The Grinch pulls over speeders, hands out onions

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories over the holidays. I hope you didn't get pulled over by the Grinch. For the past twenty years, retired Deputy Sheriff Colonel Loo has put on a Grinch costume and an operation targeting speeding drivers in school zones. If you were caught slightly exceeding the school zone speed limit by five miles per hour or less, you had a choice. You could get a ticket or an onion. The Sheriff's office said he gave out quite a few onions. Nice job by scientists in Europe, doctor has ever stored vision and patients with untreatable macular degeneration using a device that combines an electronic eye implant with augmented reality glasses.

0:47 That's pretty cool. People who couldn't see an eychart before can now read on average five lines. Mahim Mukwid of the University College of London says in the history of artificial vision, this represents a new era. Blind patients or act able to have meaningful central vision restoration, which has never been done before. Getting back the ability to read is a major improvement in their quality of life, lifts their mood and helps to restore their confidence and independence. One of the patients, Sheila, said, I was an avid bookworm and I wanted that back. It was dead exciting when it began seeing a letter. It's not simple learning to read again. But the more hours I put in, the more I pick up. A woman in England played her clarinet for the first time in five years while awake on the operating table. Denise was undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery to treat Parkinson's disease. The procedure delivers a gentle electric current to electroes implanted in the brain that helps restore motor control, and her surgeon had the idea, Hey, bring your clarinet so we can test this. Denise was diagnosed in twenty fourteen and slowly lost the ability to swim, dance, or play the clarinet. The operation lasted four hours under local anesthesia, and by the end, Denise's music was back.

1:56 Congratulations to Natalie, She's eighty years old. She became the oldest woman ever to finish the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. That's a swim of two point four miles, a one hundred and twelve mile bike ride and a full marathon. Natalie, who's eighty, didn't even learn how to swim until she was sixty. Her coach, Michelle said, she's truly gritty. Natalie is the definition of grit and gratitude. Grateful to make it to the start line, grateful to do something she loves every day, and grateful to inspire so many others. Sixteen hours, forty five minutes, Natalie says, the important thing is that people see from my story that maybe they could push themselves a little bit. Uh oh. In Virginia, the police were on alert. Three costume figures were caught creeping up to a home's front door. It looked like maybe it was burglars. The police even asked neighbors to check their cameras for clues. The officers investigated, and it turned out, ah, it was some teenagers. Just like a Scooby Doo episode. They were just doing a little prank.

2:51 Police Chief McGuire called it a moral failure, saying consequences could result in deadly consequences. The prank may have seemed harmless, but it could have led to serious consequences, noting that one frightened relative even arrived at the house armed. The chief says these are not pranks to be taken lightly. In those your five good news stories for today. Have a great day.