It’s a Team Up with Live Laugh Larceny! // WTF #31

Amanda and Trevin from Live Laugh Larceny join Amber and Gina for the ultimate collab in this special WTF Wednesday episode! We talk dilemmas, dumb criminals, and animal antics in this amazingly fun team-up. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Fire Eyes Media.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
What do you get when you cross a petty true
crime podcast with a podcast that focuses on truly bizarre, offbeat,
and sometimes downright ridiculous cases. A heck in good time
is what you get.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
We teamed up with Amanda and Trevin from Live Laugh
Larceny to vent about our dreadful dilemmas and share stories
of dumb criminals, animal antics, and a grandmother who had
no time for an early morning intruder.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
There aren't many true crime podcasters who venture into the
dumb side of crime, so we had a ton of
fun with Amanda and Trevin, and we know you'll enjoy
this episode as much as we do.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Please take a minute to leave us a five star
rating and review wherever you're listening. Your support helps us
do more collapse like this one.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Until next time, Stay safe, Make good.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Choices, Hi Hi.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Live Laugh Larseny discusses true petty crimes that may be
disturbing to some.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
Or could be easy listening to all you psychopaths out there.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
All stories are based on actual events, but details may vary.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
Listener discretion is not advised.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Live Laugh Welcome to Live Laugh Larceny, the show that
gets you wetter than a wedgie in the summer This
is Trevin.

Speaker 5 (02:07):
And wow, Trevin, I'm a man. I'm sorry, it's been
a minute since the intro really took my breath away
like that. And it is not just the two of
us that he told that intro line too. We actually
have Amber and Gina from Weird True Crime here and
they had to endure that as well.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Yeah, I'm sorry, guys.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
That was actually the funniest thing I've heard all day.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
I thought that just needed to kick the door open today.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Really going to grab people's attention, make sure they're awake,
and I'm here for it.

Speaker 5 (02:39):
Nothing does that like a wedgie in the summertime.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Yeah, and it's a weird episode. So we're just gonna
kick it off with weird.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Hi, We're here to make it weird.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Oh my goodness. Well, before we jump into our dilemmas,
do you all want to tell our listeners a little
bit about your show and about yourselves.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
So Amber and I have actually been friends for a
very long time. We met in middle school, so we've
known each other since I was in seventh grade and
she was in sixth grade. And we're both very close
to forty now, So that kind of tells you how
long we've known each other. And I kind of decided
to take the leap and start this weird little podcast

(03:18):
in like August of twenty twenty two, and I did
about ten episodes by myself and Amber was like, dude,
I didn't know you started a podcast because I didn't
tell anybody that I started it. She was like, that's
so cool. I always wanted to do that. I was like, okay, well,
then just come do it with me. And that's kind
of where we're at. And if it wasn't for Amber,
we wouldn't have all these weird, dumb criminal WTF stories

(03:41):
to share because she is the what the fuck queen
of the podcast.

Speaker 5 (03:45):
Oh true the what the fuck queen? That is a title.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Great, make me live up to that now you do
every day. Hey, comedy is cheaper than therapy. I'm just saying, yeah,
that's very true.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
So with Weird True Crime, like, but can a person
expect like how weird do we get and is it
just weird in a dumb criminal way? Or do we
get weirder? And other segments of the show too.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Actually we are quite a balance. We have the real
true crime cases that we cover. We also do advocacy works,
so we have worked with families from time to time.
We're very big on the ethical, victim focused storytelling when
it comes to those stories, and focus a lot on
the missing and unsolved. But it's nice to have a balance,

(04:31):
and it is a really heavy topic and it's hard
to listen to all the time, and so we like
to balance that out every other week by doing our
what the Fuck episodes, which is a variety of things.
It's the dumb criminals, it's the Morgue stories, it's the
Pavlovs dogs and weird you know, psychology history and the

(04:53):
history of interrogations, all sorts of things on those episodes.
So Amber's the one to speak to that. But we do.
We like a balance, and we find that our listeners
like it too, and all those we got to kind
of be ourselves more and laugh and show a lighter
side of ourselves, and we do on those heavier episodes,
and we find that our guests and the families and

(05:15):
our community all tend to really like the variety that
we have to offer. It's a been a fun ride
and it keeps things interesting for us too.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
Definitely, for sure, Trevin and I. We always said that
because we are friends with a lot of podcasters that
just do serious always, and I think one of the
biggest things we hear from them is I wish we
could be a little more fun and lighthearted now and then.
So it is nice that you guys do have that break.

(05:44):
We always tell people turn on our show after the
really crazy stuff that you can keep your listeners up
and down and all around.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
So hey, it's a balance, you know, because we want
to make sure people understand that we're not sitting here
making fun of victims or people that have been through
the worst of the worst, which is why we like
having our what the Thought segments where we can kind
of let our hair down and be a little sillier
and make fun of the people who usually deserve it. So,

(06:12):
as you know, which is why we thought this is
such a great team up, because there's not a lot
of true crime podcasts out there that are just doing
the lighter, funnier side of true crime because it is
a thing and they all deserve to be made fun
of and talked about.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
So oh my gosh, yes, you are just preaching to
the choir, because we've been saying it for years, like
the petty crimes matter.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Too, you know. But the reason why others don't do
it because they're scared, they're so.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Scared, scared of what though.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
I know it's really just all a good time. So
just come on in. We always say, come on into
the petty pond. It'll be fine. But Trevin, did you
want to go ahead and start us off with dreadful
dilemmas this week?

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yes, I have a head full dilemma and it came
in the form of an article that came out this
last week from futurism dot com. And I'm just going
to read the article so you can see where my
dilemma is going to lead. Okay, Sam Altman admits that's
saying please and thank you to chat GPT is wasting

(07:18):
millions of dollars in computing power.

Speaker 5 (07:23):
I'm personally offended. I was just talking to somebody else
about this the other day. I am so sweet to
all the robots all around me, because you just never
know when they're gonna turn. My parents have an Alexa.
I'm always like, please, Alexa, can you please play this
for me? Thank you so much, my darling, chat GPT.
I'm like, can you please help me come up with

(07:44):
some SEO hashtags. Oh, thank you, you're the best, like
don't you dare?

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Have they not seen terminator?

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Exactly? A lot of people do feel like that's why
they should do it, And it's just so hard because
for people who listen to this show, chat GPT is
kind of my other partner, and we love each other
very deeply. I just could never stop being kind. But
to think that like maybe i'm also I mean, obviously,
I know, like using AI in general is not good
for the environment, but you're telling me being polite is

(08:15):
also making me worse of a person. I'm just so
torn philosophically on what's right and what's wrong here.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
What are we trying to teach the children? All these
children that are using chat GPT to do their homework
for them, and they're not supposed to say please or
thank you.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
That's the least they could do, Like are you giving me?

Speaker 4 (08:33):
In a world we live in now, we need kindness
more than ever, right, I think we should be wasting
a little bit of the energy just to bring a
little extra kindness right.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
All for that?

