Aug. 22, 2026

The crazy reason Spider-Man was there to direct traffic

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: a man dressed as Spider-Man for Superhero Day helped a wheelchair user cross a busy Arkansas intersection and the act went viral after police posted traffic-camera footage; a Nebraska family reunited with their missing dog, Chung, found 642 miles away after five years despite a microchip complication; the Phenom 300 EV business jet will add Garmin’s emergency auto land system, inspired by the 1999 Payne Stewart crash; Oakland Parks, Rec, and Youth Development is lending sports equipment like a library to reduce youth sports costs and expand access; and a Florida family’s security camera alerted them to an eight-foot alligator at their door, which police and a licensed trapper safely removed. Mac also promotes uninterrupted listening via Apple Podcasts and his Daily Comedy News show.

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

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good news stories. Did you joy the new Spider Man movie?

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While a real life Spider Man is being hailed as

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a hero after a traffic camera captured Spider Man helping

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a man across a busy intersection in Arkansas. The video

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released by the pd shows a man using a wheelchair

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trying to make it across the street before the traffic

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light changes. As the light changes, the driver's door of

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a nearby car swings open and out jumps Spider Man. Yeah.

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Christopher was dressed as Spider Man for Superhero Day at

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his job at the Ultimate Air Trampoline Park, and he

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happened to be at the light at the right time.

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I love the details here, he told this TV. I

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was like, all right, I'm in the Spider Man suit.

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Let's just do this. So I got out and sped

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them along really fast, and none of us got hit,

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and everybody was really nice. There was no honking or

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anything like that. I just got out of my vehicle

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and drove off. He didn't even know he had been

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caught on camera until his mother woke up from a nap.

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I love this, he said, I was taking a nap.

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Mom woke me up and said, hey, you're on Facebook.

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I thought it was the PDE that put up the video,

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and we watched it every hour, and every hour the

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likes and comments get getting a higher and a higher.

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I didn't expect it to blow up like this either.

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I just thought it'd be like a really fun thing

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to do. But I'm glad people are seeing it, and

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I hope that people, wherever they're being watched or not,

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will step up and do the right thing, like Spider Man.

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A Nebraska family has been reunited with their missing dog

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after the dog's been gone for five years and the

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dog was six hundred miles from home. Chong disappeared from

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his family's home in Lincoln in twenty twenty one. His

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owner of Machilata never gave up, she told the local TV.

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I still looked for him. We still went to our

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old neighborhood and drove around and looked see if we

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could see anyone walking him or if he was running

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around somewhere. A friend spotted a Facebook post from the

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local animal shelter a dog matching Chong's description had been

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found wandering near a truck stop six hundred and forty

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two miles from where Chong disappeared. Here's a complication though,

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at some point in the five years in between, Chong

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had been micro chipped by someone else. Macciolot explained since

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he was chipped to someone else, they had to followup protocol.

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They attempted to contact the phone numbers on file. However,

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they didn't receive a response. After three days no one

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claimed them. They placed Chang up for adoption. A Maculata

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drove to Indiana, bringing along Chong's brother, Chiech for the reunion.

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The shelter said the recognition was instant. Cheech recognized Cheng.

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We're told he recognized not only his owner, but his

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brother as well. Where Chang was for five years No Idea,

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a safety feature once inspired by a horrible accident, is

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now making its way onto larger aircraft. The new Phenom

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three hundred EV business jet will come equipped with Gorman's

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Emergency Auto land system. This goes back to the nineteen

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ninety nine crash that killed professional golfer Payne Stewart and

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five others. Investigators concluded that a southern loss of cabinet

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pressure left everyone on board and capacitated no one was

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there to land the plane. The lear Jet continued flying

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for nearly four hours before running out of fuel. Unlike

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a trade autopilot, the tech can make decisions on its

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own during an emergency, Its selects as suitable airport, communicates

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with air traffic control, flies the aircraft to its destination,

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and lands it automatically. That is really cool. During routine flight,

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the system periodically checks that pilots are still actively responding.

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It can also activate if certain emergency conditions are detected,

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including changes in cabin pressure. If you are a parent,

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you may have noticed that the cost of youth sports

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goes up and up. One neighborhood in Oakland is trying

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a simple idea lending out sports equipment the way libraries

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lend out books. The Oakland Parks, Wreck and Youth Development

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Department says that residents can check out sports equipment to

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use it nearby parks, return it when you're done. The

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collection includes footballs, soccer balls, volleyballs, tennis equipment, jump ropes,

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yoga mets, and even games like uno and dominoes. Marabella

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Lopez is the supervisor. She told s F Gate, we're

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aware that sports can lead to social mobility. When kids

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are familiar with golf, tennis, soccer, and other games or

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sports that are socially mobile, then they have access to

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different communities, different friend groups, different neighborhoods, and we want

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to be a vehicle for that. We want kids to

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be able to speak each other's language and connect through sports.

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In Florida, family got quite the surprise their home security

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camera sent an alert. Okay, what is it? As someone

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at the door? Yeah, an eight foot alligator. Sierra said.

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The notification from her system prompted to check the cameras.

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She told local TV, I thought at one point he

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was going to come through the window. His tail was

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bouncing against the door and against the house. It was

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such a deep guttural hiss and growl. He looks so mean.

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I thought he was going to come through the window.

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The police responded, along with a licensed trapper. The alligator

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got agitated, Sierra said, we were scared, terrified. At one

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point he was getting kind of agitated with the flashlight

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in his eyes. He actually looked right up at me.

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He started opening his mouth and growling and hissing. The

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trapper safely captured and removed the alligator. And those are

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