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Txikisode 5

Jul 17, 20231 hr 18 minSeason 1Ep. 14
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In our compact Txikisodes, Julie and Douglas tag-team to serve up quick doses of recent crime stories either unfolding in the Basque Country or intricately connected to it.

This week, Julie and Douglas go though a handful of crimes from around the Basquelands, from our own Basque #FloridaMan to gold prospectors being killed in the forests of Colombia, come explore some tragedies with us, some not as grim the rest.

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bat bi hiru lau, watch your back watch your back Ertzaintza's gonna get you. watch your back watch your back

Ertzaintza's gonna get you. Watch your back oh there's a crime here it's a coming from the Euskal Herria gotta wash those red hands it's the crimes of the basquelands it's the crimes of the basquelands yes welcome so we're doing a txiki so this week and that doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be short because txiki means small it is so it's just yeah short little story might be a little bit shorter today but maybe maybe

let's see yeah so how have you been Douglas news to report um I don't think necessarily no no I'm extremely stoked on the good weather personally I love spring mm-hmm me some summer so I'm really happy it's definitely hotting up long days and warmer yeah so that's happening here but it's also a little worrying because we're probably not gonna have you know a good well we'll have a drought this summer which means all of our food is gonna be at risk

agriculture well I mean the Basque Country would be fine maybe yeah we got a lot of I mean we haven't had any rain though all of April no rain it's I just got a feeling that like just Sam bird or you know January something they were saying there's tons of rain no there wasn't there wasn't the whole winter no rain it was like three weeks in February and that was it and usually it's from December to June it's raining pretty consistently but yeah we'll see okay

well maybe we'll just have a very rainy summer and that'll just rain on everyone's parade for summer plans let's see yeah so yeah so yeah we're having a very fun drink today oh yeah because I was feeling very summery mm-hmm so I wanted to bust out a cocktail instead of a beer wine yeah and we're having so we're having strawberry gin do you want to introduce yeah the cocktail strawberry gin I bought some raspberries put those in there lime yeah there was a special

tonic you think some berry tonic berry tonic and bubbly water yeah very fresh not very sweet love in it let's cheers for our it's not Basque but it's fine it's spring yeah it's spring we looked it up it's from here is right in the south mm-hmm yeah which is a very traditional alcohol producing region right so because it's not sherry it is is sherry is a version in English of redness yeah and the drink as well yeah cheers cheers cheers to have this

cheers to summer cocktails that also that I have to say like it's not too like it's like it's we had a couple of days ago we had a really hot day and then it went down again to like maximum 23 which I think is lovely yeah that's Celsius for those of you yeah I'm sorry I can't translate is like for for for like 30 would be like almost 85 I've no idea something like that and let's just say numbers 20 would be like 70 or something somewhere around there means

nothing to me yeah it's like saying 2.5 it'll mean something to anyone that like lives in Fahrenheit I know I'm sorry which is American listeners essentially get over and maybe UK listeners no I don't think they know both no I think older people know that but not really no okay our producers nodding head okay I mean it's just I've seen a lot more like younger channels on YouTube that are from America like this thing this as well which is seeing the empirical

yeah yeah it's stupid system so it feels like you know we're allowed to be an anti-farenheit sure let's all talk in Celsius and I realize be like 23 it's freezing what are you you can translate yeah so look it up because there's some really convoluted math formula to figure it out nobody cares it's probably through you know the process of figuring out myself so right I just look it up I just put it in Google you still think what is this in Fahrenheit right I'm

wondering okay but you have your thing and mobile is in Celsius oh yeah okay no no I think in Celsius now oh good good yeah I think in kilometers now used to think in miles but now I think in kilometers feet you've transitions you know I don't think it's feet anymore I think welcome well actually no that's not true I don't think in feet in terms of like your height uh-huh oh you know okay no I still don't know how tall I am in centimeters maybe it's too depressing

lol it's always small it's always a small number I'm a very small person never a shock should be small yeah get the small places huggy places I do I could fit in a dryer can you still do that Julie I'm gonna try I'm gonna go home tonight no I don't encourage any of our listeners are you gonna turn it on I see if I fit inside well there could be so many mess up the dryer though yeah too much weight something like that we don't think so

