3rd May Full Show - 240 Demerit Points

A man in Dubbo has accumulated 240 demerit points on his license since January, which is double the usual demerit point limit. He was stopped by the highway patrol for a routine check and it was discovered that he had been riding for a food delivery service with a French license, making it difficult to track his points. In other news, Joe Biden delivered a funny line during a speech and a UK couple has listed their apartment with a prison cell in the living room for sale. A stolen iPhone has been tracked from the UK to Dubai and now to China, leading to discussions about disabling stolen phones. A woman in China has been diagnosed with "love brain" after calling her boyfriend over 100 times a day. Lastly, there is no traffic on the Mitchell Highway between Dubbo and Wellington. You're waking up with the Central West burst breaking on 92.7 ZOO. We go again for another morning, end of the week, the weekend just around the corner, of course, unless you work Saturdays and then the weekend is not here, it is not here yet. There's no point thinking it is. Coming up in a couple of minutes, I'm going to tell you about this bloke that has just racked up an incredible amount of demerit points. If you ever thought that getting demerit points was more like a game of golf, you would be right. This bloke thinks it's a game of AFL. The more points the merrier. Going up into the hundreds and the way he's done it is also questionable. I have no idea how he's still on the road. I'll tell you just a couple of minutes away. DJ Snake first, bipolar sunshine. It's ZOOFM Breakfast for your Friday morning. You're home to Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. Quarter past six, ZOOFM Breakfast. You're home to Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. Top of 21 in Wellington today. Currently 11. Sunny morning ahead. Possible showers this afternoon. A bloke has been stopped by the highway patrol. And it was just your usual traffic stop. I think he conducted a U-turn at an intersection that was possibly illegal. Maybe that's why they performed the traffic stop. But nothing out of the ordinary. Just the usual patrolling by a highway patrol. Thing is, they went and did a check on his license, as they normally do. He had accumulated 240 demerit points. That takes double demerits to a whole new level. The bloke's trying to hit a high score. It's like one of those festival sideshows where you punch a bag. And then, well, I mean, punching a bag probably will get you in trouble with the police anyway. You punch the bag for the game where you're meant to punch something. And it sends the score up into the air. And you probably get into the hundreds. 240 demerit points. And the kicker out of all of this is he accumulated them all only since January this year. 240 demerit points in five months. The bloke was riding for one of the food delivery services. And when he was asked to produce a license, he produced a French license. Obviously, this is the reason why it was difficult to track his accumulation of points up into the hundreds. So they had to spend about three days getting the records from Transport for New South Wales. And lo and behold, what came back was literally the shopping list you take to Carl's. Your Zoom's breaking. Tyler and Marshmello, what a 20 to 7 Zoo FM breakfast. It's taken with you this morning on your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s. So now, top of 21 degrees today in Gilgandra, about 11 and a half at the moment. Sunny morning ahead, chance of showers heading into the afternoon and showers all day tomorrow, possibly clearing up Sunday night. I don't exactly want to go into the semantics of American politics because that's a rabbit hole we'll never escape whatsoever. But Joe Biden, he's delivered an absolute corker overnight, just hands down. While rallying the electoral troops, he was reading from a teleprompter, a very common practice if you're speaking in front of people or in front of a television camera. The thing is, the teleprompter, it also tells you the moments to pause or take a breath for impact in what you're saying. I don't do that. I normally just spew out words at a million miles an hour. But because we're reading directly from the teleprompter, this is what he ended up delivering to the crowd. Imagine what we can do next. Four more years. Pause. Pause. Well, at least, I mean, he did take a pause, as was instructed on the screen in front of him, but instead he verbalized it. It was almost as great. I mean, it's not one of his best corkers that he's delivered, but it was almost as good as this absolute verbal lasagna that he delivered last year. America is a nation that can be defined in a single word. Honestly, it sounds like me when I wake up in the morning and I have a look in the mirror and just confront my hair and my appearance after a big night out. You're on Zoom Breakfast. Gidler Roy, 10 minutes to 7 o'clock, Zoom Breakfast. See you Friday morning, top of 21 in Narramine today, currently 11 and a half. Expecting rain this afternoon. If you've got any plans over the weekend that involve being outdoors, it's going to be wet. So I'd slightly rearrange those. However, I'm not a meteorologist. Most of the stuff I say on this program is a complete nut of crap. You will find out what actually happens. If you've been looking for an unusual and stylish way to renovate your home and you want to really open up that living space, as some people might say, I've got just the idea for you. A UK couple, they have listed their studio