Drone delivers steak and crab legs to prison
Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories, including Brian, an NYC dog matchmaker whose adorable outings result in high adoption rates. Scientists modify a parasitic fungus to combat mosquitoes more effectively than chemical insecticides. Francois, a French daredevil, sets a Guinness World Record by bungee jumping at 16 sites over eight years. Prison guards intercept a drone delivering steak, crab legs, and contraband to inmates. Lastly, Buenos Aires hosts a gathering of 2,397 golden retrievers, breaking the previous world record.
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0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. I love this first story so much that I kept a picture of this guy. Hi. I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Brian has become one of the most effective matchmakers in New York City, except he's matching dogs. Once a week, he heads to the animal care centers of New York City and loads a shelter dog into a backpack labeled adopt Me, and takes the dog out on an adventure subway rides walking around. On a recent outing, the dog was Bertha, a white pup with brown spots who had been found on the streets in October. That's the picture I kept inside the subway car. Bertha poked her head out of the backpack, licking Brian NonStop and leaning into strangers for scratches. A few days later, Bertha was adopted. Brian says that's the goal of every outing so far. He's taken out eleven dogs.
0:51 Ten were adopted shortly after the videos were posted. The lone exception involved a medical issue that needed to be resolved. Brian writes playful captions for each video. For Bertha, he wrote, Bertha loves kisses. Many mentions of kisses subway rides, hot dog specific toys being held, and making friends or one dislike certain stuffed animals. Ryan said, it's crazy to me to be able to see a real world direct impact that you're improving the life of another person and the life of a dog because it took a few hours to go make some content. Fantastic scientists may have found a new ally against mosquitoes by turning one of the mosquito's natural enemies into a precision engineered killer. Hope no mosquitoes are listening to this episode. They're not going to like this one. There's a parasitic fungus which attracts insects with a floral scent, but only after it's killed its first victim. Well, some scientists genetically modify the fungus to produce the scent, constantly pumping out the scent around the clock.
1:47 The compound is safe for humans. It's even used in perfumes, but irresistible to mosquitoes. In a test, the engineered fungus wiped out about half the mosquitoes. Unlike chemical insecticides, which mosquitoes are becoming resistant stance to this one has millions of years of evolution behind it. Making it harder for mosquitos to outsmart it. Now, what if they evolve to avoid this chemical, that would mean they'd have to avoid flowers entirely, which they need for food. Wow. Not good news for mosquitoes. A French daredevil who's into bungee jumping earned his second Guinness World Record by jumping at sixteen different commercial bungee jumping sites over the course of eight years. Francois's first record was by bunging jumping seven hundred and sixty five times in one day. Wow, that's one jump every two minutes. Now the second record jumping at sixteen different commercial bungee jumping locations over the course of eight years.
2:41 Some of the places include Austria's rupert Herner bungee Jumping, Canada's Greek Canadian Bungee, Nepal's The Last Resort, Switzerland's Double O seven bungee verses, and Zambia's Shearwater bungee. Francois says, while living my passion, I want to serve a good cause, with the motto give as much as I jump. He used his jumps to raise money for the Catholic charity group Carretas. Here's one out of a movie. A drone dropped steak and crab legs for a prisoner, but the guards at the jail found it first. The meal was dropped into the Lee Correctional Institution prison by a drone. The South Carolina Department of Corrections went on social media.
3:21 They showed a raw steak still in the grocery store, packing crab legs and old bay with the side plastic baggies of marijuana and a couple of cartons of cigarettes. All that was seized, as was the drone. Prison spokesperson said, I'm guessing the inmates who were expecting the package or crabby and good news if you like. Golden Retrievers and he were in Buenos Aires. Golden Retrievers from all across Argentina showed up at the Bosques del Palermo park and turned the park into a giant living bowl of yellow fluff. Golden retrievers sniffed one another enthusiastically. Some were dressed in soccer jerseys, others in two two's. One wore a Star Wars bandana. Meanwhile, a tea team of volunteers roamed with the park with clipboards counting every single golden They could.
4:05 The tally came in twenty three hundred and ninety seven Golden retrievers, shattering last year's world record of sixteen eighty five set in Vancouver. Fausto is the event organizer. He's also a Golden Retriever influencer thanks to his dog Ali. Fausto said, this is a historic event and those are your five good news stories for today. Have an awesome day.
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