Strange and Bizarre News with a Few Naked People

This week, we have a few stories about people who are "starkers" as the Australians say. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
Carrol Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Friday morning, twenty fifth day of July. I'm Wes. Thanks
for joining me. It is Friday, and you know what
that means. Some good news followed by some strange and
bizarre news from around the world. We got these happy
stories to set the tone, just to give us something

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positive to think about. It's Friday. We got to shake
off some of the things that happened during the week.
Some of us had a rough week, some of us
had a good week. You know, some of you are
just waiting for the snark that comes with the strange
and bizarre news, and some of you say, hey, give
me something inspiring, some bit of inspiration. Well, I'm gonna
try to give you both of those things, and we're

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going to start with this story. While renovating their home
in Nottingham, England, Charlotte England, Black and her husband stumbled
upon a rather unusual time capsule tucked away in the attic,
an empty toilet paper roll with a message from a
seventeen year old girl written on it. The note was

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written in red marker thirty five years ago. It began,
my name is Emma Waddingham. My birthday is February the fourth,
and I was born in nineteen eighty two. I'm seven
years old, nearly eight. And Emma closed the message by writing,
I hope you enjoy staying here, lots of love from
a friend.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Charlotte posted about the toilet paper roll time capsule on
a Facebook community page, and it took less than an
hour for now forty three year old Emma to be located.
Emma says she doesn't remember writing the note, but does
recall her childhood home, even small details like patterns on
the wallpaper. In the future, when Charlotte moves out, she

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plans to leave the cardboard tube in the attic for
the next homeowners so they can discover the time capsule.
In another thirty five years, someone else might find it.
Charlotte said, it's nice to see if it gets found.
It's a good story like it. I like it. Good
for you, Charlotte, like that you found the origin of

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the note all right. Earlier in the month, a nine
year old girl, Ava Dalbeck of Superior, Wisconsin, was inspired
to set up a lemonade stan and raise money for
the Northland Canine Foundation in Douglas County. Her goal was
to sell lemonade, cookies, and other treats and donate the
money to hard working police dogs in her area so

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they could enjoy extra training and equipment. Ava's lemonade stan
was a huge success. It reached threes three hundred dollars.
She says, their dogs protect our city from like anything
that happens, So I appreciate the fact that they can
protect our city and make us all safe. Douglas County
Sheriff Matt Izard was very appreciative of Ava's generosity and

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praised a for her community spirit. She's a very competitive kid. Obviously,
she sets her goal and she wants to achieve them.
Like I said, every dollar helps when it comes to
the canine funding. I like, you know when you get
kids that say we're gonna have a lemonade stand, all right,
that's nice. We're gonna get a lemonade stand for dot

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dot dot. When it's a cause like dogs specifically canine
units Way to Go, that's a good specific cause that
Ava wanted to support. Tim Pereira is walking across America
from California to Virginia Beach to raise awareness for men's
mental health and suicide prevention again Great Cause. From twenty

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sixteen to twenty twenty ten, battled a roller coaster of
depression and anxiety. It was a scary time, but Tim
worked his way through it, and it inspired him to
call attention to the problem by walking across the country, walking,
not running. So far, he's walked more than two twenty
five hundred miles through five states warn seven pairs of shoes.

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If everything goes according to plan, he'll end his journey
in Virginia Beach and will have raised fifty thousand dollars
for men's mental health organizations along the way. Tim says,
I think the stigma is really strong for men. Providing
is good, protection is good, standing up for others is good.
But the armor we carry and never take off really

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weighs on us. It's good message, good idea. I like
that he's doing it. It does make me think of
Forrest Gump. I can't help it. And if at some
point he's not thinking the song running on empty, I
think he's not doing it right. I think at least
he should should pop in his head at least once.
All right, so good for them. Now it's time for

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strange and bizarre news from around the world, and we
start with a man who was arrested after he got
drunk and decided to take his lawnmower for a ride
on the highway in Florida. Yeah it's in Florida. Highway
patrol received multiple calls about a man driving a lawnmower
radically on the highway and making sudden movements as if

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he was mowing imaginary grass on the highway. Trooper stopped
thirty eight year old Christopher Spain of Tampa suspected he
was impaired. That seems like a good thing to suspect
if his poor decision making didn't give it away. His
small pupil's flushed skin, dry mouth, and visible irritation to
the inside of his nose sure gave it away. He

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refused a series of field sobriety test and was arrested
on the suspicion of driving under the influence. I know
there's a minimum speed on most highways. I assume this
is true in Florida. I don't think the mower could
have been able to get up to that speed. That's
just a hunch. Police in Bangor, Maine were called out
to a neighborhood when a half naked man was on

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a homeowner's roof trying to retrieve drug rugs from the chimney.
Drugs not Christmas presents. Thirty nine year old Stephen at
Nason was wearing nothing but shortz climbed up on the
roof at about four am and stunned the homeowner, who
was awakened by strange noises. She and her boyfriend went

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outside to investigate saw a ladder leaning up against the
back of the house. They then noticed a strange man
sitting on the chimney, refusing to come down. He kept
shouting that he was trying to retrieve drugs from the chimney.
If he's sitting on the chimney, he might have been
doing something else. I don't want to be graphic, but
I'm just saying he's sitting on the chimney. Maybe he

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was leaving a Christmas present. Police and fire crews arrived,
along with crisis negotiators. The fire department even raised a
rescue basket to the roof, hoping to coax Nason down gently,
but instead of climbing in, he made a leap into
the basket, grabbed the axe attached to it and jumped
back onto the roof, where he allegedly started chopping hole

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in the roof. It wasn't smart. Why did they give
him an axe? After hours of negotiating, Nason finally surrendered.
He was taken to the local hospital for evaluation and
arrested for aggravated criminal mischief creating a police standoff. And
I suppose he should be charged with, you know, chopping
holes in the roof of a house with an axe.