apartment online, fit with a complete prison cell installed in the living room. A whole prison cell just sitting there next to the couch. Described as a fantastic and unusual opportunity by the real estate, the building is currently listed for $370,000. The prison cell in the living room, it takes up approximately a 4m by like 3m area. It's a proper prison cell just sitting there. Supposedly the prison cell is in the building for decorative purposes only. But a closer inspection of the ceiling and the flooring reveals that there's anchor points that have been previously uninstalled from within the prison cell. Recommendations from the real estate that the apartment is perfect for a convenient, open plan living or dining space within the prison cell. I don't know whether that's what previously was in there. I mean, judging by the appearance of anchor points, I'm pretty sure you'll need soundproofing on the cell prison walls rather than a three-piece stovetop to fulfil its true purpose. I think the owners that were prior in the apartment may have used it for alternative arrangements that the neighbours probably didn't enjoy. Kings of Lyon, it's ZOOFM Breakfast for your Friday morning. It's Keegan with you on your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. Lovely weather ahead this morning. Maybe you've taken the roster off. Get out there and enjoy it. Good morning. Ed Sheeran, quarter past seven, ZOOFM Breakfast for your Friday morning. Top of 21 in Wellington today. Currently 11. Sunny morning ahead. Chairs of showers heading into the afternoon. There's a person who had their phone stolen while overseas and it was an Apple. So obviously there's the find my iPhone feature. And that can't exactly be removed by the person who stole the phone unless it's given approval by the people that actually own the Apple account. So they've been tracking this phone. It's gone from the UK to Dubai and then it's arrived in China recently. So it's done like a world tour. It's stolen. I have no idea why it's now ended up in China anyway. The people have now had a discussion in the comments section about what you can do if your phone is stolen and then shipped overseas because you're obviously not going to go chase after it. It's like, can you find me? Now can you see me? What's the movie where the bloke goes running across the planet? I don't know. Anyway, that was a completely moot point. But anyway, we'll brush past that. But someone has suggested... My knowledge of movies is absolutely atrogic. Anyway, someone suggested in the comments here that they don't understand why a phone manufacturer can't just 100% disable a phone when it's been marked as stolen. Apparently that is a feature which most people are unaware of. Someone's gone and one-upped that suggestion and put here, there should be a feature on the phone that when it's stolen you can set it so when they go to charge the said stolen phone, it charges beyond 100% battery life and then the phone explodes. Bit overkill, don't you think? Making portable IEDs. I don't think Apple's going to be behind the idea. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's the direction they'll take. Greg Kilman, it's ZOOFM Breakfast. Lewis Capaldi, 25 past 7, ZOOFM Breakfast, Friday morning. Top of 21 degrees today in Narromine. Currently 11, sunny morning. Chance of showers this afternoon. Amazingly, on the Mitchell Highway between Dubbo and Wellington this morning, there is no slowing of traffic as far as I'm aware. No road work. That is incredible. It must be a very special day. If you've ever received a phone call, in other news, slight detour here, maybe you've received a phone call too many times in a row from exactly the same person, and you've been tempted to throw your phone out of a plane at 31,000 feet just so you don't have to answer it. I've got an example that'll absolutely blow your lid. A woman in China has been diagnosed with what doctors are calling love brain after she reported one sole symptom, a single symptom, calling her boyfriend over 100 times a day. 100 times in a single day. Imagine if it was like 2008. The phone bill would bankrupt you. I mean, I don't even chew food at least 100 times a day. Maybe that means I'm just malnourished. Supposedly, after her boyfriend began not answering the 100-plus phone calls a day, she began turning the living room at home into a scene from The Walking Dead. That's when the boyfriend, of course, suggested she seek help, leading to the true scientific diagnosis of a love brain. It's an actual term. It's not just people being lazy and giving things strange words. I'm wondering when we're going to get someone to be the first person diagnosed with beer brain. I mean, I'd certainly be the first one in line. Selena Gomez, single soon. ZOOFM Breakfast, Friday morning. Juleefa, 20 minutes to 8. ZOOFM Breakfast, your home of Dubbo's best music from the 80s to now. Top of 21 degrees today in Trangie. Currently 13. Sunny morning ahead. Chance of showers into the afternoon. And the rain continuing over the weekend should clear up by Sunday afternoon. We're brought to you by McDonald's and Dubbo and Wellington. The Big Mac, it's the original mouthful. A one-of-a-kind flavor that now comes in three sizes. We're all aware of the cost-of-living crisis that's currently ongoing. I mean, we're all probably suffering from it, but some of the lengths that others have admitted they go to in order to acquire money, it's just something else. A study has been conducted by BCU Bank of thousands of Australians, and it truly demonstrates our ingenuity in overcoming adversity in the most rational of methods. 