April 9, 2026

Raccoon gets head stuck in peanut butter jar

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a Maryland man stopped at a Royal Farms in Forest Hill for fried chicken, bought lottery tickets, rolled two $50 wins into more tickets, and ultimately won $1 million—so excited he left his food behind and called his kids; he’s played for 30 years and previously won $50,000 twice and $10,000 weeks earlier. In Hawaii, the Hawaii Pacific University-led Bounty Project has removed 84 metric tons of abandoned “ghost gear” in just over three years by paying commercial fishermen to collect it, with 77 fishermen completing 690+ recoveries. Mohammed broke the Guinness record again with 66 thumb pushups with one leg raised in one minute. In Scotland, a man and his Labrador found a message-in-a-bottle from Canada dated August 2024. Vermont firefighters freed a raccoon with its head stuck in a peanut butter jar.

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Kalaroka Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Sometimes he wants some fried chicken, and

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sometimes fried chicken will get you a million dollars. A

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man told Maryland lottery officials he stopped buy the Royal

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Farm Store on Rock Spring Road and Forest Hill, you

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know the place to get some fried chicken. While he

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was there, yeah, I might as well buy some lottery tickets.

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Those tickets earned him fifty bucks. He used that fifty

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bucks to buy two more tickets and one fifty bucks again.

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So he bought one more ticket with the second fifty bucks,

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and that was the ticket that won him the million

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dollar prize. He said, I was shocked. At first. I

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thought it was one thousand dollars. When I look closer,

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I realized it was one million dollars. I left the

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store laughing and in a rush. I even left my

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food bind because I was so happy. I ran my

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carnic all my kids. This guy's lucky. He says. He's

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been playing for thirty years. He's won fifty thousand dollars twice,

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as well as ten thousand dollars just a few weeks ago.

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He says, I'll always play. It's fun at this age,

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and I seem to be fortunate. Amen, brother, nice job.

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By a university led project in Hawaii, they have removed

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a staggering eighty four metric tons of abandoned fishing gear

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from the Pacific in just over three years. The initiative,

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known as the Bounty Project, was launched in November of

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twenty two by Hawaii Pacific University Center for Marine Debris Research.

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Here's the idea, instead of chasing debris after washers ashore,

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pay fishermen who are already out there fishing to collect it.

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A total of seventy seven commercial fishermen have taken part

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carrying out more than six hundred and ninety recoveries of

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ghost gear. Ghost gear include abandoned nets, lines, and floats

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that can drift for years, damaging reefs and killing marine life.

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Project manager Katie Stevens said, it's incredible that we're now

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approaching two hundred thousand pounds of gear removed from the

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ocean through this project. It's been great to see the

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enthusiasm and engagement of the commercial fishers as stewards of

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the ocean environment. Congratulations to Mohammad, he has broken the

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same Guinness World Record for the third time, this one

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performing sixty six thumb push ups with one leg raised.

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He did that in one minute. Yes, it's the record

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for most thumb push ups with one leg raised. He

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explains thumb push ups are one of the most difficult

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and rare exercises, requiring exceptional strength, balance and mental toughness.

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The uniqueness is what drew me towards them. He said

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that keeping balance on his thumbs with one leg bent

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at a ninety degree angle was one of the biggest challenges.

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He says time is limited, the body becomes exhausted, yet

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maintaining balance and meeting the strict ninety degree bend requirement

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is extremely challenging. Even a small mistake can invalidate the

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entire attempt. We have another one of those messages in

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a bottle, this time in Scotland. A man was walking

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with his dogs on the coast of Scotland. He found

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a bottle from Canada. Mike was there with his laboratory

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retriever Maggie. Maggie found the bottle in the shallow water.

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Scott noticed there was a letter sealed in a plastic bag.

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The letter was written in French, dated August twenty twenty four,

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and said the bottle was being launched from a ferry

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traveling from Prince Edward Island to one of the islands

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in Quebec. The letters author Annie asked anyone who found

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the bottle to contact her through Facebook. Scott reached out.

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As of this recording, it hadn't heard back yet. Maggie,

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if you're listening, get in touch with Scott, will you?

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And good news for a raccoon that got its head

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stuck in a peanut butter jaw. The Vermont Fire Department

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was there to help the raccoon, the Shelburne Fire Department

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set on social media. Firefighters were tipped off to the

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raccoon by the water Department, They explained. Upon arrival, crews

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located the raccoon approximately twenty five feet up in a tree.

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It appeared to have a little too much luck finding

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the peanut butter, but not quite enough luck removing the container. Afterwards,

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firefighters used a ladder to reach the raccoon and were

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able to use a snare to pull the jar from

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its head, restoring the raccoon's vision and to some extent,

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its dignity. The fire department wants us to know no

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injuries were reported aside from a hit to the raccoon's pride.

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And those are your five good news stories for today.

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Have a great day.