The Darker Side of Celebration Florida - True Crime Locations In Disney’s Nearly Perfect Town
Celebration Florida April 2022
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here has
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the recording of this thursday april
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21st 2022
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i will be talking about a subject
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that is a little
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not exactly the happiest
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subject matter a little sad little
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tragic
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about
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celebration of florida something that is
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brought up quite a bit when i
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talk about how the town is it is built
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by the disney corporation
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opened in 1994 that's when they first
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did the ribbon cutting and all that
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as the perfect town and it is amazing to
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live here it is the quintessential
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almost like truman show
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meets
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mayberry
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meets pleasantville
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almost like a movie backlot in a lot of
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ways because it was built by a theme
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park corporation even though 2004 i
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believe it was
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disney pulled away the reigns from that
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but they are still adhering to a lot of
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the
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perfection status
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and
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homeowners association i just rent i am
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not a homeowner so i don't have to to
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deal with a lot of the the stress of
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that
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i've heard it's if you own a home here
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you really have to follow a lot of
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guidelines with me running not quite as
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stressful i digress on that there is
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an element
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like any city or town
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of things that are not happy things that
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go wrong
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not sure how i'm going to approach it
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but i do want to go to the locations on
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where some of these events took place
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not only
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show where they happen but also
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pay my respects to those who have passed
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on
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from them and just bring them to the
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attention of everyone out there just to
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let the viewers know anyone that's
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watching this know that that everywhere
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no matter what i would imagine you know
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even in mayberry andy griffith
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there were some things that probably you
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know fictional
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but would not have made it to the tv
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show there were problems there too
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this isn't mayberry but it's an analogy
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that could have gone a little bit better
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i'm inviting you
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to join
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me we i should also note that it was
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about 15 years of the town being in
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existence
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before any major incidents took place
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there were a few altercations here and
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there
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but nothing
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really heavily newsworthy
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until about 2010 when two events
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took place here within the same
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week
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and really got people who were living
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here at that time
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wondering what the heck is going on and
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a little worried that someone was around
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with not the best intentions that could
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not be caught ended up not being true
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but there was a worrisome vibe
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to this area back in 2010 with two
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things dramatically happening
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in one week
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and then the other one is an event that
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took place a few couple years ago two or
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three years ago that just went through
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the court system
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you know a week or so ago
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and it kind of got brought back up in
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the news so a lot of people have been
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asking about that and bringing it back
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up is now
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kind of relevant again
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so just kind of want to touch on that as
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well and
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talk about that
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right here on the corner of water street
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and celebration ave
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kind of walk along here
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now i've never been to these spots
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before
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even though they are in the general
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neighborhood
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so i don't precisely know
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just going off of some photos and
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whatnot and notice from this photo from
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2010 the tape going across there
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the yellow tape and the idle wild is the
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name of
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of this place the glenhaven and
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idlewilder but this put those signs say
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which is right here through this gate
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and there's a parking lot around the
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back too you can just walk in here
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and looks like this
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is the spot
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here
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if the photo matches up
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right over here in this far corner the
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far far end when next to the palm trees
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with the building in the background i
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can't really tell if these are still
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apartments or if they're businesses now
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it doesn't really doesn't really look
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like residents anymore
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it's possible
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looking at it right there
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and this was in 2010 the same week the
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very first time that anything happened
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here in town that was
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like this
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his name was matteo giovandito he's 58
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years old
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and he was a teacher
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and a homeless man
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took an axe
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and lashed out at him
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matteo perished
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because of that but he lived right over
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here in this little courtyard this is
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really close to market street very very
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close
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to what you would consider like main
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street usa here in celebration
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he lived along with his little dog a
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chihuahua
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it's a pretty complicated story
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i'm not going to go into the details but
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there's more to it than that but you get
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the idea
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but this is where it was right here in
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this little courtyard
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as stated these aren't exactly the kind
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of subjects i'd normally cover i have
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kind of gone down the rabbit hole and a
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lot of
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true crime stuff and whatnot before but
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it's been a while i figure since i live
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and people do ask
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i kind of want to see these places with
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my own eye and
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i figured i would document it as well
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mr gia giovan
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dido
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g i o v a n
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t
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58
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lived right over there in that corner
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and eerily close to where i purchased
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this coffee
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at the cornerstone cafe which is just
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just walking out of the courtyard there
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market street
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the post office
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right over there cornerstone cafe where
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i got this
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caffeinated beverage
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now i have always been under the
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impression that if you rent a place or
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you buy a place
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the landlord or the realtor must tell
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you of any kind of a darker path that
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the place has
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so i would imagine whoever lives in any
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of the places now
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must be informed of that you can't go
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into
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you can't go into a contract either
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leasing or renting or buying without
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giving you that history
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i'm gonna get in my car now and drive
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to a couple of the other spots i could
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walk to them but it's pretty long walk
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i guess i could take my scooter
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or could ride my bike but i'll get my
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car
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and just kind of drive around show some
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other stuff as well
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i always like this little canal area
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reminds me of venice beach
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or not venice beach but venice just
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beside the beach
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in california with the bridges i've
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mentioned that before but it always
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reminds me every time i see it
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i think
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nightmare on elm street
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johnny depp standing up there eating a
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sandwich and to give a little
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correlation of that spot i just showed
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here along this canal
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on water street
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right over
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there is where i first went through so
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it's just kind of tucked away in that
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courtyard over there
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the first ever
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tragedy here in celebration happened
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2010
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and i would imagine when
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michael eisner
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you know first did the ribbon cutting
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back in 1994
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probably did not watch any events like
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that transpiring and
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being on the name of the town
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in fact disney still had their hand in
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it because
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around that time was until 2004 disney
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still had their hand
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in celebration so i would imagine that
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was also
