Dec. 18, 2024

Dads in Action, Record-setting Art, and Freezing Fun: 5 Heartwarming Stories

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting stories: A dad heroically stops both a runaway lawnmower and his 18-month-old son from potential danger, a New Jersey man celebrates his engagement after a face and hand transplant, Nigerian artist Fola breaks the Guinness World Record with a massive drawing, Canada holds an annual hair freezing contest, and English police request the public to stop chasing an emu for easier rescue.

01:02 Inspiring Story of a Face Transplant Survivor
02:12 Nigerian Artist Breaks World Record
02:55 Canada's Annual Hair Freezing Contest
04:07 Police in England and the Emu Chase
04:38 Conclusion and Additional Shows

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Dads are gonna dad, and the Internet

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is fascinated by the acts of one dad. And Hello,

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I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories your headline.

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Dad juggles runaway lawnmower and eighteen month old son. Oh no,

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what happened. Aaron's out there with the lawnmower. His eighteen

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month son is nearby in a ride on toy car.

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The boy starts to roll down the driveway in the car.

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Oh no, if you've ever seen that happen, Those things

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can pick up speed really quickly. Well, Dad races across

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the lawn, abandoning the lawnmower to secure his son. Well

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that's good, but the lawnmower keeps going. So what does

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Dad do. He leaves the kid at the toy car

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and rushes back across to catch the lawnmower. But then

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the toy car starts to roll away again, so the

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guy has to go back across the law and he's

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got one hand on the mower and then grabs the kid.

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One person and captured in the video. Dad activated in

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New Jersey, a man who received a phase transplant after

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being severely burned in a car wreck has shared his

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engagement photos. Joe and Jessica are getting married. Back at

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twenty eighteen, Joe fell asleep at the wheel. He was

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left with burns covering eighty percent out of his body.

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The car swerved off the road burst into flames. He

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told news Week, I was in hospital for four months,

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and around half of that I was in a coma.

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Then I spent some time coming back to my feet

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somewhat quickly, and by the fourth month I went to rehab.

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Two years later, he became the first person received a

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successful face and double hand transplant twenty three hours of surgery.

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Joe told Newsweek he is about forty five percent use

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of his hands, and he's getting better at using his

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face to blink, raise his eyebrows, and move his lips.

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During his rehab, he connected with Jessica, who had seen

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the story in the news and reached out over Instagram.

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They hit it off. Jessica says I was drawn of

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the way that he carried himself in his interviews. He's

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a very hard working person, so despite being disfigured, he

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was just ready to go back to work. I think

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was his ambition that intrigued me the most. I was

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hoped i'd find someone like Joe, and I always imagined

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it was possible. Obviously, I hadn't expected to be with

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someone who had a transplant, but that's fine because it

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doesn't bother me. I just always wanted to be possible

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to find a person like him. In Nigeria, Fola has

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broken the Guinness World Record with a drawing measuring ten

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eight hundred and fourteen and a half square feet. His

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drawing is called the Unity of Diversity. He used waterproof

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markers on a canvas. He did this at a five

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thousand seed stadium over the course of a few days.

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It's the world's largest drawing by an individual. It depicts

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a giant map of Nigeria bearing images of the various

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people's and cultural icons of the country's various regions. David

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told Guinness the Nigerian country is a multicultural nation. I

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wanted to create something that speaks to that and gives

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people an avenue to celebrate their cultures. Before embarking on

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this record drawing, I took a trip around the country

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to experience these different cultures personally, and it was this

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experience that I brought to the stadium to create this drawing.

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Nice job. Some folks are hoping it gets cold in Canada.

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Why why would you want that? It's so they can

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have the annual hair Freezing Contest. The competition began in

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twenty twelve, launched by a spa in the Yukon. Ten

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hours from Juno, Alaska is white Horse. Here's how this works.

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You go into the warm waters at the Eclipse Nordic

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hot Springs and if the outdoor temperatures are cold enough,

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people can make their hair freeze into wacky shapes. Now

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they need temperatures to drop below negative four degrees fahrenheit

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for an extended period to get the best frozen hairstyles

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that could win you two thousand dollars in prize money.

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Contest categories include best Female and Male, Best Group, Best

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facial Hair, and a People's Choice Award. Now I can

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tell you about this. In my house, we have I

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call it the one hundred degree Club. If it ever

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gets below zero degrees, we go in the hot tub,

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which is set for one hundred degrees. You have to

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sprint from the house of the hot tub. I know

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first world problems for me, but I have found when

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you sit in the hot tub, your hair starts to

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freeze up, so I see what these people are doing.

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And when your hair is frozen, yes, you can make

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wacky shapes with it. Last year it didn't stay cold

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enough for long enough, so they didn't get to do

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the content. Organizers say the best results are at minus

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seven degrees. The colder it is, the better and faster

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the freezing effect. Meanwhile, in England, the police are asking

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you to stop using your all terrain vehicle, stop chasing

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the emu. Yes, we know about the emu. We've seen

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the emu. We called in the National Exotics Animal Rescue Service.

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They're trying to capture the emu. On social media, the

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police said experts have been trying to gain her trust

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by feeding her in the same spot for a while. However,

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efforts are being scuppered and staff and volunteers are concerned

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because members of the public have been chasing her in

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four by fours. So cut it out, will you. I

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will let you know if they capture the emu. And

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