Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: It is seven five here at Kentucky in this morning
Speaker 1: news coffee and company with you here on news Radio
Speaker 1: eight forty whas. Yes, So be advised here soon if
Speaker 1: you are speeding through a construction zone here in Kentucky,
Speaker 1: you will I shouldn't say that, you'll you're guaranteed to
Speaker 1: get pulled over, but there's going to be those cameras
Speaker 1: set up and you won't see law enforcement, but the
Speaker 1: cameras will see you in law enforcement will be there
Speaker 1: ready in waiting to pull you over and probably give
Speaker 1: you a very expensive speeding ticket. So just be prepared
Speaker 1: for that. And it's certainly needed given the fact that
Speaker 1: there have been a lot of accidents that have taken
Speaker 1: place in these construction in these active work zones across
Speaker 1: the state. And that's why the House Bill six sixty four,
Speaker 1: the Jared Lee Helton Act, was put in place. So again,
Speaker 1: it'll start later this summer and in the fall, and
Speaker 1: it'll be a statewide expansion in the coming years. So
Speaker 1: you're not going it's not something they send you in
Speaker 1: the mail or anything like that, which I don't think
Speaker 1: that happens in Kentucky, but I know other states. If
Speaker 1: if you're running a red light and they catch your
Speaker 1: license plate, they'll mail you a citation or a warning
Speaker 1: or something like that. So this is not the same thing,
Speaker 1: but somewhat somewhat similar. So again, just be prepared. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong here because I you know, I assume
Speaker 1: most people just know, like, hey, the last place I
Speaker 1: want to get caught speeding or get pulled over as
Speaker 1: in a construction zone. But I hadn't really thought about
Speaker 1: it when it comes to the fact that you may
Speaker 1: just be you may be able to better get away
Speaker 1: with it. I mean, that's that's probably what's happened a
Speaker 1: lot of times, is that people realize, oh, I'm going
Speaker 1: way over the speed limit because it's a big time
Speaker 1: reduction and speed because of the active work zone. But
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily safe for law enforcement to be sitting
Speaker 1: and waiting and be able to accurately get your speed
Speaker 1: and then of course speed from wherever they're sitting and
Speaker 1: then pull you over, because again there's a reason that
Speaker 1: there's a very very strict speed limit because there's an
Speaker 1: active work zone going on. Therefore, you've got to be safe.
Speaker 1: So if law enforcement was just sitting there waiting within
Speaker 1: the active work zone, I mean getting out of there
Speaker 1: without being a very dangerous situation, and of course getting
Speaker 1: out of there quickly would be an issue. So now
Speaker 1: that's why these cameras are going to be able to
Speaker 1: hold people accountable and clearly hopefully keep people safer on
Speaker 1: the roadways. It's not just those who work out there
Speaker 1: that get injured. If you're going fast, there could be
Speaker 1: nobody actively working. But when you're going much faster than
Speaker 1: what that speed limit is, you can also end up
Speaker 1: in a wreck. So thirteen hundred crashes, seven deaths, one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five injuries in Kentucky last year, and
Speaker 1: most of the victims were drivers or passengers, not those
Speaker 1: that were actively working. So again, there's multiple reasons why
Speaker 1: you are advised to slow down when there's an active
Speaker 1: work zone going on. So just again, just keep that
Speaker 1: in mind. And I'm just thinking now, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe I should. It's not like I assume. It's not
Speaker 1: like I assume the worst in people. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: there is some listening that realize you I actually have
Speaker 1: a better ability to get away with speeding because of
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Speaker 1: coming up after we get another update on traffic and weather.
