stored in the house. So not really something to worry about, although
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I guess if you're ripping things out of the house and opening up holes in
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the wall and you find it needless to say, that's the right move is
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to make that phone call, right. A twenty one year old medical student
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was partying on the beach in Rio over New Year's Eve and felt something hit
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him in the head. Assuming that it was a rock, he shrugged it
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off and kept partying. A friend was partying with him and stopped the bleeding
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on his head, put ice on it, and he returned to partying and
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continued to party for days. He was celebrating the New year, swam in
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the ocean, enjoyed himself. Little did he know the rock was not in
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fact a rock, but it was a bullet, and it was then lodged
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in his brain for four days. He was two hundred miles that he had
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to drive back to his home. He started experiencing strange arm spasms. He
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knew something must be wrong, so he took himself to the hospital and that's
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when doctors told him, oh, you got a nine millimeter bullet in your
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head. He underwent two hour risky operation to remove the bullet and is reported
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to be doing well. Unclear who fired the shot. No reports of any
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shootings on the beach in Rio over New Year's Eve, So that's a little
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scary, you know. An anger management therapist in Florida charged with first degree
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murder for shooting and killing a man. I mean, the jokes right themselves.
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I mean, if there wasn't somebody that was killed. Forty six year
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old Travis McBride accused of shooting and killing a homeless man and stuffing the man's
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body in the trunk of his car. It was a woman who called nine
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one one that witnessed the event. She says that the therapist shot the other
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man in the middle of the road and attempted to clean up the blood and
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shellcasing's. Police went to the area and noticed a strange amount of drying water
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on the roadway, according to them, and it hadn't rained recently, so
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they also found a shellcasing. The woman told police that McBride had come to
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her house earlier that day looking for the victim and claiming that the victim,
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Clinton Dorsey, had put a glass into a jar that was intended to hurt
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his dogs. I'm sorry pieces of glass, I suppose. McBride reportedly told
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the witness that he had planned to kill Dorsey. Dorsey's body was found by
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police in McBride's Nissan Versa hatchback later in the day. McBride owned Starting Point
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Mental Health LLC in Florida, where he works as an anger management therapist.
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I mean again, you can't make that up, can you. You just
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can't make it up at all. Travel were passing through New York's JFK International
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Airport was placed under arrest after the discovery of raw jumbo shrimp in his luggage.
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It led to a more damning discovery of cocaine. Customs and Border Protection
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officers flag two suitcases for secondary screening and found loose clothing covering packages of frozen
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shrimp. Since raw shellfish not typically something people travel with, officers correctly suspected
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there was something else going on. They cut open the bags of shrimp and
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then found brick shaped objects filled with white powder that tested positive for cocaine.
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Twenty two year old Zachary Scott, who is a US citizen, told authorities
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that he smuggled the drugs into the US and was expecting a payment of about
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six thousand dollars and he faces now twenty years in prison for that. You
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know, smuggling in shrimp also not legal. You can't just ring shrimp,
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and you know you can't do that, so right away, there's going to
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be some kind of a flag that goes up. Right Florida man lost a
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cell phone in a Walmart restroom, or a Florida person, I should say,
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lost their cell phone. And when a Florida man found the cell phone
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decided instead of turning it into Lost and found at the store at Walmart,
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he decided to call in a bomb threat, police say. After the twenty
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eight year old his name is Cody Clements called in the bomb threat, a
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nine one one dispatcher called the phone number back, and Clements answered and said
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TikTok, TikTok before hanging up. Police reviewed surveillance footage inside the store and
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saw Clements walking into the men's room and out at the same time calling nine
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to one one. Cops caught up to him and he admitted that he found
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the phone and decided to call in the threat because he'd seen people on TikTok
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making fake bomb threats and decided to make one himself. Clements told police he
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regretted his decision and realized he'd made a big mistake. He was arrested anyway,
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charged with making a false report and planning a bomb. About planning a
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bomb, and he had been ordered to stay away from Walmart stores. He
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can't go back to Walmart, baby, can't do that. You gotta stay
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away from Walmart. You messed up, all right, finally, police send
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Saint Paul, Minnesota say a thirty year old dad was attending an open school
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night event on Thursday night last week when a gun accidentally discharged and fired a
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bullet into his leg. It was his gun. Officers arrived and rushed the
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dad to the hospital. Police say the man had been playing basketball in the
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school gym with a gun in his pocket, and he did have a legal
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permit to carry the weapon. The incident is being investigated. I don't know
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what the school situation is. Even with a permit to carry a gun inside
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a school in uh Minnesota, I know you can't do it in Georgia.
