Top 5 Stories November 12, 2025

Someone fails their driver's test a record amount of times, a 9 year old running a carnival ride, and a Purple Heart is returned. 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 Grabb Keata, Laurence Smith, Adam a road shoe
Wednesday November twelve, twenty twenty five. Dad's Top five time,
Laurence Smith, Where's it start?

Speaker 3 (00:10):
I just thought this would make all of us feel
better about our driving. They call it the theory test
over in the UK and their main kind of DMV
has announced stats over this coming past year, a learner
driver spent more than four thousand US dollars attempting to
pass their driver's test and failed it one.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
Hundred and twenty eight times twenty eight.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Come on like also though that one hundred and twenty
ninth time, weren't you still like? I don't know if
you should be on the roads.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
In the UK two words public transport.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
The person is from England still holds the record for
the most failed theory test attempts.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
That's what they call it.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
The dvssay also revealed stats showing one person passed after
ninety four attempts and one woman took one hundred and
seventeen tries.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
I got their steering wheels on the wrong side.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Of the car.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Terrifying to think about isn't it. Yes, yeah, I know.
Oh boy, but they're out there now. They passed. They're
on the road with four wheels.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I agree with.

Speaker 6 (01:07):
Steve, you got to go public transport because you're just
not meant to. You're panicking. Yeah, you're not meant to
be behind a wheel.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
I think Jesus has made it very clear you're a
bus person.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Number four in the lists. A mysterious meow from her
car introduces Baylor's coach Nicki Collin to a new family member.
Baylor coach Nicki Colin has a new cat, Sailor, after
she was driving home from an assistant's birthday party on
Saturday night and heard a strange meowing sound. She thought
she was going crazy. When she finally got home, she

(01:41):
had her son Connor, take off the driver's side wheel,
and from behind the fender cap she found a four
week old kit What right She knew it was some
feral cats offspring that used to live somewhere near her house.
Apparently the mothering inst took over with her. She was

(02:04):
able to keep the thing. She's named it Sailor, as
we mentioned, and that's how she got a cat.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well.

Speaker 6 (02:12):
MLB All Star Game is the best. We all agree
right when it comes to All Star Games. The rest
of them are just trying to figure things out well.
This season's NBA All Star Game was announced last night
with a new format, USA.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Versus the World.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
The game is scheduled to be played Sunday, February fifteenth,
as part of All Star Weekend. The Clippers are hosting
this year two teams of US players and one team
of international players. The World team will compete in a
round robin tournament featuring four twelve minute games. The three
teams will each have a minimum of eight players. Now
you're saying to yourself, well, and they vote on this,

(02:47):
what if you don't have enough international players or whatever.
That's where the NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver, the creepy tall guy,
will come in and he will make sure that there's
enough players for all the teams. The other thing they're
doing is waving away what position you play, because let's
face it, I mean, everyone plays every position, so it
doesn't matter if you're a guard, forward, center. As far
as the voting process, you're just voting for that player

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with the NBA fan vote or the players that are
currently in the league. They've got a whole percentage of
how it's selected with those players.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
So I guess I never really broke down and thought
about it that way. But yeah, that makes a whole
lot of sense.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Well, at number two, an investigation has concluded to a
carnival accident that happened over the summer in British Columbia
that's up in Canada. Turns out a major contributing factor
to a person falling out of the zipper was the
fact that a nine year old child was unloading and
loading passengers into the ride.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
That's the child labor law.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yes, so the operator of the ride left to go
wash up and left his son in charge of the ride.
He was described as really good at cracking buckets, which
there is their terminology for loading and unloading the ride.
And now they're saying that the nine year old was
at fault.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Right, we don't know the Canadian laws.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Question yep, why did the adult leave his post again
to go wash up? What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (04:05):
That's just what it says. Did a kid throw up
on him? Because that happens on those things I've seen.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Okay, so here's the question. Then you get thrown up on?
Is it a pass to put a nine year old.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
In charge of floating and unloading the ride.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
No, you got to shut the ride down.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
I was just going to say, how hard is that
they stop it? For everything else?

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Right?

Speaker 2 (04:21):
I think we as parents have all worked wounded right
with a pile of hack on us.

Speaker 4 (04:25):
If, oh, absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
If somebody throws up on you and there's dangerous equipment
that's being used, you got to continue to maintain it.
I don't know what the Union says about this. If
somebody listening and needs to weigh in here, please do so.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
Welcome back, riders, I hope you enjoyed your ride.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Finally at number one on the.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
List today, I am very proud to return this purple
heart to Rifleman Bennett's family.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, how about this?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
A purple heart awarded to US Army rifleman James Bennett
during World War Two ended up in the possession of
the Illinois State treasurer as part of Operation Purple Heart,
a program launched to return military medals from abandoned safe
deposit boxets boxes of un rightful owners who knew such
a thing was actually happening. They tracked down a niece

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because he passed away, and so did his wife, and
nobody knew the box even existed.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Wow, so there you go, day after veteran's day.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
It's a perfect story.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I thought that was relevant. Yeah, better to leave that
with you than the other story.