Each State has its own Replica Liberty Bell

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Did you know there's a Liberty Bell in every state? Hi? I'm a Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Yep. Back in nineteen fifty, the Treasury Department commissioned exact replicas of the Liberty Bell, one for each state that was part of a savings bond drive. They were cast by a foundry in France that's been making bell since seventeen ninety six. Each one weighs twenty eighty pounds, has the same markings as the original, and even has a fake crack. The bell's toward the county on flatbed four trucks. People bought saving bonds and got to ring the bell, and then the Treasury just gave him away to the states. There was no instructions on what you could do with them. Tom is a bell hunter.

0:44 He's made it his mission to find and visit as many of the replicas as possible. He's up to forty. He said it was a casual thing that turned into an obsession. He's got a website, Tom loves the Liberty Bells dot com. He called it just kind of a fun goof, but now he's the de facto expert on the bells. Some states have restored theirs ahead of the two hundred and fiftieth. Kansas's bell spent years disassembled in a parking garage before getting a place of honor outside of state office building. One of the bells, unfortunately, is gone. The Washington d c. Replica went missing from storage in the early eighties and has never been found. Tom suspects it was melted down for scrap. Good news if you're tired of plastic. Scientists have developed a plastic alternative made from hemp yep. Hemp, the cannabis plant. Hemp, can stretch up to sixteen hundred percent of its size and can handle boiling water without breaking down. University of Connecticut professor Gregory Satzeng said very few, if any plastics made from natural resources of this quality. The hemp based plastic could be used for things like water bottles, food packaging, and flexible electronics. Hemp is a fast growing weed that needs very little water and almost no pesticides. Could be a good idea there. In Albany, New York, people are trying to figure out what to do with a giant dog statue.

1:55 Nipper is a twenty eight foot tall white dog with black ears that been sitting on top of a warehouse Albany for almost seventy years. Nipper is the famous RCAA dog. You know that one, the one whose head is cocked to one side listening to a phonograph. Yep, you've seen the image up in Albany. You can buy Nipper socks, hats, stickers, shotglasses. Cody said, When I think of Nipper, I think of Albany. When I think of Albany, I think of Nipper. The problem the building has been unused for over a decade. Foreclosures been dragging out for years, and the city recently put a red warning on the entrance, the kind of tells firefighters use caution going in. Karen Macrey is with the Historic Albany Foundation and said it's definitely not a good thing for Knipper. He's attached to that building, so if something happens to it, it's going to be kind of hard to take him off of it. Albany's mayor is now trying to get Nipper added to the city's list of historic landmarks. What happens from there? Who knows?

2:45 He weighs four tons. Good news if you operate a vending machine at Singapore, you're about to get some upgrades. See An eighteen year old French student thought it would be a good idea to lick a straw from an orange juice vending machine at a shopping mall and put the straw back. He posted that on social media in Singapore, which is probably the worst place to do something like that. Singapore is known for limits on things like chewing gum, and heavy penalties for littering, and generally zero tolerance for shenanigans. The team was charged with mischief and public nuisance. Mischief carries up to two years in prison. Nuisance three months the vending machine company filed a police report, sanitized the dispenser, and replaced all five hundred straws in the machine. And now they've announced they're upgrading the machines to include individually packaged straws and compartments that only unlock after you complete your transaction. In Saskatchewan, a tow truck driver was on his way to a call when he spotted a moose frozen in the ice of a lake about half a mile from his house around five in the afternoon. The moose had been stuck there since eight forty five, in the morning, Clint made a decision. He called his customers and said, you're gonna have to wait. After they heard I was digging a moose out of the ice, they said no, okay. They were very understanding. Clint packed up his truck, lowered the bed, got a sling around the moose, winched him right out of the ice and onto the truck.

4:03 He then called his wife with an update and said, honey, and get some blankets. I've got a moose. By eleven PM, the moose was back on his feet, no longer interested in ear scratches. The moose hung around the property until the next morning and then headed off, which biologists say is totally normal behavior for rescued moose. Those are your fucking news stories for today.