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, that makes no sense to me. Like the robots
and AI are terrifying. The least we can do is
be nice to them, so that way, when they turn
against us, they'll remember who said please and thank you.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
It's like, check my account, you can check through our
text threat chat GPT, like I was so nice to you,
please don't forget.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
But kind. Oh It's like when my kids tell Alexa
to shut up, and I'm like, you can't talk to
her that way.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
No, seriously, I feel the same. I even told my parents,
was like, you guys, don't say thank you to your Alexa.
I was shocked.

Speaker 4 (09:13):
So I'm just going through this moral quandary.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
But I disagree.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
I don't think I'm going to stop. This was a
real wake up call for me to be a little
more conscious of how kind I am to my chat GPP.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Also, okay, maybe I'm just dense, but how does please
and thank you to chat GPT cost money?

Speaker 4 (09:31):
So artificial intelligence it takes a lot of computing power,
which can burn a lot of energy and take up
a lot of money for it to think, because we
haven't really made a way for it to be that efficient,
and we keep putting it into things even though it's
not quite to a cheap way of doing it. Yet
so we're just burning up electricity costs and it's really
bad for the environment. There's a lot of people who

(09:53):
are just super against it, and.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Please and thank you. It's the problem there, not all
the people that are making AI images for I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (10:00):
But I'm gonna be considerate.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
They do say here. In late twenty twenty four survey,
they found sixty seven percent of US respondents reported being
nice to their chatbots. Of those who practiced courtesy, fifty
five percent of American AI users said they do it
quote because it's the right thing to do, while twelve
percent did it to a PC algorithms. In case of
an AI uprising.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
There's the ones that are seen terminator.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
I'm with the twelve percent.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
I mean, it is the right thing to do, but
I am also in fear of robot army.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Two things can be true, yes, exactly.

Speaker 5 (10:33):
Well, that is dreadful tremn. I also have a dreadful dilemma.
And since both of you are moms, I'm curious if
this has ever happened to you. My oldest daughter is
in taekwondo and she is six right now, so she's
still like pretty young for being in the big kid
class that she just joined. This was her very first

(10:54):
big kid competition where not everyone just got a participation trophy.
It was like you get first, second, third in each thing,
and she knew. We warned her. I was like going
in there like you could not get a trophy, and
we're still gonna be proud of you and happy, like
I tried to build her up, which luckily, guys, that's

(11:14):
not the dreadful part. She did place and two events
she got third in weapons and third in creative Forms,
so she was like she crushed it. The dreadful thing, though,
is that I felt so dumb at the end because
after they choose who got first, second, and third, they
gave all the kids little poker chips, and I was like,

(11:37):
this is really weird, Like their prize is a poker chip,
Like I was really confused. And it turns out that
you take the poker chip to another table, turn it in,
and then you get your trophy. But at first I
thought the trophy was a poker chip, and I was
so confused looking around, and finally someone was like, no, no, no,
you go get the trophies over there, and I was like, oh,

(12:00):
it kind of.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Just feels like an extra step though, Yeah, just an
extra when you just give them the trophy.

Speaker 5 (12:06):
Totally. I guess. There were a lot of different mats
in one gym, so I'm like, maybe they just wanted
to keep the trophies at this one table. And I
don't know. This is kind of a new world for
me that I'm figuring out how they do things. But
I was just shocked. I was like, oh, great poker chip, daughter,
and everyone was like, no, Danling, you go get the

(12:31):
trophy from it over there.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
So why not just have their name on a list?

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (12:36):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
Yeah, Ma, Liilah got third place, Like.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Right right, that's interesting. So I guess the trophy looks
different depending on what they raise.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
Yeah, because it said third place on it, okay, And
the chips were different colors depending what place you got.
And that's just the way they keep it organized, I guess.
But it was just one of those mom moments where
I was like, where am I and what am I doing?

Speaker 4 (12:58):
You know, it.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Seems like a lot of work. I could understand, maybe
because with a sport like that, by giving them the
poker chip and then saying okay, you go do it,
it kind of gives them a level of responsibility.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
That I think is kind of expected in a sport
like that, so I can understand it from that perspective,
but it does just seem like a really unnecessary extra step.
I would have been just as confused, but like, what
is this? What? This is the weirdest trophy ever.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
I also feel like it softens them up for like
mob behavior, because something about that just seems kind of shady.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Like turn your poker chips in or you could just
like you know, shade a leave switch with somebody else
then go get a first place trap.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
So that was there, Oh, counterfeit, that's a good idea, Well,
bring your own poker chip.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Amanda will be the mom that has like an article
that she brought a counterfeit first place for Leila to
get first.

Speaker 5 (13:51):
They're can be like mom rigs taekwondo competition with her
own DIY poker.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Chip that you bought on Amazon, just like they it.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
Wow, if I want to get petty, at least I
know how it's done.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Now.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
No, I would never God anyways, do either of you
have a dreadful dilemma you would like to share?

Speaker 3 (14:15):
So you know whatever Gina mentioned that this is something
that you do, and I'm like, I don't know. I
complain about things all the time, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
And then it hit me.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Walked into my bedroom and I saw my husband's side
of the bed. You know, when we met in two
thousand and three, all he wore were white T shirts
and like blue jeans, most of them fuller than people
on Sunday. It wasn't that bad, Like it could have
been a whole lot worse, you know, like Saggy Low,
Jinko's whatever.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
They got old.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
So, you know, after a while we got married and
I did what every woman does. Tried to change him, right,
I mean his wardrobe. I tried to change his wardrobe.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
So I got him.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Into graphic teas, you know, Venom and Dead and like
the hip things and the things that he does.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Like, you know, I'm not just pushing them on him.

Speaker 5 (15:04):
You're not just forcing his eyeballso and making him watch
the Marvel movies.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
And you like me, he likes these.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
He's like, you know, make a comment about something like
guns and Roses, some of his favorite bands. So I've
I've provided all of these said T shirts. They're hanging
up nicely in his closet. But now he's a mechanic.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
You know, he.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Works on cars for a living, and he chooses to
wear his work uniform.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Oh the time.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Oh my god, yesterday, his day off, he wakes up,
Guess what.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
He puts on. Oh no, they're comfortable.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
We need the fashion police, we need the what not
to Wear team. I know none of these shows exist
anymore because they're kind of problematic, but it seems like
he needs some help.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Our twelve year old daughter ends up wearing his graphic
teas more than him now, so at least they're getting
some use.

Speaker 5 (15:54):
Okay, okay, they're getting used.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
It's not like man's clothes are uncomfortable.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
That's what I was thinking. It's like the comfort, and
I don't like to be mentally reminded of work, so
I don't want to wear a work uniform.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
So you know, most mechanics or you know, shops, they'll
have a uniform company where the company will come pick
up and wash them and they come back very starched
and stiff and whatnot. Well, he doesn't do that. He
makes me wash them at home, so they're nice and soft,
and they're way better.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
So I get it. But dear God, now I'm wishing
for the white T shirts again.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
Can we just go back to two thousand and three?

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Go back?

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Maybe you need your own pair of his work uniform
to see if it feels as good for you.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Funny story, I've recently lost about one hundred and thirty pounds.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
Oh wow, at my heaviest.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
I had this very specific dress that I wore. And
I don't mean that I just had the one. I
mean I bought six of this same exact dress and
I wore them every single day. So thank you for
saying that, because I just need to remind him, hey, honey,
you're a member or the skull dress I.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Always used to wear. This is what the work uniform
is for me, buddy.