Speaker 1: This is an interesting reddit thread that I think I
Speaker 1: think would be a great time to utilize the talkback
Speaker 1: feature on the iHeart radio app because this reddit thread
Speaker 1: is fascinating to me as a parent. But someone started
Speaker 1: a Reddit thread sharing a specific story about how much
Speaker 1: money they had to spend on their kid, and it's
Speaker 1: led to a lot of different stories about the most
Speaker 1: expensive thing that has ever come their way because of
Speaker 1: something their kid did. There's some that are just what
Speaker 1: they purchased, right, because obviously there's certain things they are
Speaker 1: going to cost a lot of money, but this is
Speaker 1: more so just like what did your kid do to
Speaker 1: where you had to, you know, pay for it? And
Speaker 1: there's some really interesting ones here and I've yet I
Speaker 1: can't think of one that was that tappened just yet,
Speaker 1: but my kids are really young. But I'm sure many
Speaker 1: of you listening can think of something that your kid
Speaker 1: did that you ended up having to pay for and
Speaker 1: then they paid for it via punishment from you for
Speaker 1: obvious reasons. I'm sure. So if you want to use
Speaker 1: the talkback feature, you can. It's on the ihet radio app.
Speaker 1: All you do is just click the microphone button while
Speaker 1: listening to us here on eight to forty whas, and
Speaker 1: then you you share whatever it is you want to share,
Speaker 1: and then we have it. It's that easy, So take
Speaker 1: advantage of it, all right, tracking on weather updates coming
Speaker 1: your way right here right now on news radio h
Speaker 1: forty whas. Something I want to dive back into is
Speaker 1: the continued conversation about this violent criminal Armand Langford who
Speaker 1: was let out on shock probation only to consistently show
Speaker 1: that he is in fact a violent criminal and now
Speaker 1: a family just left traumatize. But we're learning a little
Speaker 1: bit more just about the details as far as his
Speaker 1: record and not only the decision that the judge made,
Speaker 1: but I mean, he wasn't even technically eligible for what
Speaker 1: she wanted him to potentially, I guess. I mean, I
Speaker 1: can't even I can't even wrap my head around the decision,
Speaker 1: so we don't even need to go there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the mental health claim, I'm no expert, but when you
Speaker 1: hear just the details of that part of it, I mean,
Speaker 1: what do I know? But I have a hard time
Speaker 1: believing that that has anything to do with why this
Speaker 1: person is a violent criminal. But again, just just just
Speaker 1: my thoughts, can't prove that by any means. But anyways,
Speaker 1: it is seventeen here Kentucky and this morning news coffee
Speaker 1: and company with you here on news Radio eight forty Whas.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you listening are parents, some
Speaker 1: of you are grandparents, and I am sure you've had
Speaker 1: an issue over the years with one of your kids,
Speaker 1: maybe because they were being a knucklehead, or maybe it
Speaker 1: was a complete accident that has led to you having
Speaker 1: to come out of your pocket for some money. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's gonna happen to me at some point,
Speaker 1: but it has yet to happen just yet. But the
Speaker 1: guy started a Reddit thread that really led to this
Speaker 1: thing exploding and people sharing their different stories. But his
Speaker 1: young son apparently dropped rocks into an open sewer clean out,
Speaker 1: filling it completely. The fix he had to hire an
Speaker 1: excavator to dig up the line.
Speaker 2: Well he didn't, but I.
Speaker 1: Guess the city wherever he lives did whoever did, and
Speaker 1: that bill ended up going to the dad of the
Speaker 1: of the sun here and it was seventy eight hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine having an unexpected seventeen hundred dollars expense
Speaker 1: for something.
Speaker 2: Quite like that.
Speaker 1: But others have said five thousand dollars for a toddler's
Speaker 1: dental work after being bribed with candy. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can blame it specifically on that,
Speaker 1: but here's a good one. Oh wow, this is I
Speaker 1: thought it said twelve thousand, one hundred and twenty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars in water damage when a four year old left
Speaker 1: a bathroom faucet running for forty five minutes while the
Speaker 1: family was out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that could be. It could be tough.
Speaker 1: A seven hundred dollar bill to replace a car bumper
Speaker 1: sensor because a kid thought they were buttons. That that's that,
Speaker 1: to me is way more realistic than any of the
Speaker 1: others that I've that I've heard so far. A car
Speaker 1: bumper sensor, I don't even know where those are located.
