A Birthday Invitation Gone Horribly Wrong and Inside the D.C. Trivia Cheating Scandal

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm
Johnning in five good news stories. It

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was a normal day in Montana and
then locals saw on unusual sighting. Now

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I'm expecting a moose to be part
of this story, but no, it's

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not a moose. It was an
elephant on the loose in Butte, Montana.

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The incident was captured on video by
locals. A man who appeared to

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be the handler of the elephant can
be seen running alongside the large mammal.

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Brittany posted a video on Facebook and
said an elephant walking down the road.

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Apparently the elephant had escaped from a
local circus, which was holding a show

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at the Butte Civic Center. The
circus did not immediately respond to a request

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for comment. At one point,
the elephant went to the bathroom on somebody's

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lawn. The elephant was eventually caught
and returned to the circus without injury.

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Peta encouraged people not to buy tickets
to any circus that forces animals to perform.

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Peter says elephants learn crucial social and
behavioral skills from their mothers and other

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relatives with whom they share intense emotional
bonds. Instead of experiencing all this in

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their natural homes. Elephants used in
circuses are exploited and made to do meaningless

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circus tricks on the road. A
hotel has won over some customers by mocking

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disgruntled guests who leave negative reviews.
The Petite Hermitage Hotel in West California has

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a four point five star overall rating
on Google and trip Advisor, and they

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mock anyone who leaves just one star. Rooms go for up to eight hundred

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and fifty dollars per night, and
the hotel told some visitors they need a

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dose of reality. They signed off
with replies like tally ho and even offered

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directions to a holiday inn, upset
one customer. One review criticized their twenty

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eight dollars fried chicken sandwich is being
inedible, proclaiming they'd rather have a Popeyes,

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to which the hotel said, we
can only aspire to the culinary heights

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of the Popeye Sandwich, and we
will endeavor to get there someday. Another

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review claimed the room had a bug
infestation on the balcony, but misspelled petit

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as petits. I don't know,
I splayed petit as pa ete. Maybe

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I'm not saying the first word correctly
doesn't matter. The hotel wrote back,

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we do ask at a bare minimum
that anyone leaving review does spell the name

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of the hotel correctly. It can
lead to confusion, especially among the roach

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community. Ethan Levine is touring the
United States to earn the Guinness title for

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most ceremonial first pitches thrown. On
April tenth, he threw one for the

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Hartford yard Goats, four days later
the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. From May eighth

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through the twelfth, he's working on
four different stadiums in the Greater Chicago area.

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Ethan said, I was just doom
scrolling one night and thought of it

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and checked to see if there was
a record. He figured a small town

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mayor somewhere must have a lifetime record
for first pitches, but he found nothing.

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He contacted Guinness, so they told
him it had set a benchmark of

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forty to qualify for the record,
which is so far unclaimed. He hopes

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to throw fifty. Ethan says,
a million cold emails and cole calls later,

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I'm sitting outside of Duncan Donuts Park. Oh A mom was left horrified.

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She tried to invite people to her
daughter's first birthday party. But you

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know, she didn't want to send
out paper invites, so she used one

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of those electronic things. She decided
to import contacts, not realizing she wouldn't

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be able to unimport some of the
contacts. She had to go on TikTok

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and caption her video if you received
an invitation? No, you didn't,

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she said, I just made an
invite for my daughter's first birthday party,

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and on evite it said import contacts. I thought it might be import to

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select through. No, it imported
all four hundred and eighty seven of my

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contacts and invited them to the birthday
party. Not only did it invite my

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boss and invited all my coworkers,
all the people that have ever been stored

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in my phone, and it sent
invitations based on how they're stored in my

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phone. I just want you to
take a second thing about everyone stored in

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your phone and how they're stored on
your phone, and then imagine them receiving

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the invitation. Wait, so,
like, did it look at like how

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you have people labeled? Like?
You know, I don't know how you

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have people on your phone. You
might have Joe Garage right, Joe's Name's

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not garage, he's Joe from the
garage. Or you know, maybe you

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have an X. I want to
know more. She explained she had someone

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saved in her phone as Derek,
followed by an eyroll Emochi exactly what I'm

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talking about, and yes he did
receive an invitation. Derek iyeroll Emochi another

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name that was in her contacts.
Jess hit her car in the parking lot.

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That's amazing. On a Wednesday night, you'll often find me at the

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local brewery playing trivia, which is
why I love this story from the Washington

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Post titled Inside the Cheating Scandal Rocking
DC's trivia scene. The Post tells us

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most week added brewery in d C. It's friendly trivia night, but recently

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it became the epicenter of a very
DC scandal. The Post says, by

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the time The Washington Post arrived to
investigate, the brewery looked like it usually

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does, millennials mostly sipping craft beers
at sticky wooden tables, But as patrons

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tip back pints, the staff scened
on edge. Oh no, what happened?

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One bartender wanted to talk about what
went down, but then he hesitated,

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yes, Supervisor, Hey, supervisor, should you be involved in this?

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Supervisor said no, and you shouldn't
be either. Uh oh, you

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see there were forty two teams playing
trivia. Jacob a regular notice something amiss.

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There was no photo featuring the prior
week's winners on the TVs. Then

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a slide appeared warning players against cheating. The warning said, don't use Shazam

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or your Apple Watch to figure out
the songs on the music ground. Don't

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throw you up in the air while
shazam is still on your Apple Watch over

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and could see that you're using it
to cheat. Hmm. At my place,

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people go to the bathroom at interesting
times. I'll leave it at that.

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One commenter on Twitter said how pathetic
do you have to be to cheat

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at boord trivia? Another said cheating
at trivia is a vile, sick o

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behavior and I will not rest until
the cheater is brought to justice and shamed

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out of town. Towards the end
of trivia night, they did a round

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about songs of betrayal, and then
the crowd began singing along to Carrie Underwood's

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