Goldfish Rescue Mission in NYC

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, they are Shinny Mack with five good news stories. A ninety four year old Englishman decided to go on the world's fastest zip line to raise money for his local hospice care. He's a great grandfather of four. His wife passed away five years ago to cancer. For the last few months of her life, she had been cared for by Saint John's Hospice, which it also had provided end of life care for one of David's friends at mister Kilby. So ninety four year old at David and at mister Kilby's widow who's seventy took a trip to zip World for ride on the fastest zip line in the world that can reach speeds of one hundred miles per hour. David told the English news media SWNS, I've heard of the zip line, but I didn't think to do it until missus Kilby mentioned it to me.

0:49 When we rang up to book it in, I said I was ninety four and they said I'm probably the oldest person to do it. They checked and I am the oldest person to do it. On the day, the zip line was over and done in less than a minute because it was so fast. I was nervous, but also excited, and I really enjoyed it. Using a crowdfunding page, they raised more than ninety five hundred pounds. Nice job there. A chef has been able to return to his kitchen thanks to a floating seat, which was invented after a motorcycle injury made the chef immobile. A sea shaped metal hook is suspended on a set of rails from the ceiling and allows Chef Lammer to float along the kitchen while setting his hands free to chop, dice, quarter and file A Ten years ago, Chef Lammer suffered a serious motorcycle injury that left him without the use of his legs.

1:35 His friend Bernard ran a nearby zip line adventure course and had an understanding of like, how you could do this kind of thing. They developed standing Ovation, a one of a kind device that allows disabled users to sit comfortably on a bicycle seat at the point of a large hook. The hook is attached to a railing on the ceiling that allows the user to slide up and down the workplace that leaves your hands free for work. With Standing Ovation, Chef Lammer can pull a pot off the stove and with a small flick of his leg go gliding down the kitchen line of the prep station. He's working in the kitchen of his restaurant, Johanneskeller. Nice job there, everybody. A baby walrus was found emaciated and dehydrated in Alaska after her herd left the area. She's now getting specialized care at a facility and will become a species ambassador, the Alaska Sea Life Center explained in a news release. In rehabilitation, staff act as surrogates, sitting with the calf around the clock and providing intensive care.

2:25 In the wild walrus calves remain with their mothers for one of two years. He can comfort through physical contact. Walruses are also highly social creatures. Chris Dodd is SeaWorld's chief zoological officer and said in a statement, Walruses are amazing ambassadors for the Arctic and an inspiration to us all to be better stewards of the planet we all share. A man has uncovered a cryptic riddle while redecorating his home, I'm intrigued or you, and he managed to track down the person who wrote it fifty years ago. Back in nineteen seventy five, Eileen was a teenager. The riddle says, I am here. You are there, separated by time alone. What's it like in the future? Or am I the path? You are my future? I am your past. I wish you a good day. Eileen is now in her sixties.

3:06 Eileen shared on social media the family who found the poem found me and have been in contact with me. Some people on social media chimed in one set as a carpenter writing weird, cryptic nonsense for future readers inside of walls as one of my passions. All right, i'd teld you the other day about the Streets Aquarium, the goldfish that are just in a puddle somewhere in New York City. We've got an update for you if you missed Wednesday's show. There's some goldfish that were living in a tree pit often flooded by a leaky fire hydrant. One of the local SAIDs, since the water is always sitting there in the puddle, we decided to turn into something interesting. They fortified at the edges of the tree bed with rocks and brick. They bought one hundred goldfish from a bet store for sixteen dollars and dumped them in.

3:48 Visitors have dubbed it the Hancock Street bedsty Aquarium. The news of the goldfish hit social media and some of your favorite podcasts. Well, it turns out two neighborhood residents, Emily and Max, carried out a rest mission. Using nets and plastic bags. They pulled about thirty goldfish from the two inch deep waters. They said they were rescuing the fish from inhumane conditions. Emily is a self described fish enthusiast, who said, I'm very aware of the optics of a white yuppie coming in the neighborhood and telling this man who's lived in the neighborhood's whole life, they doesn't know what he's doing. I do sympathize with that. I just don't want to watch forty fish suffocate in a puddle from their own waste. She's working to rehome the rescued fish, keeping them in tanks inside her apartment. Several people had contacted with her concerns about remaining fish. She says, I'm still concerned for the fish as well being, but I'm more concerned about the divisiveness in the community. The plan is to just keep the fish in place for a little longer two weeks at the time of me reading this to you and then donate them to neighborhood children.

4:45 And those are your five good news stories for today. If you would like this program without commercials, there's a link in the show notes let her tell you how to do that. Please check out our sister podcast that's called five Minutes of Gratitude five minutes Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Give you us a little something to think about and a daily affirmation. And if you like the program, a friend about it. They might like it too. You have an awesome day.