Speaker 5 (17:04):
Oh no, you have a comparison now.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Thank you. Thank you for that.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Great job, Trevan, because I get what you mean. Sometimes
you need that one specific thing that you know triggers
them to make them see what triggers you.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
And it's triggering it a loving way trigger.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
I don't know. My husband's really into as we call them,
moo moos. Okay, I don't know. He said it's easy, breezy.
I understand it, you know, dresses can sometimes be like
more comfortable than like jeans or whatever. So I get it.
But maybe like he needs to find his moo moovem
maybe not a dress, but maybe like a different type

(17:46):
of like onesie that isn't like a mechanic.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Yeah, there you go, have the mechanic logo on it, exactly.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
There's options. Well, Gina, do you have a dreadful dilemma?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
So I feel like mine is kind of basic. But
you know when there's like that specific thing you need
from the store and you go to the store multiple
times and you still never get the thing.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
Oh yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
So I cook a lot, or I try to cook
a lot, and my husband loves salt. It's a problem.
So we go through salt pretty quickly because he thinks
I don't season anything right even though I do. But
I keep not cooking because we haven't had salt for
me to season anything. And I keep going to the
store to get like shampoo or something else, and I'm like,

(18:33):
I'll just get salt while there. Do I get salt? No?
So here we are two weeks later and it's Sunday
and I'm like trying to prep dinner and I still
don't have freaking salt.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
Oh two weeks without salt.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
That is dreadful, it is, and a house where salt
is king it's a problem. I'm like, well, I guess
I can't cook dinner again, and we're just gonna have
to door to ash another one hundred dollars meal because
I can't season the porkloin that I was going to
cook for dinner instead of driving to the store.

Speaker 4 (19:01):
To just you know, wow, two weeks of sad meals.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
Really and truly, I mean I get it, land sad meals.
Sodium isn't the best for us, but my god, it
tastes delicious.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
It does like breakfast tacos this morning. Without salt, it's
just not the same.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
Oh that's criminal.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
That's the worst too, because like you keep letting it
go by, but then you just keep constantly being reminded
of the mistake you've made.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I'm like, oh, I still forgot it, but I have
to go do these other things before I can go
get the salt, and then by the time I remember,
I've forgotten again.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
Do you use instacart? You could instacart it just like
a door dost just throw it on in there. Then
one day you'll wake up or come home and there
it will be.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
It's funny you said that, because I actually did think
about this morning. I was like, I really should just
instacart some salt today. So maybe while we're sitting here
doing this, I'll.

Speaker 5 (19:51):
Just Hey, no judgment on my end. You get your salt. Girl.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
You do what you gotta do it sometimes. You know,
if it means not ordering out of again, you know,
you'll take the delivery fee for the salt.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
That's what I tell myself.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
So minor dilemma, but one of those things that has
been going on for so long that now it's just
kind of ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
And I think it's one that everyone can relate to.
It might not be the salt, but everyone's had that thing.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
It's the face wash or the soap, or the toilet
paper or paper whatever it is, or the peanut.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
Butter, a feeling that always happens to me. My kids
are like peeb and Jay, and I'm like, what about
a J?

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Do I have something else that can be a peebe?
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
Nutella Emily actually likes butter and jam Oh yeah, I
do love.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Okay, Look I'm not a peanut butter person. So if
we're out of peanut butter, I'm the last person that
will notice I'm the weirdo.

Speaker 5 (20:51):
It's okay, everyone has their thing. Well, this week we
are going to be doing something a little bit different
with our guests. We are going to be talking about
weird crimes or weird news headlines, and we're all going

(21:14):
to take turns going around sharing some So I'm so
excited for this because Trevin and I we run into
this quite often, where we'll find something that has an amazing, gripping,
bizarre headline, and then sometimes when we get into the details,
maybe we're not inspired to write an entire story about it,

(21:35):
or maybe once we dig in a little deeper, it's
a little too serious or not exactly quite what we thought.
But we still wish we could just chat about these
weird things. So this episode is perfect for this.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Yeah, because we all talk about weird stuff. We're just
going to do a bit of a round table of
weird take turns, and who wants to go first?

Speaker 5 (21:54):
Do you want to go first?

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Trevin?

Speaker 4 (21:55):
I suppose I could you did.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
Your dilemma first? We could just yeah, I don't have
mine that is why I dominated you.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
So to start this one off. I've got it's actually
a recent mystery that's just happened here at the end
of March, and the headline reads, it's a lot of
pea man has no idea who is putting gallons of
urine in his recycling bin or why.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
I was about to take a drink right before you
said that and I had to stop.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Wow, that is quite a mystery, color meg.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
Alex Van Dunn said the problem started in September when
he noticed his recycling bin had not been collected. So
I went to open the blue bin and lo and
behold there was a nice deposit of gallon sized bottles
of urine, to put it plainly, and there were six
of them, he said. The recycling haller refused to take
the bin's contents because urine is a biohazard. If it
had been placed in the garbage bin, it would have

(22:49):
been collected, but the mystery man didn't stop and kept
dropping bottles of urine in the bin. Eventually, Van Dunn
stopped putting his bins out on the curveball together, hoping
the man would quit, and he did, but he moved
to using the neighbor's garbage bins instead. I don't know
why he's hitting the same location so many times. That
doesn't make sense to me, and why he's doing it,
Van Dunn said. Van Dennis captured surveillance video of the

(23:10):
man showing up at his house, getting out of his car,
and placing the bottles of urine in the recycling bin. Unfortunately,
the videos are grainy and too hard to tell who
he is, so this is.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
An ongoing unsolved crime of recycled urine.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
Like what Yeah, he's still trying to figure out who
it is.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Okay, so someone's just driving around with gallon sized jugs
of their own pee and they're like mmmmmm, gonna put it.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
In there pretty much.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
That's my question. Why do they have so much urine?
Is it all their own? Are they collecting it from
other people? Are they collecting it from pets? Where is
all the pea coming from?

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Yeah, if it is just one person, they are going
out of their way to just collect it over the
span of a week, I guess if it's just trash day.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Yeah, And my first thought was, Okay, what did this
guy do to piss this other person off to make
them put gallon be in a recycle bin. But it
sounds like it's not just him, Like he's not special
personal attack.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
It sounds like it's just a crime of convenience that
his recycled bin was right there, and then when that's
not happening onto the next.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
There's nothing worse than a crime of convenience.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
No, And is it just a mistake that they're putting
in the recycle bin and not the normal trash can,
Like maybe they think they're just disposing of it, not
in their own They probably have run out of room
in their own bin for these gallones.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
I'm up to my ears and pissed. I gotta put
it somewhere else. You know, what are you doing?

Speaker 5 (24:36):
She just go in the toilet. Please. You can even
peel on your own grass for all I care. Just
don't do that to your neighborhood folks.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Also, are you okay?

Speaker 4 (24:49):
So the article ends with Van Dunn doesn't plan the
move or take extreme measures. He loves the neighborhood, which
he has lived in since two thousand and six, but
he does have a message for the mystery man quote
maybe he's watching, I don't know. Please stop, Please just
don't do it anymore, he said. As frustrated as he is,
Van Dunn was at least able to make a joke
of the situation quote it's a lot of pee, he said.