Speaker 1: But I could see a kid not realizing that if
Speaker 1: they keep messing with it that it might damage it.
Speaker 1: And I could also see that being something that costs
Speaker 1: close to seven hundred dollars to one thousand dollars, not
Speaker 1: something you know, crazy crazy expensive. This is fifteen thousand
Speaker 1: dollars after a child totaled the family van. Yeah, that'd
Speaker 1: be expensive. And I don't know if you're this This
Speaker 1: one depends more on like the situation. If it's a
Speaker 1: young kid who ends up realizing that the keys in
Speaker 1: the vehicle and he gets in and just you know,
Speaker 1: clearly doing something that he shouldn't do. But you can
Speaker 1: still chalk it up to like a young kid literally
Speaker 1: not really knowing what they're doing and not knowing better,
Speaker 1: you would probably be more I mean, you would hate
Speaker 1: the expense, of course, but you're probably more scared and
Speaker 1: relieved that it wasn't worse. But if it's like a
Speaker 1: teenager that just you know, went out and destroyed the
Speaker 1: family van, I mean that that happens still not good thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's now been two different stories about kids leaving water
Speaker 1: on that left to either a collapsing ceiling or just
Speaker 1: water damage that is super substantial within a house. Oh,
Speaker 1: this one another one that I could see happening. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's happened to you fifteen thousand dollars for sewage clean
Speaker 1: up after flushing wet wipes clogged in the main line,
Speaker 1: thinking that wet wipes were the same thing as you know,
Speaker 1: toilet paper. Let's see, oh this one I did this.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm having some I'm having some PTSD
Speaker 1: here because I don't think I've ever been more. I
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever felt like I disappointed my mother
Speaker 1: more than whenever she got a phone bill whenever I
Speaker 1: was a teenager, because at that time, text messages weren't free,
Speaker 1: minutes weren't free, ring tone downloads weren't free, and I
Speaker 1: don't believe the bill ever got to four thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: But I just remember, that's like the worst I've ever
Speaker 1: felt as far as just doing something that completely screwed
Speaker 1: my mom over and I had no way to fix
Speaker 1: it out. It was I was like fifteen, and yeah,
Speaker 1: that was bad. So I guess that's mine as a
Speaker 1: kid myself. But my kids have yet to put me
Speaker 1: in that position, but I'm sure i'll be there one day.
Speaker 1: And again, this is a great opportunity to utilize the
Speaker 1: talkback feature if you've got a story like that with
Speaker 1: your child, that has maybe just innocently made a mistake,
Speaker 1: and yet it's cost you a lot of money. I'd
Speaker 1: love to hear it again. Talk by feature on the
Speaker 1: Aheart radio app. Just clicked that microphone button and it's
Speaker 1: that easy, all right, Traffic of weather updates coming up
Speaker 1: here right now. We've got also another sports update coming
Speaker 1: your way with Scott Fitzgerald on news Radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, John. I'm still finding my footing here, obviously,
Speaker 1: still the new guy on news radio eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: And there's certain things that remind me of that, and
Speaker 1: I guess it's just my appreciation for sarcasm. I could
Speaker 1: be a smart ass. But when I hear a story
Speaker 1: presented that a judge says that the decision to let
Speaker 1: armand Franklin out on shock probation was a mistake, I
Speaker 1: was waiting for somebody to confirm that, as if it
Speaker 1: wasn't quite clear that it was a mistake that this
Speaker 1: person who should not have been let out on shock
Speaker 1: probation was and then of course continued to show that
Speaker 1: they're a violent criminal. But anyhow, it is in fact
Speaker 1: the fact, So I guess that's why it's presented. But
Speaker 1: when it comes to that, I'm glad that the this
Speaker 1: is good news, but I was worried that there would
Speaker 1: be some level of noise surrounding this situation, almost like well, okay,
Speaker 1: well now that the news. I think it's keep Kentucky safe,
Speaker 1: now that that bill's passed. And of course, had his
Speaker 1: attorney tried to get him shock probation now it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be possible because he'd have he would have had to
Speaker 1: have served eighty five percent of that fourteen year sentence.
