Sept. 2, 2025

Wallet found in car engine 11 years later!

Show Notes
Transcript

A mechanic found a wallet lost 11 years ago in a car, and reunited it with its owner. A book checked out 82 years ago was returned to the San Antonio Public Library. In Chicago, a sheep escaped a slaughterhouse and found its way to safety. Coca-Cola memorabilia collector Debbie recaptured her Guinness World Record with 5,623 items. Lastly, a snake catcher in Australia safely relocated a brown tree snake found in a model train set.

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Calaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Hey, good news, We found your wallet.

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A mechanic was working on a twenty fifteen Ford Edge.

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He was working under the hood and he found a

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wallet that had been lost by a guy eleven years earlier.

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Robert says he remembers the day he lost his wallet.

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He was working on vehicles that had been shipped to

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the Michigan assembly plant. He told the local TV I

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never wore sweatpants to work, but I did that day,

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and I had my wallet in my shirt pocket. Robert

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and the team looked for the wallet, but there were

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two thousand cars they'd worked on that day. He had

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to give up. He said. The wallet contained his driver's license,

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his Ford Motor Company ID, fifteen dollars, and two hundred

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and fifty dollars worth of Cabella's Sporting Goods gift cards.

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The Devil's always the details in these stories. Well, eleven

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years later, Chad is working on a twenty fifteen Ford

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edg Edge. It needed its cooling fans replaced. Chad was

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trying to put the box back in place and it

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wouldn't fit right, and he found the leather wallet sitting

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on top of the transmission. Chad said, I'm surprised to

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find stuff all the time, usually tools. I looked through

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it and I see a Ford Motor Company badge. I thought,

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I'm going to try fighting this guy. They connected over Facebook.

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The wallet was in the mail the next day. The

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wallet and the edge had traveled about one hundred and

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fifty thousand miles together. That's amazing. Oh yeah, and the

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fifteen dollars and the gift cards still there. Well, if

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you've been waiting to take out the local library copy

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of Your Child, His Family and Friends by Francis Bruce Strein,

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it's back. It has been returned to the San Antonio

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Public Library after eighty two years. It came with a note.

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The note explained the book had been found among the

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note writer's father's possessions. Apparently grandma had checked the book

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out when dad was eleven years old. Fortunately, the library

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eliminated fees in twenty twenty one. You're not gonna be

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able to take the book out. It's on dis in

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the lobby of San Antonio's Central Library. It will be

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donated to the Friends of San Antonio Public Library for

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sale in the bookseller. Use bookstore at the end of August. Really,

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that's what you're doing with it. If you were driving

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around in Chicago and you thought you saw a sheep,

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you saw a sheep. The sheep was running through traffic

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near the Fulton Market district. Several witnesses captured video of

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the sheep. The sheep had escaped a slaughterhouse. Chicago Animal

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Care and Control were able to corral the sheep and

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load it into the van. They didn't know what to

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do with the sheep, so they brought it to Chicago

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Chicken Rescue. Christian found a Chicago Chicken Rescue and said

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the sheep is the first sheep to come to the

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chicken rescue in its fifteen years of operations. He told

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local news the sheep was at a slaughterhouse and managed

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to escape and find his way to the main administrative

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office and then smashed through a glass window and ended

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up roaming the streets of Chicago. They're trying to find

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a new home for the sheep who has escaped the slaughterhouse.

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They want to find the sheep a permanent home ontom

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that has other sheep. Congratulations to a Soft Drink super

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fan Debbie has recaptured the Guinness Record for her collection

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of Coca Cola memorabilia five thousand, six hundred and twenty

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three unique items. She first head the award in twenty

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twenty when she had just twenty twenty eight items, but

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then she lost the title in twenty twenty three to

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this guy, Jeff, who had fifty two to thirty seven items. Again,

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Debbie now has fifty six to twenty three and the

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devil's in the details. Debbie said, my husband's father worked

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for Pepsi, so from the beginning it was a no

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note of coke and definitely not having the household. But

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as my collection grew and grew, he finally came to

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accept and appreciate it, and he enjoys looking at everything too.

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She says. The red, I think is what pulls me in.

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While down in Australia, they had a call in the

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snake guy again. Stuart Mackenzie from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers

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was called out to a house a resident saw a

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snake in his model train set. The Snake Coast Snake

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Catchers say the repsile is a healthy and rather large

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brown tree snake that decided to have a sleep in

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the train set. The snake hunter said in a video

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that the snake was preparing to shed its skin. The

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video of the snake ends with the snake being released

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into a tree. The snake hunter says, back in a

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tree where you belong, away from the model train set.

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In case you're curious, brown tree snakes are venomous, but

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are generally not considered dangerous to adult humans. That said,

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you probably don't want one in your train set. And

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