Speaker 1: Kalaroka Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories. Sometimes he wants some fried chicken, and
sometimes fried chicken will get you a million dollars. A
man told Maryland lottery officials he stopped buy the Royal
Farm Store on Rock Spring Road and Forest Hill, you
know the place to get some fried chicken. While he
was there, yeah, I might as well buy some lottery tickets.
Those tickets earned him fifty bucks. He used that fifty
bucks to buy two more tickets and one fifty bucks again.
So he bought one more ticket with the second fifty bucks,
and that was the ticket that won him the million
dollar prize. He said, I was shocked. At first. I
thought it was one thousand dollars. When I look closer,
I realized it was one million dollars. I left the
store laughing and in a rush. I even left my
food bind because I was so happy. I ran my
carnic all my kids. This guy's lucky. He says. He's
been playing for thirty years. He's won fifty thousand dollars twice,
as well as ten thousand dollars just a few weeks ago.
He says, I'll always play. It's fun at this age,
and I seem to be fortunate. Amen, brother, nice job.
By a university led project in Hawaii, they have removed
a staggering eighty four metric tons of abandoned fishing gear
from the Pacific in just over three years. The initiative,
known as the Bounty Project, was launched in November of
twenty two by Hawaii Pacific University Center for Marine Debris Research.
Here's the idea, instead of chasing debris after washers ashore,
pay fishermen who are already out there fishing to collect it.
A total of seventy seven commercial fishermen have taken part
carrying out more than six hundred and ninety recoveries of
ghost gear. Ghost gear include abandoned nets, lines, and floats
that can drift for years, damaging reefs and killing marine life.
Project manager Katie Stevens said, it's incredible that we're now
approaching two hundred thousand pounds of gear removed from the
ocean through this project. It's been great to see the
enthusiasm and engagement of the commercial fishers as stewards of
the ocean environment. Congratulations to Mohammad, he has broken the
same Guinness World Record for the third time, this one
performing sixty six thumb push ups with one leg raised.
He did that in one minute. Yes, it's the record
for most thumb push ups with one leg raised. He
explains thumb push ups are one of the most difficult
and rare exercises, requiring exceptional strength, balance and mental toughness.
The uniqueness is what drew me towards them. He said
that keeping balance on his thumbs with one leg bent
at a ninety degree angle was one of the biggest challenges.
He says time is limited, the body becomes exhausted, yet
maintaining balance and meeting the strict ninety degree bend requirement
is extremely challenging. Even a small mistake can invalidate the
entire attempt. We have another one of those messages in
a bottle, this time in Scotland. A man was walking
with his dogs on the coast of Scotland. He found
a bottle from Canada. Mike was there with his laboratory
retriever Maggie. Maggie found the bottle in the shallow water.
Scott noticed there was a letter sealed in a plastic bag.
The letter was written in French, dated August twenty twenty four,
and said the bottle was being launched from a ferry
traveling from Prince Edward Island to one of the islands
in Quebec. The letters author Annie asked anyone who found
the bottle to contact her through Facebook. Scott reached out.
As of this recording, it hadn't heard back yet. Maggie,
if you're listening, get in touch with Scott, will you?
And good news for a raccoon that got its head
stuck in a peanut butter jaw. The Vermont Fire Department
was there to help the raccoon, the Shelburne Fire Department
set on social media. Firefighters were tipped off to the
raccoon by the water Department, They explained. Upon arrival, crews
located the raccoon approximately twenty five feet up in a tree.
It appeared to have a little too much luck finding
the peanut butter, but not quite enough luck removing the container. Afterwards,
firefighters used a ladder to reach the raccoon and were
able to use a snare to pull the jar from
its head, restoring the raccoon's vision and to some extent,
its dignity. The fire department wants us to know no
injuries were reported aside from a hit to the raccoon's pride.
And those are your five good news stories for today.
Have a great day.