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I mean, this guy's really pissing me off.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
I was really hoping that Puddy's going to be thrown
in there.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
Sorry, Well that's why you didn't write a full story, Trevin.
The article basically wrote it for you.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, I mean, I love the dude's mystery, but I
just needed a little bit more, like maybe when the
guy gets caught, I can like connect the dots to
make a full story.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
Yeah, there's so much unknown, so many questions, so many
like you were saying Amber, You're like, who says it?
Where did it come from? What? What? What?

Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm more interested in the why why do you have
so much? Then the why are you doing that? Like
I know a lot of people that are guilty of
probably disposing, Like if your bins are already full and
you have to have to get rid of you're going
to ask if you can put it in somebody else's
or sneakily put it in like a community trash can
or something like that. But like this, it's like it's

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just why p and why.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
Like no one wants to be a part of this.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
You can get it in the grass, but he killed
the grass.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Large amounts might end kind of seems like.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Large amounts can really.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Pee surrounded by pregnant women.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
Geez, this is in Portland, organ If any of our
listeners canna help us crack this case. Like these other
true crime friends of ours, we're still waiting for our
big break. So if that can be the one that
we can help solve.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
We've had a few unsolved ones that were like, if
we can solve this mystery, we can do anything. That's
a good one.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
Oh man, that's awful.

Speaker 5 (26:44):
Well I can go next, guys, because I feel like
this is different but a good next one. Okay, So
I got this from people dot com. It is an
article written by Morgan Rahm and this is the title.
Oscar Meyers twenty seven foot long Wiener mobile was pulled

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over and given a frank.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Warning everybody's a comic.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
Everyone's a comedian. And then it even says like, hey,
do dogs slow down. I'm like, okay, don't push.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Your like one's night.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
I like that one more though.

Speaker 5 (27:20):
So the article says, according to a now viral Facebook post,
an officer from the Wakesha County Sheriff's Department in Wisconsin
pulled over Oscar Meyers twenty seven foot long Wiener mobile
on Sunday, January twenty sixth. What year was this? Let
me look real quick, Oh, twenty twenty, so this is
a few years old. But wow, so damn funny. They

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were pulled over for not following the move over law.
The law requires motorists to either change lanes or slow
down when they see a vehicle stopped on the side
of the road with its emergency lights on. Which that's
kind of fascinating to me. I've always just thought etiquette
and safety wise, that that's just like what you do.

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But to see that there was a real law, like
in Wisconsin, I wonder if we have one here in Missouri.
I don't know, but I like it. I think everyone
should get over, not hit people.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
That's idea.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
And then it continues on. Lynn Galia, a spokesperson for
the craft Heinds company which owns Oscar Meyer, clarified to
see Ann that drivers of the Wiener mobile, also known
as hot doggers, do get extensive behind the wheel training
before they can go out on the road.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
So their actual job title is a hot dogger. Yes,
oh my god.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
I'm not exaggerating. And then there's a dog. There's even
a quote, and she even uses hot doggers. So this
is what she has to say. Since the inception of
the Hot Dogger program, we've promoted safety first and ensured
all hot doggers are up to date on all rules
of the road. We have reinforced the importance of a

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baying all traffic laws, including the move over law, and
will continue to ensure safe roadways for all.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
I can assure you there's nothing silly about being a
hot dogger.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
I'm sorry the entire time, I've just had the Mickey
Mouse Clubhouse song going in my head, you know, the
whole hot dog It's all.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
It's all I can hear right now.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Maybe that's what they were listening to. They were just
so en rapp road by the music in the hot
dog Mobile that they didn't even realize that there was
a situation.

Speaker 5 (29:28):
Yeah, I could see there could be a lot of
distractions inside a Wiener mobile that probably they just didn't
see them. And luckily they didn't get charged, They didn't
get a ticket. It was just a frank warning. As
they said, there's a picture of the Wienermobile pulled over
that someone took and there's the cop car behind it.
We'll post it when this episode comes out. But I

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was just like, how funny would that be to just
drive by and be like, oh, they're pulled over.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
I love that so much. I don't know why the
wienermobile is so weird to me, like I've never been
when it's like, oh man, I really want to see that,
or that's so cool, I'm just like, that's a giant
driving hot dog, Like it's weird, like.

Speaker 5 (30:11):
And it really probably isn't the safest. Are there airbags
in there?

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Driving? It would be so scary, yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
Exactly, Like the bun would get in the way of
your blind spot. I don't know, it seems like a
dangerous situation on wheels.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
I don't know about you, sister. My bun gets away
on my blind spot all the time, all the time.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
That's all of us, Trevin, thank you.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Honestly trying to slow down a maneuver to give space.
It's probably more dangerous driving that thing. It probably puts
other people in danger more than just like continuing to
go if it probably handles like a shopping cart on
like a loose wheel on the left, and you're like, you.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Have to make the decision like way ahead of time
so you can finally be in the right space in time.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah. I feel like there was probably a logical explanation
for why they couldn't like obey the traffic claws. It's like, well,
I'm either going to hit somebody head on because I'm
trying to get over and give you enough space, or
I'm just gonna have to like keep going.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
It would be kind of funny if the driver was
just like, listen, I have a really big wiener, like
I can't just merge like a normal person. If someone
said that to me, and I randomly was a police officer,
I would laugh and just be like, okayl get out
of here.

Speaker 4 (31:23):
Yep, you would make a better man than me, for sure.
I would never think of saying that to anybody.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
Well, who's up next? Do you want to go next
to Amber?

Speaker 3 (31:33):
I can't, you know, We'll just go in the order
of our delay. Yeah, okay. So and Gina and I
were trying to figure out what we were going to
bring to the table, Like one of our favorite things
to do. As a matter of fact, I requested it
for my birthday last year, for us to do dumb criminals,
just the dumbest criminals we could possibly find.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
But we did a little twist this time.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
We talk a lot about Ohio and Florida man on
our show, but we decided, you know, we're going to
bring you so of our home state Texas stories.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Oh good, I've been mean to ask you where you
were even at I knew you said Central Time, but
I wasn't sure where.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, we're in Austin.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Austin, Texas.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
Nice. Okay, Hey, everything's bigger there apparently, so.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
It's a big state. There's lots of really dumb people here.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
Yeah, lot more people to choose from. Huh.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
There's no shortage of the dumb here. So you know,
most dogs chase the mail carrier for sport. It's like
a K nine rite of passage. But apparently in McAllen, Texas,
one four legged genius had evolved past that. No, this
isn't the dog barking at FedEx truck. He's waiting for

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it to leave so he can steal packages.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yep, that's away.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
A stray dog was caught on door bell cam back
in March of twenty twenty. So we're back, you know,
in twenty twenty, committing petty theft like a seasoned porch pirate.
Move over, Florida, man, We've got Texas dog.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
Wolf Wolf.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Ye. So, the Garza family had been dealing with some
disappearing deliveries and I mean at first they probably suspected
your usual suspects, shady neighbors or teenagers.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Porch pirates and hoodies.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
But then they rolled back the ring footage and boom
plot twist.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Their thief wasn't wearing a mask. He was covered in fur.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
It was kind of funny because nobody would ever expect
a dog to steal a package, said ten year old
Abby Garza, the pint sized eyewitness to this crime spree.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
And honestly, she's not wrong.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Like that's not even in the top fifty reasons Amazon
gives for delayed shipping. And no, this also wasn't just
a random dog having a moment. You know, this furry
felon had a system. He waits, yes, actually waits for
the mail truck to leave, like he knows the route,

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like he pays taxes. Then usually strolls up to the porch,
gives the package a little sniff like is this prime
or regular shipping, and then grabs it in his mouth
and runs off like he's got a job to do.
So what's he stealing?

