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Speaker 1: Hello friends, Welcome to Story Behind podcast. This is the

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Speaker 1: show for people who love hearing a good story and

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Speaker 1: who believe the world could use more positivity. We're the

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Speaker 1: team behind God Updates and God Too, and we hope

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Speaker 1: these weekly short stories will brighten your day.

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Speaker 2: Fresh Responders Pull forty pound dog to safety after cliff

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Speaker 2: fall in San Francisco Written by Heather Rigglemann, read Bygy

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Speaker 2: Provost brush Er Sponders Pull a forty pound dog to

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Speaker 2: safety after cliff fall in San Francisco. The sea fender

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Speaker 2: below the cliffs of Fort Luncheon, wild and fierce against

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Speaker 2: the rocks, And there, clinging in the narrow ledge halfway

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Speaker 2: down was a trembling forty pound dog, brown and white fur,

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Speaker 2: pressed against coldstone. His paws quivered as he stared down

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Speaker 2: at the crashing waves. One wrong move and he'd be gone.

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Speaker 2: I'd begin as pure joy, a carefree chair through salty air,

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Speaker 2: tails wagging heart, sleeping creation, laughing with them. But one

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Speaker 2: slip sent the playful pup tumbling off the cliff side. Somehow,

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Speaker 2: by God's mercy, he landed on a slim ledge that

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Speaker 2: held him fast for twenty long minutes. Heaven must have

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Speaker 2: held its breath. Then came the sirens and shouts, the

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Speaker 2: scared rush at first responders, men and women who didn't hesitate.

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Speaker 2: Firefighters from Station nineteen rigged ropes and harnesses, while the wind,

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Speaker 2: with their jackets above them, a police strone hovered guiding

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Speaker 2: their every move. Below them, the ocean crashed relentless. One

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Speaker 2: firefighter was lowered slowly over the edge, his rope creaking

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Speaker 2: with every inch. The dog's ears perked, eyes wide with hope,

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Speaker 2: and when strong hands finally reached him, something holy happened.

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Speaker 2: The firefighter wrapped his arms around the shivering pup, and

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Speaker 2: the cliff that had nearly claimed a life became the

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Speaker 2: stage for a miracle. He knew he had gotten rescued.

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Speaker 2: Rescue Captain Samuel Muchana said softly. He was wagging his tail.

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Speaker 2: He was giving everyone kisses. Back on solid ground. The

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Speaker 2: little dog couldn't stop showering his rescuers with gratitude. Every wag,

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Speaker 2: every sloppy kiss was his way of saying thank you

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Speaker 2: for not giving up on me. And maybe that's the

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Speaker 2: heart of it, the reminder that no life is too small,

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Speaker 2: no soul too far gone for love to reach, that

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Speaker 2: even in the most dangerous places. God sends help, sometimes

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Speaker 2: through men and harnesses, sometimes through wagging tails, but always

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Speaker 2: through the hearts that reflect his own. Because the same

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Speaker 2: creator who carved cliffs and commanded seas also designed dogs, loyal, loving,

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Speaker 2: living parables of grace the remind us that love descends

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Speaker 2: in difficult places, risks everything, and draws us back home.

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Speaker 2: Luke one thirty seven, for with God, nothing shall be impossible.

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Speaker 2: Police show grace and humor after teens toilet paper their headquarters.

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Speaker 2: I had the Wriggleman read by Jully Provost. Please show

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Speaker 2: grace and humor after teen's toilet paper their headquartered. The

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Speaker 2: sun had barely set over the small town of Ethlyn, Alabama,

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Speaker 2: when mischief and laughter began to roll, quite literally, through

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Speaker 2: the streets. Every Halloween season, students from Claybourne County High

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Speaker 2: School grabbed their rolls of toilet paper and aim for

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Speaker 2: the harmless fun, decorating trees, rooftops and occasional mailbox and

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Speaker 2: soft fluttering white. But this year they outdid themselves. It's

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Speaker 2: just fun, one teen said, and then you don't get caught,

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Speaker 2: and it's like this is fantastic, added another, with a

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Speaker 2: grin It was fantastic until someone decided to take the

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Speaker 2: prank to Holy ground. The Hefflin Police Department Chief Ross

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Speaker 2: mcglonn could only laugh when he walked out to see

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Speaker 2: his station covered in a blizzard of white. It was

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Speaker 2: up on the roof the spare cars we had in

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Speaker 2: the parking lot. We had to do something, he said.

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Speaker 2: So the chief did what any good natured Southerner with

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Speaker 2: a sense of humor and a badge would do. He

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Speaker 2: declared war on Facebook. He posted a warning and had

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Speaker 2: the telltown chuckling. We think that rolling the police department

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Speaker 2: was a little uncalled for, he wrote, But as we

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Speaker 2: enter into Halloween season, we don't want to hear any

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Speaker 2: crying when we load up like we are going to

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Speaker 2: serve a search warrant and go full out tactical ninja

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Speaker 2: style old school rolling at your place next month. We

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Speaker 2: know who you are, and while you're just put the

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Speaker 2: PlayStation controller down for a week, we are children of

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Speaker 2: the eighties and nineties who perfected this craft years ago.

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Speaker 2: Challenge accepted. What followed was a full on toilet paper

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Speaker 2: war that could have made even Andy Griffith proud. The

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Speaker 2: Heaven Police Department gathered reinforcements from neighboring jurisdictions. Officers arm

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Speaker 2: themselves not with badges and batons, but with the rolls

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Speaker 2: of Charman and a mission to bring laughter in the

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Speaker 2: community right back where it belonged. The chief made sure

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Speaker 2: to get permission from the parents first, because, as he said,

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Speaker 2: as long as they're doing this, they're not getting into

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Speaker 2: trouble doing something else. I think they're spending all their

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Speaker 2: money on toilet paper, he said with a grin. And

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Speaker 2: the best part, the whole town joined in business has

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Speaker 2: started handing out free toilet paper like candy. Students formed

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Speaker 2: cleanup crews called the Toilet Paper Rapid Response Team, selling

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Speaker 2: insurance to homeowners. If you buy their insurance and your

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Speaker 2: yard gets rolled, the youth group will come clean it

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Speaker 2: up for you. Chief Mogan said, you can buy protection.

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Speaker 2: Well started it as a prank, turned into something beautiful,

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Speaker 2: small town laughing together, police and teens standing on the

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Speaker 2: same side, proving the community isn't built in big moments,

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Speaker 2: but in the simple, silly ones. And I absolutely love it.

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Speaker 2: I pray all towns develop a relationship like this with

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Speaker 2: the boys in blue. Perhaps God smiles a little wider

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Speaker 2: over Helflin these days seeing neighbors laugh, kids being kids,

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Speaker 2: and officers choosing joy and grace over lectures and fines.

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Speaker 2: Because sometimes piece doesn't come from rules or sirens. It

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Speaker 2: comes from a ruled toy paper, a shared laugh, and

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Speaker 2: a reminder that love always finds a way to bring

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Speaker 2: us together. A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a

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Speaker 2: crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs, seventeen twenty two.

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