West Michigan's Morning News
Top 5 Stories July 8, 2024
This is West Michigan's morning news. Steve Kelly, Lawrence Smith, Brad Baquita, Adam and Rocho Monday. It's July 8th, 2024. Back to top five times, Shmiti, where does it start? - At number five, Swifties are about to take over a German city, and that's known as Yelsurk Jürgen. I guess that's probably how you say it, yeah? - Sounds good to me. - Well, in honor of Taylor making the big stop for her Aries door, the city has officially renamed itself to Swift Jürgen. - Oh, at least temporarily. Okay, well, I'm sorry. The German language is just not the most beautiful thing. - I don't know a lot of it. I know Brazier keeps him from floppin'. Yeah, that's leader hosin'. - You got it, you got it. - You got leader hosin'. - You have to use him from floppin'. Well done. - Senior citizen is Sagin skin. I think that's it. - Good. Brilliant. - Number four on the list. A large, here's the headline, and the only reason why we're doing it. Large, Argentinian native rodent on the loose in Colorado Park. Number three. - I said a little more. Wildlife officials in Colorado are attempting to track down a long-legged South American rodent seen wandering in Lakewood's Bear Creek Lake Park. There's too many Bear Creek Lake Park. You can just have Bear Creek Park or Lake Park. Why? There's so much to this story. It's two and a half feet tall, and came from the zoo. What is it with these people in the zoo? We'll let you know when they find it. - On that note, you know how many Bear Lakes there are in Michigan? - Oh, boy. - A lot. Well, maybe that's why they do it here with the Bear Creek Lake, and there's Bear Creek Park. - Right. - Park. There's just so many. Got outta the bears though. - Hey, congratulations to Detroit Tigers. They've actually got all stars on the roster this shocking. - I know. Detroit Tigers ace, Terrick Scooble, leaves the way after he posted that victory yesterday over the Cincinnati Reds. He's now 10 in three. The 27-year-old left-hander is the Atsan favorite to win the American League Cy Young right now at the halfway point, and very well may get the start in the 94th All-Star game, which is coming up July 16th. These 10 and three, he ranks first in the ale and whip at 0.90, third in ERA and strikeouts. He's got 132 after his 13 yesterday, and he's gonna be joined by former West Michigan White Cap himself. Outfielder Riley Green made it for the first time ever in his career. He's batting 261, 17 home runs, 47 walks, but obviously an outstanding defensive outfielder congrats to them both. - Good news all the way around. - At number two, a Phoenix police officer was in for quite a surprise after he pulled over a vehicle and found that there was nobody in the car. The car was driving the wrong way down the road, so he pulled it over, and when he approached the vehicle, it introduced himself. He ended up getting a message from customer service, and here's what that sounded like. - So, your car here drove into oncoming lanes of traffic. - Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and take a look at that right now. - Who the hell is that? - So, it's a driverless taxi system that they have in Phoenix, and when approached by a police officer, they just get connected to customer service. - I'm gonna go ahead and take a look at that. - Yeah. - What the guy said? - Holy shit. - Your car went off a bridge. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and take a look at that. - Yeah, we agree. Can you give a ticket to a driverless? - So, there was no ticket issued, and it turns out that the video said that there was inconsistent signage leading to the car going the wrong way down the road. - How clean is your town at number one on the list? One in New York's Long Island is aiming to clean up its chronic littering problem with an aggressive anti-litering campaign and steep fine. - Why do we have to have the moniker of being slobs? And that's why we're literally getting in everybody's face now and saying enough's enough. - The campaign, called Operation Clean, launched with an ad showing a serial literer getting some karma in the form of a garbage truck dumping its load and a lawn. The town has also erected anti-litering signs, which read, "Why are you littering? "I'm lazy, I don't care about natural areas. "Mommy still cleans up after me, all of the above." - Just heard my mom in my head going, "Were you raised in a barn?" - Yeah, I think that is some angry city council people. The town said more than 250 tons of road trash have been picked up so far this year. Wait a minute. - That's insane! - Yeah, another 15,000 pounds of trash have been removed from the creaks that lead to the Great South Bay. So, there you go. - Let's see, what's that? - It was Long Island, it was a town on Long Island. So that's a lot of trash just for one town. - Disgusting. - All you need to know is you're on an island. Stay here in Michigan. There you go, Smitty. That's today's top five.