Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories over the holidays. I hope you didn't
get pulled over by the Grinch. For the past twenty years,
retired Deputy Sheriff Colonel Loo has put on a Grinch
costume and an operation targeting speeding drivers in school zones.
If you were caught slightly exceeding the school zone speed
limit by five miles per hour or less, you had
a choice. You could get a ticket or an onion.
The Sheriff's office said he gave out quite a few onions.
Nice job by scientists in Europe, doctor has ever stored
vision and patients with untreatable macular degeneration using a device
that combines an electronic eye implant with augmented reality glasses.
That's pretty cool. People who couldn't see an eychart before
can now read on average five lines. Mahim Mukwid of
the University College of London says in the history of
artificial vision, this represents a new era. Blind patients or
act able to have meaningful central vision restoration, which has
never been done before. Getting back the ability to read
is a major improvement in their quality of life, lifts
their mood and helps to restore their confidence and independence.
One of the patients, Sheila, said, I was an avid
bookworm and I wanted that back. It was dead exciting
when it began seeing a letter. It's not simple learning
to read again. But the more hours I put in,
the more I pick up. A woman in England played
her clarinet for the first time in five years while
awake on the operating table. Denise was undergoing deep brain
stimulation surgery to treat Parkinson's disease. The procedure delivers a
gentle electric current to electroes implanted in the brain that
helps restore motor control, and her surgeon had the idea, Hey,
bring your clarinet so we can test this. Denise was
diagnosed in twenty fourteen and slowly lost the ability to swim, dance,
or play the clarinet. The operation lasted four hours under
local anesthesia, and by the end, Denise's music was back.
Congratulations to Natalie, She's eighty years old. She became the
oldest woman ever to finish the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii.
That's a swim of two point four miles, a one
hundred and twelve mile bike ride and a full marathon. Natalie,
who's eighty, didn't even learn how to swim until she
was sixty. Her coach, Michelle said, she's truly gritty. Natalie
is the definition of grit and gratitude. Grateful to make
it to the start line, grateful to do something she
loves every day, and grateful to inspire so many others.
Sixteen hours, forty five minutes, Natalie says, the important thing
is that people see from my story that maybe they
could push themselves a little bit. Uh oh. In Virginia,
the police were on alert. Three costume figures were caught
creeping up to a home's front door. It looked like
maybe it was burglars. The police even asked neighbors to
check their cameras for clues. The officers investigated, and it
turned out, ah, it was some teenagers. Just like a
Scooby Doo episode. They were just doing a little prank.
Police Chief McGuire called it a moral failure, saying consequences
could result in deadly consequences. The prank may have seemed harmless,
but it could have led to serious consequences, noting that
one frightened relative even arrived at the house armed. The
chief says these are not pranks to be taken lightly.
In those your five good news stories for today. Have
a great day.