Speaker 1: Callaroga Shock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
Speaker 1: good news stories. In Tasmania, a celebrity elephant seal has
Speaker 1: returned for his annual visit. That's right, it's Neil the Seal.
Speaker 1: He's a five year old Southern elephant seal and he
Speaker 1: has returned for his annual trip assured, delighting fans while
Speaker 1: creating plenty of headaches for local officials. Neil the Seal
Speaker 1: weighs around twenty two hundred pounds and he's become a
Speaker 1: local celebrity because of his yearly appearances and his neck
Speaker 1: for showing up in unexpected places. This year, he stopped traffic,
Speaker 1: knocked over some poles, damaged defense, and even bothered some
Speaker 1: park cars. Experts say, Neil the Seal isn't being destructive
Speaker 1: on purpose. He's just molting, and that's a natural process
Speaker 1: in which elephant seals shed their old skin and fur,
Speaker 1: causing them to rub against anything sturdy enough to provide
Speaker 1: a good scratch. I feel you, Neil the Seal. Police
Speaker 1: and wildlife officials recently had asked Neil the Seal, hey,
Speaker 1: can you back away from this busy intersection and go
Speaker 1: back to the beach. For a while. Authorities asked the
Speaker 1: public to admire Kneel the Seal from a safe distance,
Speaker 1: reminding people that despite its popularity, Kneel the Seal weighs
Speaker 1: twenty two hundred pounds and needs personal space. Let's keep
Speaker 1: it on the beach. In North Carolina, apples washed ashore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you are on the beach, and here come the waves,
Speaker 1: and the waves dozens of apples. Volunteers with the Corolla
Speaker 1: Wild Horse Fund were called in after reports that apples
Speaker 1: were scattered across the beach. At first, they suspected someone
Speaker 1: had dump some apples on the beach, but as they investigated,
Speaker 1: it became clear their fruit was drifting in with the tide.
Speaker 1: They suspect the apples fell from a cargo ship at sea.
Speaker 1: Volunteers collected bags of apples and later found even more
Speaker 1: apples and some oranges. Now you might think, hey, free
Speaker 1: snack for the area's famous wild horses, but wildlife experts
Speaker 1: quickly removed the apples. They said the apples are not
Speaker 1: part of the horse's natural diet and can cause choking.
Speaker 1: We're serious digestive problems. No word on what they did
Speaker 1: with the oranges. A piece of American history has been
Speaker 1: found in an unexpected place. A volunteer working at the
Speaker 1: National Archives in England discovered a rare seventeen seventy six
Speaker 1: printing of the Declaration of Independence while they were cataloging
Speaker 1: centuries old naval correspondence. The document is one of only
Speaker 1: eleven known surviving copies of what historians call the Exeter Declaration,
Speaker 1: and is believed to be the only known example located
Speaker 1: outside the US. Michael, the volunteer, found the document he
Speaker 1: was working with some papers belonging to Captain Thomas Fritzeber
Speaker 1: of the Royal Navy. Historical records show the declaration had
Speaker 1: been taken from an American privateership called the Dalton after
Speaker 1: the Dalton was captured by British warship in December of
Speaker 1: seventeen seventy six. The declaration had originally been printed in Exeter,
Speaker 1: New Hampshire, just days after the Continental Congress adopted the document.
Speaker 1: Rather than being submitted with the rest of the captured
Speaker 1: ship's papers, historians believed the declaration was quietly forwarded to
Speaker 1: Royal Naval officials in London were remained unnoticed for two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years. In Canada, a simple spell mistake
Speaker 1: turned a city promotion into an Internet sensation. You see,
Speaker 1: officials in Ottawa installed some bilingual signs. The signs which
Speaker 1: to promote a summer initiative to create temporary public gathering
Speaker 1: spaces in the downtown area. The English version fine. The
Speaker 1: French version omitted a single letter, which changed the freeze
Speaker 1: public squares into something that translated as pubic squares. Social
Speaker 1: media users quickly noticed the mistake, podcasters held in a laugh,
Speaker 1: and photos of the signs spread online. Oops. The police
Speaker 1: were involved in what they have called the world's slowest
Speaker 1: police chief. Charlie was out doing her thing. She spotted
Speaker 1: an unusual site at tortoise slowly making its way across
Speaker 1: a busy highway. Fearing that the animal would be struck
Speaker 1: by a passing vehicle, Charlie stopped traffic, ran out of
Speaker 1: the road, picked up the wandering reptile, and placed it
Speaker 1: safely in the passenger foot well of her patrol car.
Speaker 1: After speaking with local residents, Charlie found out that the tortoise,
Speaker 1: named Tom, had been missing for three weeks. Tom's owner
Speaker 1: had spent hours searching the area and posting missing pet notices,
Speaker 1: hoping someone would find him. The police called the rescue
Speaker 1: a contender for the world's lowest police footchase. Tom is
Speaker 1: back home. Those your five good news stories for today,
Speaker 1: have a great day.