2.1 million Australians say that they would be willing to marry for money instead of love. So, obviously, next time you're on a tinder date, no, I'd just crack out the checkbook. And you should be right. 2.2 million Australians would consider partaking in illegal activities in order to gain extra income. So if your neighbor has a suspicious shipping container with fumes coming out of it in the backyard, support him in his endeavor of escaping the cost-of-living crisis, is what they're saying. No, maybe not. That was obviously sarcasm. 700,000 Australians say they would trade their partner for a house. Trade their partner. This is just getting out of hand. I mean, I wasn't aware we were considering slave trade. I'm amazed that people would even do that. Let's brush past it for now. That's opening a can of worms. 1.5 million Australians are or have considered becoming an adult entertainment worker in order to supplement their income. Look, I mean, there's no shame in it. You never know what I could be doing after I clock off at the radio station. However, I mean, the shipping container with suspicious fumes coming out is probably more likely than me taking that profession up. See, that is a joke for my real estate agent. Coming up next, Dr William Manoeur. Something just as questionable as this segment. Check out ZOOFM on Facebook for more. Bruno Mars, ten minutes to eight. ZOOFM Breakfast, it's Keegan with you this morning. Unsurprisingly, Newell Highway, south out of Dubbo, but ten minutes out, traffic slowing down. There's road work. Are we surprised? Not really. MUSIC Yet again for another week, Dr William Manoeur. He has a Master's in Fish Psychiatry at the Downaloo Veterinary Hospital. He joins us again. He spoke to us earlier this week. Nothing wrong with a double dose of the most unfact-checked animal stories you've ever heard in your life. And he joins us on the phone. Good morning, mate. Good morning, Keegan. I'm actually... I don't know what you were meaning by that introduction, but it's a pleasure to be on the air with you. Absolutely brilliant. Well, what are you up to this lovely Friday morning? Well, I've got some pretty good reception. I'm quite high up. I'm on a really tall staircase. I was following a herd of cows up here, and now I'm trying to get them down, and I've realised they can't. So you were going to say you're on top of a mountain, but on top of a... How many steps are we talking? Probably about 10,000 steps. What sort of building has 10,000 steps in it? Well, it's the side of a mountain. I'm not up to the top yet, but I'm still on the way there, and the cows have sort of... Well, they can't go down stairs, Keegan. It is a mountain. It's not a staircase. Imagine if someone climbed Mount Everest and said, I'm at the top of a staircase instead of Mount Everest. All right, what's been happening in the wide world of animal news this week? So this daughter thought there was a monster in her closet, and it's actually turned up costing over $20,000 in damages to the house. I don't know what that monster might be. So it's a real monster, not just a figment of the imagination? We actually did an animal... This is why we're doing animal news, Keegan, to keep up. Oh, right. Yep, of course. Right. What animal was it? Bees. Bees? $20,000 worth of damages, bees? Yes. How many bees? There were tens of thousands, Keegan, and the hive was weighing over 45 kilograms, if you do believe me. Isn't a hive made of... Oh, no, I'm thinking of wasps. Wasps make hives out of paper. What are bees' hives made out of? Beeswax. So there's a lovely, plentiful supply of honey in the wall that was meant to be the monster. And the parents said to the daughter, mind your beeswax, and now the hive's taken out, and it's caused major electrical damages. Of course, damages to the wall when they took it out of the wall. You'd just burn the house down, wouldn't you? If you believed in some of the supernatural elements, you would by this point, the honey that was oozing out was like a dark red. So it actually looked like there was a possessed demon in the wall. It did, from all the buzzing and the red ooze. I think if you were number-wise, you would probably believe it. I have a feeling they need to inscribe a pentagram on the floor, but anyway. What else is happening in the world of animals this week? So last week, Keegan, I heard you having a conversation on the topic of parents having a live video chat. That's fascinating stuff. They were actually enjoying talking to each other via the Internet. And you knew that they could tell the difference between the live and the recorded one, right? No, I was under the impression they learned how to operate Facebook Messenger, which was something. Well, at least it wasn't Twitter. So these parents could tell the difference between speaking to an actual parent and a recorded parent. And now some researchers in the University of Glasgow, they've come back with some fascinating results. And they believe that they should make an online world for parents. What, like a Habbo hotel, but for birds? More likely. It's to really help with their domestication and some of the adverse side effects that can happen from them being in cages and inside houses. The things like feather pulling and excessive pacing that the parents can experience. It actually is very beneficial. I think we're close to putting VR goggles on parents and seeing what happens. Where would you put the controllers? Where their feet are, so they can control