that's also I have to think like in pounds versus in kilos so it's another thing I have to think about you see you're just creating problems no I've switched my own brain but it took a while to switch to the to switch yeah yeah I've switched so many times if everything that I mean it's most not not that like I've always used meters and stuff but like I grew up for a long time in Brazil and so there was a lot of change in currency I think I had seven

currencies during my time currencies yeah I get dollars and exchange rates and not sure the piece of candy cost I mean half a million five relative yeah new Crusaders Crusaders Crusaders new Crusaders they can't be such ridiculous name and put one was new one was old the the stupid one was when they had this one called Crusader which is like a cross or okay something like that and then at some point they change it to Crusader which is like another way of

saying cross yeah or across and then then they had the Crusader move novel like the new crusade it's like come on guys like what's even the point of changing at this time right yeah they even had the like version where they like stamped three zeros behind banknotes and that was supposed to be the new number you know all sorts of ridiculous things how do people keep up I would have been lost totally lost Fahrenheit seems like nothing yeah it's nothing that formula

the days when you had to do math formula and didn't have Google it's all over now Google's with us so for our podcast is about if we if we want to refresh our listeners all our new listeners Julie yes a little bit hello welcome hello it's it's about crimes of the Basque lands but the Basque lands would incorporate anything from anywhere a bad person went and anywhere in the world that a Basque and that a Basque person was you know yeah something happened

and they were a victim of a crime or he's a the perpetrator of a crime or he reported in a crime all some anyway anyway yeah so it's all it's all the judge was Basque oh we can talk about tenuous doesn't have we learn things about the Basque Country on our way right mm-hmm yeah their names and places surnames places some language little lessons yeah so so today on the cheeky side we're gonna talk about some small stories or just like headlines that we

found mm-hmm and you have our first story the first story it's kind of sad mm-hmm but it's pretty Basque oh you know ask me okay so this was in Capuzkoa in Irun very well famous quite a big town yeah next to the last year right San Sebastian mm-hmm yep very close to the last day or San Sebastian so two men found dead in a hamlet in the Ola Berria neighborhood mm-hmm cute yeah so it's a small little village right outside of it I guess okay

Ola Berria or that's the neighborhood a small outskirts neighborhood it's kind of hard to know here because they have so many names right sometimes there's a municipality and then you'll have the neighborhoods but then you'll have like special and I'm probably saying it wrong Ola Berria maybe it would be I don't know didn't have the accent on it yeah I think it could be both yeah so yeah they mm-hmm so these two men one of which was aged 53 in the other 47 they were found

and this so that's what they're calling the neighborhood Ola Berria in Irun and they both died of guns shot wounds specifically guns shotgun and shot wounds mm-hmm and it turns out that the two men had been kind of like partners in business they owned a piece of land they bought up some land together for for caravan use like to park caravans there right like or like so that it was like an old I read somewhere that it was a slaughterhouse an old slaughterhouse and

they ended up buying that property just unmute miss not used anymore slaughterhouse and we're going to commercially like change the use of it yeah so it they they're suspecting that it was part of a dispute between business dispute between the two that both were dead mm-hmm one of them shot the other uh-huh and then committed suicide oh really yeah oh my gosh so that's intense so that's their conclusion then that it just happened so okay the investigation is ongoing still

going going yeah so that's the speculation I guess at this point as to why this might have happened I guess talking to family members or whoever mm-hmm be like well they were having some disagreements gosh yeah why did you think it was such a Basco crime though I didn't think it just happened in the Basque Country that's the tenuous it was a crime that happened in the Basque land that's people are businessmen that's that's definitely true true and

it's a really rural area where they were so it's a party a small I'm sure everybody knew these guys right so the area like pretty shocking I would I would think so it is and I would imagine the suicide was maybe you know you know factors into the fact that it was such a small place and like how maybe he did for the moment murdered this guy and then thought what have I done yeah and how am I gonna face everybody after this yeah sort of thing

yeah sir heavy they're pretty young too like 47 53 okay wow I mean that's not that young but yeah you know prime of their lives I guess at least taxable yeah so they apparently had like continuous disputes about how to manage the property that they owned together well let's not buy an abattoir to get I know right it's just leads to murder lesson of the day that was the vibe and the property it was just like a killing property so that's my first story so I

