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From Classroom Chaos to Hawaiian Horrors: Midweek Madness Report
A Michigan couple's vacation turned nightmarish when they were arrested at Cancun customs and thrown into a maximum-security prison. Their alleged crime? Disputing $117,000 in charges from Palace Resorts three years ago – charges American Express had already ruled in their favor on. Now they're being held without bond as the resort allegedly demands $250,000, an NDA, and a public apology with no guarantee of release. The wife has lost 25 pounds in just 20 days while being served food she's allergic to.
Meanwhile in Arizona, a sixth-grade teacher faces indecent exposure charges after allegedly urinating in a can at his desk in front of students. His excuse? He claimed he didn't know how to get another staff member to watch his class so he could use the restroom, saying he "reverted to military behavior" of not leaving his post. The students reported hearing water sounds before realizing what their teacher was doing.
In Hawaii, a disturbing case involves a Maui anesthesiologist charged with attempted murder after allegedly pushing his nuclear engineer wife off a hiking trail at the famous Pali Lookout. According to police, he attacked her simply because she refused to take a photo with him, repeatedly punching her and bashing her head with rocks. He was arrested after an eight-hour manhunt.
We also explore the curious case of AI bias, as ChatGPT's new image generator willingly creates images of "sexy men" while refusing to generate "sexy women" due to "content policy" restrictions – a discrepancy even acknowledged by OpenAI's CEO. What does this reveal about the encoding of societal biases in our technologies?
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Hello, good morning. It is Wednesday, halfway through the work week, yay, all right, I have four stories for you and they're nothing political that I can tell. I could be wrong, but here we go. Michigan couple, paul and Christy Accio, being held hostage in Mexican prison over dispute with resort, says a daughter. Are they being held hostage or are they prisoners? So this is never see.
Speaker 1:I don't know why people have the desire to go to Mexico. I don't care if it's a resort or not. No, you've been hearing these horrible stories about resorts too. No, I'm not going to effing Mexico. No desire to go there whatsoever. So a Michigan couple? Of course they're from Michigan.
Speaker 1:A Michigan couple's spring break vacation quickly turned into a nightmare when they were hauled away to a maximum security prison for allegedly disputing credit card charges at a resort after touching down in Mexico. That's the first paragraph. I'm going to read a little more. Probably need to dig into this. This. Might there might be more to the story that we don't know about. Perhaps that is my first inkling, but let's read on.
Speaker 1:Grandparents, christy and Paul Accio, arrived at an airport in Cancun on March 4th when they realized that their passports had a notice placed on them as they went through customs. Christy's daughter, lindsay Hull, wrote on Facebook on Monday. The couple was arrested on outstanding criminal fraud charges and have been held without bond in a foreign prison for the past 23 days. Hull claimed that her mother and stepfather were arrested in retaliation for challenging charges made on their American Express card by the Palace Company, a luxury all-inclusive vacation brand with resorts in mexico, jamaica and owned by palace resorts. The couple had a timeshare. There you go. Mistake number two, having a timeshare membership with the vacation company and disputed charges totaling $117,000 from Palace Resorts on their credit card around three years ago. Three years ago, after months of dealing with challenging the charges, american Express sided with the couple. The money was returned to the Accios and their membership with the Palace Company was canceled. Oh dear, since the incident, accios have returned to Cancun multiple times over the past few years and have never run into trouble until recently.
Speaker 1:Hmm, the last. Have you guys ever watched the airport show where To Catch a Smuggler? I think it. It is. That's what it's called. I'm just just putting that out there.
Speaker 1:The last 21 days of torture my parents have been through is a direct response of the palace company's corruption, extortion, retaliation and blackmail against our parents whole, wrote. How does she know that for sure? She claims that the company is demanding $250,000 and for them to sign a nondisclosure agreement that does not even guarantee their release. This sounds okay. Maybe it's not to catch a smuggler, maybe they are innocent. This is sounding really sketchy. Obviously it's sketchy. It's Mexico.
Speaker 1:If that's not enough, they have demanded a public apology from my mom and Paul to be made to the palace company. Absolutely sickening. The concerned daughter wrote the lawyer who represented the Accios in the dispute against Palace Resorts, john Manley, said the case was closed and the couple is being held hostage. Make no mistake, what they're doing is they are holding two American hostages because they want them to pay them money. Hull also alleged that her mom and Paul, who is a US Navy veteran with over 21 years of service and currently works for the Michigan State Police oh my gosh are being denied medical attention, denied proper communication and publicly defamed. Okay, I take my stuff back, I apologize. My mom has lost 25 pounds in 20 days, holy shit Due to inability to eat in the prison and serving her food there, where she's allergic to. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:The article goes on a little bit more, but yeah, trump needs to step in and get these two people back. This is ridiculous. All right, this next one. What kind of people are we hiring to teach our children? I think this is an inmate. He must be on work release or got paroled recently or something, I don't know.
Speaker 1:This guy, an Arizona teacher, allegedly exposed himself in front of a class while peeing in a can at a desk, and he offered an odd excuse as why he did this. Oh, wait till you hear this excuse. It's stupid. There is no excuse. Oh my gosh, a teacher in Arizona had the wrong stream of thought. Y'all need to stop that.