Speaker 1: That is encouraging to know that moving forward, this became
Speaker 1: an issue to a point that they had to make
Speaker 1: a change, which they did.
Speaker 2: That's good. But if I was the.
Speaker 1: Victim here the family, I mean, it's the last thing
Speaker 1: I would want to hear. I would want to I
Speaker 1: would want somebody to be held accountable for this, and
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to happen. But I mean,
Speaker 1: imagine this judge being presented with another situation where they've
Speaker 1: got to make a tough decision. Look, that's the job,
Speaker 1: that's what you sign up for. But and look, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get some wrong, trust me. That's that's It's not
Speaker 1: like every it's not like every decision a judge makes
Speaker 1: has to be perfect or they can't do it. But
Speaker 1: this is this is one that is just an example
Speaker 1: of being unfit. Really, I mean, that's just that's just
Speaker 1: what it is. And the mental health component has been
Speaker 1: has been mentioned when it comes to armand Langford and
Speaker 1: and just that being a factor in how he was
Speaker 1: able to get out. But I mean, if you look
Speaker 1: at I mean, here, here are the details about him
Speaker 1: for those who really don't know much about him. Specifically,
Speaker 1: he was sentenced in twenty twenty four for a bunch
Speaker 1: of ATM robberies and was in prison, did time at
Speaker 1: the rot Correctional Facility, and was also in Louisville Metro
Speaker 1: Corrections many times. And he sounds like he was a
Speaker 1: good inmate there, which I guess that was a factor
Speaker 1: when the decision was made. But still, I mean that
Speaker 1: this guy has consistently been a violent criminal and the
Speaker 1: quick release after he was sentenced to fourteen years, he
Speaker 1: just can't make any sense of it. I mean, status
Speaker 1: sets and labeled him a low risk for reoffending. But
Speaker 1: also he was ineligible for mental health court, which ironically
Speaker 1: disqualified him from the very structure Judge Green believed he needed.
Speaker 1: I mean, these are things that, again, all of this
Speaker 1: was avoidable, and I'm not and I'll probably put the
Speaker 1: disclaimer on this more than I need to. I'm not
Speaker 1: making light of any mental health issue or any mental health.
Speaker 1: Mental health is a real serious thing and it has
Speaker 1: impacted people's you know, life in an awful way, and
Speaker 1: it does lead to people doing things that they would
Speaker 1: never do with their mental state. Was not what it is.
Speaker 1: But when you hear the attorney for Langford arguing that
Speaker 1: his clients suffers from paranoia and personality disorders, I got
Speaker 1: paranoia all the time, I got personality disorders. I'm most
Speaker 1: the most insecure person you'll ever meet. And again I'm
Speaker 1: not making fun of it, but though again maybe there's
Speaker 1: layers to it. I'm not a professional by any means.
Speaker 1: I'm an idiot when it comes to that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But come on, like, oh, the reason he was putting
Speaker 1: a gun to people's back at ATMs. He pistol whipped
Speaker 1: somebody when he robbed them. He's paranoid. I mean, what
Speaker 1: you're doing paranoid, I'll get you. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: insane that this individual was let out of prison, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what the accountability is going to be
Speaker 1: for that decision. And again, I know judges will tell
Speaker 1: you they've made decisions that they later learned were the
Speaker 1: wrong ones, and that's just how it works. But this
Speaker 1: is a different level, and it led to an awful
Speaker 1: traumatic experience for a family that was avoidable. It just was.
Speaker 1: And I hope they can find healing in some form
Speaker 1: or fashion, because I can't imagine that that won't be
Speaker 1: something that sticks with you for the rest of your life.
Speaker 1: All Right, we'll get to another update of traffic and
Speaker 1: weather right here on news Radio.
