A 4-Year-Old's Museum Mishap OH NO!

0:03 Kalaroga Shark Media. Oh no, parents, you've been here, You're gonna know this feeling and the pit in your stomach. Him Chinny Mack with five good news stories. A four year old boy accidentally smashed a thirty five hundred year old jar. His family was touring a museum in Israel. The boy came across crockery that dates back to the Bronze Age roughly twenty two hundred to fifteen hundred BC. The father said his son pulled the jar slightly because he was curious about what was inside. You know what happened next, a smash. Dad's told the BBC. I was in shock. His first thought was it wasn't my child that did it? Oh, yes, it was, dad. The museum said it wasn't behind glass or anything, because they believe people should enjoy historic items without obstructions. The museum was cool about it, though, they said in this case, the jar was accidentally damaged by young child visiting a museum.

0:58 The museum believes the jar could be restored order to return to be displayed once again to show there's no hard feelings. The museum invited the child and family back for an organized tour. Keep your hands in your bucket son, all right, good job by coach Ryan. He may have broken a Guinness World record by shooting and thirty four three pointers in one hour. The previous record of one thousand, seventy seven was sent in twenty twelve. Coach Martin said, it's really just taking one shot at a time and having confidence in yourself and knowing they're prepared to do it. He's waiting back to here from Guinness to see if he officially took the title. In South Africa, the last elephant in South Africa's national Zoo was released back into the wild after forty years in captivity. The elephant was captured in nineteen eighty four when Charlie the elephant was just two years old. He was taken to a circus in South Africa and train to perform tricks until the early two thousands. Then he wound up in the zoo out of concern for his health, and animal welfare groups have been advocating for his release back into the wild.

1:51 He was released at the Shambala Private Reserve in South Africa. The reserve is famous for reintegrating animals back into the wild and has a thriving population of elephants. Charlie is already showing signs of a successful release. Do you like snakes? Indiana Jones might want to become friends with Thomas. Thomas drives the middle of the night through the Everglades because when the dew point drops, it's time for pythons. Thomas says, I catch more pythons. When that happens, It'll make things start moving. He's a contractor with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. He has hunted Burmese pythons in the Everglades for eleven years. He participates in the Florida Python Challenge, which is hosted by the Wildlife Commission to incentivize people to track down these invasive Burmese pythons that thrive in the wetlands. The pythons are notoriously hard to spot in the wild. Each female can lay twenty nine to fifty eggs on average. Their impact has been devastating. In one study from twenty twelve, the United States Geological Survey found that populations of raccoons had declined by ninety nine point three percent, opossum's down ninety eight point nine percent, and bobcats down eighty seven point five percent since the earth early two thousands. That's why they're hunting the snakes. More than six hundred hunters participated in this year's A Python Challenge.

3:07 Grand prize winner who humanly kills the most snakes receives ten thousand dollars. There are contractors. They get thirteen dollars an hour while driving the back roads, eighteen dollars an hour if they walk into the swamp, no thank you, and you get paid per snake fifty for the first four feet in length, plus twenty five dollars per subsequent foot. Thomas says, you're not gonna make a living doing this full time. There's no way you could do it. Somebody run the math on that Florida prohibits hunters from using firearms to kill pythons, and pythons are not venomous, so capturing them is a hands on experience. Tom ray Hill is a fellow contractor, says there's an art to catching a snake. Instead of jumping on the snake, you just kind of gently get up to it and just pick it up. Then you can stroke their belly, their belly scales.

3:51 You just pick up a wild python and do this. Thomas described a time he caught a seventeen foot python. All right, let's do the math there, right, seventeen feet, fifty dollars for the first four feet, twenty five bucks for each subsequent foot, So that's thirteen times twenty five. What's that two hundred fifty three hundred something dollars and then fifty like a four hundred dollars snake. Your math may vary. When he caught the seventeen foot python, he and his wife had to dance around the snake before he could wrangle the animal and control its head to keep the predator from plunging at them. Even then, a hundred needs a helper to keep the snake uncoiled until it calms down and can be double bagged to prevent escape. Once the snakes are caught, the hunters of twenty four hours to deliver them to the wildlife agency. It's illegal for any person other than a licensed contractor to transport a live invasive snake. Well, try explaining this one to your boss. Why were you late? Well, you see in La here the highway was backed up because a semi truck covered the roadway in boxes of French fries. The California Highway Patrol said the French fry truck crashed about three twenty in the morning on the southbound five and spread dozens of boxes of fries across the roadway. Traffic was backed up for several miles during the morning commute while crews worked to clear the freeway of fries. Two lanthes of traffic were reopened by eleven fifteen. No injuries were reported. And those are your five good News stories for today. If you would like this program without commercials, there's a link in the show notes tell you how to do that. Maybe a friend of yours would enjoy this program you could share with them. I really appreciate that it helps grow the show. And please check out our sister show, Five Minutes of Gratitude five minutes, three

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