The Skateboarding Cat

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm shunning back with five good news stories. Organizers of a Philadelphia festival want you to know there really were trying to clean up the meats and cheeses that were left dangling from a greased pole. It was the annual Italian Market Festival. They have a tradition of dangling Italian meats and cheeses from a grease pole for visitors to attempt to climb and claim the prizes. That's fun, but here's what happened. On the last day of the festival. Weather conditions led to a surge of visitors late in the day that prevented the removal from going forward as planned. The meat and cheese wound up dangling from the pole for nearly a month, and it was hot and humid. Organizers had plans to get another cream to remove the meats and cheese. Thanks to listener Richard for sending this one over. A vase or vase, depending where you're from. A vase that's where I'm from. Purchased for four bucks at a rift store, turned out to be a two thousand year old Mayan artifact. Anna was at the two to a thrift store in Clinton, and she was like, hey, nice vase. She says it looked oldish, but I thought maybe twenty or thirty years old. She was off by a factor of one hundred and some kind of tourist reproduction things.

1:15 I brought it home. Then she visited Mexico and she noticed some items on display at the Museum of Anthropology, and they strongly resembled the vase she bought for four bucks. She spoke to a museum official who recommended she contacting Mexican embassy. When she got home. She shared photos of the vase with the embassy and it was identified as a Mayan artifact dating from two hundred to eight hundred a d Isn't that amazing that this thing hung around all that time and wound up in a thrift store. The vase was returned to Mexico, and I said, I'm thrilled to have played a part in it's repatriation story. I'd like it to go back to its rightful place, to where it belongs. But I also want it out of my home because I have three little boys, and I've been petrified. I was petrified that after two thousand years, I'd be the one to wreck it. The government of Soul, South Korea, has concluded a contest to redesign the lower deck of a famous city bridge. A Dutch firm wants to turn it into an art gallery and cultural space. This bridge is a semi submersible pedestrian bridge. I'm unfamiliar with that concept. That's usually not how I like my bridges to go, but I'm sure it makes sense to somebody. The bridge's upper deck holds the Guinness World Record here we go again for being the longest fountain bridge. It has thirty eight water pumps and three hundred and eighty nozzles installed. It has speakers, lights and projectors that can make it a really cool thing to see at night.

2:36 Built in nineteen seventy nine, the bridge occasionally floods. Doesn't sound like a really good bridge. I'm sorry, guys, but for decades it has also hosted events, including food trucks and shows, weather permitting, because you don't want the bridge to flood. Meanwhile, in California, we figured out who's been breaking into the homes. Five break ins at a two hour period. In one of the homes, the breaker inner was still there. It's a bear. The Sierra Madre police depuarirement responded to reports that a bear had broken into four homes and a garage between twelve thirty and two fifteen in the afternoon. One of the neighbors, Lorie, said, it was a very polite bear. It just opened up the freezer and took my packaged chicken.

3:17 However, when the police arrived, the bear dropped the frozen chicken. All right. Nice job by Bowze and American shirt hear cat bow Ze broke the record for fastest ten meters on a skateboard by a cat. What are we doing people, that's right. The cat skateboarded thirty two feet nine point two inches in just twelve point eight five seconds. Bowsie's owner said his original intention when he bought a cat was to help with the routing problem. Boz's owner said he got the cat because we had mice running around the ceiling at night, so I got Booze to scare them away. And then obviously Booze started skateboarding. What. I've been training dogs for a decade, and I started skateboarding with my own dog for fun. At bow Z showed a keen interest in skateboards, so I decided to nurture this behavior. It's quite challenging to train a cat because they don't learn things as quickly as dogs do. Dogs make improvements day by day and they remember it. As for cats, they can learn a trick and forget it the next second. Bow Z has used this experienced training cats into a business. What is his specialty. He teaches cats how to flush toilets. Those are your five good news stories for today.

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