China's Fake Pandas

0:03 Caloroga Shark Media. Hey they're Chiney Mack with five good news stories. This first story is so ridiculous. A Chinese zoo busted. You know those pandas they have, Yeah, they're not pandas. They're dogs with their fur colored to look like pandas. A video was posted to the Chinese version of TikTok. It went viral, and it showed two fluffy chow chow dogs with their fur color to resemble pandas at the Shanwei Zoo. But hey, relax the sign that clearly identifies the animals as panda dogs. The sign reads, we are called Panda dogs, a pet dog that looks like a panda, tied and dressed up by chow chow.

0:45 We are gentle, smart, friendly, cute and adorable. A different zoo in China had a similar controversy earlier this year when their pandas turned out to be chow chow's with their fur dyed. The zoo spokesperson explained that the zoo put the dogs onto display because it doesn't have any pandas. Yeah we know. Meanwhile, in Japan, a penguin named pen Chun escaped from an event and was found two weeks later, after traveling eighteen miles. Penguins can move. Yeah. The penguin had escaped from an animal encounter event on a Japanese island. The penguin was allowed to swim. Oh, this makes more sense now, and it netted off area on the island, but managed to find a hole in the net that it escape. See. I was picturing this penguin walking eighteen miles.

1:29 I'm not that smart. This makes a lot more sense now. Organizers said that Penchan was bred in captivity, had never been in the ocean before. There'd been multiple sightings before they finally found Penchan eighteen miles from where she'd escaped. Staff members rushed to the area. Penchan swam to them when they called her name. Everything is okay, Yeah, that's how this show works. I'm not gonna suddenly bomb me with some horrible ending to any of these stories. Some high school students at the James Madison High School raised five thousand dollars and forty eight hours for their custodian, Francis. The goal here is to raise enough money to get him a jeep. The students found out Francis wanted to own a jeep, Wrangler. They created a GoFundMe and raised over twenty one thousand dollars. Francis, in a video, said I can't believe this. Freshman. Bennett led the initiative with six friends, adding on the go fund page that Francis had moved to the US a few years ago and ever since we met Francis, he's been super kind and friendly and sometimes even says prayers for us. Nice job by UPS driver Raheem. He was passing through his normal route in Georgia. He saw an elderly woman collapsed on her driveway. He called DMS. He stayed with the woman, and he has started referring to Marie as grandmother. Marie was checking on the hospital where emergency brain surgery had to be performed. She made it through. Raheem started a GoFundMe to raise money for the family. He kicked the fun drive off with one hundred dollars of his own money. Recently, Raheem received a letter from UPS's chief executive officer for his acts of heroism and they hooked him up with tickets to the Florida State University football game. Well, good news,

3:01 sort of, maybe bad news for one guy. A California man discovered he's been paying his neighbor's power bill for eighteen years. Ken noticed that his specific gas and electric bill was going up, so he tried to reduce his energy usage. Told the CBS Sacramento, I thought there was a leak, or someone was stealing my electricity, or the meter was faulty, because something wasn't right. The utility company sent somebody out to check out Ken's meter and discover the company had been charging him for the apartment next door. It may have been happening for eighteen years. In a statement, they said, we acknowledge an error occurred in this instance, and we're fully committed to rectify in the situation. So that's good news for Ken. But the people next door, your bill's about to go up. But those are your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They may like it too.

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