Top 5 Stories May 9, 2025

A Florida man encounters a bison, the ages old tale of a bear and his honey, and how did 10,000 people lose power in North Carolina? Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And this is West Michigan's Morning News.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Steve Kelly, Brett, Bekta Schmidti with a day off today.
That is roge a road show in the producer's booth.
And we have made it to top five time mat
Where do we start.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
At number five? You can take the man out of Florida,
but you can't take the Florida out of a man.
The Florida man went to Yellowstone National Park where he
got a little bit too close to a bison, and well,
the bison won. He did only sustain minor injuries after
being gored by the bisons, but officials at the Yellowstone

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National Park saying please stay at least twenty five yards
away from all large animals bison, elk, big horn sheep,
et cetera. And one hundred yards away from bears and wolves.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I see pictures like this all the time.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
They get out of their freaking car and they just
walk right up to these things. It's a wild animal
like they're domesticated cows.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
And I root for.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
The bison every time. I feel horrible because he's a
human being. I get it, we're not supposed to dehumanize
people that we disagree with, but come on, man.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
What about the idiots? Though? Well, today's top five. Let
me see that giant cow.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
We ten were, you know times that my weight got
bin has horn.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Big swords on his head. I think I'll go out
and pet him.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Number four of the list, an Ohio beekeeper received an
alert from his surveillance camera that showed his apiary.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
In his words, I looked at the bee cameras and
I went, Holy smokes, there's there's a bear in my bees.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Only reason I did that story, wow, was because the
bear ate a bunch of honey and stop me if
you've heard this one before.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, he has to do a little rebuilding.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
Tough loss yesterday, even though the Tigers won that makeup
double header. If you have any tie to the Detroit
Tigers as a fan base, and especially like idy with
the bless you boys in nineteen eighty four chet Lemon,
who was one of the names that you recognized from
that team, And I'll leave it to fan Duel Sports
Network yesterday paying tribute as chet Lemon passed away at

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the age of seventy.

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Ill news to share with everybody today. We learned earlier
that chet Lemon passed away at his home and Check
played sixteen years in the major leagues, the majority of
that time wearing the old English d. He patrolled centerfield
at Tiger Stadium as well as anybody has three times
named an American League All Star. Obviously an integral part
of the eighty four World Championship team. It was a

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rare blood disorder that cut his playing career short in
the early nineties, and his health slowly deteriorated over the
last several years of his life.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
He was one of the reasons guys I loved playing
center field in high school. Number thirty four. He did
it best, and of course not with you teach kids
no two hands up and make the catch. He got
the old flick of the wrist at the end, just
to put some doubt whether he was going to catch
it or not.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
True great.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
At number two, tens of thousands of residents in North
Carolina were left without power after a snake slithered into
a substation, wreaked havoc, and was able to shut down
all of the power. Officials are saying that the snake
did not make it, so I think this was all
worth it.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Oh yeah, well, there you have it. The Steve Kelly solution.
I've heard that that's been.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Used one down, although I will tell you that I
was able to harbor a snake, save a snake from
my dogs, and usher it off our property yesterday.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
We had a mouse in our basement yesterday, and I,
Steve Kelly did.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Okay, Yeah, because mice can't no, mice can't survive.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
No.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
No.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Finally at number one in the year the what in
Today's top five. Six decades after a young mother vanished
from her small city in south central Wisconsin, authorities have
found her alive and well, living in another eight Aubrey
Beckenberg was twenty years old when she disappeared from Reedsburg

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in July of nineteen sixty two. According to a bulletin
from the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Apparently she would like
to remain hidden, just so you know. She was looking
just for a little change and never showed up again,
just sort of walked away. And I don't know if
that's a solution for you today, just so you know

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if you were worried about her, she's okay, but she
doesn't care to be talked to again.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Nice working with you, guys. It's a Friday and that's
today's top five