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I'm just saying I know that. I don't have any firsthand experience with it.
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It's just one of the things that I'm aware of. I don't know
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about Minnesota. I would think he could be in big trouble, especially if
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he was playing basketball with a loaded gun in his pocket. That doesn't seem
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the list of baby names that are in in danger of extinction this year has
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come out. This is according to Baby Center. They collect data every year
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on most popular baby names and they have given a list of forty of the
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most unpopular names and just based on the top tens here these are names that
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could be in danger. So basically, if your child has one of these
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names. It doesn't necessarily mean they have an unpopular name. It means that
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they have a name that will be more unique, I suppose, because sometimes
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names become really popular and then you just think, my gosh, I thought
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my kid was going to have a unique name, and then you realize not
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so much as a bunch of kids with these names. Anyway, These are
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the top ten girls and boys' names that are most likely that are most in
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decline and potentially I guess, in danger of extinction this year. For the
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girls, this is going from ten to one. Michelle. Let's see,
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that's a classic that's not going anywhere, is it. Amanda Finley, McKenna,
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Reagan, Charlie, c h A R L I. I guess,
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Brooklyn, Mackenzie, Blake and brook Number one on the list for boys again
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ten to one, Clayton, Bradley, Ronan, Naser, Brady Reed,
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Rayden, Johnny, Johnny How can how can Johnny and Michelle and Amanda be
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names that are in danger? Or Bradley? Where was I? Johnny?
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Number three, number two Jaden and number one Julius. So that's their list,
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that's what they say, are the names that are in danger of potentially
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going extinct in twenty twenty four. Just a couple of things. I mean,
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I get like Brady probably was a bit more popular and has dropped a
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bit. Tom Brady's not playing anymore, they probably are not as likely to
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name their kid after him. I guess I don't know some of these names
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though. I mean, Amanda, Michelle, Johnny, Bradley, and Clayton.
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Are those names really in danger? I don't Brooke, I don't think
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so. But I'm not a nameologist. I'm not a baby name ologist either,
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So there you go. If you want to keep your mind sharp as
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you get older, they say you should start taking that multivitamin now. A
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Five thousand volunteers took part in the study, which found that people who took
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a multivitamin daily at a higher cognitive test score than those who were given a
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placebo. One of the studies authors says that cognitive decline is among the top
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health concerns for most older adults, and a daily supplement of multivitamins has the
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potential as an appealing and accessible approach to slow cognitive aging. I wonder why
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cognition is so high on everybody's mind right now, you know, I wonder
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what could possibly be going on in the world or the White House that was
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make people think, oh my gosh, mental acuity is important. It is
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important that I, you know, maybe am on top of my game,
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that I'm aware of my surroundings. That if I were to, I don't
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know, address a crowd of people on a stage and I was told ahead
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of time, when you finish, turn to the left and walk away,
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that I would potentially get on that stage, finish my speech and then forget
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at where I was supposed to go. What would possibly be happening in the
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world or the White House or the White House within the world that would cause
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people to think that this is something that they should be aware of. The
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bottom line, though, is that you should take a multi vitamin according to
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the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, right I've always wondered some people swear by
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multivitamins. Some people say, no, it's a waste of time. Don't
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bother with that snake oil, don't mess with that. You don't need to
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mess with vitamins. But then here we are. The American Journal of Clinical
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Nutrition says that that multivitamin can help at least with your cognition. So there
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