April 22, 2025

Mom Avoids Ice Cream Jail

Show Notes
Transcript

A man goes viral for fixing a broken McDonald's sign, a Minnesota cat sets the record for the longest tail, police in West Midlands capture a runaway donkey with mince, an oddly-shaped house in Illinois sells for $350,000, and a 4-year-old calls 911 after his mom eats his ice cream only for police to later surprise him with a treat.

00:10 Fixing the Broken McDonald's Sign
01:19 World's Longest Cat Tail
02:06 The Mischievous Donkey
02:51 The Unique Pie House
03:21 Ice Cream Emergency

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

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good news stories. Hey, good news. If the broken McDonald's

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sign has been driving you nuts, I know it's really

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annoying that the D has been missing. Well, a man

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has gone viral on social media. He took it upon

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himself to repair the McDonald's sign. There's a group on

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Facebook called the Dull Men's Club. They had multiple posts

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about the sign at the McDonald's at the White Rose

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shopping center in Leeds, England. Because the D was missing

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its inside, making it more of a silhouette than a letter.

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Steve took it upon himself to correct the issue. He

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researched McDonald's branding guidelines to allow himself to correctly three

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D print a D. Then he did it again. He

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found another McDonald's sign at the same location had the

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same quote, mildly annoying problem. What's going on at this McDonald's.

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What's up with your d's? He told the BBC. I

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think it's the whole point listeness of this that caught

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people's attention. Not many people would notice a sign missing

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bits from it. I fewer still would be bothered by

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it and practically know it at all, would bother to

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spend time and effort actually rectifying it. The shopping center

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celebrated him and declared him employee of the Month. Thank you, Steve,

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our March employee of the Month for your selfless work.

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We're loving it. I sweet you did there. A Minnesota

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cat has the world's longest cat tail eighteen and a

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half inches. Wow. Congratulations to the two year old mister

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Pugsley Adams and human friend Amanda. Amanda said the first

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time they went to the vet, the vet was like,

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you know, mister Pugsley Adams has a long tail. Amanda

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had moved on with her day, as one does. Six

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months later, they go to the vet again and the

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vet was like, hey, you know, this cat's got a

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pretty long tail. You might want to like look into it.

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Amanda said, what are you know? Pugsley beat the record

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for longest tail on a domestic cat living. She explains,

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everybody always wants to meet him and falls in love

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with his calm demeanor. He's pretty level at it and

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even in new situations that might be sed for some cats,

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He's super soft. Alwy was purring. He's just a great

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little guy to be around, we go out and about.

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They call him a local celebrity. Good news. If you're

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missing a donkey, we found it. Me and the police

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caught the donkey by bribing the donkey with his favorite treat,

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which is, of course, mince. The West Midlands Police reported

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on social media. Officers managed to bringing the donkey they

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named Ned water Control after bribing him with mince. Now

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how did they know to use mince? Sergeant Beards explains

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Ned is a repeat offender and was known to police

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from previous escapes. He's a cheeky one. He had escaped

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from his field before. He was causing a nuisance on

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roads for motorists, so my officers had to find him

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and take him back to the field. He loves mince

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and once he chomped down on one, he was braying

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for more and was happy to come back with us.

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We took him back to the field and although we

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couldn't locate his owner, we made sure the fence was

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secure so he couldn't get out again. That, my friends,

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is a challenge. In Illinois, a house dubbed the Pie

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House was sold for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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What's interesting about the pie house is. It's shaped like

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a wedge. It was built in two thousand and three

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and the neighbors didn't like it because it looked weird.

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It's only three feet wide on the short end. Now

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the neighbors like it. The pie house includes two bedrooms,

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one upstairs one downstairs, as well as two and a

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half bathrooms, a shed I don't even have a shed,

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and a parking pad with room for up to four vehicles.

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And here we go again with young kids calling nine

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one one. A four year old called nine one one

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to report his mom ate his ice cream. I'm with you,

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young man. The Mount Pleasant Police Department set on social media.

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Two officers responded to a home after a little boy

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called nine one one saying his mom was being bad

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and needed to go to jail. What's going on? The

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alficer show up and we find out that mom ate

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my ice cream needs to go to jail for it. Luckily,

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the four year old decided in the end not to

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press charges, saying mom does not need to go to jail,

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but he just wants some ice cream. The cops came

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back the next day to surprise the young man with

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some ice cream, and the boy has made it clear

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he doesn't want Mom to be in trouble any more.

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Was a close one there. I understand though. I mean,

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I've had people eat my ice cream. I don't react

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well at all. All Right, you have a great day.