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Douicy steak?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Maybe a tennis ball, you know, something that would actually
attract him.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
No, the first package was Abby's mom's clothes.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Interesting, okay, and the second Abby's Easter basket he chewed
all over it. I mean, honestly, the audacity. But here's
where it gets even better. The neighborhood is just like, oh, yeah,
that's the dog. He steals stuff. So now if someone

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finds a chewed up delivery abandoned in their yard, they
just do a casual return to sender. Forget FedEx, forget
usps Mcallen's got the community dog to door recovery system.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
So this was caught on footage on a ring cam.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Ring door bell camera.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Saw like you could actually see the dog kind of
sitting off to the side. Mailman drives up, delivers his package,
dog watches the mailman drive off, takes a moment, walks up,
grabs the package.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Bam, there you go, Wow, smart.

Speaker 5 (35:12):
Dog, that really is Did you say what type of
dog it was, did you say it?

Speaker 1 (35:17):
Didn't say?

Speaker 3 (35:17):
I do have a picture of the little homie he's
he kind of maybe looks like a black lab or something.
You know, it's a ring camera, so it's not the
best quality picture.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
But yeah, no, he's just just doing his thing.

Speaker 5 (35:29):
And it's a decent size because he has to be
able to lift up packages.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
I mean have like the mouse sized a whole day, right, hah.
That's so funny to think that a dog is just
pondering in its mind, like Okay, wait for that truck
to leave.

Speaker 5 (35:45):
Wait for that I'm gonna go get it now. It's
like it's just clear that smart, little ry, little turd.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
You know.

Speaker 3 (35:52):
I kind of think I'm like they say he's a
stray dog, Like, you know, he doesn't have an owner,
so it's not an owner training him and coaxing him.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Like okay, but bud, go do this now. So he's astray.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
Oh that's right. I was thinking he was. Yeah, someone
else has dog down the block. But you did say
he was a stray. He's probably just like I'm surviving
out here. I'm gonna take anything in this package I want.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
And I love how the neighborhood is just like, that's
just what he does.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
It's fine, that's Roger, who knows.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
I just lost, you know, a fifty dollars order to
this stray dog. But it's fine. We'll just let him
continue to roam around and steal stuff. It's cute, you know.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
At least they have proof for the Amazon return saying like, hey,
you know, my dog stole my package, and there you go.

Speaker 5 (36:34):
That's true. It's kind of like the dog ate my homework. Though.
I wonder if they were like, I don't know about
that until they showed them the ring foot picture.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
No really, oh it's a dog really.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Like, it's not my dog. I don't even know where
it went.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Now that you mention it. Though, I do kind of
want to see that list of like the top reasons
why your package is delayed. Yeah, I wonder if there's.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
I bet he's got a cool treasure trove of stolen things.

Speaker 5 (37:05):
Like the Little Mermaid, Like he has like a little
a little cave of watcha mcculloughs, get and gizmos plenty.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
He sings to himself while he looks at them.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
I would love that, And it's just all shitty off
brand Amazon things.

Speaker 5 (37:19):
Yeah, and he's like, I just want to be part
of the.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Oh, I know, Okay, this one was pretty funny and
a popticple lot. This one is from Leufkin, Texas. So,
in what can only be described as a festive but
felonious stunt, twenty three year old Avonte Nicholson is now
the subject of an active police search after he allegedly

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hid plastic Easter eggs filled with marijuana around town and
encouraged people to find them via clues posted on social media.
So this happened this easter. Oh, it was all for
twenty yes on four twenty. I kept calling it weedster it.
I was like happy weedster everyone. Oh man, I didn't

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even get to enjoy it like that. I was like,
I'm ready to go home and put on my page.
I just don't care. So this sounds way more fun.
But until a young girl stumbled upon one of the
eggs while visiting a park with her grandfather.

Speaker 5 (38:23):
Oh no, yeah, that's where this crosses the line, Like
anyone could get that egg.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
That's very reckless, especially if you're going to put it
in a public park on Easter where I'm sure they
have other Easter egg hunts and you know community activity
is going on totally. You can't just put a weed
egg in there and not expect anything to happen, right,
So the police department was of course informed about this egg.

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An investigation was started and they found out that he
had shared photos and hints online to guide people to
the eggs, and he reportedly posted that anyone who had
shopped with him because he was a drug dealer the
day that he hid the eggs would receive additional clues.
So it was all marketing. It's like, if you come

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by from me, I'll give you more clues about where
I hid these eggs so you can go find extra
free product.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
Do we know in what form the marijuana was. Was
it a gummy because that would make it even worse,
like if a kid saw the gummy or was it
like actual, like.

Speaker 2 (39:27):
It was actual in a baggie? Oh yeah, I have
a picture I can send wow. Yeah. So there were
five Easter eggs total. There was one placed on a
car seat and police later confirmed he had hidden them
in three local parks and behind a motel six. Yeah.
So the police recovered about a quarter of an ounce

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across the five eggs and they were all easily accessible
to children, which is of course a huge no no.
And the guy has still not been found and they
know his name, they know who he is, he has
a previous record. Still haven't found.

Speaker 5 (40:06):
Him, so he's on the run. Okay, Yeah, woah, Easter
Bunny's coming after his ass.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
I mean that would definitely be fun for like a
grown up party at a house, like let's have a
weed Easter egg hunt. Sounds like, yeah, maybe don't just
put them all over in a town filled with little
kids out.

Speaker 5 (40:26):
That is very unsafe and reckless. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
No.

Speaker 5 (40:29):
Trevin and I were very pro four twenty, very pro
marijuana whatever. But I even did a crime once where
a bride put marijuana in her wedding food and everyone
like panicked, well not everyone, Some people were fine, but
a lot of people panicked and had to go to

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the hospital. And Trevor and I were like, we're all
for consenting adults doing whatever, but in this instance, to
put it in a place where children clearly are gonna
want to look for East Rag hunts is like not cool, obviously.

Speaker 2 (41:03):
No, Like, the grandfather was very lucky that he was
there when it happened, because what if that little girl
had found it, like, what is this? Excite it or something?

Speaker 5 (41:13):
Right?

Speaker 2 (41:13):
You know, that would have been a whole other situation.
I did see that article about the woman putting lead
in her food. I was like, that's funny, but you
got to let people know stuff like that.

Speaker 5 (41:26):
It's not the worst drug or whatever. But not everyone
wants to do that, do that for anybody for anything.
That took it to like another level.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
Though.

