Aug. 23, 2026

Churro the Burro returns after VIP Ferry Adventures

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Johnny Mac delivers “five and a half” good news stories, starting with his dogs safely getting back inside on their own. In British Columbia, a five-year-old is reunited with his pink stuffed donkey after BC ferry staff turned it into a social media star, renaming it Churro the Burro. In Illinois, a maintenance worker is stranded 130 feet up inside a gas station sign for about five hours after a boom lift malfunctions, and is rescued using a replacement boom. In Japan, a vending-machine-sized “human refrigerator” cools one person at a time to 59 degrees and sells for about $9,300. In Poland, Damian sets a record for full-body contact with snow at 2:12:12. In Ohio, a kitten named Gelato gets a homemade Hot Wheels wheelchair to move around.

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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and a half a good News stories. Good news for me.

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I found the dogs. So what happens is I record

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a bunch of these in a row. Once I'm down

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in the studio. It just makes more sense to knock

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out a whole bunch of them. And I had let

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the dog out. One of the two dogs, the s

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Oller dog, was out in the yard all morning. He

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was hanging and then I let the other one out.

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And I come down here and I'm recording a bunch

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and I'm like, oh, yeah, the dogs are out there.

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I hope they didn't run away. And I went upstairs

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and the back doors wide open, and I'm like, huh,

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they're not out here. Who let them in? They apparently

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somehow let themselves in. One's sitting comfortably in the crate

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and the other is in the comfy chair. So that's

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your half story. Meanwhile, in British Columbia, a five year

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old boy has been reunited with his favorite stuffed toy

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after an online search turned the missing donkey into his

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social media celebrity. The pink stuff junkey was discovered aboard

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a BC ferry after a trip between Victoria and Pender Island.

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Rather than simply placing the toy in the Lost and Found,

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the ferry staff had been sharing photos of its adventures online.

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The plush donkey, which picked up the name Churo the Burrow,

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was photograph visiting parts of the ferry that passengers rarely see,

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including the bridge, the engine room, and the onboard gift shop.

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Social media picked us up. That's when Abigail noticed the

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toy belonged to her son Alfie. She said the family

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hadn't even realized that the donkey had gone missing. She

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told the CTV, We're really grateful. This is a very

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special experience for them to have a peek behind the curtain.

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The toy is keeping its name and had previously been

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known simply as Donkey. It will now officially answer to

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Turo the Burrow. Oh Boy, an Illinois maintenance worker, got

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an unexpected stay at work after becoming stranded one hundred

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and thirty feet above the ground inside a towering gas

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station sign. This happened on I fifty five in Wilmington.

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The guy got up there, he took a boom you know,

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a boom lift, and the boom lift malfunctioned, so the

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guy was trapped inside the roadside sign at around eleven

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o'clock Tuesday morning. The fireman responded, but there was a problem.

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Their tallest ladder can only go about one hundred feet,

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and as I told you, the guy was one hundred

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and thirty feet above the ground. Emergency crews used a

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drone to check in on them while they figured this out.

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The solution was a replacement boom was brought in from

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a nearby Juliet under an Illinois State Police escort. They

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got him down around four o'clock in the afternoon, so

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he spent five hours up there in the sign. It's

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been a hot summer and in Japan one company is

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hoping people will cool off by stepping inside what they

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call a human refrigerator. The new device is about the

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size of a typical Japanese vending machine and is designed

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to cool one person at a time inside. The temperature's

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fifty nine degrees chilled air is directed as the users

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head necked, shoulders and back to help lower body temperature quickly.

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If you would like one of these personal air conditioned rooms,

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they're selling for about ninety three hundred dollars or you

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could go this route. Congratulations to Damien, who has set

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the record for longest time spent in direct full body

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contact with snow. Damien remained buried for two hours, twelve

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minutes and twelve seconds during an event in Poland. Now

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that was back in February, not in the middle of

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the summer. He had previously set the Guinness record for

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longest duration of full body contact with ice. He lasted

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with the ice five hours, one minute and thirty two seconds. Again,

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snow two hours, twelve minutes and around this time of

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year sounds like a pretty good idea. In Ohio, a

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shelter kitten who couldn't walk got a second chance thanks

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to a homemade wheelchair built from hot wheels, toy cars,

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and a little creativity. Gelato arrived at Cincinnati Animal Care

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with a spinal injury that left his back legs two

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weeks to support his weight. He couldn't stand or walk

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on his own. Vets were encouraged because he could still

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move his legs and ad normal ball and bladder function.

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The problem was Geelatto was too small for any of

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the mobility devices the shelter already had. That led Mallory

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to build one herself. She told the local news he

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really wanted to play and walk around, so I used

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to what I had. What she had was cardboard rulers,

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some hot wheels, toy cars, and plenty of duct tape.

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She built a custom wheelchair that allowed Gelatto to move

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around on his own. She explained on Instagram. Shelter Medicine

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is all about working with what you have and a

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little creativity can go a long way. And those are

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