May 18, 2025

Man stranded on Mt. Fuji goes back to get his phone

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Highlights include the German Finger Wrestling Championship, where competitors risk dislocated fingers in a traditional sport; a Michigan state trooper returning $5,000 in lost cash despite the owner's suspicion; the Bronx Zoo's first king vulture chick in 30 years being hand-raised using a puppet; a climber on Mount Fuji who was rescued twice due to altitude sickness while searching for his lost phone; and two drivers in Washington caught using mannequins to illegally use carpool lanes. Enjoy these entertaining and positive stories from around the world.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Congratulations to the winners of finger Helken

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that is the German finger Wrestling Championship. Hi, I'm Johnny

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Mack with five good news stories. You want to dress

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up properly, so you wear short leathered pants and embroidered suspenders,

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you are risking dislocated fingers. Around one hundred and eighty

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competitors took part in the sixty fourth championship in Pang,

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that's about an hour southwest of Munich. It's believe that

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finger wrestling originated as a way to settle disputes. Hey,

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stop parking in front of my house. Oh yeah, let's

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finger wrestle. The earliest depictions of finger wrestling go back

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to the nineteenth century. How does it work, Johnny Mack? Okay,

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Two competitors sit on opposite size of a table. Each

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one hooks a finger, usually your middle finger, through a

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small leather loop. The referee signals the start and you

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try to pull the other person across the table. The

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whole thing to usually lasts only a few seconds. There

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are rules in everything. There are official measurements for both

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the table and the leather loop. There are different weight

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and age categories. If you want to sign up for

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some finger wrestling league. There are nine clubs in Germany

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and another four in Austria. George Hayler runs one of

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Germany's clubs, the finger Hockler schillerkcow checker pronunciation with a

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native German speaker. Mister Haler says, it's not dangerous at all.

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Of course, there'll be open wounds in small entries on

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the fingers. From time to time it looks worse than

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it really is because there's blood. Maximilian Wolfel is one

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of the wrestlers and he explains there are different techniques

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like cat do you sit at the table, how do

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you transfer your power as quickly as possible to the loop,

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and of course you need a well trained finger. Meanwhile,

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in Michigan, a state trooper found five thousand dollars in

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lost cash. He tried to return it to the owner.

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The owner thought the calls were a scam. A local

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trooper found the cash in the middle of the road.

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He contacted a nearby bay, which confirmed that a customer

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had just withdrew the same amount of money on social media.

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The PD said the subject must have been listening to

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our public service announcements on being a victim of fraud

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and believed he was being scammed and hung up on

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the trooper several times. How did this happen? It appears

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the subject, after making the withdrawal, put the money in

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their pants pocket and it somehow fell out. In the Bronx,

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New York City, the Bronx Zoo announced the first King

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vulture chick to hatch at the Bronx Zoo in three

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decades is being hand raised using a puppet. The puppet

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is made to look like a mother vulture. They're doing

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this so the baby bird doesn't imprint on its human

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caretakers on social media. The zoo says ornithologists pioneered this

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technique more than forty years ago when hand raising condor

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chicks using a similar hand puppet cleverly disguised to mimpic

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an adult bird. The terrors use the puppet to feed

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the baby, and the don costumes that hide their face

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and other human features. Hey, good news for a dude

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who is climbing Mount Fuji. We cat your phone, dude,

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but like chill out the details. A climber had been

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airlifted with altitude sickness from the near peak of Japan's

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Mount Fuji. The guy returned to the slope and was

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rescued for a second time. Four days later. The man

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had been airlifted after developing symptoms of altitude sickness. Then

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four days later he climbs back up ten thousand feet

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above sea level to look for his cell phone. Another

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climber found the man there unable to move. Guess why

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altitude sickness? And I'm not sure this is good news,

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but it's fun news, and I try and make the

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show fun. In Washington, the State Patrol said two drivers

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were caught using dummies to illegally drive in carpool lanes.

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Trooper Rick is the public information officer for the WSP.

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Trooper Rick on social media said the first driver was

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pulled over in the HOV lanes of Interstate five when

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a trooper noticed the only passenger was a mannequin wearing

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a brunette wig, a plaid shirt, a scarf. Trooper Johnson

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writes driver admitted this was the only way to be

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able to use the HOV lane. The driver also indicated

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he has not named his passenger. A couple days later,

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also on I five, a trooper is suspected a backseat

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passenger was a mannequin. This one was found to be

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a dummy doll wearing a bright yellow windbreaker and a

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baseball cap in Washington. If you pull off these shenanigans,

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you're subject to a one hundred and eighty six dollars fine,

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with an extra two hundred dollars tacked on if the

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driver is found to be using a dummy or mannequin

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as a passenger. And those are your five good news

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stories for today. You have an awesome day.