March 19, 2026

150-year-old bottle of beer tastes pretty ok

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Johnny Mac presents five stories: Tom’s Eiffel Tower proposal to Taylor is nearly ruined when a woman with a selfie stick blocks their hidden phone, but the stranger’s own video captures the couple hugging, kissing and showing the ring. In London, Rose alleges a neighbor ripped out her fence, cut into her decking and hot tub enclosure, and moved a new fence over a meter into her garden; police called it civil, but a boundary survey says her original fence was correct and she’s working with the land registry. In Southern Arizona, an endangered jaguar is spotted at a watering hole, the fifth in 15 years. In Utah, archaeologists find an intact ~150-year-old bottle of alcohol and experts say it appears to be a low-alcohol beer they hope to recreate. In Wilmington, North Carolina, Zeke Smash donates 5% of profits to childhood cancer charities.

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Calaroka Shark Media. Oh No, a man's proposal in front

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of the Eiffel Tower didn't work out after a stranger

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accidentally blocked the camera he had set up to record

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the phonement, Oh no, don't worry. This is five good

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News stories and I'm Johnny MAXI. There's Tom. He's proposing

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to Taylor in front of the Eiffel Tower. He had

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positioned his phone behind them, telling Taylor was there to

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catch the lights, and then he got down on one knee. However,

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when they reviewed the footage, they found that a woman

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nearby holding a selfie stick had stepped directly in front

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of the camera. After realizing what was going on, she

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pointed toward the couple and then moved closer and filmed

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herself with them in the background, blocking most of Tom's recording.

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Taylor shared this on TikTok, going you just want to

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cute proposal video, but a lady with a selfie stick

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as other plans. But don't worry, it works out. Taylor

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shared footage filmed by the woman showing the couple hugging

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and kissing as she displayed ring. As she told her

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her fans on TikTok don't stress. We got this cute

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video later. Here's a question, is it my yard or

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your yard? Well in London, a woman says her neighbor

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has taken more than a meter of her garden by

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allegedly ripping out her fence and removing part of her

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decking and hot tub enclosure. Rose said she spent a

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lot of money in five months transforming her into the garden,

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adding a deck and a hot tub in time for

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her sixtieth birthday. But one day she gets home and

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finds the neighbor had removed the fence, cut into the

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decking and the hot tub surrounding, and erect at a

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new fence further inside her property. Oh no, Rose said,

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what began is my dream garden has turned into a

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living nightmare. But she says, I won't stop until what's

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mine is finally respected. I do have a little sympathy

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for him, because he honestly thinks it's his land, but

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just the way he's gone about it is vile. He

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just doesn't stop. I just want to be able to

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relax in my garden with my family. I had the

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opposite problem. My neighbor put up a fence and I

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like I think I gained the land, but now I

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have to mow the land that's on my side of

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the fence, and it's like annoying land of Mode'd rather

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have just claimed it. Yeah, Rose said, he cut out

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a bit of our garden. I didn't believe what was happening.

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Who does that? The neighbor ripped out my fence. He

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sought about a meter off my garden at a slope

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and took five wooden planks from the hot tub. He

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left all my hard work ruined. I couldn't believe that

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someone could do such a thing to someone's property. She

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went to the police and they were like, yeah, it's

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a silver matter. But recently, Rose says a professional boundary

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survey confirmed her fence was correct and that her neighbor's

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fence is on her land. She's now working with the

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Land Registry to figure out what happens next. Good Luck

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A jaguar was spotted at a watering hole in southern Arizona.

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That's the fifth endangered jaguar found in the region over

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the past fifteen years. Susan works for the University of

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Arizona as Wildcat Research and Conservation Center, and Susan says

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We're very excited. It signifies this edge population of jaguars

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continues to come here because they're finding what they need.

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The species is recovering. We still have a chance to

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get it right and keep these quarridors open. Jaguars are

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the only big cat native to the Americans and are

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the third largest cat species in the world after tigers

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and the lions. In Utah, an archaeological team exhoomed a

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bottle of alcohol estimated to be one hundred and fifty

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years old, and they gave it a taste test. The

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bottle was part of thousands of artifacts dating back to

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around eighteen seventy and eighteen ninety found on US Forest

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Service land used by a ski resort. Ian Wright is

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the Utah State Public Archaeologist. He said when they picked

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it up was still full of out of cork in it.

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He says it's the only known intact bottle of alcohol

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to be found from the time period. He explained they

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sometimes find them in Missouri and in places where the

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mississippis shifted and there's been a sunken boat or ship,

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but never in Utah. We rarely find a bottle with

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a cork at all, or If we do find one,

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the cork shriveled up and shrunk inside of it or

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just fragments of it, so that's pretty rare. Isaac Winter

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is the director of distilling at High West. He was

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the first to taste it. He told Fox thirteen. I

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had a little bit of trepidation going in, but you

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have to try. It didn't smell like gasoline, didn't smell

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like tobacco spit, he said. But the flavor is fruity.

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There's a little bit of leather, but there's quite an

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age on it. Experts said the liquid appears to be

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a low alcohol beer. They're now hoping to recreate the beverage.

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We're told the very bottom of the bottle was sort

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of turbid, sort of milky. We're going to take it

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back and hopefully played it out and find some usable

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yeast on it. In North Carolina, every smash burger served

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at a restaurant is helping to fight childhood cancer. The

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folks over at Zeke Smash are donating five percent of

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all profits to children's cancer charities, including Saint Baldrick's. Zeke

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Smash serves smash burger sandwiches, fried cheese, curds, hot dogs,

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and desserts. The restaurant is named after Zeke, the six

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year old son of the owner's close friends. Zeke was

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diagnosed at just three months with juvenile leukemia, a rare,

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aggressive blood cancer. Kyle, the owner, said, watching the family

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navigate chemotherapy, hospital visits, and medical bills, even with strong insurance,

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changed him. Beyond treatment, he saw the emotional hold on

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long term financial strain that families face, an area he

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believes is often overlooked in childhood cancer fundraising. The name

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Zeke Smash became both a brand and emission great food

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paired with direct community impact. If you're down that way,

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Zeke Smash six nineteen South seventeenth Street in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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And those are five good news stories for today,