Aug. 28, 2025

40 year old man gets stuck in tube slide

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A man places humorous signs around his town to bring joy. In another story, eight ponies escaped from a stable in Massachusetts and were safely returned by the police. Thirdly, Dean set a Guinness record by riding 55 roller coasters in one week. In Connecticut, a 40-year-old man was rescued after getting stuck in a tube slide at a playground. Lastly, in Australia, a surfer narrowly avoided a shark bite that destroyed his surfboard but left him unharmed.

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Callaroga Shark Media. I like this first guy. Hi, I'm

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Shohnnie Mack with five good news stories. A man has

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taken it upon himself to address what he referred to

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as a fun deficit in his town. He's been placing

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humorous signs in the style of public notices and road

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signs around town, hoping that they'll make people see things

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in a new perspective. For a few months, he's been

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putting up trick signs. One sign said people were entering

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a formal attire only zone. There's also a coffee control

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area which is monitored between five am and ten pm.

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I saw another sign that said an open air wrestling

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area for people sixty five and up was coming soon.

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He's not worried about what happens to the signs, as

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long as they spark a smile and get people to laugh.

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That's a lot of fun. Good news. We found your

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eight ponies. They had escaped from your stable in Massachusetts

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and the cops got involved. The poor folks at the

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Myopia Hunt Club stable found that the ponies had knocked

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down a fence. The manager said, all the ponies got out,

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they knocked the fence over and went on an adventure.

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They ran through the streets of Hamilton. Apparently these same

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ponies have escaped multiple times before, like once or twice

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each summer. The cops are going to get bored with this,

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or maybe the cops are bored. It'll be like, all right,

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we got something to do. Lieutenant Donovan said officers were

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able to draw on their previous experiences with escaped horses.

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He told Salem News. They're like cattle, and they follow

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each other. Once one goes, they all go. And that's

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typically why when you return them, if you get one

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of them to listen, the rest will follow. Congratulations to Dean.

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He now holds the Guinness record for most roller coasters

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written in one week. His goal was thirty. He did

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fifty five. He told Guinness World Records. I visited my

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first theme park as a teenager and quickly realized I

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love the adrenaline Russia enjoy finding new theme parks to

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visit and taking in the whole ambience, from theming, the

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music through the rides themselves. His original plan was to

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do over six, but then there was some weather issues

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and two of the parks unexpectedly closed and mill of

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the week. He is now on a quest to ride

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every roller coaster in Great Britain and Ireland. Uh. Good

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news for this guy, although I'm not sure you want

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to be this guy. Emergency responders in Connecticut were called

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to a playground a forty year old man had become

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wedged inside the middle of a tube slide. The Vernon

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Police got a call around four thirty for a confined

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space rescue of a forty year old adult male stuck

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in a tube slide in the playground. The man was

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said to be wedged feet and head first in the

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middle part of the slide at the Northeast Elementary School.

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Photos from the scene show the man had somehow ended

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up sideways with his body folded at the waist. Firefighters

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removed a section of the slide to reach the man.

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The man was freed within thirty minutes. He refused treatment

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and transport to a local emergency room at Good news

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for a surfer in New South Wales, Australia. Brad was

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in the water around seven twenty six am. Dark shape

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in the water next to him. He said it was

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an explosion of water and foam. He made it back

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to the shore the surfboard. Not so lucky. It was

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in two halves with a large bite taken out of

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the middle. Now I saw a picture of this surfboard. Okay,

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draw a surfboard and then draw like a ridiculous shark

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bite in the middle of the surfboard, like a big one,

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like a kid would draw. That's what this looks like.

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A few minutes later, a drone captured a great white

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shark estimated to be sixteen feet long, on the camera.

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The good news is everybody's okay, except, of course, the surfboard.

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