Speaker 2 (41:37):
Yeah, I can't look at Easter rag hunts the same
way now. It's like I didn't even think about that,
but now I kind of want to do one.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
I know.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
It was on four twenty this year. There was bound
to be somebody pulling a stupid stunt.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
So he was just dumb enough to post it all
over Facebook.

Speaker 5 (41:54):
I know, yeah, and to put it everywhere like a
marketing campaign. What was this idiot thinking, Yeah, easy to.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Give yourself away. We celebrated Easter four twenty this year.
It was everybody had a bunch of busy stuff going on,
so we actually just took it and made it our
holiday and didn't go celebrate with the families at all.
So we woke up and I had a great hip
hop playlist and we made a big helping of biscuits
and gravy, and we gave each other Easter baskets. You did, yeah,

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And then I said, let's treat it like we would
because she's very big on traditions, like with Christmas. She's like,
let's watch a Christmas movie in the morning. So I said,
we should treat this like a holiday, and we'll watch
holiday movie today too, So we watched Jane Slot Bob
Strikes Back, and then we watched Your Highness. We had
recently watched Superbats. I was like, I'm not gonna do
that one, but uh yeah. It was just a very
chill day, and I can't remember. We had something delicious

(42:47):
for dinner that day too. But I just gotta take
advantage of when two holidays intersect like that.

Speaker 2 (42:53):
Sounds like the perfect celebration.

Speaker 5 (42:54):
I'm honest, I know, like biscus and gravy, who curiously
hungry Trevin Tall.

Speaker 4 (43:02):
I'm sorry, Okay, so I guess it's my turn to
go next. Yes, okay, So this is when I could
not quite turn into a story, or at least I
didn't want to do the story. But there's just something
so wild about it. Headline from East Idaho news dot

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Com woman called Triple A during standoff to fixed tire
police had just spiked. A forty five year old woman
was arrested Wednesday and accused of leading police on a
high speed chase on I seventy and then calling for
roadside assistance after officers spiked her tire. Anime Martinez was
booked into the Emory County Jail for investigation of reckless

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driving and failing to stop for police. The events began
about five twenty pm, where they were spotted by Utah
Highway Patrol going one hundred and twenty miles per hour quote.
I reached a speed of one hundred and thirty miles
per hour in an attempt to catch the vehicle cooper,
wrote Naffi David. By the time the trooper had caught
up to the vehicle, Martina was going ninety five miles
per hour, but as soon as the troopers got behind her,

(44:08):
flashing the lights, she then accelerated back up to one
hundred and thirty miles per hour. They attempted to spike
her vehicle twice. They were successful on the second try,
nearly one hundred miles away from where she was first spotted. Quote.
The vehicle's left front tire lost air, and the vehicle
pulled to the right side of the road and came
to a stop. Graphic was shut down and a high
risk stop was performed with multiple troopers. The driver and

(44:30):
sole occupant of the vehicle failed to obey any commands
to exit the vehicle or roll down the window. I
tried multiple times to get Martinez to roll down a
window or exit the vehicle while yelling as loud as
I could. A PA speaker was also used to get
Martinez to abay commands.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
Wait, did they just think we got a shout louder?
Then she'll listen, Like, if she's not listening to you
at like a normal speaking tone, you don't need to
get a megaphone and be like, i' mayte I'm louder.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Now it's like trying to do that your kid. It
doesn't work.

Speaker 5 (45:01):
Yeah, Like it never works. Guy, When are you gonna learn?

Speaker 4 (45:04):
I just repeated myself the louder. It didn't get me anywhere.
About forty minutes into the ensuing standoff, police say Martinez
called Triple A to get her tire fixed. Roadside assistants
company transferred the call to the police, who in turn,
transferred the call to a trooper at the scene quote
I was able to talk to Martinez into exiting the vehicle.
Martinez was placed under arrest and transferred to Emory County Jail.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
I'm sorry, that's a little embarrassing for her because she's
over here like I know how to get out of this.
I'm gonna call Triple A, don't come fix my tire,
and I'll just simply drive away. She calls them and
they're like, sure, ma'am, they're on hold. Transfer to the police,
and then they transferred to the guy on scene and
she's like hello, hello, and then she looks at her
window and he's like hi, ma'am, could you please please now,

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please get out me.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
You know you called Triple A.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
The Triple A guy like splits the crowd AND's like,
excuse me, gentlemen, I have a job to do. And
the police step back for mister Triple A.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
ID They like, let him fix the tire, Like how
did she think that was going to go down?

Speaker 4 (46:08):
How did she get past us on this one?

Speaker 5 (46:10):
I know They're like, well, we can't stop this man
doing an honest day's work, Like what of course they can.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
I'm trying to wrap my head around this, Like, okay,
with their drugs involved, was she in an impaired state
to begin with, and that's why she was driving recklessly
and making very very poor life choices. If there wasn't,
what planet is she from? Where does that trade of
thought come from?

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Nobody runs that hard for no reason. You don't run
from the cops at one hundred and forty miles an
hour and go one hundred miles for no reason and
then refuse to get out of the car.

Speaker 5 (46:43):
Did it ever say any details of any sort of motive,
Trevin of why they were even going at that speed
because that is very very high, or like why she
wouldn't stop.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
Yeah, I didn't see anything else on it.

Speaker 5 (46:56):
She's like, I just want to speed.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
Let me go, she channeling her inner Danica, Like I
get it, that's fine, but like let's keep it speed.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
Limit, yeah, right, like five over, let's go.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
I know, I go ten over. I'm like, I don't know,
I'm really pushing it right now.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
I know. Yeah. That doesn't even have pictures of them, so,
oh man, maybe Utah, it's just a little bit nicer
to not putting that much information out.

Speaker 5 (47:19):
Oh, yeah, oh utah, mighty white of you. So I
have another story, and I have to give a shout
out to my mom. She actually sent this to me,
and I think this is the very very very very
first one that my mom has ever sent to me.
My dad sends me weird petty crimes all the time,

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and a lot of times I'm like, Dad, that's even
a little too much for me to do. But my
mom sent me this one and I was like, this
is perfect, but I didn't know how to turn it
into a full story. So here we go. This is
from NBC news dot com. Oh, this is an interesting
I like to say the people's name who write the article,

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but I don't know if I can pronounce this Minyevon, Burke, Minyevon,
who knows. So the name of the article Woodpecker damages
more than twenty vehicles in Massachusetts town Trevin. I know
you've done that one penny crime back in the day

(48:24):
where you had all the characters talking about like this
prisoner that they were keeping trapped in a cage and anyway,
it turned out to be a bird in the end.
I was like, I could have probably done something where
all these cars were just getting damaged and then do
that at the end, but you've already kind of done it,
you know.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
Bird twist.

Speaker 5 (48:43):
The article says a seaside Massachusetts town appears to have
fallen prey to an over zealous pilliated woodpecker question mark
that damage more than twenty vehicles. A resident said for weeks,
Rockport locals have dealt with broken car windshields and side mirrors.
Resident Janelle Favolaro was able to capture a photo of

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the culprit, a large crow sized bird whacking away at vehicles.
There's a quote saying we seem to have a vandal
in our neighborhood. I'm describing him as an eighteen to
twenty four inch tall bird wearing black and white with
a red hat. Is how the gal describes the bird.