I'll you know you have questions well well one I wanted to explain myself like I live here and I have no idea this happens it's because I don't watch the news in in Castilian or Basque I should I'm starting to watch it in Basque but not much so that's how I don't know about those things so it was pretty fresh though when did this happen this was dang it I didn't even look but let me look at the link I always keep the link on April 20th okay so I guess that was a little while ago

420 I was celebrating 20 yeah 420 yeah well yeah that was some a crime for sure it wasn't a best glance it's about 10 days ago no 15 days ago very sad well yeah I hope everybody recovers somewhat from this tragedy that's really yeah it's gonna take time huh doesn't have any information if they had family I mean obviously the family but like yeah they were married had children I think so yep there's that so keep an eye on that maybe it'll develop into an even

more intense story that we could possibly do a long main episode on sure yeah maybe possibly some convoluted stuff in there that could be interesting find some drugs or some way we are not we're not suggesting anything my turn in yeah sure so in honor of a friend I'm I met from Colombia mm-hmm I was looking for crimes in Colombia okay and it was cool we took a little bit longer than usual to find crimes today and I kept coming across different things amongst

them how there's a very heavy presence of Basque people in this region called Antioquia in Colombia and I actually saw a news story about that today too and I was really yeah it was just speaking about that in general yes that story I saw that so well this is I mean it's not necessarily connected to that but it was interesting to come across that and I think we will definitely visit that area again mm-hmm and I you know at some point I think in the 70s some researcher

was looking into the books and in Bogota and found the phone books just that that kind of research and just counted up all this back sirnames uh-huh and he found more than 215 or more than 200 sirnames and this is a town or region Antioquia is a region like I would say it's a state I'm not sure if they call that a state yeah and then Bocata is the capital right so you know just saying it's quite a big presence there they've gone all right it sounds like I'm gonna

like to go back to the historical part find some crime histories history crimes there yeah and actually I'm not sure where this occurred because it's kind of in the forests but it is in Antioquia oh no it says here I just don't know what a core he meant oh it's a it's a in the in the core he meant of Yaramal which is in Antioquia so I guess I could have him into something like a municipality or something anyway so it's in region of Antioquia and one year ago it this girl

was killed Laura Alejandra Flores Aguirre Aguirre being our surname of concern here like it's a very traditional surname I think I think even one of the first well one of the Peneube people is an Aguirre one of the top the yeah the main nationalist party here mm-hmm there's some Aguirre I'm sorry I don't remember his name but it's it's a Google away and she was a geologist and she was working to find gold for for continental gold which is a company from

Canada okay and they would work for I think it was 20 days and then they would have 10 days off and then they go back and so she was she was having concerns about security and she would talk to her father every day and unfortunately that day she was especially nervous it so happens she was killed later on these guys a group of people turned up and just sprayed shooting like this house where they were staying and then she died because of that whoa yeah very very

you know so it's one year on now and they have they have some names of suspects six or seven people I mean this is I mean it's not funny funny but so where is this line here so another ten people suffered injuries and yes three people yeah another two people died to other two geologists who were just beginning their careers and so the six people are the people who are the suspects at this point right after the first investigations were garbanzo

they're all aliases garbanzo Samir what Tija and dress Jonathan and Nani's they're all oh no sorry the first four are dissident groups of FARC were in a dissident group of FARC FARC is the people the left-wing militant group who's fighting against the government or who has been fighting against the government and now Columbia is signing a peace accord with them and trying to move on to peace so these four people were from the from a FARC dissident group so they

didn't agree with the FARC's peace negotiations and the John Jonathan and Nani's are from another paramilitary group called ELM so that was and that would be with the people who turned up and shot at the group of geologists and then they surmised that the head of this operation is a guy whose allies is cabullo and he actually turns out to have a bastard name as well oh where is he Ricardo Ricardo Abel Ayala or they go and Ayala is a place in is it is it

