May 10, 2026

Vape Squirrel

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Johnny Mac presents five good news stories: England completed the King Charles III England Coast Path, a 2,689-mile trail tracing the full perimeter of England’s coastline after 18 years of work, with new bridges, boardwalks, and mostly continuous routing; an opossum stowed away on a cargo ship to Alaska, was found in Juneau, and—since it’s invasive there—was taken to the Alaska Zoo and named Meatball; Chile established a massive maritime protected area of about 386,000 square miles, the third largest protected marine seascape, safeguarding diverse marine life and an underwater mountain chain; in Chicago, two separate delivery robots from Serve Robotics and Coco Robotics crashed into bus shelters and shattered glass, with both companies responding and offering repairs; and in the UK, discarded vapes pose risks to wildlife after footage showed a squirrel chewing on a vape, likely attracted by fruity flavors and exposed to nicotine and microplastics.

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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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few new stories. This is pretty cool. England now has

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a hiking trail that traces its entire coastline. It is

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the King Trails, the third England Coast Path. It stretches

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twenty six hundred and eighty nine miles around the coast

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of England, making the first trail in the world to

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follow the full perimeter of a nation's coastline. They've been

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working on this for eighteen years and includes around one

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thousand miles of newly built, connected or upgraded paths, along

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with the new boardwalks and bridges. The trail was inaugurated

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by the King himself, who looked delighted one walking part

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of the newly completed route near the famous Seven Sisters

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Chalk Cliffs. He was joined by Tony from Natural England.

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They're the organization that oversaw the project. Tony said the

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path is a testament to how public enjoyment, conservation, heritage,

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history and community can come together, helping make life better

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for millions of people. Before the route existed, it was

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it's technically possible to walk the coastline bits and pieces,

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but sometimes you had to walk on rods through weird gaps.

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Now most of the route is continuous, with only two

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real interruptions. One you have to take a ferry, all right,

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Well that's a little cheating there, and another where a

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river gets in your way. Close enough now, sometimes you

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just want to get away. Well, an apossum did just that.

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An apossum was stowed away on a northbound cargo ship

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and ended up in Alaska, which is pretty far from

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where a possums normally hang out. It was spotted in Juno.

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One responder was like, I don't think that's an apossum

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because we're in Alaska. But it was an apossum, and

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the apostlem was chill. It didn't hiss, didn't bite, no drama.

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The apostle was calmly guided into a trap like an

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apossum that realized, yeah, I may have overshot this trip

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a little. Here's the issue though, In Alaska, apossums are

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considered an invasive species, so they couldn't just release him.

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He now lives at the Alaska Zoo, where he's been

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given a name Meatball. The zoo didn't have it a

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possum since the previous bossom Grubby passed away last year,

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so it kind of worked out. In Chile, they have

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a massive new maritime protected area. The area now covers

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about three hundred and eighty six thousand square miles. That's

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bigger than Texas. It is the third largest protected marine

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seascape of the world. The area includes whales, dolphins, turtles, octopus,

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shiny lobsters, seabirds, a seal, not just one seal, you

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know what type of seal, and a vast underwater mountain chain.

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The mayor of Robinson Crusoe Island said, this commitment reflects

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the heart of our community. Expanding marine protections is not

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only about conserving biodiversity, It's about safeguarding our culture, our traditions,

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and the future of our children. Well, some delivery robots

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in Chicago are having a bad time. Two delivery robots

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crashed into bus shelters on separate days. The first happened

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when a robot operated by Serve Robotics crashed into a

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Sea VTA shelter had grand and racine and shattered the glass.

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The whole thing was caught on camera, and then the

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robot just stopped and sat there like it had explained

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what happened. A spokesperson for Serve Robotics said, we're aware

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of the incident and one of our robots in Chicago.

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No injuries reported. Our team responded quickly to clean up

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and we're reviewing what happened to make improvements. We've been

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in contact and we take this matter very seriously. Then

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two days later, a different robot operated by Cocoa Robotics

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smashed the glass at a bus shelter on North Avenue

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near Halstead. Carl is the VP at Coco and said,

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we're aware of an incident today in Chicago involving our robot.

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This is something we take seriously and as well outside

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the norm of our operations. He added the company would

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cover the repair costs. In the UK, they are warning

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about the danger of discarded vapes after a squirrel was

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caught vaping on camera. Well maybe not vaping, but it

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was chewing on a vape. Footage shows a gray squirrel

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nibbling at the mouthpiece of a discord to nicotine vape

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while perched on a wooden fence. Craig is a red

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squirrel expert at Bangor University. He said the fruity smell

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and flavoring and vape liquid might be what attracts the

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animals in the first place. He said it would be

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reasonable to assume that a vape would be more attractive

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than a normal tobacco product that's not fruity. You don't

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want animals ingesting nicotine. He also said eating a vape

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is not part of their natural diet. The components aren't

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something they encounter in nature. They can naut it and

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consume some of the microplastics, so cut it out, everybody

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in Those are your five good news stories for today.

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Have a great day.