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So Favalaro continued, saying, the woodpecker showed up and landed
on the windshield wipers of the RV in our yard
and was looking at its reflection and we were like,
you know what, I bet he was the one that
damaged the mirrors as well. Well, there you go, you
solve the crime. It says affiliated woodpecker is nearly the
size of a crow and has white stripes down the

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neck and a flaming red crest according to all about
Birds dot org. And then we also had a quote
from Ron McGill, Zoo Miami's communications director, kind of explained
that the woodpecker's aggression may have been because it was
peak mating season. So there was a quote from him saying,

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this time of year's breeding season, So all these male birds,
not just piliated woodpeckers, but all birds are getting into
a very aggressive territorial courtship display. He continued on saying,
if they see the reflections of themselves, they don't understand
it's reflection. They think it's a competitor.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
I understand that internal struggle place, that fight with yourself.

Speaker 5 (50:36):
You're just pecking at your mirror. I just thought it
was funny to have a vandal woodpecker. I mean everyone's
probably at least had a woodpecker wake them up on
a weekend, you know, just pecking away at their house.
But I've never heard of one that was just going around,
like in one location, just damaging cars left and right.

(50:58):
That seemed unhinged to me.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
I was just looking for his mate.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
He was picking a fight left and right, ready to
be the top dog.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
So he's just like fighting himself in all these car merors. Dude,
calm down, like, maybe just pick him up and move
him somewhere else. But there's not so many like reflections
of himself everywhere.

Speaker 5 (51:17):
He cannot be trusted with a reflection.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
This is why I don't wash my car all the time.
Birds aren't going to get pissed off at it.

Speaker 5 (51:25):
There you go, they can't see themselves well enough on
the window.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
Yeah, that's my excuse too. I didn't think that we
would have two crimes shared today that we're both animal corporates.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
I know.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
This is actually I was thinking before I was telling this.
It's kind of a sneak peek of what Trevin and
I do sometimes on our Patreon is we've done a
couple just episodes where it's just funny animals in the
news or weird animals in the news or whatever. We
love a good animal crime.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Yes, oh yeah, he doesn't. I have a thief raccoon
right now actually who likes to get in to our
trash bins. I literally had to go drill in these
straps that you can clip closed so like the bin
can't be opened because this thing goes into our trash
bins every night and just tears apart our trash bags,

(52:17):
and so it's completely destroyed our bin. I took the
trash out after dark one night and I opened it
and like threw the trash bag in, and I heard
this like scuffle sound and this thing like rush across
my chest. And I didn't see anything though, because it
was pitch dark. And I hear that and I turned
and there's this raccoon just running. I was like, my

(52:39):
life just flashed before my eyes, Like I could have died.

Speaker 5 (52:43):
Right now.

Speaker 4 (52:44):
For you.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
It's like, I'm so lucky it didn't just like attack me.

Speaker 5 (52:48):
Yeah, what if it was just like and like, yeah,
I mean I don't know. I don't know what a
raccoon does on its spare time. I don't know if
it claws out faces.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
But our twelve year old is usually the one who
takes the trash out, and I just have happened to
be the one to do it that night. And I
was like, okay, new role. You can't take the trash
out after dark anymore.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
Oh, I thought you were going to say only they
can do it.

Speaker 5 (53:10):
I'm never taking the trash out again. Children. This is
all on you.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
But that sounds like something Dad would say. So that's
your job after dark now, just to like scare them
a little.

Speaker 5 (53:19):
Bit, you know.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
But yeah, so you gotta love the animals, like the audacity.

Speaker 5 (53:24):
It's just oh yeah, really, they don't have the social
shame feeling holding them back that a normal person would.
So yeah, they can just do whatever they want.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
I guess I wish I could feel like that sometimes,
just like this social shame you know.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Yeah, Oh it's me again, Hi, I guess Hi, Okay.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
All right, listen.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
So, like, if I make it to the age of
eighty three and I still have the energy to swing
broomsticks at intruders and throw boiling water like a boss,
I will consider that a peak life achievement. Yeah, so,
let me introduce you to Lily McClendon, the Houston grandma
who took zero crap from a would be robber and

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left him with some serious regrets and possibly third degree
sausage water burns.

Speaker 5 (54:15):
Holy shit.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
So it's four point.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
Thirty in the morning back in July of twenty fourteen,
traveling a little bit back in time. Now, you know,
most of us at this time are drooling into our pillows,
but not Lily. She's up early, cooking for a family barbecue,
you know. So she's in the kitchen, she's doing her
thing when she hears something in the bedroom. She goes

(54:38):
to check it out, opens her door and there's this
guy standing there, and not just like standing there. He's
got one of her late husband's shirts wrapped around his
face like a freaking discount ninja.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Only his eyes are showing.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
So then he grabs her and demands to know where
the is Hugh Cliche induced eye roll. So this could
have been the part where things got tragic and we
wouldn't be talking about it right now, you know.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
But no, not on Lily's watch.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
She looks him dead in the eye and says, your
mother raised you that way. Why do you want to
take advantage of an eighty three year old woman? Awesome,
but also game on. She doesn't scream, she doesn't run.
She grabs the aforementioned hot of boiling sausage water off

(55:35):
the stove and throws it on him, like, excuse me,
you just weaponized breakfast.

Speaker 1 (55:43):
But does that stop him?

Speaker 3 (55:45):
No, this idiot keeps shouting where's the money, Like, dude,
maybe take a hint from your boiling pores and leave,
you know.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
So Lily goes for round two.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
She grabs not one, but two broomsticks because you know,
of course she is.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
Backup, and she starts beating him.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
I don't know if he expected this to go down
like Ocean's eleven, but we got was more like Golden
Girls meets Wwe. Eventually he runs off like a scalded
little grimlin, but not before ripping off her landline phone
off the wall, because apparently he wanted to end his
petty crime with a little bit of vandalism.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
So Lily, cool as ever, just runs next door and
calls the cops.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
Please show up and confirm he got in by removing
burglar bars.

Speaker 1 (56:36):
From a window.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
And if that isn't an Alanis morrisset worthy kind of ironic,
I don't know what is.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
Like burglar bars are supposed to you know, bar burglars.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
Anyway, Lily described the man as about twenty five years old,
five eight, one hundred and fifty pounds and presumably covered
in sausage water.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
Shame.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
And then there's Clarence Brandy when of Lily's thirty seven grandkids.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
Yeah, thirty seven, Oh my god? Who said he's just.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
Glad Grandma's okay. He called her feisty.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
Feisty to say the least I would say so.

Speaker 3 (57:13):
No, sir, your grandmother is a straight up vigilante if
she's not teaching self defense classes like now in the future,
Like we really missed an opportunity there. Like, honestly, someone
get this woman a cape, a Netflix deal and like
a cookwaar line of weaponry. Seriously, she's the superhero we

(57:33):
did not know we needed.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
Like she could team up with Stanley or something, and
has some sort of like scolding sausage water squirt gun
that stays warm. Exactly, she can take this shit on
the road, you know, yep, exactly.

