Texas Tech Tortilla Throws Tossed! PLUS 95 year old Taylor Swift Fan

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Johnny Mack and good news. If you're with the Fun Police, Hi, I'm Johny mackrom five good news stories. Yeah, fun Police fans are gonna be excited about this one. So at Texas Tech, they had a tradition throwing tortillas. Yes, at kickoff, fans would throw tortillas into the sky. Well, turns out that the Red Raiders have been penalized once too often. During a recent forty two to seventeen victory over Kansas, the refs flagged the team twice for unsportsmanlike conduct after tortillas rained down from the stands. Then the Big Twelve find Texas Tech twenty five grand for the tortillas. They also find Kansas.

0:46 Why Kansas claim there was a pocket knife thrown from the crowd that wasn't true. Well, Kirby, the athletic director, says enough is enough. Fans will be told to throw away their tortillas before entering the stadium. Anyone caught tossing a tortilla will lose their ticket privilege for the rest of the year. Kirby says it's on him. He said, I leaned into the throwing of the tortilla at the beginning of the football season. Now I must ask everyone to stop. Coach McGuire, who once encouraged the tradition, says I leaned into it also, I believe in tradition. Both men say we cannot risk letting our actions penalize our football team. The stakes are too high, or the rest could just not call the penalty, just saying is the idea to have fun. Meanwhile, in Spain, police have broken up a criminal ring. The criminal ring was targeting restaurant chairs.

1:32 Seven people arrested for stealing more than eleven hundred chairs. You didn't think I was going to say eleven hundred eleven hundred chairs from outdoor seating areas at bars and restaurants. In two months, six men and one woman hit eighteen different places across Madrid, sneaking in at night and stealing entire stacks of metal and plastic seating. I'm not laughing at the crime, I'm laughing at the freezing. Police estimate that the chair heist was worth about sixty thousand euros. Good job, Madrid East Department. Good news for a woman who found her family so way back when. When Louise was eight she found out the man she thought was her father wasn't her father. Louise's mom was in a relationship living together with another man for about a year before finding out she was pregnant. When Louise was a child, mom would say that real dad was irresponsible, probably in prison or maybe even dead. Louise always want to know who her father was. In twenty ten, she placed an ad in the lost Touch column of the newspaper which said I'm trying to trace a Gary who lived in the local town in the late sixties. Three years later, she got a call from a woman named Mary Ann who said she was Louise's half sister. Turns out, Graham, whose dad is now eighty one years old, he found the ad when googling his own name. He wondered what had happened to Louise. He decided to send an intermediary to get in touch. They were reunited after four decades.

2:52 Louise met her eleven new half siblings from across the world. Turns out, Graham father twelve children by seven women. Louis he now has eleven siblings, but said to hear her real father say I love you was very moving. She says I felt complete. We hit it off straight away. I feel like I've known him forever. Remember that movie Night at the museum, Well, if you want to live that sort of the American Museum of Natural History is bringing back sleepovers. They had to stop this during the pandemic, but it's back now. Museum President Sean warns you things don't come alive at night. I haven't seen t Rex up and around, but it's still fun to sleepover at the museum. Tickets two hundred and twenty five dollars a person.

3:32 Sean says, yeah, it's not a trivial price point, but a sleepover in the museum is really a unique experience. If you want something a little less pricey, you could sleepover at the Intrepid Museum. That's the aircraft carrier that's over on the Hudson River. Ninety nine dollars overnight. Sewan also says don't get carried away with the movie Night at the museum. He points out there's no Egyptian wing here. We have sections that cover Egypt, but people think there's like mummies and stuff, which we don't have. And Frank, he's ninety five years old. He's into Taylor Swift. He's at the Remington Heights retirement community. He was chatting with a staff member who complained that Taylor Swift had never written back to her fan letters. Frank said, I know some people. He started his own Taylor Swift fan club.

4:12 People across the country started joining in. Frank wound up on TV wearing an I Love Taylor button, orange Swifty bracelets, and even a Taylor Swift license plate attached to his walker. They're going to send care package to Taylor and Travis. Frank says, we're having a wonderful time with this, and really that's the point. Whether you're fifteen or ninety five, like Frank, it's never too late to be part of something joyful. Nobody's heard from Taylor yet. I hope that happens, and what it does, I will tell you about it, because this is five good news stories and you have an awesome day.