May 29, 2025

Unusual Escapes

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Johnny Mac shares five uplifting news stories: a miniature dachshund named Valerie is found after 549 days on Kangaroo Island, a boa constrictor gets a new home with an animal control officer in Texas, an Iowa museum owner breaks a Guinness World Record with her spoon collection, police in Georgia are on the hunt for an escaped goat, and a California man attempts to evade arrest using an underwater scooter.

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Kalaroga Shark Media. If you've been following along, my dog

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is still here. No understanding that it's raining outside as

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I record this entire week back to back to back,

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and that's why we're not going for a long walk.

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But eventually we will. Doggie, just have faith, you know,

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just don't want to get wet high. I'm Johnny Mack

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with five Good News Stories. Good news for a different dog.

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In Australia, a ministre dashound had been missing on Kangaroo Island.

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It's Kangaroo Week here on five Good News Stories. Apparently,

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while on Kangaroo Island, the dash oound had been missing

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for five hundred and forty nine days in the wild.

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Valerie had fled from a Stokes Bay campsite back in

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November of twenty twenty three. Georgia and Josh, the humans,

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spent a week looking for Valerie couldn't find Valerie. They

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were worried that the dashound had fellen victim to one

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of the island's many predators. But good news rescuers with

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Kangalo Wildlife Rescue had spotted Valerie alive and well on

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the island. It's like dog survivor. Valerie was caught in

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a crate with a remote controlled door. A T shirt

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with the scent of her owners had been ripped up

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and placed as bait. That's pretty smart, everybody. Apparently, Valerie

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went into her crate, the one that was set up

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to look like the one at home, and she went

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in and went to sleep. Valerie's now home and decompressing

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from her adventure on Kangaroo Island. Good news for a

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Boa constrictor rescued from a tree limb in Texas. The

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boa has a new home. Arlington Animal Control Officer David

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got a call, Hey, five foot snake in a tree.

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The boss was like, let's go get the snake. David said,

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I'm like, snake out of a tree. We leave snakes alone.

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The boss is like, no, it's a python. Officer David said,

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I certainly hope somebody didn't dump her, but they're known

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for getting out of their aquariums. Officer David adopted the

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boa himself. She needs did a good home, and I

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felt like me and my son and my wife could

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give her one. Her name is Ruby, Ruby the Redtail

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love It. A museum owner in Iowa believes she has

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broken a Guinness World Record most spoons thirty one hundred

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and sixty two spoons. Cammy in about two dozen volunteers

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spent more than five hours counting the spoons to present

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to Guinness as evidence. Now, the current record is held

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by an Australian man who might own a kangaroo. It's

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kangaroo Wee care on five Good News Stories, whose collection

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of thirty thousand tea spoons was tallied in nineteen ninety.

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Cammy believes the record will soon be hers thirty eight thousand,

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one hundred and sixty two and she says his is

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all tea spoons, mine or tea spoons, saltspoons, mustard spoons,

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kilded age spoons and spoons for centuries. She said her

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spoon collecting habit started when her great grandmother gifted her

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one hundred and twenty seven spoons. Well, it's not a kangaroo.

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But in Georgia, the police were looking for an escaped

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goat to Deluth Police Department. Set on social media, numerous

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calls came in as a loose goat trotting on Peachtree

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Industrial Boulevard, and the goat was reported to be acting

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like it had somewhere very important to be. Maybe it did.

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Officers responded and attempted to corral the hoof Hoodini as

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it made its way toward Albion Farm Road, where it

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hopped a few fences and outsmarted us by disappearing into backyards.

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I have no update. It is possible there is still

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a goat loose in Georgia. If you would like this

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that I know are bugging some of you. As I've

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slash plus. I appreciate you supporting the show. In California,

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a man tried to evade arrest by jumping into a

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lake with an underwater scooter you didn't see that last

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part coming, did you know? He pleaded guilty to fraud,

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money laundering and witnessed tampering in connection with a thirty

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five million dollar investment fraud scheme. Agents tried to arrest

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the guy in twenty twenty. The man led them on

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a card chase before jumping his vehicle and fleeing into

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Lake Shasta with what was later identified as a Yamaha

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three P fifty ELI underwater submersible device. Prosecutors said the

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man spent some time out of sight underwater where law

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enforcement could only see bubbles. Twenty minutes later, he had

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a surface. Eventually, you need oxygen, I guess. And boy,

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this guy had things planned out. An FBI search of

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his life turned up a wig and thirty one thousand

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Swiss francs roughly thirty seven thousand dollars. A man faces

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a maximum penalty of twenty years in prison. And that

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is that. We're going to wrap up today's five good

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news stories. And now my dog finally gets that walk.

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I have a raincoat, I'll get wet. She's been good

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and weighted. Those are your five good news stories for today.

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Have a great day.