Wizard of Oz Ruby Slippers Auction

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. Good news for Butter the horse. Butter is a twelve year old female miniature horse and had fallen into a sixty foot deep well. Oh No. Rescuers working at night were able to get Butter out of the sixty foot deep well. Butter the horse had plummeted about fifteen feet into the well. A crew of skilled rescuers, including firefighters, animal control officers, and VET experts rushed to the scene a rescue Butter who was crying for help. Firefighters had taken some animal rescue training. They put that training into good use. They made a sling used to hoist Butter the miniature horse out of the ground with a front loader. VET team was there. They were able to sedate the horse so the horse didn't freak out.

0:51 Lieutenant Kyle Stevens hated in the efforts and said it was great to put all those training sessions to good. This was definitely a great team effort by all those involved. After the rescue, everyone a dried Butter off and wrapped her in a heavy blanket. Butter the horse was reunited with her owner and taken to the vet for an additional follow up. You know how this podcast works. No horrible endings here, Everything worked out great. In Seoul, the government has been collecting used furniture from hotels and donating to low income earners and the homeless in the city. The government has partnered with fourteen different luxury hotels. They've seen one hundred and twenty thousand used furniture items distributed to low income housing, homeless facilities and other shelter initiatives. Locals say there's something to be said for not only, you know, giving them furniture, but also it helps their self esteem. The sight of nice pieces of furniture may offer an intentional benefit to somebody with the stresses of living near the poverty line, and the intangible might help in a way that direct financial support might not. Would you like to buy the ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz. They're on sale. They're available for auction. The auction continues through December seventh. The sequent and bad bedazzled slippers appeared in the nineteen thirty nine movie. Back in two thousand and five, Michael Shaw had loaned the shoes to the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids. That summer, someone smashed through the display case and stole the ruby slippers.

2:09 No one knew where they were. The FBI recovered them in twenty eighteen. Well we're not lending it to you again, guys. The museum is one of those vying for the slippers. I have a suspicion they'll wind up winning this auction. Maybe not. Grand Rapids has raised money for the slippers at its annual Judy Garland Festival. The funds will supplement the one hundred thousand dollars set aside this year by Minnesota lawmakers to purchase the slippers. Now, the man who had stolen the slippers, he's seventy six. He was sentenced in January two time served because of his poor health. He admitted to using a hammer to smash the glass at the museum's door. He said it was attempt to pull off one last score after an old associate with connections to the mob told them the shoes had to be adorned with real jewels to justify their one million dollars in short value. I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure those are not real jewels. Check with an oz xpit. But I feel like I have that fact in my brain somewhere. And emu is thriving in an aviary after being raised by an unlikely foster mom. The emu named Shrub was rejected by its parents, Forest and Matilda.

3:12 Keepers at bird World discovered that Matilda had successfully hatched an egg, but neither parent was willing to take on the role of caregiver. The job of raising Shrub was given to Nugget. Nugget is a small hen who also lives at bird World. Nugget taught Shrub skills like eating and walking. Polly is the living collections manager at bird World and said, unlike most birds, emu males incubate eggs and they are typically winter breeders. However, shrubs mother Matilda laid eggs in the summer and Forrest didn't seem to be incubating them. We didn't expect the eggs to hatch, and with surprise when we found Shrub. Shrub quickly learned how to pick up food, drink, and coordinate her gangly legs. We're told Shrub is an amazing lady and the keepers are proud. She has no confusion about who she is.

3:55 She is one hundred percent EMU. In Australia, a couple came home after midnight and there was someone in their bed. Who was it? It was a koala. Frand posted a video with the caption only in Australia. She thought, Oh my god, is there a koala in my bedroom? And my husband was like, what are you doing? Why are you screaming? She called for expert help while her husband tried to hold a koala with some clothes and he grabbed the clothes and I called for the koala rescue. And I forgot how to speak in English, and I started to speak Spanish and I don't speak Spanish, her husband does. The koala was eventually coaxed out of the house and climbed a tree in the couple's yard. And those here five good news stories for today. If you enjoy the program, tell a friend about it. They might like it too. I host a program it's called Daily Comedy News, seven days a week. I talk about comedians like Seinfeld and Gaffigan and Malaney and Nikki Glazer you know her from the Tom Brady Roast and whatever the comedians are up to. If you'd like the program without commercial interruption, If you're on Apple podcast. Click that banner that says uninterrupted listening and see how that works. If you're not on Apple Podcast, there's a link of the show notes short version. Five bucks a month, you'll get this and all the other shows on the network without commercial interruption. You have an awesome day.