Walmart Self-Checkout Party Turns into Charity Event PLUS Honest Uber Driver Returns $8,000

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. He good news, we found the eight thousand dollars you left in an Uber Oops. Yeah, you're lucky that the driver is an honest fellow. Esben has been an Uber driver for four years on and off. He was chatting with his passenger and the passenger told him how proud his dad was of him. Dad had given the young man eight thousand dollars cash to buy a new motorcycle. Epsen dropped. The teenager off was heading to retrieve another rider when he noticed a red Christmas theme bag in the back of the car. He realized it was filled with quite a lot of money and reported it missing through the Uber app immediately. Meanwhile, the poor teenagers freaking out and contacted the Uber app and connected the two once again. The teenager was blown away by the honesty of the driver and made sure he drove off with a generous tip.

0:54 The driver said, well, you do something good, it comes back ten times. A New Jersey man had a crazy idea. He wanted to throw a party at the Walmart self checkout counter. You know, I can't stand those things you want me to not use two day shipping from the big company, and then you're gonna make me stand in line to check myself out. No, thank you, Walmart. The man posted on Facebook for the party, saying, celebrating another successful year of picking, paying, and begging your own groceries while actual employees just stand around and check receipts. He saw that twenty one thousand people had marked the event as interested, he decided to turn his cynicism into good will. Walmart was unwilling to host the event, but the man Angelo wasn't gonna give up. He said this starter as a joke, but had me thinking. What if I was to organize a big toy drive where we have a Santa claus Then we all purchased toys from the store, pile them outside, and then donate them to whatever children happen to come to the store. I generally believe something good could come this. Times are tough for a lot of people. I think this will be perfect, he wrote to his local Elks Lodge community organization. They offered their location as a drop off site. Seven thousand people actually showed up trunks of presents, food, pet food, their donations flooding the Elks Lodge. Also, the manager of the local Walmart store drove a truck to the event and gave a ton of toys and food, etc. Andrew said of the manager, he's actually a really great guy and I really appreciate him for coming through for us, and added, I don't actually hate self checkout well, Johnny Mack does.

2:15 Hey, good news. If you're a penguin with cataracts, we can help you. Three elderly king penguins have been fitted with custom made eye lenses. The Mandai Wildlife Group said the penguins were among six elderly penguins to undergo cataract surgery two months ago and have since made a full recovery. They include three King penguins aged twenty and older and three humbold penguins ages seven to thirteen. They live in Singapore's Jurung Bird Park. Meanwhile, someone has anonymously donated a pair of rare air Jordans to a homeless shelter. The air Jordan's turned out to be worth thousands of dollars. Back in April, a pair of gold shoes were an obsousally dropped down a donation shoot at the burnside shelter of the Portland Rescue Mission. James Free is a formerly homeless man who's part of the organization's long term shelter program. He found the shoes. A quick Google search revealed the shoes looked like a pair that Spike Lee Ward of the twenty nineteen Academy Awards. They took them to a local sneaker shop and found out that the shoes were part of just a handful of pairs made in collaboration with Spike Leaf for the director and his inner circle. They were never released to the public. The shop owner offered to buy the sneakers right there, but luckily the organization thought about it a little bit. They reached out to Southeby's.

3:24 They put them on auction. Southebees estimated the shoes would sell before between fifteen and twenty thousand dollars. The shoes sold for fifty thousand, eight hundred. Wow. In good news. You may live in one of the world's happiest countries, especially if you're listening in Finland. Finland right now ranked number one world's happiest country according to the World Happiness Report. Some countries not as happy Afghanistan one thirty seven, Lebanon one thirty six, Russia number seventy, Ukraine number ninety two. As for the happiest countries, in order from number one heading down, Finland, Iceland, number four, Israel. I'm going to guess the list was made before the outbreak of the War of Five Netherlands six, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Austria, Australia, Canada, Ireland number fifteen, the United States, then Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, UK and Lithuania around up your top twenty, and that is your five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. See you next time.