Navarre I think it is I don't know in any case it's a best town okay so I will take your word for it there's a there's a saint Ayala I think as well in any case it's also very very common first name yeah in the Basque Country first name yeah hmm hey yeah yeah shout out to our friends yeah so the first person to fall as the article says uh-huh was Boteca who died when the Air Force bombed the camp he was in wait so wait yeah it's pretty intense right they suspected this group

mm-hmm but they are paramilitaries right right but the government retaliated by bombing their camp I mean it wasn't immediate it's like they were just we know they did it they were bombing camps and then they went and went to identify they were like oh this guy who was responsible for the geologists was also in the camp it wasn't like specifically against like they weren't targeting him yeah apparently they they did target this camp because they

believed kabuya was there at that point okay so that's the excuse for bomba bombing the camps damn yeah I don't know I think we should just leave it at that no so they so they bombed one of the guys and they haven't arrested anyone else somebody else was killed the story I saw today about it was that they were holding some sort of vigil mm-hmm to just don't forget that these people died and I guess kind of asking for action which ones this in this story mm-hmm

because I saw an article mm-hmm today when I was searching if I'm not mistaken if I'm not mistaken this is the place you did read about the story I didn't read the story I just I just saw that it was in Tokyo yes mm-hmm that name I recognize mm-hmm and then I was like oh I don't know where is this and I didn't realize where it was and it just looked like they were holding like a vigil for those who died okay in this you know shooting okay maybe and like to to

perhaps like ask for action to be taken well is a year later so it would make sense yeah that they're you know yeah trying to oh that's interesting and that's probably why it's in the news here because it's been a year and and people are like come on it's it's a topic in the news yeah yeah well send us in more information if anybody has relevant information you think we've skipped it also says here that on the 6th of October 2018 garbanzo was captured by

the way garbanzo is hilarious can you imagine that was like your gang name you call me Garbanzo I'm I like garbanzo it's a good name I think I'd be happy with it I'd be happy with it personally love it he was small like me you know yes in and out of things rolling roll out of the dryer like if I need to yeah that your secret in and out of the superhero moves yeah like I could just like slip in slip out okay let's let's let's do this let's trade a novel Jules sounds

like a project no I like it go by garbanzo super garbanzo Garcia anywho's so he and garbanzo was captured by the army in San Jose de la Montaña on in 2018 so that's that's another one oh they caught him yeah apparently they they got him with the gun that actually killed forgot her name let's go back but in 2018 Laura Alejandra Flores Aguirre I know I'm a little bit confused where that story's from yeah sorry the story is from 2019 so 20th September 2019 huh

I'm gonna have to look again my archives to see if it is the same story written by yeah Haiti Tamayo Ortiz we did look up Ortiz and it's not Basque pretty common Spanish mm-hmm mm-hmm apparently it comes from it's like an a kind of nettle nettles mm-hmm would translate Ortiz or Ortega mm-hmm and yeah that I think those are the only two that were that were captured or that we know of so far well to the point like a year ago so maybe more of these people

were captured and yeah that was that was a story I found okay let's hope they they get more of the people yeah we'll see if there's any resolution hmm yeah just going down there to do your job and so she was Canadian descent no I mean she's Canadian she just worked for a Canadian firm oh so she's from there but she was working for a Canadian company yeah okay I think so hmm a geologist there yeah huh I wonder why they were targeted that's weird so in the story there was a

part where the she she says a couple of days before or a few days yeah she was fearing for a life and stuff yeah so and apparently so I don't know how long before I'll rewind a little bit more like two or three weeks before another group of geologists that were camping somewhere close by they were four or five people came with guns and kind of told them to get out of there and so that was happening they these people safely got away and two three days before the crime

