Aug. 16, 2024

Tank Traffic, Lottery Win, Skateboarding Record, Tree Revival, and Beach Mystery

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories: a traffic delay caused by a fallen tank on a Texas highway, a Michigan woman who discovered she won a lottery prize in her spam folder, a California woman born without legs breaking the skateboarding world record, new growth from the Sycamore Gap Tree, and a police response to a realistic doll mistaken for a headless body on a New Zealand beach. The episode encourages listeners to share the show and offers an ad-free option.

00:16 Tank Blocks Texas Highway
00:47 Lottery Win Found in Spam
01:20 World Record for Handstand Skateboarding
01:38 Sycamore Gap Tree's New Shoots
02:24 Headless Body on New Zealand Beach

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Caloroga Shark Media, And here's Johnny Mack with the afternoon traffic.

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If you're on the Ien, look out for a tank

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is blocking the highway. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Yeah, traffic was delayed on a Texas highway.

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A flatbed trailer was carrying a tank and it fell off.

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The tank, believed to be an M one to nine howitzer,

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fell from a flatbed trailer right around four o'clock on

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a Sunday. Good thing was a Sunday and not a weekday.

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You know, it's so frustrating to sit in traffic. It's

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annoying enough, But if I saw a tank blocking a

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couple of lanes, I'd be pretty annoyed. The local dot

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got the highway cleared by eight pm. Good job there. Hey,

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don't forget to check your spam. A Michigan woman was

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going through her spam saw a suspicious email, but she

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actually had won a lottery ticket two hundred and sevenety

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nine dollars. She she didn't realize she had been earning

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second chance drawing entries by playing certain online lottery games.

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She was confused when she saw an email from the

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Michigan lottery in her spam folder saying she'd won two

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hundred and seven grand had changed. After looking into it,

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I figured out I had earned the entries. Then I

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checked three different times to make sure the email was real.

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She plans to use the prize money to pay bills.

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A California woman born without legs broke the Guinness World

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Record for skateboarding in the handstand position. That record now

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nineteen point sixty five seconds. Kanya said that breaking the

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record is one of the life changing career moments that

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have happened to me. It's so incredible for me to

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make histories for others to see have made an impact

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on others for generations to come. She has also appeared

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on TV shows including The Walking Dead and Hawaii five.

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Oh Hey, good news for the sycamore gap tree. You

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remember some idiot cut that down a couple of years ago.

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The sycamore tree, which stood in a dip in Hadrian's Wall,

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had inspired artists and even appeared in Hollywood films. Eight

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new shoots were found growing up from its base, giving

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hope that the tree is going to live on. The

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regrowth was spotted by Gary Pickles. He's a ranger for

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the local National Park Authority. Gary Pickles said, I was

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first at the scene when the tree was discovered feld

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and I remember saying hurriedly that it was gone. Now

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I hope I can say it's back. The local conservation

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center also has seeds that they grabbed from the tree

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right after it was fallen, and no seeds could be

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ready to plant within the next two years. Let's hope

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those shoots take Stay with me here. Police responded to

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reports of a headless body on a New Zealand beach.

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Oh no, Johnny Mack, what kind of podcast is this?

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Don't worry. It was actually a life sized, realistic doll.

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Alice was walking down the beach with her dog and

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I just sort of froze and felt sick. I could

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see it was definitely the shape of a torso face down,

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and I could tell it was a woman's figure. I

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could see it had figernails and the toes were really realistic,

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so it looked like a human figure. And then I

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saw one of the cops nudget with his foot and

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I thought, he's not gonna nudget if it's a body.

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Once they flipped the doll over, they figured out what

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kind of doll it was. I'll leave it there. Those

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your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy

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the program and tell a friend about it, they might

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like it too. If you would like this program, add

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free check the link of the show notes so you

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have a good day.