Mr. Pickles had babies! He's 90! He's also a Tortoise

0:02 The shark deck. Congratulations Chasa, Soon she's passed her driver's test. Was her nine hundred and sixtieth Try John, did you say nine hundred and sixty? Yes? I said nine hundred and sixty. She first attempted the written test in April of two thousand and five. She failed it to continue to retake it. Then she passed. Then she had to take the practical test ten times before getting her license. She spent more than ten grand trying to get this thing done. After she failed the first time, she retook the written test every day, five days a week for three years. That was seven hundred eighty attempts. She then started taking the test only twice a week.

0:46 She finally passed that she moved on the practical test. Her driving instructor said he felt relieved when she finally got the license. Sir, maybe the problem is you, the driving school instructor said. When she finally got a lice, we all went out cheering and hugged her, giving her flowers. It felt like a huge burden falling off our backs. We hadn't had the guts to tell her to quit because she kept showing up. The folks at Hunda gave her a new car, I hope, but as driver's assist now, I don't know why she couldn't take a train, because even a robot dog can take a train. Some commuters were recently mining their own business what a robot dog got on to catch a train At the University station in Sunderland. Professor John Murray was at the controls and said, I think the passengers were surprised to see a robot dog on the metro and many were keen to have their photo taken with him. During the journey. There were many questions about what he's for and what he can do. Normally we take the robot dog to events in the car, so it's good to get him out and about to see what we could take him around the city and meet new people.

1:42 Congratulations to mister Pickles. He's a dad. Mister Pickles is a tortoise. He's ninety years old. Mister Pickles and missus Pickles welcome three tortoise hatchlings. Their names Dill, Girkin and Hallapeno. Yeah, hallapeanos a pickle. You don't think of it as that, right? What do you think of it as I don't know. Mister Pickles has been a resonance of the Zoo for thirty six years. He's been partnered with Missus Pickles, who's sprightly fifty three. She arrived in nineteen ninety six. Radiated tortoises can live for up to one hundred and fifty years. Zoo spokeswoman Jessica Rayas says how long they can reproduce is unknown, but averently you can father more tortoises at age ninety.

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3:36 Good news for coral AMAI know that digital camera you lost back in twenty ten while you were tubing on the river in Colorado. They found it. She remembers that day back in twenty ten, I'd gotten toss for my tube and I came back up, got my tube, and my camera was missing. Many of the photos on the camera had not been uploaded to your computer. I remember getting back to my boyfriend's house and uncontrollably crying and upset. Well recently, a fisherman found it in shallow water, Spencer Greener told Fox thirty one. I was walking along I saw it sticking out of the sand. It was in rough shape, so I didn't really have any hopes of getting in any office. I was just planning to throw it away, and then curiosity got the best of me and I had to see what was on it. He used a screwdriver and plied open the door. Found a memory card.

4:17 It plugged it in the computer and it read it immediately, and I was like, Oh cool, let's see what sort of treasures we're going to find on this memory card. I have a feeling I know what he was hoping was on the memory card. Then leave it there. While scrolling through the photos, he found images of a tubing trip, a bachelert party, and a wedding. He posted some of the images on the local Facebook group and said, Hey, did you get married on June twelfth, twenty ten. Did you have an ugly brown stretch station wagon at your bachelert party? Do you recognize these people? If so, please contact me. Within an hour, people had come forward, recognizing themselves and several of the images. He said. It was less than an hour after I made the post, and the groom for the wedding was like, that's me and my wife.

4:57 Jillian McGhee is a third grade teacher in the washing In DC area. She said, kids are going to tell you every little thing that's going on. They'd interrupt me mid sentence in the middle of class with very random tattles on other students. I eventually started telling them just to write it down on a sticky note and put it on my desk, But then my desk would be full of sticky notes. Some of the snitching someone bumped into me on purpose. More snitching someone didn't mind her business. The teachers solution a tattle form, asking students to provide their name and some information about their tattle. Some of them include I definitely have to talk to you about this, chewing loudly and making fart noises. McGhee says, if there's a series of the day where all the kids are saying the same thing, those are my favorite.

5:40 I think one of them was that there was a student farting, and I think I got four of those in one day. Chewing loud, I got three of them. When I put them in order, it just sounded like a story, and I was able to piece together what happened just based on what they said. That's your five good news stories for today. Fall the show for free on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get your shows. A great day,