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Whoever sent the axe up I think is at least
partly responsible. That's just my thoughts. Emergency crews in Fresno, California,
rushed to a canal after receiving a nine to one
to one call reporting a body trapped in the fast
moving water. Their concern wasn't the only thing that was inflated, though.
It turns out it wasn't a person at all, but

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a life sized blow up doll that was called against
a middle grade. Police and firefighters already were on the scene,
ready to rescue, and instead found themselves dealing with a
very different situation. Authorities contacted the local irrigation to to
have the doll remove There's no word on how the
doll got there, probably better that we don't know. I mean,

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I don't know that there's anything positive to come out
of finding out exactly where the inflatable doll came from? Right,
is there something positive to comfort? Do we need to
know whose inflatable doll it was? I don't know that
we need to know that. I think it's probably best
just to move on. A Louisiana man who was caught

(08:32):
red handed enjoying himself inside a display shed at Low's
has pleaded guilty to an obscenity charge. Sixty six year
old George Klivas was arrested after he was found inside
a display shed in the store's parking lot and treating
it like his own personal pleasure dome. A store manager
saw him through a window in the shed and called

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nine to one one. When officers arrived, they found Cali
Voss partially undressed, watching something on his phone. He was
taken into custody and later admitted to the act and
said he was missing his inflatable dolt.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
No.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Cali Vas pleaded guilty to a felony obscenity charge. Authorities
are reminding customers that they're free to display browse the
display sheds, but they're not private spaces. You can't just
move in. You can't go in there and do the
peewee herman. I don't know. Maybe that's bad. Maybe that's

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the data joke. Sorry. A woman in Key West is
facing assault charges after she allegedly attacked another driver with
bear mace to avenge the murder of a chicken. Thirty
eight year old Cynthia Sosa stopped at an intersection to
let a chicken cross the road. Unfortunately, she was never
able to get an answer to the age old question

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about why it was crossing, because an impatient driver behind
her sped past her and ran over the chicken. You monster.
Sosa wasn't having it, so she chased the other driver
down and blocked their car. She tried to yank the
driver's door open, but when that didn't work, she opened
up a can of bear mace and sprayed it into

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the open window, hitting the driver directly in the face.
Sosa fled the scene, but was later arrested charged with
aggravated battery and burglary with as salt with bear mace. Yeah,
I never thought about this, someone mentioned to me the

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other day, And maybe I'm just way behind on this,
but Apparently the joke the wand did the chicken cross
the road joke to get to the other side kind
of ties into like this story because I heard someone
say that it actually literally means that the chicken was
crossing the road to get hit and killed and to

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go on to the other side, as in death, as
in to go to heaven. And that's what it means
for the chicken to get to the other side. It's
not the literal which is I think what made the
joke funny either trying to get to the other side
of the road, right unless another car comes up and
slams into you, and then of course then you go

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to the other side. I had never thought about it
in those terms before, but someone made this point to
me recently, and I thought, Okay, never crossed my mind.
Don't know that I would have ever gotten there by myself,
but anyway, a moment of on wonder at church goers

(11:39):
in the Philippines looking up to the sky last week
when Jesus suddenly appeared. Parishioners at a Catholic church were
left stunned when a cloud formation appeared to take the
shape of Jesus. The striking image was spotted during a
religious gathering, and many onlookers described it as a powerful,
spiritual soign video of the cloud has gone viral, showing

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what appears to be a robed figure with an outstretched
arms glowing in the sunlight. Some witnesses said it gave
them chills, while others called it a moment of divine reassurance.
Meteorologists chalk it up maybe as a coincidence of cloud dynamics,
but many in the crowd said no, it was really
something much more meaningful to us. Let them have it, meteorologists,

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Why do you have to ruin everything? Just let them
have their moment. How do you know it wasn't divine, meteorologists? Naked,
covered in mud and destroying a van is no way
to go through life. But we're back in Florida for
this story. Deputies in the town of Austin, northeast of

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Orlando said they received a call from a property owner
who reported suspicious activity and damage to his work van.
When they arrived, deputies discovered thirty one year old Zaid
Khan emerging from a barn, completely naked and covered in mud.
Deputy say Khan told them that he had been following

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the sun under the guidance of a so called higher
power and couldn't fully recall what had happened. His clothes
were later found scattered across the property. The homeowner reported
that shattered windows and opened a driver's door on the
van were found. Deputies also found a patio door left open,
water running from a hose, and furniture moved around. Con

