Steve & Teri

Half way there! Welcome to Wednesday!

KNE Clips –

  • There’s an eight-year-old kid on YouTube named Dylan who has an extreme version of perfect pitch, where he can hear a chord on the piano and name every note in the chord.  His teacher keeps playing the wildest chords he can think of, and never stumps him.

  • A guy in Florida dropped his iPhone on Saturday, while he was trying to take pictures of an eight-foot alligator.  So then he decided to FIGHT the gator, to keep it from eating his phone.  It took an hour, but the gator finally gave up . . . but when the guy got the phone back, it wouldn’t turn on.
  • A stray cat started showing up at the Folsom City Zoo Sanctuary in California, and it moved into the bear exhibit.  And now it’s friends with one of the bears.

Stupid News –

  • A woman in England got a noise violation earlier this year, because her neighbors complained that when she played the violin, it sounded like “a cat being strangled.”  She kept on playing, so her violin was just confiscated. Read it here!

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