March 5, 2026

Coyote Swims to Alcatraz

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Transcript

Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a coyote is filmed swimming ashore at Alcatraz Island, with park rangers alerted and an amateur naturalist saying it could survive briefly on the island; a decades-missing class ring found buried on a New Jersey beach by a metal detector enthusiast is traced from the initials “BW” to Barbara Ledge of Crete High School (class of 1966) and returned to her Nebraska family; an animal shelter in Nova Scotia reports having no animals currently available for adoption after placing 500 pets over the past 12 months; a 90-year-old woman’s long-stored sauerkraut crock is identified as exceptionally rare and sells for $32,000 at auction on her 91st birthday; and Suffolk County, New York police respond to a bank alarm caused by a deer that crashed through a window, which officers lasso and release back into the wild. He also plugs his podcast, Daily Comedy News.

00:10 Coyote Swims to Alcatraz
01:06 Lost Class Ring Found
01:57 Shelter Has Zero Pets
02:36 Sauerkraut Crock Windfall
03:43 Deer Bank Break In

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

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good news stories. You've heard of escape from Alcatraz? How

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about escape to Alcatraz? And what if I tell you

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it wasn't a person escaping to Alcatraz? It was a coyote.

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That's right. A coyote was captured on video somehow on

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Alcatraz Island. The only way it could have gotten there

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was by taking one of the ferries and maybe somebody

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would have noticed, or by swimming there. And sure enough,

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there is footage showing the coyote swimming ashore and climbing

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onto the Alcatraz shoreline. The park rangers were alerted they

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could not find said coyote. It is possible the coyote

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swam back, or it might be somewhere on the island.

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Janet is an amateur naturalist who has studied coyote behavior

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and says the animal could survive on Alcatraz, at least

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for a short period, because the island offers food sources

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and puddles of fresh water that could sustain the coyote.

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Janet told KPIXTV the best thing to do is leave

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the coyote alone, because this is it doing what it

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does best, which apparently is swim to Alcatraz. A class

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ring had been missing for decades. It was returned to

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a Nebraska family after it was discovered buried on the

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beach of New Jersey by a metal detector enthusiast. Andrew

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was doing his thing in bellmhar and found a ring.

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All we knew about the ring were the initials b W.

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He dug deep and somehow from b W. That led

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them to Crete High School in Nebraska. Andrew contacted the

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Crete Public Library. They worked with the Crete Public Schools

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Foundation to trace the initials. They figured out b W

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is Barbara Wilage, class of sixty six. Barbara's sister, Sandy said,

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we still have no idea how the ring got there. Again,

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Nebraska and belmore, New Jersey are not close to each other.

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Barbara's sister said, Barbara lived in Boston for a while,

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but how it got to New Jersey, who knows? Anyway,

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the ring is back. Good news for the at By

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to Water Animal Shelter, Nova Scotia. You know how many

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animals they had recently? None? Sam is the shelter's communication

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and marketing coordinator, and told the CTV it's crazy to say,

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but today we actually have no one available for adoption.

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Everyone is either adopted or waiting for their vent health certificate.

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That's fantastic, Sam said. Last year, around this time, adult cats,

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senior cats, or cats with medical complications were staying in

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the shelter a little bit longer than your average kitten.

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But this year we're not even seeing that. Over the

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past twelve months, the shelter placed five hundred pets, averaging

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forty one adoptions per month. That is awesome. I'd love

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to hear more stories like that. Now, let me tell

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you about Lois. Like many Midwestern families, Lois held onto

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an old Sauer Kraut crock for decades. It sat on

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the porch for forty years out there in the winter,

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and then ninety year old Lois started preparing for a

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yard sale. She thought maybe she'd get one hundred dollars

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for the crock. She contacted Ken the auctioneer. Now coincidentally,

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Ken the auctioneer was ready preparing for a major stoneware

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auction featuring dozens of antique red wing crocs. Can the

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auctioneer took a look. He noted the molded handles and

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the butterfly design. He immediately recognized it as exceptionally rare. Again,

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Lois was hoping for one hundred bucks. Can the auctioneer said,

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I think you're going to be surprised. On Lois's ninety

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first birthday, they auctioned this thing off thirty two thousand dollars.

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You see, according to Redwing Collectors dot org, only about

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twenty percent of red Wing salk lace places were signed

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on the side. Making such examples Holly sought afforter. The

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crocks were produced in red Wing, Minnesota from the late

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eighteen seventies until about nineteen hundred. Happy Birthday, Lois. And

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in Suffolk County, New York. The police have responded to

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an alarm at the bank. They did catch the suspect.

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The suspect was a deer that had crashed through a window.

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The Suffo County PD said officers were summoned to Webster

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Bank and Ridge when the alarm went off. They arrived

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to find that a buck had rashed through a window

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and became trapped inside, and the buck made a mess.

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The police were able to lass over the deer and

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lead it outside. It was returned to the wild. On

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social media, the Suffolk County PD posted and I kind

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of love this. We think the buck was looking for bucks.

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That's a good one. Oh, that reminds me. I host

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a podcast. It's called Daily Comedy News. So if you

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like the jokes, check out Daily Comedy News seven days

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a week. Wherever you found this show, you'll find that one.

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And those are your five good news stories for today.

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Have an awesome day.