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was taken to a hospital for evaluation and later booked
into jail, facing charges of burglary, trespassing, and indecent exposure,
and for not admitting that he was trying to fight
the predator. That's why you strip naked and get covered
in mud. Come on, predator, can't see you under that mud.
Get your torch and scream at him. Finally, a drunk

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driver in northern California recently landed in the in prison
after officers found seventy empty beer cans inside his vehicle.
The article's written, it said, in a can in the
can like for jail, and I just refused.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Cops stopped the suv after noticing the driver having a
hard time keeping the vehicle in a lane. An officer
approached the driver and noticed an empty beer can and
the cup holder suspecting the driver was intoxicated, conducted a
field sobriety test, which showed a blood alcohol level of
point twenty five percent, three times the legal limit. The
officer's suspicion also confirmed by the discovery of seventy empty

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bud light cans strown all over the suv driver was
also driving on a suspended license related to a prior
DUI conviction. Uh, seventy empty cans. I mean, maybe he
was just collecting him because he was going to turn
him in and you know, get some money for him.

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Maybe that's what he was doing the whole time. Today's
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says video games not just for kids anymore. It took

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a survey for people to find that out that adults
like to play video games twenty eight percent of the
roughly two hundred and five million gamers in the US
or over the age of fifty. The survey also found
that nearly half of Americans in their sixties and seventies
play some form of video game every week, as do

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thirty six percent of people in their eighties. It seems
these older adults aren't just playing brain games either. Instead,
many of them mixing it up with younger players on
multiplayer systems, giving them a boost of mental stimulation as
well as a social connection. All right, couple of observations.
First of all, people that are fifty and up. And

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I'm fifty, so I can speak to that. But a
lot of us Gen X people are we grew up
playing video games. Therefore, as adults, we play video games
and we think if our kids are going to have
this expensive gaming system, then maybe we should also be
playing as well. All that applies to people of that
age fifty and up. Okay, So that's there, That's built

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into the whole psyche of who we are.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Now.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
When you start talking about people in their sixties, maybe
some of them fit into this, But you start going
into the seventies and eighties, and I know this says
they're not just playing brain games. I got that. But
I do think the lions share probably doing something that
involves moving a jewel around. I think that's probably a
safe bet, right, they're moving a jewel around. Maybe are

(19:42):
we counting stuff like Wordle? Is that a video game?
I don't know. I don't know, but I'm just saying,
you get to a certain age, those are primarily the games.
They're not playing Madden is all I'm saying. Some of
them are, I understand, I get it. According to the survey,
can't be a lot of them though, a lot of

(20:03):
them are moving one jewel to another jewel and making
it go right. Isn't that what most of them are doing?
And that's fine. I'm not knocking it. It's actually good
for the brain. I'm not knocking any of it. Maybe
they're playing solitaire. That's fine too. I like to play
solitaire sometimes. I used to like to play some of
those jewel games. I don't really do that anymore, but
I'm just telling you it's where a lot of the

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gamings happening. Engineers have developed a gadget called the photon
Matrix that uses AI and lasers to detect and zap
up to thirty mosquitoes per second, all without harming humans
or pets. Inventor Jim Wong says this thing can spot
a bug midflight and take it down in just three milliseconds,

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creating an iron dome for bugs. Wong and his company
are raising money to get the photon Matrix into production.
If they pull it off, a basic version would be
priced about five hundred dollars, and a professional model we'll
clock in at about six hundred dollars. Yes, I think

(21:09):
we should insist that our in the Southeast, like every
I think every city should have like one hundred of
these things spread around. We have mosquito problems. Man, maybe
thousands of these things everywhere. I could use two or
three just in my yard alone. So yeah, we're gonna

(21:29):
need more than we need to need. Ten thousand. Let's
go ahead and put an order in ten thousand of
the professional models.

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Please.

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really getting into the hot part of the season. It's
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of us, and they're still just everywhere already. Hey, uh,
magic mushrooms in the Fountain of youth. This is according
to a new study. Psychedelic mushrooms could be the secret

(21:58):
to a longer, healthier life. Researchers found that silas cybin
I guess that's how you say that silas sigmund a
compound found in certain mushrooms, might reduce cellular stress and
increase life span. Along with finding the stuff working on
aging mice, the scientists also found that human cells lived

(22:20):
up to fifty seven percent longer in lab conditions. Just
be careful, you know, there was a stretch where everybody
was trying to tell us that there were no negative
side effects of vaping. No negative side effects of marijuana
in marijuana and vaping are just everywhere. No vaping not
as a parent, because typically you don't smell that marijuana

(22:43):
vaping you do. I guess I smell it sometimes and
I go I didn't even see anim Oh it's indoors
and they've got a vapepent got it. But just know
might not be quite as safe as they say. That's all.
I'm not an expert. I'm not a mush tmologist. I'm
just telling you as a fact that just takes some precautions.

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This is one study. Don't necessarily need to go psychedelic
on all this. That'll do it for this Friday edition
of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons. Thank
you for listening. I'll catch you back here Monday morning.

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