Oct. 30, 2024

The Inflatable Pumpkin that swallowed a cop

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In this Halloween-themed episode, Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories. A police officer in Ohio hilariously wrestles with a runaway inflatable pumpkin. A Minnesota farmer wins the pumpkin weigh-off with a 2,471-pound pumpkin. A British farm creates a Guinness World Record pumpkin mosaic tribute to 'Beetlejuice.' A restaurant offers free meals for life in exchange for a tattoo of their logo. Lastly, a compassionate couple in China runs a community 'cancer kitchen' to support families of cancer patients with affordable home-cooked meals. Enjoy uninterrupted feel-good stories to brighten your day.

00:00 Introduction and Halloween Greetings
00:10 Inflatable Pumpkin Incident
00:47 Giant Pumpkin Competition
01:24 Pumpkin Mosaic Tribute
02:16 Free Meal for a Tattoo
03:09 Community Cancer Kitchen

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Callaroga Shark Media. Happy Halloween. I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Did you see this one? A police

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officer in Ohio was attempting to wrangle a runaway inflatable

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pumpkin in the middle of a road and then was

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attacked by said pumpkin and engulfed. Yeah. A video was

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shared by the Bay Village Police Department. The video shows

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the officer attempt to move the pumpkin and the pumpkin

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kind of lands on top of the guy. The department

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said that the officer was attacked by the Halloween display. Luckily,

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no officers or pumpkins were harmed during the event. Once

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backup officers arrived, the pumpkin was returned to the homeowner.

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I'm sure the officer had his pumpkin seeds busted by

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his coworkers. Speaking of pumpkins, a Minnesota farmer's twenty four

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hundred and seventy one pound pumpkin when the Safeway World

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Championship Pumpkin way off. Travis traveled with his giant pumpkin

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to the competition and in Half Moon Bay, California, the

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pumpkin was placed on a massive scale and dubbed heaviest

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in the contest. It's the fourth time he's won this thing.

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Last year he had a twenty seven hundred and forty

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nine pound pumpkin that one named Michael Jordan, eight pounds

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heavier than this year's champ. Michael Jordan took the top

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spot as well as the Guinness World Record for heaviest pumpkin.

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At that point, are you disappointed that this one's eight

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pounds later? Meanwhile, there's a British farm that holds the

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Guinness World Record for largest pumpkin mosaic. They opened a

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new mosaic, a tribute to the film Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice, That's

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twice pay attention. At the end, he and the farmer

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said farm fans voted on the theme for this year's

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Pumpkin Mosaic and seventy percent went to the character played

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by Michael Keaton in that film. He says there were

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over ten thousand pumpkins and squashes in the mosaic. It

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took about fifty hours of planning on paper. Then we

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built it one day with fifteen people, starting at night,

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thirty in the morning and finishing at four thirty. All

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of the pumpkins in the mosaic are naturally colored, a

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lot of them are edible, and they're the same pumpkins

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we've got around the fields that visitors can pick up

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putting their wheelbarrow buy to take home. It's not clear

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yet if this year's mosaic will take the Guinness World

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Record from Sunnyfield Farm's mosaic last year, which depicted Jack

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Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas. That moseah covered an

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area of two thousand plus square feet. Hey, would you

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like a free meal? You can get one from Chips

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and Go. Here's the catch, you gotta get a tattoo

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of their logo. The owner of Chips and Go said

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the offer started out as a joke to see how

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far people would go for free food. But two people

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have already gone and gotten a tattoo. He said, now

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a maximum of three more people can take up his

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offer of free food every day if they get the tattoo.

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Sebashi and the owner said, I have customers coming back

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every day and praising the food, which puts me in

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a good mood. And I said, if people are enjoying

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it this much, let's see how far people go and

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that's where the idea for the tattoo came along a

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lot of people joking about it. Then I started getting

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messages about what tattoo size to get and where to

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get it. He said, there are no restrictions to the

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size and place of the tattoo as long as you

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get it, and they'll always be entitled to a free

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daily meal can be any from the menu, and even

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if he increases his prices, loyal fans won't be affected.

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Kevin got a tattoo on his forearm because he loves

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the chicken feed a meal with chips from China Daily

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and the city of nan Chang. There's an alleyway near

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a cancer hospital. Two senior citizens are running a community

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cancer kitchen to support those caring for their loved ones.

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Mister Wan told the South China Morning Post, no matter

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what life throws at you, you must eat good food

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for around thirty two cents US dollars. Anyone can use

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the kitchen spaces that they've set up in the alleyway

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to cook meals. Sometimes it's for the patients so they

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eat something rather than hospital food. Sometimes it's for the

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people who care for the patients. Back in ninety three.

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The couple ran a restaurant in a building next to

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the hospital, but after it was demolished, they opened a

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breakfast stall in front of the hospital. Mister Wan said,

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there was a couple who came to us with their child.

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They said he didn't want treatment, he just wanted a

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meal cooked by his mom, So we let them use

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our kitchen. As time went on, they added more utensils,

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appliants of stoves and ovens. With that came along the

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use of more water, electricity costs went up, and then

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the community started donating. Now nearly ten thousand people come

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to cook in the cancer kitchen. Mister Want said, we

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and the patients are inseparable. Now for us, without the patients,

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we would feel lonely. Many of them coming here are

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cancer patients and their families who are going through tough times.

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And those your five good news stories for to day.

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If you would like to program without commercial interruption, there's

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a link in the show notes, and you have an

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awesome day.