July 9, 2026

Fake butts and other items left behind in Ubers

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: Uber’s 10th Annual Lost and Found Index lists common forgotten items like phones and wallets alongside oddities such as dentures, breast milk, an ankle monitor, live fish, butterflies, a fake butt, and even two trees; New York City tops the most forgetful cities, Sundays are worst, and July 17 is the most forgetful date. In Sydney, a concertgoer named Sterling stepped in to sight-read and improvise as pianist during a La La Land score performance after the original pianist fell ill. A Norwegian underwater survey found a 72-foot shipwreck about 2,000 feet down with intact Chinese porcelain cargo, likely sunk around 1750. Scotland residents report a destructive parakeet damaging car rubber seals and wipers. In Lexington, animal control chased a loose chicken that even took a dip in a pool before ending up safe at a shelter.

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Caloroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. If you've ever left something in an uber,

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You're not alone. They have released the tenth annual Lost

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and Found Index. Ay, look at the items passengers most

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frequently and most bizarrely leave behind. The most common things

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left behind, Yeah, phones, wallets, luggage, keys, headphones, clothing, passports, glasses,

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jewelry and laptops. Then some other things dentures with only

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two teeth, breast milk, human hair, and an ankle monitor,

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a sack of marbles and oxygen tank, and a group

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photograph of Donny Osmond. Other items left behind. A live fish,

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poor thing, I wonder what happened to it? A mannequin,

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two trees, a police radio, a kitchen faucet, a double

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door oven. You left that behind? A package containing live butterflies,

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what happened to those? A child's prosthetic eye, and a

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photograph featuring a rhinestone decorated image of Jesus. America's most

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forgetful cities New York City, followed by Miami, Chicago, San Francisco,

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La Washington, Dallas, Boston, Atlanta, and Newark, New Jersey. Where

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there's a big airport. Sundays are the most forgetful day

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of the week July seventeenth, the distinction of being the

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single most forgetful day of the year, so consider yourself warned.

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Uber also highlighted some of these strangers items left behind

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over the past decade. Those included a lost lobster, divorce papers,

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the head of a salmon, a large painting of Cape Middleton,

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five hundred grams of caviare, a poodle like an actual pool,

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and a fake butt. Moving on, a movie about chasing

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your dreams has produced a real life version of its

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own story when a concertgoer was suddenly asked to join

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the professional orchestra. In front of twenty five hundred people,

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there was a live performance of the score from the

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movie Lalla Land at Sydney's Darling Harper Theater. That theater,

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Sterling was in the audience attending a show when there

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was a problem that stopped the show during intermission. The

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concert's pianist became too ill to continue. Backstage, organizers were

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scrambling to find a replacement. Finally, the conductor justin walked

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on to the stage and said, I figure nobody's as

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close as they are, so I just thought, we have

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twenty five hundred people in there. He asked if anyone

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in the audience was a trained pianist and an expert

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site reader capable of performing the rest of the concert.

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Sterling raised his hand. He was asked several follow up

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questions to make sure he understood what was being asked,

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and then he joined them on stage. Now. At one

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point he said, oh, no, I saw a difficult synthesizer solo.

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I saw it on the score and I thought, I

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don't know if I going to be able to site

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read that one in one go. I took a little

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bit of creative liberty and just decided to improvise, which

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I think ended up being a good choice. That is

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a lot of fun. A routine underwater survey in Scandinavian

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waters has led to one of the most remarkable shipwreck

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discoveries in recent memory. The wreck was found by Norwegian

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watchmaker and underwater explorer Espen. Spen operates a small underwater

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survey company. He was doing his thing and scattered across

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the sand where hundreds of pieces of Chinese porcelain, many

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of them still intact after nearly three centuries underwater. Another

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vehicle were covered about forty artifacts from the wreck site.

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The ship that they found measures about seventy two feet long.

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It sits upright roughly two thousand feet below the surface.

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Experts think it sank relatively quickly sometime around seventeen fifty,

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preserving both the vessel and its cargo. Some of the

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impressive stuff on the ship two distinct styles of Chinese porcelain.

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One features the familiar blue and white designs. The other

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is a Dhua porcelain, prized in Europe for its elegant,

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pure white appearance. Now residents in Scotland say they're being

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terrorized by a parakeet. Yes, the parakeet has been roaming

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around the area since February and is being blamed for

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thousands of dollars of damage to local cars. According to residents,

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the loose parakeet as develops a habit of pecking away

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a rubber window, seals and windshield wipers, leaving car owners

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frustrated and repair bills mounting. Kathleen lives around there and

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says parakeet is not a good word round here. This

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little chap causes havoc on the cars. I've never seen

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the bird. I've just seen the damage it causes. Chris

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Anne also lives in the area and said sometimes it leaves.

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It can be away for a couple weeks and we think,

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oh good, we won't see it again. But then somebody

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will go out the next day and you'll hear a

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shout of he's back again. A spokesperson for Nature Scott

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said wildlife experts have put forward three main theories for

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this destructive behavior. One they're defending their territory against their

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own reflection. Two they crave certain fats or minerals in

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the rubber, or three they're simply exploring and playing out

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of boredom. In Lexington, an officer was dispatched after reports

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of a chicken wandering loose throughout the neighborhood. According to

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animal control officials, the chicken led everyone on a lively

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chase throughout the neighborhood before making an an unusual deed tour,

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the agency posted on social media. This adventurous little gal

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kept everyone on their toes, even taking a quick dip

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in a neighbor's pool, before finally deciding her wild night

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out was over and finding a safe landing with us

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at the shelter. Why the chicken went in the pool,

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don't know. Sounds like the setup to a joke. Officials

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are trying to figure out where the chicken came from,

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but they report that the chicken is safe and dry.

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And those are five KAY News stories for today. Have

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an awesome day.