Sept. 27, 2025

Good News about The Ring and Run Slug. Well, "run" is doing a lot of work here.

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First, 8-year-old William is reunited with his stuffed animal thanks to the efforts of a Wyoming sheriff. In another story, a cat named Zena is found 900 miles away from home in a North Carolina shelter and reunited with her owners. Christian sets a world record for running 100 meters backward in high heels, among other quirky records. A nurse in Kentucky rescues a raccoon that got drunk on fermented peaches in a dumpster. Finally, in Bavaria, Germany, police solve the mystery of a doorbell ringer, which turns out to be a slug.

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

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good news stories. Good news for eight year old William.

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He's got a stuffed animal back. Yeah. The family was

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heading home from a ski holiday. They stopped off at

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a restop in Wyoming and there was a lot of

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wind on the interstate that day. William was in the

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back of the car with the dog, plushy named Dog.

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Mom went out to get sandwiches from the cooler in

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the trunk. When William opened the door, there was some

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winds and off went dog. Dog landed in some high weeds.

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They couldn't find it. Nobody noticed until they got to

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the motel in Kansas and dog was missing. They cleaned

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out the car, couldn't find dog. William. Of course, upset

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Dad used Google Maps to find the rest area where

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they had eaten lunch. They saw it was in Carbon County.

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They contacted the local sheriff's department. Bill wrote an email,

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Dear Sheriff, here's what happened. The next morning I got

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an email back from the sheriff. I commend you for

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taking your child's emotional well being so seriously. Nothing would

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make me happier than seeing if we can help insure

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dog's safe return to Saint Louis. Our patrol division has

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been notified. I'll attempt to search the area later today.

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Please tell your son were on the case. They did that.

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The sheriff texted Deputy Tyler and said, hey, go look

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for the stuffed animal if you got some time. The

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deputy was like, that's weird, but okay. Well, Bill got

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an email, a text, and a voicemail from the sheriff.

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Good news, we found dog Zena. The cat has been

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reunited with her family in Florida. She was found in

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a North Carolina animal shelter nine hundred miles from home.

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The police had responded to a report of an injured cat.

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They were able to capture the feline and bring it

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back to the shelter. The shelter had one of those chips.

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How did the cat make it so far? Apparently the

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cat had wriggled out of a harness. When the family

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visited the area during Fourth of July weekend, they apparently

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hadn't found the cat. They made the nine hundred mile

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drive and picked up the cat. It's good congratulations, a

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guest to Christian. Christian broke the world record four fastest

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backward one hundred meters in heels. These records are out

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of control, folks. We got to dial this back a

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little bit. I like the content, but what are we

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doing anymore? Christian did one hundred meters backwards in high

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heels in sixteen point five five seconds. The previous record

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was a really slow twenty point oh five seconds. No

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wonder he broke it. There are rules. The heels had

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to at least be two point seven six inches and

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no wider than point five to nine inches, So don't

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show up with some point six inch heels. Those don't count.

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We take this seriously. Now. This dude holds eighty Guinness

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World Record titles. Again, I don't know what we're doing, folks.

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Those records include fastest four hundred meters in clogs one

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minute one point three eight seconds, Fastest one hundred meters

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wearing flip flops twelve ten seconds, Fastest mile traveled while

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balancing a pool queue on a finger five and fifty

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two point three seconds. Fastest one hundred meters on a

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spacehopper twenty nine point nine one seconds. Fastest one hundred

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meters carrying an egg on a spoon in the mouth,

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seventeen point twenty one seconds, and of course, the fastest

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fifty meters backwards wearing swim fins eight point eight two seconds. Well,

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good news for the drunk raccoon. A nurse in Kentucky

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found a drunk raccoon in a dumpster. She decided she

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would save its life. She explained to the news she

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was curious because the dumpster smelled like alcohol. She went

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over and found the raccoon. Apparently, the distillery had discarded

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some fermented peaches in the dumpster and two juvenile raccoons

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had gotten stuck. She told the local news. I was like,

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we have to get them out. Was the motherly instinct

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in me, because I saw that mom and she was

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trying so hard to get her babies back, and she

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didn't know what to do. So the nights Lady Misty,

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she got a shovel, got one of the babies out

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pretty easy, but the second was lying in water, which

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was probably flammable at that point, seemed unconscious. Immediately I

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started doing CPR on the raccoon. The entire time I

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was afraid it would wake up and eat me, and

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raccoons carry raebies. I was afraid of that. Incredibly, the

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raccoon recovered and was taken to animal control to sober

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up at the local vet. Nice job there and in Bavaria, Germany,

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police have solved the mystery of who's been ringing and running.

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Police in Germany were called to an apartment building. Somebody

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was ringing doorbells late at night and then leaving and

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was annoying. Well, you know who it was. It was

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a slug. Dominic lives in the building and he told

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the newspaper there was a slug sitting right on our nameplate.

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You could even see its slime trails. It crawled across

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the sensors. Police relocated the slug to a nearby grassy

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area and released it with a warning silly stories today.

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Those are your five good news stories for today. You

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have an awesome day.