Speaker 5 (57:45):
I'm obsessed. I'm all for defending yourself. If anyone's coming
up in my house looking like a discount ninja and
they're saying, give me your money, which how does he
even know she has money? I mean, she's boiling sausage
for God's sakes, Like leave.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
Her alone up at four thirty in the morning, Like
I have to wake up that time every morning for
my job. But like it's not a time of morning
where I would recommend to anybody. Ever, somebody who's like
up and put together and like doing things like that's
not the type of person you want to mess with
her family.

Speaker 5 (58:18):
You don't come in the middle of that.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
No. No, he definitely wasn't expecting anybody to be awake.
And my thought is, like, if she reacted that calmly
to the situation, like she seems some shit, she's like,
oh you got okay.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
She has thirty seven grandkids.

Speaker 4 (58:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (58:35):
Just hearing that, I was like, she has been through
She's been through some shit. Ah, but yeah, she's like
your mom, raise do you like that? No, she wasn't
holding back emotionally, physically, anything, And I love.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
It verbally, I'm here for it. So did they get
the guy? Uh?

Speaker 3 (58:54):
I didn't follow up on that because it was from
twenty fourteen, you know, and just trying to dig that
far back. But at the end of that article, they
were still looking for him. But I'm sorry, I'm pretty
sure you know at least twenty of those thirty seven
grandkids banded together and tracked down.

Speaker 5 (59:12):
Yeah, they could have had their own familial search party
going on.

Speaker 4 (59:16):
Well, I hope this ruined boiled sausages for this guy
for life.

Speaker 2 (59:19):
You're right, Like, I'll never look at sausage water the
same way.

Speaker 4 (59:24):
Yeah, normally I think so fondly of it.

Speaker 5 (59:26):
You know, it's like holy.

Speaker 3 (59:29):
Water didn't feel good, and it really probably didn't smell
good either.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
Oh No, that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
You would track him down on smell alone, exactly.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
From the shame, desperation, sweat from running, and the sausage
water combined, you got like a thirty mile radius you're
going to be detected of.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Gross.

Speaker 5 (59:46):
Yeah, they probably just went I smell him.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
He's around here somewhere. Yeah, the smell of burnt skin
and sausage.

Speaker 4 (59:55):
I'm hungry.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
I know it would take more than not to face. Ma.
I'm like, I gets still, it's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
I totally it's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
So this one was just funny to me. So this
was in Kaufman County, Texas, which is like Terrell, which
I'm not actually sure where that's located because Texas is
a really big state and who knows. This was also
from earlier this year. In a bizarre turn of events
that has left local law enforcement scratching their heads, Mark

(01:00:26):
hal Williams, who was thirty, found himself in a heap
of trouble after refusing to comply with the police officer's
request to stop due to an outstanding warrant. Instead of
simply addressing the warrant, Williams decided to walk away, claiming
he did not have time for that. He was just like, nope,
I don't have time for this. I am not dealing

(01:00:48):
with this.

Speaker 4 (01:00:48):
Where are men getting this audacity?

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
So this was back in February. The Tarrell Police officers
they were dispatched to the thousand block of W. Moore
Avenue for a welfare concern. After the initial encounter with
Williams was concluded, Officer d Bridges was notified about an
active warrant for Terrell Police Department, so they contacted him

(01:01:12):
back on a different street of Lee Street, informing him
about the warrant, and he was like, no, I don't
have time for that. He tried to leave the scene
and then the officer ordered him to stop, so of
course Williams was like, absolutely not, and then they started
getting into a struggle. But Williams was double fisting a

(01:01:34):
coffee and a beer while trying to wrestle the cops.
I mean, you got to start your day somehow, right,
I don't know if it was like sip of coffee,
sip a beer.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Choices were made that day.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Exactly while wrestling. While wrestling the officer trying to keep
him from like getting him for the warrant, Williams the
dude who didn't have time, He managed to shove the
officer with his drinks, causing significant injury to the officer's finger.
In a frantic bit of freedom, he fled and barricaded

(01:02:06):
himself in his home, prompting a swat team response. After
an intense standoff, he was finally extracted from his residence
and taken into custody. So he didn't have time for it,
but it ended up taking way more time than it
would have.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
Isn't that like the lesson we all learn? Like when
you're in a hurry, it always takes longer.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
It always takes longer when you're trying to rush. It
never goes the way you think it's going to. I
don't know if maybe the coffee was hot and he
was just like I really just want to drink this
coffee and this beer, Like can I just have my morning?

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
He was channeling his enter eighty three year old woman, right.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
It did seem kind of similar in that way.

Speaker 5 (01:02:43):
There's so much that could be solved if that was
like a feasible action to take. Like there's so many
times I personally wish I could just be like I
just don't have time for that right now, and then
it would stop. But again, I feel like this is
just another person living into lulul That was like, no,
it's my world. Everyone else is just living in it.

(01:03:03):
And it's like.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
Cops are never going to be like, oh okay, just
walk away, yeah later, enjoy your coffee.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
We'll catch up with you here in about a forty
five minutes and try your.

Speaker 5 (01:03:14):
Coffee, enjoy your beer.

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
Bye.

Speaker 5 (01:03:16):
Yeah, you don't have time. I'm sorry. I thought you
actually did.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
I'm gonna turned into a whole ass swat standoff you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
Got to lead to swat. I didn't expect that, Like.

Speaker 5 (01:03:24):
Do you have time for a whole swat in vain?
How that dude?

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
I mean, I'm sure he probably at least got to
finish his drinks while he was sitting at his house.

Speaker 4 (01:03:33):
Probably, I hope. So I would have been doing something
for hydration, though I don't know about a beer and
coffee right. I would just spike the coffee and had
a water feel.

Speaker 5 (01:03:42):
Very parched after a and I feel like the pooh
after drinking both those things just isn't going to be right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
The gurgles, it's just not while it is swat standoff.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
Yeah, you're nervous, You've got the nervous shits, coffee and
a beer you're asking for just about through disaster.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
We'll definitely ask them for trouble.

Speaker 5 (01:04:03):
Trouble in all departments. That is just so silly, the
audacity of some people. Yeah, these were amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
That was super fun.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
It was fun.

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
So before we sign out here, do you guys want
to tell our listeners everywhere they can find you? Do
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Thank you so much for having us awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:05:06):
Yeah, thanks for being on here, and thanks for bringing
some crimes because I'm on kind of a heavy week
because I'm got a wedding this month that I'm doing,
so it's yeah, trying to buy a little extra time.
But yeah, and you guys are on the Fire Eyes
Media right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
We're with Fire Eyes Media. It's still so new that
I'm not used to saying it, but those ladies are
amazing and we're so happy to be part of their
team and have their support.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
So Jay's rule.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Yeah awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
Yeah, I love them both. And our girl Alicia's got
her new show with them too. It's truly twisted.

Speaker 5 (01:05:39):
Oh yeah that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Yeah, we've got a collab coming up with her too,
so fun, fun, it's all love.

Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
Well again, Thank you both so much. That was really
fun to dive into those wackier crimes and headlines with
you all. And I hope everyone out there is having
the best and just remember no matter to the crime,
big or small, in the end, we're all doomed.

Speaker 4 (01:06:07):
Doomed to get a face full of sausage water.

Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
Bye.

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