Speaker 1: It's the radio segment that starting up a daycare in
Speaker 1: an abandoned refrigerator warehouse where all the fridges locked from
Speaker 1: the outside. Yeah. Fun, right, that's the way you're thinking of. Yeah,
Speaker 1: get your kids signed up while they're still openings. With
Speaker 1: Laser Stories, the segment where we read weird news stories
Speaker 1: around the globe, just like everyone else does, except we
Speaker 1: have a laser and those other guzzlers just don't. This
Speaker 1: first laser story is out of New York. A few
Speaker 1: years ago, a man named Tim George couldn't believe his
Speaker 1: luck when he scratched a lottery ticket and realized he
Speaker 1: just won the jackpot of one million dollars, life changing money,
Speaker 1: and he didn't want all his friends and acquaintances to
Speaker 1: know that he was newly rich, so he called up
Speaker 1: his favorite cousin for a favor. His female cousin Amador,
Speaker 1: and Tim wanted to fly her in from Houston so
Speaker 1: he could have her claim the prize on his behalf.
Speaker 1: That way he could remain anonymous. And not only was
Speaker 1: he going to pay for all her flights, he said
Speaker 1: he'd throwing fifty thousand dollars just for her troubles. Okay,
Speaker 1: helping your family, and I'll do it for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So she agreed and went into the office. But that's
Speaker 1: when things took a turn because Amador forged the lottery
Speaker 1: papers and told her cousin that. When she got to
Speaker 1: the office, they let her know he hadn't won the jackpot.
Speaker 1: It was only twenty grand what So she gave him
Speaker 1: that money a twenty thousand, and went on her way.
Speaker 1: But it didn't take tim long to find a press
Speaker 1: release announcing Amador collected a one time lottery payment a
Speaker 1: five hundred thirty seven thousand dollars scammed her own cousin.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine? Oh my god. After two years in court,
Speaker 1: Amador pleaded guilty to larceny and is expected to be
Speaker 1: sentenced to one to four years. And as for the
Speaker 1: money she had to forfeit what was left back to
Speaker 1: her cousins. He ended up with three hundred and seventeen
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. It's almost going to cover half of his
Speaker 1: legal fees. Yet terrible out. This next size of story
Speaker 1: is out of Tokyo. A few years ago, a YouTuber
Speaker 1: in Japan rigged up a system that allowed his pet
Speaker 1: fish to play video games. That fish would probably still
Speaker 1: be better than me terrible. He wanted to see if
Speaker 1: his fish could be the game called Pokemon Sapphire using
Speaker 1: motion tracking software, and he put a grid behind the
Speaker 1: fish bowl with dots that correspond to different buttons, and
Speaker 1: if the fish stopped or turned around in front of one,
Speaker 1: it counted okay. So that's how the fish was control
Speaker 1: roll in the controller by motion exactly, and around a
Speaker 1: thousand hours in the game froze while he wasn't watching,
Speaker 1: but the computer running the game stayed on and the
Speaker 1: fish was still pressing buttons. Oh so. Eventually it managed
Speaker 1: to open Nintendo's E store and transferred money from his
Speaker 1: credit card to his Nintendo It was only four dollars,
Speaker 1: but could still be considered credit card fraud if a
Speaker 1: human had done the same thing. They also used some
Speaker 1: of his reward points to buy a new avatar, download
Speaker 1: a Nintendo sixty four emulator, and change his online user
Speaker 1: name to I think that's in fish, You got it
Speaker 1: stupid or something. He eventually saw what was happening seven
Speaker 1: hours later and reached out to Nintendo to explain. They
Speaker 1: reversed the four dollar charge for him, and now his
Speaker 1: fish is grounded from playing video games for the next
Speaker 1: two weeks. Oh No, ruined it, Buddy book Now this
Speaker 1: next Laser stories. Out of Rhode Island, a local police
Speaker 1: department got a surprise when they received a handwritten letter
Speaker 1: with a bag of evidence. The letter came from an
Speaker 1: eight year old girl and read, dear Cumberland's Police Department.
Speaker 1: I took a sample of cookies and carrots that I
Speaker 1: left for Santa in the reindeer on Christmas Eve and
Speaker 1: was wondering if you could take a sample of DNA
Speaker 1: and see if Santa is real. The remains were presumably
Speaker 1: consumed by Santa Claus and some of his nine reindeer,
Speaker 1: and the department knew exactly what to do. They forwarded
Speaker 1: the evidence to the state's Department of Health Forensic Sciences
Speaker 1: unit for analysis. Cops then responded to the young girl
Speaker 1: with some already uncovered evidence in support of Santa Claus's
Speaker 1: presence in her neighborhood. They sent her a photo of
Speaker 1: what appeared to be a deer with antlers or perhaps
Speaker 1: a reindeer, spotted on the night of Christmas Eve. This investigation.
Speaker 1: They then informed her that the police department is awaiting
Speaker 1: test results, adding this young lady obviously has a keen
Speaker 1: sense for truth. We will do our very best to
Speaker 1: provide answers for her. The three homicides that we're working on.
Speaker 1: Can wait. I was gonna say, as soon as they
Speaker 1: find him, they will arrest Santa Claus for breaking and enter.
Speaker 1: Evidence is damning. This next laser story is out of
Speaker 1: Colonel Mustard with a cannon and the Conservatory. Americans and
Speaker 1: Canadians are obsessed with true crime, and now some people
Speaker 1: are taking it a little too far. As The latest
Speaker 1: social media trend is people putting together in case I
Speaker 1: go missing binders in the unlikely event that they become
Speaker 1: the subject of a missing person's case and or Netflix miniseries.
Speaker 1: Friend made me like a PowerPoint years ago. It's sands
Speaker 1: to me. Is it just so that you have control
Speaker 1: of what images pass her phone access? Yeah? I thought
Speaker 1: it was just because you wanted to make sure that
Speaker 1: they didn't use an ugly photo of you for the
Speaker 1: missing poster I photo. The binders include their DNA fingerprints,
Speaker 1: handwriting samples, dental records, blood type, and medical history. It
Speaker 1: doesn't stop there. It also has photos of their tattoos, scars,
Speaker 1: and birthmarks, as well as images of themselves with different hairstyles,
Speaker 1: and it keeps going. They have passwords for their social
Speaker 1: media accounts and messaging apps, important documents like birth certificates,
Speaker 1: licenses and wills, and work details, along with information on
Speaker 1: current and past relationships friends, family members, and coworkers were investigation.
Speaker 1: Is this when we mark our relationship with true crime unhealthy? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It sounds like a steal my identity starter kit. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm just given it to them, like you're assuming they're
Speaker 1: not going to take the binder after the crime. The
Speaker 1: binders are on Amazon and Etsy, and one called the
Speaker 1: If I Go Missing Binder sells for about fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: I mean it's close to a scrapbook. Yeah. The folders
Speaker 1: first went viral recently because of a podcast called Crime
Speaker 1: Junkie Watch or listen to any of these. It's really okay.
Speaker 1: I'm curious would any of our listeners pay money to
Speaker 1: do this? I know one guy has his own home
Speaker 1: version of it, but he does need our help because
Speaker 1: I could see us having issues with the shell and
Speaker 1: claw prints part. But I don't think we're gonna have
Speaker 1: any trouble collecting DNA. That's how I mean, Blazer Roys
Speaker 1: has come to an end for the day. We'll do it.
Speaker 1: It's all DNA. We'll do it again, same time on Friday,
Speaker 1: Broke and Jeffrey in the morning.