The Skateboarding Cat

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there,
I'm shunning back with five good news stories.

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Organizers of a Philadelphia festival want you
to know there really were trying to

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clean up the meats and cheeses that
were left dangling from a greased pole.

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It was the annual Italian Market Festival. They have a tradition of dangling Italian

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meats and cheeses from a grease pole
for visitors to attempt to climb and claim

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the prizes. That's fun, but
here's what happened. On the last day

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of the festival. Weather conditions led
to a surge of visitors late in the

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day that prevented the removal from going
forward as planned. The meat and cheese

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wound up dangling from the pole for
nearly a month, and it was hot

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and humid. Organizers had plans to
get another cream to remove the meats and

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cheese. Thanks to listener Richard for
sending this one over. A vase or

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vase, depending where you're from.
A vase that's where I'm from. Purchased

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for four bucks at a rift store, turned out to be a two thousand

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year old Mayan artifact. Anna was
at the two to a thrift store in

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Clinton, and she was like,
hey, nice vase. She says it

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looked oldish, but I thought maybe
twenty or thirty years old. She was

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off by a factor of one hundred
and some kind of tourist reproduction things.

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I brought it home. Then she
visited Mexico and she noticed some items on

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display at the Museum of Anthropology,
and they strongly resembled the vase she bought

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for four bucks. She spoke to
a museum official who recommended she contacting Mexican

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embassy. When she got home.
She shared photos of the vase with the

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embassy and it was identified as a
Mayan artifact dating from two hundred to eight

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hundred a d Isn't that amazing that
this thing hung around all that time and

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wound up in a thrift store.
The vase was returned to Mexico, and

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I said, I'm thrilled to have
played a part in it's repatriation story.

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I'd like it to go back to
its rightful place, to where it belongs.

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But I also want it out of
my home because I have three little

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boys, and I've been petrified.
I was petrified that after two thousand years,

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I'd be the one to wreck it. The government of Soul, South

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Korea, has concluded a contest to
redesign the lower deck of a famous city

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bridge. A Dutch firm wants to
turn it into an art gallery and cultural

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space. This bridge is a semi
submersible pedestrian bridge. I'm unfamiliar with that

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concept. That's usually not how I
like my bridges to go, but I'm

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sure it makes sense to somebody.
The bridge's upper deck holds the Guinness World

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Record here we go again for being
the longest fountain bridge. It has thirty

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eight water pumps and three hundred and
eighty nozzles installed. It has speakers,

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lights and projectors that can make it
a really cool thing to see at night.

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Built in nineteen seventy nine, the
bridge occasionally floods. Doesn't sound like

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a really good bridge. I'm sorry, guys, but for decades it has

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also hosted events, including food trucks
and shows, weather permitting, because you

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don't want the bridge to flood.
Meanwhile, in California, we figured out

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who's been breaking into the homes.
Five break ins at a two hour period.

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In one of the homes, the
breaker inner was still there. It's

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a bear. The Sierra Madre police
depuarirement responded to reports that a bear had

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broken into four homes and a garage
between twelve thirty and two fifteen in the

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afternoon. One of the neighbors,
Lorie, said, it was a very

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polite bear. It just opened up
the freezer and took my packaged chicken.

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However, when the police arrived,
the bear dropped the frozen chicken. All

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right. Nice job by Bowze and
American shirt hear cat bow Ze broke the

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record for fastest ten meters on a
skateboard by a cat. What are we

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doing people, that's right. The
cat skateboarded thirty two feet nine point two

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inches in just twelve point eight five
seconds. Bowsie's owner said his original intention

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when he bought a cat was to
help with the routing problem. Boz's owner

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said he got the cat because we
had mice running around the ceiling at night,

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so I got Booze to scare them
away. And then obviously Booze started

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skateboarding. What. I've been training
dogs for a decade, and I started

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skateboarding with my own dog for fun. At bow Z showed a keen interest

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in skateboards, so I decided to
nurture this behavior. It's quite challenging to

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train a cat because they don't learn
things as quickly as dogs do. Dogs

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make improvements day by day and they
remember it. As for cats, they

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can learn a trick and forget it
the next second. Bow Z has used

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this experienced training cats into a business. What is his specialty. He teaches

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cats how to flush toilets. Those
are your five good news stories for today.

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