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

0:03 Kalaroga Shark Media. Dads are gonna dad, and the Internet is fascinated by the acts of one dad. And Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories your headline. Dad juggles runaway lawnmower and eighteen month old son. Oh no, what happened. Aaron's out there with the lawnmower. His eighteen month son is nearby in a ride on toy car. The boy starts to roll down the driveway in the car. Oh no, if you've ever seen that happen, Those things can pick up speed really quickly. Well, Dad races across the lawn, abandoning the lawnmower to secure his son. Well that's good, but the lawnmower keeps going. So what does Dad do. He leaves the kid at the toy car and rushes back across to catch the lawnmower. But then the toy car starts to roll away again, so the guy has to go back across the law and he's got one hand on the mower and then grabs the kid.

0:57 One person and captured in the video. Dad activated in New Jersey, a man who received a phase transplant after being severely burned in a car wreck has shared his engagement photos. Joe and Jessica are getting married. Back at twenty eighteen, Joe fell asleep at the wheel. He was left with burns covering eighty percent out of his body. The car swerved off the road burst into flames. He told news Week, I was in hospital for four months, and around half of that I was in a coma. Then I spent some time coming back to my feet somewhat quickly, and by the fourth month I went to rehab. Two years later, he became the first person received a successful face and double hand transplant twenty three hours of surgery.

1:38 Joe told Newsweek he is about forty five percent use of his hands, and he's getting better at using his face to blink, raise his eyebrows, and move his lips. During his rehab, he connected with Jessica, who had seen the story in the news and reached out over Instagram. They hit it off. Jessica says I was drawn of the way that he carried himself in his interviews. He's a very hard working person, so despite being disfigured, he was just ready to go back to work. I think was his ambition that intrigued me the most. I was hoped i'd find someone like Joe, and I always imagined it was possible. Obviously, I hadn't expected to be with someone who had a transplant, but that's fine because it doesn't bother me. I just always wanted to be possible to find a person like him. In Nigeria, Fola has broken the Guinness World Record with a drawing measuring ten eight hundred and fourteen and a half square feet. His drawing is called the Unity of Diversity. He used waterproof markers on a canvas. He did this at a five thousand seed stadium over the course of a few days.

2:30 It's the world's largest drawing by an individual. It depicts a giant map of Nigeria bearing images of the various people's and cultural icons of the country's various regions. David told Guinness the Nigerian country is a multicultural nation. I wanted to create something that speaks to that and gives people an avenue to celebrate their cultures. Before embarking on this record drawing, I took a trip around the country to experience these different cultures personally, and it was this experience that I brought to the stadium to create this drawing. Nice job. Some folks are hoping it gets cold in Canada. Why why would you want that? It's so they can have the annual hair Freezing Contest. The competition began in twenty twelve, launched by a spa in the Yukon. Ten hours from Juno, Alaska is white Horse. Here's how this works.

3:11 You go into the warm waters at the Eclipse Nordic hot Springs and if the outdoor temperatures are cold enough, people can make their hair freeze into wacky shapes. Now they need temperatures to drop below negative four degrees fahrenheit for an extended period to get the best frozen hairstyles that could win you two thousand dollars in prize money. Contest categories include best Female and Male, Best Group, Best facial Hair, and a People's Choice Award. Now I can tell you about this. In my house, we have I call it the one hundred degree Club. If it ever gets below zero degrees, we go in the hot tub, which is set for one hundred degrees. You have to sprint from the house of the hot tub. I know first world problems for me, but I have found when you sit in the hot tub, your hair starts to freeze up, so I see what these people are doing.

3:52 And when your hair is frozen, yes, you can make wacky shapes with it. Last year it didn't stay cold enough for long enough, so they didn't get to do the content. Organizers say the best results are at minus seven degrees. The colder it is, the better and faster the freezing effect. Meanwhile, in England, the police are asking you to stop using your all terrain vehicle, stop chasing the emu. Yes, we know about the emu. We've seen the emu. We called in the National Exotics Animal Rescue Service. They're trying to capture the emu. On social media, the police said experts have been trying to gain her trust by feeding her in the same spot for a while. However, efforts are being scuppered and staff and volunteers are concerned because members of the public have been chasing her in four by fours. So cut it out, will you. I will let you know if they capture the emu. And those are five good news stories for today. If you like the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. If you like the program without commercial interruption, you can get this show and like twenty plus others, including Palace Intrigue. We talk about the royal family every day.

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