Top 5 Stories November 17, 2025

Two NFL players get stuck together, a man runs into his city's Christmas tree and a helpful way to pay your traffic tickets and library late fees. Those stories and more on today's top 5!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome to West Michigan's morning news.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Steve Kelly, Bread, Kata, Lawrence Smith, pandam I wrote Joe Monday,
November seventeen, twenty twenty five Top five times Schmidty.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Where do we start at number five?

Speaker 3 (00:12):
What a moment yesterday when Josh Allen and Gabe Davis
decided to celebrate following a touchdown during the Buffalo Bills
game and got their helmets stuck together.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh, Josh Allen wants to celebrate and then they're connected.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yep, there as one.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
You would think with the amount of headbuts, this would
happen so much more often.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
How awkward.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, Josh actually had to take his helmet off and
then one of the equipment guys had to pop into
the tent tear the helmets apart.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's like two bucks fighting or fair point.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Though it should happen more. I see players do that
all the time, and I can never understand how they
don't get stuck together.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
That's true. Two teams with braces making out. That's exactly what.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
We've all had the experience.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Number four.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
In the last day, municipal court and library and in
Oklahoma City are allowing people with traffic violations, certain municipal offenses,
and overdue library books to donate food in exchange for
lowering or eliminating their infractions.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
How cool is this on the week where we.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Kick off the twenty second annual Turkey drop for Melchrotter ministries.
The only reason I bring it up now, through the
rest of November and all of December, people with violations
in Oklahoma City are allowed to do such thing. Although
it's not the big city, it's Chickshaw, Oklahoma.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Absolutely nailed it. Yep, Yeah, that's what that place is.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
By the way, you won't get out of any traffic infractions,
but we'd love to see your bird on Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
We'll talk more about that as we get closer.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Congratulations to two local college football teams that will continue
their seasons going on. The far Es State Bulldogs, rate
number one in the country, finished off another perfect season
eleven and zero. They beat Davenport in the Calder City
Classic in Caledonia on Saturday, forty four to twenty three.
At eleven to zero, they are the top seed. They
are going to host Northwood coming up on Saturday and

(02:05):
be a one o'clock kick up in Big Rapids at
top Taggart Field. Congratulations to them, and the same can
be said for Peter Sersman and the Hope College Flying
Dutchman in Division three. They finished off the season as
they got the victory over the University of Olivet sixty
three to six to finish their regular season at nine
to one. They did not win the MIA Conference crown

(02:26):
that went to Elma just held off Adrian. But they
will take on Wisconsin lacrosse. They did on a bye
four week one, so they won't play until the Saturday
of Thanksgiving weekend, the twenty ninth, at noon, but they
will play at home at Race and Seusmith.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Stadium at number two.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
Police are calling this guy the Grinch who struck Christmas. Kingsburg,
California police are searching for a man who ran into
the city's giant Christmas tree and then sped away without
saying anything to anybody. Now, to be fair to this guy,
the trees in the middle of a road. They put
it in a turning lane, like as if we were
to put the Grand Rapids Tree on Fulton right in

(03:04):
front of Van Andel Arena, like straight in the middle
of the road. The city is saying that they were
able to fix it. The tree lighting ceremony will go
on as schedule that if anybody knows who hit it,
call the police.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
It was not Charlie Sheen, it was that Sutherland kid.
Isn't there a video of this? Probably before all of
your time? Keeferd Didn't he dive on a Christmas tree
in front of cameras?

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Probably Keifer was on a lot back then.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Look that up. Has there been a documentary about him?

Speaker 3 (03:28):
There hasn't been, but there should be.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Have you seen Lost Boys?

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, plays like a documentary instead of blood add cocaine.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Exactly there it is.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Finally number one of the less have a complaint about
potholes or trash, take it up at village hall. Don't
email or call a village in New York City. I'm guessing.
Ilandia on Long Island now requires complaints to be submitted
in person at the village's government offices because they've been
besieged by online grievances that have turned not.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
To be unfounded.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Like chat gpt is continuously sending stuff to complain about
things that don't really happen. The policy, adopted last month
prevents residents from using any online portal or complaints.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Until they have it all figured out. So there you go.
That is today's top five. Don't try that here