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you know something you just don't want
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to be the town to be known for
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it was down here near this cul-de-sac
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it's very beautiful neighborhood
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there's a little dog over there
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taking a little nap hello dog
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actually i think that dog might be
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coming over to talk to me
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but it was right over here
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52 year old craig
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tried to pronounce his name correctly
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fooshi f-o-u-s-h-e-e
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52 years old for 14 hours was held up in
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this home the officers out front
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he was having some problems did not mean
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any harm
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but ended up
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causing some harm to himself
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but it didn't it it he did not do
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anything to anyone else he was just
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having some problems in life
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did not
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wasn't able to handle them
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and that was the same week as the other
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one i showed
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so just wanted to mention
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craig fushi who was here he was a
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airline pilot or work for the airlines
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from what i was reading
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and after reading a little more
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i guess he did fire at the officers
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but no one was injured
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and after that 14-hour ordeal
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they ended up going in the house and
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realized that
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he had passed on
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this is all in what some refer to as the
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bubble
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the nickname for celebration the bubble
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because everything is enclosed in here
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i do feel like i need to get one of
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these shirts
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interesting fact over here across the
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road
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is celebrations
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wisteria lane
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just like the desperate housewives
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right across from where the town hall is
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that's another i mentioned a lot of
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tvs movies things like that that this
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area reminds me of
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that's another one that you could
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put into that equation
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you just turn it on to
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lake evelyn
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and right up here is wisteria lane and
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wisteria court
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i don't know why i never noticed this
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till now but right along this road
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along the fence line
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is all this ivy
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it's beautiful stretches all the way
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down there
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i've ridden my bike and took my scooter
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through here a few times
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but never paid much attention
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to how it's just the foliage is growing
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right here on the side of the wall
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right across from the town hall which is
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right there about 10 years after the
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ones i've already shown in january of
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2020
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you know just a couple years ago
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a little over two years ago
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in this neighborhood which i have never
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been to this section of celebration
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celebration is very expansive
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deputies arrived here
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to find a
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very sad somber
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scene
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again i'm not going to go into the
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details of it
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plenty of info about that
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online
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for those who want to
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want to look it up if not i completely
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understand
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but this neighborhood
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just looking at this
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you would think perfection you would
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think nothing
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bad would happen here
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the reality is something very bad did
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happen here
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from this angle
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from the investigation
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it's right here in this area
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where megan tot t-o-d-t is how
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spell their last name todd or tot
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she was the mother
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their son alec
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son tyler
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and youngest child zoe
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perished as well as the family dog
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named breezy
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now
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very recently within the last week or so
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the husband the father
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just got his sentence of life in prison
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multiple
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life sentences
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i always kind of battle with
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you know not really pushing the envelope
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so much but
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really
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covering certain subject matters with
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attempted amount of respect and not
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trying to do something that's too new
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to current
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granted the court case just took place
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even though the event happened
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a couple years ago and some of the other
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ones happened well over a decade ago
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i usually don't really focus on
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something that it just now happened and
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even something like this i get like an
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uneasy feeling
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knowing how to approach it
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don't wanna
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i don't know it's it's it's tough to
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cover but i am interested in history and
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it really did happen it's something that
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really probably shouldn't be swept under
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the rug it really especially in a in an
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area that i reside this is my
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my hometown now if you will my homestead
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not planning on moving for a while and a
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lot of people have brought it up and i
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feel like
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i needed to cover it needed to see it
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needed to see where it was i was
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actually curious to see the area of town
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these spots were in
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so i'm glad i did it i probably won't
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bring it up again
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not really something i want to dwell on
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i don't think anyone should
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but wanted to see it so
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you could tell someone this was a back
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lot and they would believe you if i took
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a photo of this and
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and just said yeah this is a movie
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backlot most people would say that is a
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movie backlog people don't live there
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and gotta go over to the far area of the
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community
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up here near world drive to talk about
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one other spot that a couple of
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different events have happened over the
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years one in 99 and one recently this is
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where a world drive
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connects with this retention pond
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right over here very very close well
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right across the street
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from the 7-eleven and mickey d's that
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have an art deco look
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as the sun is starting to set
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could not do a video like this without
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mentioning
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now years ago 10 years ago
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i took an inflatable canoe out here
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it went into this gator-filled
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pond
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don't know if i would approach a subject
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matter like that these days
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with my mindset the way it is i don't
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know if i would get in a inflatable
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canoe and
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go around talking about the subject
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matter
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but i bring this up again
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modern day
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because something that happened here in
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1999 there were three guys who rented a
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had a time share
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most likely went to the disney theme
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parks
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which could be achieved
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commuting to right down wheel drive over
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and this is way before
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this light system was put in
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these lights are post 1999.
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but where wheel drive connects here
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this fence was not here this concrete
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wall on the other side of the fence
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was not there and the traffic light
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so on more than one occasion
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the most prominent
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being the three guys who
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late at night
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they may or may not have been drinking
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no really what no way to tell in fact
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the only way the authorities were able
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to match up who they were
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was because of their dental records
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because for almost a year
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nine months
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they were in the bottom of the lake
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in their vehicle
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after that happened
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this wall was put up
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and this light
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was put up
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for good reason
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recently very recently
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it happened again even with the lights
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it really
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is amazing that it happened modern day
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with this wall here
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but it did and i looked up their names
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of the three guys scott renquin
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dan nelson
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and roger day
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vergness
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they were missing for nine months three
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quarters of a year
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and then found here at the bottom of
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this pond
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and after looking it up october of 2021
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32 year old woman
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late at night it seems it really only
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happens late at night
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at 3 a.m
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so very recently
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six months ago