Speaker 2: Eight forty WHAS seven forty six.
Speaker 1: Here he Tucky in his morning news Coffee and Company
Speaker 1: with you here on news Radio eight forty whas. So
Speaker 1: I was asking parents earlier if they have any similar
Speaker 1: stories from this Reddit thread where a dad started a
Speaker 1: thread that has really taken off as he shared the
Speaker 1: story of his son. I don't know how old he is,
Speaker 1: didn't mention that specifically, but his son was I guess,
Speaker 1: playing with playing with rocks and he ended up filling
Speaker 1: up a sewer clean out and filled it up all
Speaker 1: the way, started just dropping rocks in it, and that
Speaker 1: led to a seventy eight hundred dollars bill for this
Speaker 1: dad because that needed to be repaired and his son
Speaker 1: was responsible, and that's just how it works. So I
Speaker 1: asked others to chime in, and my wife was listening,
Speaker 1: and she chimed in, reminding me that I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I said that my kids, being as young as they are,
Speaker 1: I don't have any similar story. And I do, and
Speaker 1: it was rather recent. It wasn't to the level of
Speaker 1: seventy hundred, seventy eight hundred dollars or anything close to that,
Speaker 1: but it is a very similar story as far as
Speaker 1: just your kid doing something without even realizing that they are.
Speaker 1: They are taking money from their parents without knowing it.
Speaker 1: So my son got a PlayStation four, which, now that
Speaker 1: he's had it for a while, I do realize, like
Speaker 1: I knew I already. I've known for a while that
Speaker 1: he spoiled, but he's too young to really even play
Speaker 1: that as far as a lot of games without needing help.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad he has it, and I play with
Speaker 1: him at times, and I'm sure he'll appreciate having it.
Speaker 1: I know he appreciates having it. But anyways, I was
Speaker 1: leaving this place at six o'clock when I was still
Speaker 1: doing afternoon sports, and all of a sudden, I got
Speaker 1: like eight emails in a row PlayStation dot com, and
Speaker 1: each one I clicked on was just a random expense
Speaker 1: of him clicking buttons on his PlayStation, buying games, buying
Speaker 1: added characters for games, and I think he ended up
Speaker 1: being like a three hundred and thirty something dollar expense,
Speaker 1: which was, you know, not good for us. I guess
Speaker 1: maybe I forgot about it because it was such a clear,
Speaker 1: innocent thing that he had no clue what he was doing,
Speaker 1: and it was my fault, like I didn't set it
Speaker 1: up where he couldn't do that, which is a real
Speaker 1: dumb move on my part, one of many that I
Speaker 1: that I've made. But yeah, I have since disabled the
Speaker 1: ability for him to purchase anything without having me do it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that was that was a big goof, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that that that's kind of uh. Although I
Speaker 1: can't I knew that text messages and what not weren't
Speaker 1: free whenever I was a teenager, and I was I
Speaker 1: never really would think like, oh, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: an expensive bill, But like I just I just I
Speaker 1: guess lied to myself, Oh, won't be that bad, It'll
Speaker 1: be fine. And then my mother got the phone bill
Speaker 1: and man, again I said it earlier. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if she's if I've ever felt more disappointment from my mom.
Speaker 1: And it was bad, and you know, thankfully the family recovered.
Speaker 1: But yeah, looking back now that I'm older and I
Speaker 1: have kids of my own, that's a real scumback thing
Speaker 1: to do. It just starts, you know, back then, text
Speaker 1: messages weren't free, minutes weren't.
Speaker 2: Free, there was roaming.
Speaker 1: Uh, you had bring tone downloads and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: and it adds up. So I'm sorry, Mom, I I
Speaker 1: know that was That was not wise on my part
Speaker 1: and it was inconsiderate. And I can't give you the
Speaker 1: excuse that my son has. He didn't know what he
Speaker 1: was doing. He's just clicking buttons. So anyhow, all right, So,
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