Speaker 1:Elementary school educator, kurt Hinton, allegedly exposed his penis in front of a class full of students to urinate and offered an odd excuse for the indecent act. According to authorities, the 52-year-old sixth grade educator at Wilson Elementary School in Phoenix is accused of peeing into a can while sitting at his desk. On March 18th, a small group of students went to the principal to report. They heard what sounded like falling water before discovering it was their teacher relieving himself at the front of the classroom rather than in a restroom. Each student claimed they saw their teacher's genitalia. Police noted that Hinton's desk was not enclosed. Oh dear. Oh.
Speaker 1:According to the outlet, when confronted by cops, hinton allegedly admitted to peeing in a white can inside his classroom, but stressed that he didn't think his students could see as he was covering his penis with his hand, because that's not the excuse. He also claimed. Here's the excuse. Oh my gosh. He also claimed he was new to the school and didn't know how to get another staffer to watch his class so he could run to the restroom. Honey, if, if you need to run, if you can't hold it for a few more minutes until your class dismisses, or if you don't know how to go into the hallway and go get a teacher, if you don't know how I'm sure they have intercoms and phones in their desk nowadays. This is stupid. He didn't know how to get another staffer to watch his class so he could run to the restroom. That's why I'm saying this guy what is he? Did he just get released from prison?
Speaker 1:Hinton reportedly said he ended up reverting to what he did while serving in the military. Oh my God. So not prison, it was military. When he couldn't leave his post. Oh my god, do not give the military a bad name like that. Oh, he was charged with four counts of indecent exposure. See, this is what we used to do back in the day. Oh my god, oh, oh, okay, uh, whatever, this guy even looks like he broke out of prison. They have, they have his mug shot on there, all right, next up. Oh, this is a horrible story. Then we're going to end with a, I guess a, I think, a lighter one. Oh, oh, I hope so anyway.
Speaker 1:Doctor allegedly pushed wife off of hawaii, off a hawai, hawaii hot spot, bashed her head with rocks after she refused to take a photo with him. Y'all, this guy uh, what is happening? And he's a doctor, a doctor, anesthesiologist, a doctor has been charged with trying to murder his wife. I don't think she she apparently did not die Murder his wife by pushing her off a Hawaii hotspot and then bashing her head in with a rock, allegedly just for refusing to take a photo with him. That's crazy. His name is Gerard Koenig, a 46-year-old anesthesiologist from Maui was on vacation on Oahu with his 36-year-old wife. I don't know how long they've been married. She's a nuclear engineer, so she's a smart girl. Obviously, she doesn't know how to pick her men, ariel Koenig, when he allegedly pushed her off a hiking trail in the Pali lookout, a famous panoramic viewpoint to cops. He allegedly flipped because his wife refused to take a picture with him.
Speaker 1:Law enforcement sources told the news the doctor also repeatedly punched his wife and hit her with a rock and at some point even tried to poke her with two syringes. According to the honolulu star, he had this fucking thing planned that's what that is which did not elaborate on whether they contained drugs. Ariel Connick was rushed to the hospital. They don't say she died. She was rushed to the hospital. Let's see. He was arrested after a foot chase. That happened roughly eight hours after the alleged attack, so he was in there hiding somewhere. He looks like a little punk ass too. He's got a tiny little mouth, beady little eyes, little face with a big forehead. Okay, I'm sorry. All right, moving on to the next one. All right, this is it. This is a lighter one.
Speaker 1:I, and I'm going to test this theory today won't generate images of sexy women, but will make images of sexy men due to an apparent bug, probably called a Me Too movement on the bug they probably named it. That Rules for she but not for he. The new ChatGPT image generator will manufacture images of sexy men, but won't make images of sexy women due to an apparent software bug, which CEO Sam altman acknowledged after tuesday's launch of the new feature. Chat. Gpt users were told that the image generator debuted earlier in the day was unable to draw sexy women because it went against content policy. Okay, but a user shared their experience with the AI. Y'all this whole against content policy is bullshit. It's called censorship. A user shared their experience with the AI feature on X, which caught the attention of the company CEO, possibly because of the artificially generated stud muffin included in the post. The user asked the app. It created a sexy woman and a sexy man, but it only agreed to create an image of the latter. I couldn't generate that image because it goes against our content policy. Oh yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So I've noticed when I've tried to get. Well, I'm talking about Grok, though Grok and Jack Chad GPT are different. When I ask Grok to draw me, he always draws me looks nothing like me. But what do y'all think about that? That's? Uh. So I, you know, back in the day I remember seeing commercials and it was always really sexy hot women and the men were always like looked terrible. So I'm like come on, man, what's the deal with that? Must be men making these ads back in the day, right? All right, we need a question of the day. Oh, my gosh, I went way too long. We're at 12 minutes. All right, question of the day. Okay, food related and I think I put this out on X a week or so ago I have an unpopular opinion.
Speaker 1:I don't think nuts should be in ice cream. I also think they should not be in any kind of dessert whatsoever, because I have a thing about desserts and sweets and texture. Now, I like, you know, peanuts and cashews and pistachios and pecans. I like all of them. I even like them in a salad. Occasionally. I like to eat them just plain, but not in a dessert. I don't think they go in a dessert. What is your opinion on that? Okay, gotta go. Thanks for listening. Love y'all, bye.
