Weird news stories from around the world… with a healthy dose of lasers added in. Does it make sense? No not really, but it doesn’t HAVE TO… it’s Laser Stories!
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Today with laser stories, the.
Segontary read weird news stories around the globe, just like everyone else says, except we've got a laser.
Those other swim shamers just don't you can. This first laser story is out of Europe.
Many countries now have bullet trains, and the other day one was zipping through Germany and had a scheduled stop halfway between Munich and Nuremberg.
God, I'm so jealous of countries that have those fast Well, we have the bullets here, it's not so much to trains.
During that time, a forty year old Hungarian man named Laslo Kovac stepped off the train to smoke a cigarette. Yeah, and didn't get back on before they closed the doors.
Oh oh dang, yeah, be careful.
He saw it leaving, so he jumped onto a bracket connecting two of the train cars and held on for dear life. As it hit one hundred and seventy five miles an hour.
No, and like you said, it's a bullet train, it's a regular train. These are super Fah. Just wait till the next train and catch up with the als.
Thankfully, after twenty miles somebody saw.
Him, which is actually five seconds, and officials stopped the train and he was saved.
Oh, I'm imagine like Spider Man when he's in front of the train in that one movie, Keith, he better have left like a really important bag or something on that train. Yeah. And when authority showed up, Laslow said he did it because his luggage was on board and he didn't want.
To be separated from it.
So he's now facing charges for an act disruptive to operations and shocker cubs also found he never actually bought a ticket, so he boarded illegally as well, which is something that they tacked on that infraction to it too. Maybe it'll finally real Maybe he'll finally realize he should give up smoking.
Yeah, I'd done that. His next Lazer Stories out of Japan.
An aquarium closed for renovation last month, around the same time their giant sunfish had become unwell. Oh, no. When the nine foot long fish refused to eat and would rub its belly.
Up against the glass. Oh money.
Marine biologists are doing everything they could to try and fix what they thought was a digestive problem. That is until one staff member suggested, maybe it's just lonely because it misses the visitors.
That would be the it would be. It'd be like a finding Nemo character.
Scientists thought there was a ninety nine percent chance that was not the case, but they would test the theory just to see. Okay, printed and they printed out life size pictures of people and tape them up against the tank windows.
Oh right, it gets closed to visitors, and by.
The next day the sunfish was totally happy again.
He just wants attention fresh.
It turns out the one staffer was right. The giant sunfish was just lonely, and aquarium workers have been changing out the people's photos daily and taking turns going to hang.
Out with the sunfish.
They spend at least a couple hours each day waving and smiling.
Time totally well spent. Is this sunfish the laboratory retriever of the sea.
Yeah, this isn't the first time in aquariums had to cheer up lonely fish either. During the twenty twenty COVID lockdown, Tokyo Sumida Aquarium asked for volunteers to face time with its three hundred spotted garden eles, who'd become shy without people around, making it hard for the staff to.
Check up on. I'm other shy eel shy ye.
This next laser stories out of the pharmacy files. Walgreens just came to a big realization. When you lock stuff up in a store, you don't sell as.
Many of them. Chef, what is done?
Yeah, I know it's a great, big dud any customer ever. But Walgreens is the first to admit that locking their cases to deter theft actually cost the company a lot more money than they would have ever lost in shoplifting.
I hate pushing that button just to get like my kids vitamins, yeah, you know, at Target or whatever. And then and then they take twenty minutes and I finally just give up. I'm like, well, vitamin deficient kids.
It is. The company reported a net loss of two hundred and forty five million dollars last year, compared to just thirty nine million a year earlier.
That math is not good for them.
Yeah, well the problem the theft hasn't gone away. It's a lot smaller compared to them not being able to sell anything behind locked cases. Okay, dude, I saw you can't buy laundry to tourney.
No, you can't buy anhead trying to buy them. Okay, Yeah, give me the big thing of tide pods. Yeah, it doesn't make you feel sketchy. Yeah, like, I swear this is for laundry. I swear.
The company is looking at more creative solutions after the numbers came out, possibly making decoy products or equipping their carts with alarms if you try to leave their store with an unscanned item. Oh, I mean that's better than the glass cases, I guess, yeah, or plastic cases.
They aren't exactly sure yet.
Until then, they plan on closing about twelve hundred stores over the next.
Three years Nikes open. How many stores do they have? Cheese?
This next Lazer stories out of the Kale Connections.
Here's a snack hack for people with young children.
A new study found they'll eat more vegetables if they think it gives them superpowers. I love spinach because when I was a kid, my parents would be like feel like Popeye?
Yeah, spinach, get big muscles. Yep.
Researchers spent twenty minutes reading kids fairy tales that involved magical fruits and vegetables. Oh, and the hero in the story was either healed or saved by eating them. Wow. And after the story was done, they offered the kids a choice of four different snacks, fruit, vegetables, cake, or cookies.
They go cook. Well.
Turned out the story made them more likely to choose the healthier food options and leave the cake behind.
Okay, would that work on me? Because I would like to choose kill and cookies and I don't ever well.
Plus, the veggie superhero study had a lasting effect on it. Eighty percent of those kids were still eating more greens even weeks later. Wow.
Cool, I like this.
It just goes to show that everybody should be thinking about going more green.
Like this guy. Oh, he's very great.
Would love to be in his own superhero book someday, maybe even as a villain Spider Man versus the Green Gobbler.
It could happen.
And that how means Laser Stories has come to an end for the day. We'll do it again, same time on Friday
Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning,