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Now, the waters wake up called with this morning's five things you didn't know you needed to hear.
So getting your news from the town drunk.
All right, listen up.
All right, so I have to preface this first story with a stupid alert.
Two kids near Fort Myers, of course, this is in Florida.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But these two kids, minding their own business, walking out of an ice cream shop when two other kids ran up, sprayed them with silly string.
You know, it's a very annoying and obnoxious thing to do, but did these silly string kids deserve to be arrested for battery?
Well, when you really look at it, it's just a dumb prank, but these kids who were hit with a silly string told the cops, who then told their parents, and then, of course, these very sensible, and I'm being sarcastic, Florida parents decided to press charges.
So a local reporter is asking people on the street about this.
Here's what the bystanders are saying.
I
think it's very excessive.
Yeah, I don't think it's fair.
So these kids, they have a court date and I'll I'll let you know as soon as I know what the heck is going on with all this.
All right, now here's a dangerous bulletin for you.
A gang has escaped and is on the loose in Glendale, Arizona.
Officers responded to Happy Days Learning Center and found six to eight missing toddlers.
So they'd gotten out of a gate and apparently were roaming the streets unsupervised.
So here's the lady who I like to call the toddler wrangler.
Toddler's running into the road and I started just wrangling kids up and hurting them up and picking them up and getting them out of the road, getting them onto the grass.
I didn't know I was just shocked.
I didn't, you know, are these kids part of the daycare?
Like who's watching these kids if they are from the daycare?
How did they get out?
Oh, if I was a parent there, my kid would be finding another daycare.
I'll tell you that.
All right, this next story comes from the why didn't you tell me this earlier department?
There's an ER doctor who writes for USA Today's health section just did this big write up on one of the biggest first aid myths he sees.
So he says you shouldn't actually use hydrogen peroxide to clean cuts, which a lot of people still do.
You shouldn't put alcohol on these things either.
Yeah, hydrogen peroxide and rubbing alcohol, they both cause corrosive tissue damage, and which can actually slow down the healing process and make scars more likely.
So instead, he says, rinse the cut with water, then just put a little triple antibiotic ointment on there and you'd be good to go.
All right, moving on.
You want to know my three least favorite words?
Tick.
talk star.
I mean, are all of these online influencers just a sandwich short of a picnic?
This one guy's name is chosen.
He's got 150,000 followers and the FBI says this dolt was caught robbing four places, armed robberies because they caught him because of his videos.
He wore his custom dancing shoes to rob a gas station, a tobacco shop, and a 7-Eleven twice.
All in Michigan, and now he'll be spending lots of TikTok on the clock in jail.
Ah, sweet justice.
And finally, love this, a California company unveiled a vending machine that uses robotics to make pizzas, and in about three minutes.
Piestro, based in El Segundo, they unveiled this pizza machine that makes these custom pizza pies to your specifications.
And you select your own crust, sauce, cheese, toppings, the entire process takes, like I say, about three minutes.
And Piestro said it has no plans to make its own pizzas, but pizza brands are now placing pre-orders for this $100,000 machine.
And they say you can have it in airports, at your school, at your college, and I'd like to add a little something at your radio station, break room, hint, hint.
But Robotic Pizza Machine, now the future is looking pretty good, huh?
So there you go, the five things you didn't know you needed on a throwback Thursday.
Don't
worry,
Gatto,
Pizza, Roboto!
Don't worry, Gatto, Pizza, Roboto!
I'll take extra cheese!
Don't worry, Gatto, Pizza, Roboto!
Hold me and show me!
Pizza, pizza, I've got pizza!
Pizza, pizza, I've got pizza!
They tell me you're some kind of entertainer.
Don't get your hopes
up.
