Oct. 1, 2026

70,000 Pints of Guiness gone missing!

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Johnny Mac shares five upbeat stories: a 15-year-old, Derek, survives two days on an overturned fishing boat in Alaska’s Bering Sea and is rescued by a Coast Guard crew and a nearby vessel; the Metropolitan Opera hires a boa constrictor named Princess (with understudy Nala) for a Mozart production reset at a 1950s Coney Island carnival after singer Zoe auditions the snakes; in Hungary, 19 teams compete in a grave-digging contest to highlight the skill and effort, won by Robert and Laszlo in 1:21; Callum, 23, born without arms, races using his feet and trains with Team Brit toward a Le Mans goal; and police in England seek 70,000 stolen pints of Guinness, with a related Pabst theft noted.

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Yikes! Hi, I'm Johnny Mac with five good news stories.

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A 15-year-old boy is back home after surviving two days

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on an overturned fishing boat in Alaska's Bering Sea. Yeah, wow.

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Derek's mother said the boat overturned on Saturday and he

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spent the next two days on top of it without

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food or drinking water. With the sea temperature around 50

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degrees on Monday morning, a Coast Guard air crew spotted

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him A nearby fishing vessel reached Derek and brought him aboard.

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He was showing signs of hypothermia. Derek's mother said they

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were out there trying to help feed people in the community.

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The family lives in Savunga, a village of about 800

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people on St. Lawrence Island. Mom called him my survivor.

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His story's amazing, and he was never afraid the whole time. Wow.

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A boa constrictor named Princess has a new job at

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New York's Metropolitan Opera, and she had to audition for

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the job. There's even an understudy. A slightly smaller boa

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named Nala is ready if Princess cannot go on. They're

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doing a version of Mozart, but the action's been moved

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to a 1950s Coney Island carnival, which is why you

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need a snake. This is great. Zoe plays the snake

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charmer and helped choose the reptilian co-star. At the audition,

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Zoe handled the snakes, let them move around, and lifted

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them overhead to test the routine they'd be doing on stage.

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She said, I need to know what the animal is

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comfortable with people doing and what we're doing. Afterwards, she said,

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we'll be moving forward with Princess the Big Sunglow Boa Constrictor,

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who is Yellow Peach. She's a wonderful snake, and the

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trial wasn't about her, but rather about me and my strength.

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In Hungary, 19 teams spent a Saturday competing to dig...

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The Best Grave. That's a trophy you need to explain

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before you start showing it off. The contest took place

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at a cemetery in northern Hungary. Two people on each team,

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and you could only use shovels, spades, and pickaxes to

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work with. The dry summer soil made them earn every inch.

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Organizers wanted to give people a better appreciation of the

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skill and physical effort involved in grave digging. Robert and

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Laszlo won, completing their grave in one hour and 21 minutes.

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Robert said speed is the main thing here, not the beauty.

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Callum sent a racing team an email asking for a chance.

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Now at age 23, he has a set site on

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the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. Callum was born

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without arms. He steers with his left foot and works

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the accelerator and brake with his right foot. On the track,

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he's already reached speeds above 110 miles an hour. He explains,

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my feet are like my hands. I write with my

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right foot. I play Xbox with my feet. I play FIFA,

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Call of Duty. I play guitar with my feet. I

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eat by myself. I use a normal knife and fork.

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At age two, he started watching motorcycle racing with his grandfather.

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Years later, he contacted Team Brit, whose racing drivers all

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have disabilities. He explained the racing started off with an

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email expressing my interest in racing. And I said, if

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they were interested in making my dreams come true, I'd

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be forever grateful. They got back to me. I passed

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some tests with instructors, did a skid test, and it

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went from there. He's now working towards a racing license.

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He's training at Donington Park. Some of the details, a

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flat steering plate gives his left foot control of the

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car's direction. He explains, on top of the accelerator, I

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have an indicator switch, which gives me buttons for the horn, headlights,

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window wipers, etc. It's hard. There's a lot of eye-to-foot coordination.

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The biggest surprise to me is how heavy the steering

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feels in a race car. Everything is stiffer, but I

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love it, and I'm quite keen to get it sorted

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and motivated to get it done. Police in England are

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looking for 70,000 pints of Guinness. John, did you say 70,000

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pints of Guinness? I did. 70,000 pints of Guinness. Two

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drivers pulled into an industrial park near Liverpool, and they

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drove away with trailers holding about 800 barrels of Guinness stout.

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The beer was supposed to be heading to pubs. The

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Guinness alone was worth around $ 150, 000. The trailers add on

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another $ 67, 000. Detective Sergeant Gary said it is famously said

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that Guinness is good for you, but that's only the

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case when it's been bought and paid for. We will

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settle for nothing less than the full recovery of all

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the items stolen. There seems to be a wave of this. 34,000

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cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon disappeared from a warehouse in

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Southern California. Pabst went on Instagram and said to the thief,

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we don't fault you for wanting to brag to your

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friends about how much PBR you have. We just wish

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you obtained it the honorable way. P.S. This is real.

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We're deadly serious. John, I'm not sure that was a

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good news story. No, but it was fun. Sometimes they're

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just fun. And I didn't do any Guinness records in

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