Oct. 30, 2025

Why you need to go see the Parthenon in the next few days!

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A rare capture of a Calico lobster off Massachusetts, the use of coyote statues to deter geese and crows at a California school, the Parthenon in Athens being free of scaffolding for the first time in 200 years, a California Highway Patrol stopping a car with a hand-drawn license plate, and a family's lucky escape from a cat dropping a dead mouse into their cooking pot.

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

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good news stories. Good news for a rare calico lobster.

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The people that caught the rare calical lobster knew what

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they had there. A rare caligo lobster has orange and

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black collaring. It is believed to occur in only one

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of thirty million lobsters. This one was caught off the

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coast of Massachusetts, The Marine Science Center said in a

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news release. One day, Mike, the lobster men sent it

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me a message with a picture of this beautiful calico

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and asked if we had room in our tanks for

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another beautiful, rare lobster. Sierra, who coordinates the program, said,

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of course we do. Such a thoughtful and fund donation

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to our science education program. The lobster has been named Jackie,

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short for jack O'Lantern. Jackie will live with Neptune, who's

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a blue lobster. Blue occurs in one out of two

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million lobsters. Sierra says. Normally the lobsters that we s

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you're reddish, brownish, a little bit greenish. In the calico lobster,

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the pigment combines with other pigments and proteins in a

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really unique way that gives her this really rare, kind

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of modeled or frickled look. In Menlo Park, California, they

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were trying to figure out hattie has stopped the crows

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and geese from crapping all over the playground. What do

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you do? They put up coyote statues? Who's an idea

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from the principal's father. He lives in Canada. She was

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talking of about the geese poop and he said, in

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Canada they use fake coyotes and parks to deter geese.

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The principals thought, hey, that might work for crows too,

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and it does. Now. The downside is they've gotten over

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a dozen calls to warn the school that there are

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coyotes on campus, and the school gets a good chuckle

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out of that. Appreciate you looking out for us. They're

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not real good news. If you're in Athens, you can

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see the Parthenon Temple without scaffolding for the first time

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in two hundred years. Greece's Cultural Minister Lina Mondoni said

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at least two generations have not seen the Parthenon visually free.

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To see the Parthenon completely free as it stands today

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is something that hasn't happened for at least two hundred years.

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The Parthenon was built in the fifth century BC on

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top of the Acropolis to honor Athena, the patron goddess

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of the city. Get moving because they're going to start

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working on it again. In November, with another set of

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scaffoldings being constructed. Yikes, get on a plane, get over there.

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A California Highway Patrol officer stopped a vehicle found to

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be driving with a fake license plate that had been

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hand drawn the chips set on social media. Upon closer look,

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the license plate turned out to be handmade. It even

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had a fake registration sticker. The cops said, we'll give

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this driver points for creativity. The driver said, oh, I

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lost the original plate. The chip said, while we appreciate

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the effort to stay compliant after losing the original plate,

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California law requires vehicles to display state issued plates only.

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If your plates are lost or stolen, you can easily

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get replacements through the DMV instead of breaking out the

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art supplies. Are you eating while you're listening to me?

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Then hit stop because you're not gonna want to hear

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this one. Good news for a family they got to

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go out to dinner. Why, Johnny Mack, Well, you see,

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they have Wendy the cat and Wendy the cat dropped

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a dead mouse into their food was actually captured on

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their home security camera. Wendy the kitten drops a dead

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mouse into a pot cooking on the stove. Wendy's owner

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said she was out feeding the dogs when the kitchen

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camera recorded the cat's attempted cooking. She said the cat's

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suspicious behavior when she came back into the kitchen led

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her to check the camera footage and discover the surprise

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good thing. The cat was acting suspicious. That could have

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been all kinds of horrible. I'm just freaking out telling

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you the story. Cat mom said, as you can guess,

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it was takeout for dinner that night. Can you imagine? Yikes?

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Those are five good no four good news stories anyway,

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and whatever that last one was, I'm horrified. Do you

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have a great day.