it, obviously. What are they standing on there? On the perch. But their feet are busy with their thumbs. Actually, you should do this. You should mock up a demonstration of how a bird could possibly operate a VR headset. I'd love to see the professional opinion on it. Well, thank you again, Dr. Manur. It's always fascinating to get this just remarkable insight into the animal headlines. I've just realised there's a bull coming up the stairs now and I'm wearing a red jacket. You say it's coming up the stairs, you mean it's coming up the side of the mountain? It's coming up the stairs on the mountain. Well, it's all right. I'm guessing behind the bull would be Jack and Jill because they've got to go down the other side at some point, according to the tale. I don't know what you're talking about, Keegan. I only specialise in animals. All right, thank you, Dr. Manur. Brilliant. Cheers, mate. Thank you. You're on Zoom, Brekkie. The phrase, your Friday morning ZOFM breakfast almost quarter past eight. Claire from Dubba Regional Council joining us. Good morning. Good morning, Keegan. How are you going? I'm all right. How are you? Pretty well. It's getting a bit chilly out there. I know. I think that I would say that winter's set in but no, it's still autumn, isn't it? It is still autumn. And it's still nice during the day when the sun's out. You say that. I arrive to work at five in the morning. True. I still think it's the night before I get confused. That is true. It's a big weekend of events, as far as I can tell, going on around the region. There's lots happening for sure. Well, kicking off today, we actually have the inaugural – I can't say that word very well – the inaugural Western Plains Jazz Festival. Oh, cool. It's at the Dubbo Golf Club and it's running from today all the way till Sunday afternoon. There's a full run sheet actually on our website at dubboregion.com.au. But if you're into jazz and you want to embrace the rhythm and be part of the debut jazz celebration at the Dubbo Golf Course, head down there and enjoy three days full of music. I had a chat with Greg, who I think is one of the organizing people of that event, and just the length that they've gone through to bring it together is incredible. There's people coming from all over the state. All over the country. Oh, is it the country? Right, okay. I understated it slightly. Greg has done an amazing job pulling all this together. He's worked so hard, so I'm definitely excited for them and I hope it goes really well. I think there's people coming from all over, so we're very excited for that. I think all you need to do is – they're just encouraging donations. You don't even need to pay to be there, which is incredible. Yeah, just a gold coin donation or however much you'd like to donate, and yeah, that's gone a long way. Brilliant. And then also starting today, we have the Wellington show. It's in its 148th year, which is just crazy. Oh, what a run. So it's going today and tomorrow, and expect all the things you would expect at a show. We've got lots of agriculture. There's going to be an animal nursery, sharing competitions, dog yard trials, as well as lots of musical performances and amusement rides for the kids. Absolutely brilliant. And it's $10 for adults, $5 for children and pensioners, and then anyone under five is free for that one. Oh, excellent. Wow, okay. That was unexpected. Yes. Fantastic. And then also this evening at the theatre, Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre, we have Bye Bye Birdie, and it is the Dubbo Drama Club is presenting this one. Bye Bye Birdie is sort of based off Elvis being drafted into the army, so it follows the teen idol Conrad Birdie. So he's been drafted into the army, and of course Conrad, all the girls love him, all the boys want to be him. So it just sort of follows his journey of getting drafted in his one last big show before the army. I wasn't even aware that Elvis was drafted into the army. Really? So I've learned something new this morning. Oh, my goodness. That's fantastic. You should watch Elvis' movie. And it's just $30, that one, so it starts at 7pm. Brilliant. So that's this afternoon, and then also tomorrow morning, if you want to get up not too early, 8 o'clock, for the Dubbo Farmers' Markets, you can head down there at Macquarie Lions Park, and there's obviously always a big feast of things. You can get fresh seasonal produce. There'll be herbs, plants, and, you know, there's lots of fresh bread and nice olive oils and preserves and all that kind of stuff. As far as I'm aware, you're able to take your dog down there as well, because it's in a park. Go for a walk, take your dog. I like doing that in the mornings. So go for a walk down there and check it out and buy some fresh bread, have a breakfast. Brilliant. Absolutely lovely. So if you want to find out more that's happening across the region, just head to dubboregion.com.au, and you can see what's going on. Fantastic. Thank you, Claire. We'll chat next week. No worries. Thanks, Peter. You're on Zoo's Breakfast. George Ezra, blame it on me. A couple of minutes to nine, Zoo FM Breakfast, wrapping us up for your Friday morning, the weekend's just around the corner. If you missed anything on the show this morning, you can buy the podcast to put Zoo FM in on whatever you get your podcasts on, other than Apple Podcasts. We're all on that. It's way too difficult to put the podcast on, but it should be absolutely everywhere else, and you should be able to listen back just after 10 o'clock. Your 80s hour at work is next. Zubricki.