April 3, 2023

Get your McDonald's fries with no salt! PLUS a woman finds $15,000 and you won't believe whose it was

Get your McDonald's fries with no salt! PLUS a woman finds $15,000 and you won't believe whose it was

If you found $15,000 on teh side of the road would you give it back?

A McDonald's employee has the hack for getting fries without salt

Some photos from World War II lead to an incredible reunion

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The Shark Deck. I'm Johnny Mack
with five good news stories. Good news

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for Diane Gordon. Her car broke
down. Well that's not good news,

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Johnny Mack. Why are you being
such a jerk. No, she had

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a walk to work and one day
on the walk she found fifteen thousand dollars

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as well fourteen seven and eighty dollars
to be exact. Yeah, about a

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year ago, Diane Gordon's jeep Liberty
broke down and ever since she's been walking

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two and a half miles each way
to and from work five days a week.

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She couldn't afford a new car.
One day, she spotted a ziploc

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bag with the fifteen grand in it. I happen to look down there was

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a bag of money. I picked
it up and there was some papers that

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went with it, and I turned
it over and there was even more money.

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She knew that keeping the money would
be life changing, but she refrained

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from opening the cash field bag.
I just looked at it and I knew

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it wasn't mine. I knew what
I needed to do. She went in

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to a gas station and called the
police, ready for the twist. The

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police called her back at two hours
and said they found whose money it is?

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Now, I'm thinking, like,
all right, drug dealers or something.

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No, it was a young couple
who had gotten married earlier in the

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day. The police chief said there
were wedding cards with a name on it.

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We were able to get the money
back to them. Gordon said,

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if it doesn't belong to you,
you don't keep it. I didn't do

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anything special. All I did was
return something that didn't belong to me.

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But wait, there is more.
So. Stacy Connell, whose husband was

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the police officer that responded to the
initial call, was touched by Gordon's selflessness

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set up a go fund me.
Stacy Connell said, as a police officer's

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wife, I typically hear the bad
things, so this was obviously heartwarming.

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I was hoping we could get her
a car in less than a week.

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More than sixty thousand dollars was donated
from strangers. Gordon used the money.

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She's got a brand new green Jeep
Compass. She says, I absolutely love

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it. It's got a steering wheel, warmer and a backup camera, all

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these things I've never had before.
He's also looking forward to driving to work

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and I'll only take ten minutes instead
of an hour. A jogger at San

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Francisco's Ocean Beach helped save a dog
who was trapped under some large rocks.

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The jogger was running along the beach
here to bark side to stop, and

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he found a dog looking up from
the rock. Animal control officers raced to

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the scene pulled the dog to safety. It's not clear how the dog became

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trapped. The dog's named Gwen,
and it was reunited with their family.

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That's awesome. How about this one? A Portland senior tracked down an Okinawan

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family based on the photos left behind
in an album her late husband plucked from

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the shrapnel strewn beaches of Okinawa in
nineteen forty five. Yeah, nineteen forty

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five, the Navy and Marines landed
on the beaches of Okinawa during the closing

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stages of the war the Pacific.
Duke Wheedon stormed the beaches as part of

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the Third Wave. He found himself
holding a black photo album filled with pictures

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of family, toddlers and the high
schoolers. Duke had enough humanity in him

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to hope that one day the album
might be returned. After the war.

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Duke passed away in twenty twelve.
His youngest son, Ken, found the

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album in his navy trunk in the
family home in Portland, Oregon. Duke's

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second wife, Carolyn said, most
family members thought it was lost cause,

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reminding me how long ago it had
happened and how many people had been killed

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in the war, in addition to
those who died of old age. My

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youngest son and his friend, however, started the search within husiasm. They

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made a few calls, most of
which were never returned. Carolyn mentioned it

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to her guitar teacher, who immediately
called his Japanese friends. They translated every

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page of the photo album. Then
they randomly ran into former Marine officer Eric

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Lundbergh, who used to teach English
on Okinawa and he lived there with his

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family. Lundberg happened to be visiting
Portland. He heard about the search and

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he said, all right, I'll
be the boots on the ground, And

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when he got back to Okinawa started
talking about it. Carolyn said, I

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made copies of some of the photos
for them and immediately recognized the logo on

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the shirts of a youth group.
Amazing was that back in Okinawa, our

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volunteers went to the town hall and
ask about members of the society and found

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themselves standing in front of a man
who was the elder of the group.

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He recognized a friend in the photos. He called the friend's sister to come

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immediately. She not only recognized her
brother, but also saw herself in some

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of the photos. Everybody met up
in Okinawa. They took a new photo

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to commemorate this most extraordinary union of
family, place and memory. Wow.

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Good news, if you're a wood
stork, you're coming off the endangered

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species list. The wood stork faced
extinction in nineteen eighty four. The population

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a decreased from twenty thousand nesting pairs
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program was started. Today, the
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thousand or more nesting pairs. Wood
Storks will remain a protected species. And

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yep, I've got another McDonald's story
for you. I know, I can't

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believe how many of these are.
All right, here is the trick of

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getting fresh fries without asking for no
salt. This from TikTok user Joda.

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See, all right, how do
you get fresh fries at McDonald's. What

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out having to ask for no salt? And why would I ask for no

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salt? Because that way you get
a new batch and then you add your

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own salt. Right, However,
Jodice on TikTok says that's completely unnecessary slows

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down the entire operation for yourself and
other customers. Here's that hack. Just

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say you want the fries drop fresh. Nine times out of ten, the

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fries are already drop fresh. She
also explained why you can never get a

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milkshake. You know how. It's
like a joke, but it's true.

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The ice cream machine is always broken
at McDonald's. She said, the ice

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cream machine is rarely broken, at
least in my location. We just don't

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want to change the heavy bags of
shake mix. She also said McDonald's employees

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are not allowed to take tips,
just in case you wanted to tip us,

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but I still took them though.
Hey, that's your five good news

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