[SPEAKER_01]: I am not a great garden or last week my artificial lawn died.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for joining us today.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to Lafagan with Phil Callaway.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's time for another episode of our ever-popular Good Report.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your monthly dosage of wacky, weird, witty and wonderful news items you won't find on your news feed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And all are certifiably true.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the story of a British man who has set a new Guinness World record by throwing a tortilla, ninety feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, bet that fell apart in the end.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or the seventy-eight-year-old California who just received his high school diploma, hats off to Ted Sam's, or the two who were rescued after falling into a giant vat of chocolate in a Pennsylvania candy factory.
[SPEAKER_01]: That really made me snicker.
[SPEAKER_01]: In India, an injured monkey surprised staff and patients at a clinic when it's strolling and seeking medical help.
[SPEAKER_01]: When Dr. Amid saw the monkey, he was startled, but quickly realized that the monkey had wounds on her face and was holding an infant monkey with an injured leg.
[SPEAKER_01]: He treated the monkey mom and baby as they sat patiently on a table.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then, mom rested a while, gathered up her infant and left.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe to play on the monkey bars together.
[SPEAKER_01]: Meanwhile, in Nova Scotia, a homeowner is a little shaken up after two suspicious women entered the house and cleaned it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Say, what?
[SPEAKER_01]: The homeowner was at work when the clean and enter took place.
[SPEAKER_01]: The house had been left unlocked.
[SPEAKER_01]: Police are now warning Nova Scotians to lock their doors, be careful out there.
[SPEAKER_01]: You never know who might stroll in and mop your floor.
[SPEAKER_01]: In another case of benevolent trespassers, two thieves had a change of heart after snatching a statue of a lion outside a home in Philadelphia.
[SPEAKER_01]: Police posted the surveillance footage of the theft which apparently scared the daylight out of the thieves who returned the statue along with a bouquet of flowers and a card and a promise to mend their ways.
[SPEAKER_01]: No more lion.
[SPEAKER_01]: One more story.
[SPEAKER_01]: After her husband passed away, Vicki Umodu moved to Colton, California to be near her family.
[SPEAKER_01]: Needing furniture, she picked up a comfy chair for free on Craigslist from a family who was getting rid of it following the death of their uncle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Vicki brought it home, sat in it, and felt a lump.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hidden within the chair was cash.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hundreds, fifties, and twenties more than thirty-six thousand dollars.
[SPEAKER_01]: I knew I couldn't keep it, Vicki said.
[SPEAKER_01]: I knew I had to give it back.
[SPEAKER_01]: The previous owner kept thanking her and her son, then handed Vicki twenty-two hundred dollars for a new refrigerator.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did the honest thing he said.
[SPEAKER_01]: Today, that's a rarity.
[SPEAKER_01]: Umodo and her late husband immigrated in nineteen eighty eight when she was pregnant with their first child.
[SPEAKER_01]: Her husband ran a small business while Vicki raised six children working as a nurse midwife and teaching assistant at her kid's elementary school where she could be close to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: My children are all grown now, she said, so my grandchildren are my main focus.
[SPEAKER_01]: And how did she learn the importance of leaving a legacy of integrity of doing the right thing?
[SPEAKER_01]: Growing up in Nigeria, she said, all my life God has been good to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even in hard times, I have felt blessed.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's important to do the right thing in life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Proverbs eleven three agrees, of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: The integrity of the upright guides them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says.
[SPEAKER_01]: Choosing to do the right thing is sometimes a hard thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when we live rightly, we live joyfully.
[SPEAKER_01]: We live a little lighter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just ask Grandma Umodu, who sat on her free chair, telling the media, when my two oldest grandchildren are away at school, I babysit this one, the youngest one.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Jay.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's six months old.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm thankful we have a cozy place to sit.
[SPEAKER_01]: She smiled and then she laughed and no I haven't found any more money in the cushions.