I didn't understand this very well but it did they some army clothing turned up torn torn apparently so it was apparently they interpreted the torn clothes yeah as a we don't want any military around here uh-huh but that's how ambiguous it was and then a few days yeah they associated maybe the corporation in cahoots with the government raping the land somehow maybe yeah that's definitely the argument that FARC would be yeah making

which you know and also they also fight for indigenous rights which has been an issue yeah over the last decades and centuries I would say mm-hmm in most places yeah that are colonized exactly you know but some some places have had indigenous leaders and like Ecuador or or Peru in different stages and they have tried to address some of those problems not very successfully but you know right I think Colombia definitely has been a place where the elites have

always been in power hmm you know so yikes that's let's hope the piece goes forward we actually just commenting this also because the Colombian president was visiting Spain right oh yeah that's right he did find out a story today and he was a bit rude to the king apparently which we didn't really understand what the what his faux pas was either apparently didn't want to wear wear something Frank and whatever that Frank Frank is like we're never gonna need to

know because we're never gonna have any meetings with the king so there's no need for us to worry about getting a Frank whatever it is for the cake I thought was like a sash or something like that or fancy necklace something so he's supposed to wear something and the king was super offended well I like I kind of like the response of the of the president because he was like it's just some anti-democratic symbols of power you know and I agree with yeah I called

it a levest exactly right yeah yeah so yeah we were like yeah that's cool go Colombia yeah bring us back down to earth and hope that peace talks go forward yeah okay should we take a break let's see you guys soon okay when we bang hello as you say summer is coming is has arrived in me yeah but truly but hey yeah it's a life mm-hmm okay so the next story we're here nurse faces legal action for faking Spanish kids vaccines oh my gosh right that already is

reminding me of that story from Italy you know that story I'm thinking about no there was this doctor who charged extra for people that wanted a false vaccine and so they pay him and he'd inject them with the correct vaccine so that they could like say that they got it yeah or like Trent like for trans travel and stuff yeah cuz they're there they're anti-vaxxers in Italy that didn't want a vaccine so this doctor said it wasn't the best he said oh I'm

just okay yeah I'll just give you some you know insulin or whatever some b12 vitamin but he'd inject them with the real oh my god well that sounds like they could sue him for that right maybe it's Italy who knows everything can be sued I guess depends on your legal system well this lady sorry I had to get that out of my yeah that was funny so what's she doing now okay so 42 families in Spain are pursuing legal action against a nurse whom they allege

faked the process of administering routine vaccines to their children so the nurse worked for 18 months at a government clinic in Santurce which is in Bilbao right north the greater like greater Bilbao yeah on the metro line port is yeah yeah superport is we call it it's a superport so cool I mean it's very big and they built it out quite extensively when though but yes it's quite a new yeah we got cruise ships coming in there we got everything all

the shipments no the crew cruise ship comes into the Santurce or to the party or no I always thought they came into part of the pretty made it out no I believe you but maybe I don't know it would make sense place to show up it does and I I just know because I see them coming out the metro I am sure it's on the metro but they wouldn't have to go through any customs stuff they have that wherever the ship arrives but I guess it might be

centered it sounds more logical to be sent to it all right well I don't know I always assumed I guess that it was sent to see because that's where the port was mmm I do yeah I could be wrong we will know shall we look into it maybe not now okay well now Douglas is gonna look into it so let's see where do the cruise ships come into Bilbao mm-hmm in a report to the crucianos David Bob Julie there's a cruise ship in Getschel so yeah maybe you're right

yep get you get you're swear the the yeah which we would write the port de Portivo we would call it a marina in English right yeah so it's where the marina is yeah and that's yeah I guess huh it's either next door to that word well it is a lot more like fun to show up there isn't it big shipping containers are showing yeah it's a lovely but the ferry what about the ferry that comes from England that probably I don't know but they come with cars and everything

so yeah what's the name is it Southport Newport what's the name of the English city I thought it was like Southport no oh that's the one Santucci e Sierbara hmm maybe that's what I was thinking of so it's between these two now that'll be Santucci yeah 15 kilometers west of a bow it says so well I mean maybe you could say that it's more north so that's where the ferry comes in all right all right we've got it all worked

out then where are these ships coming in anyway well this nurse she was working in Santucci in a clinic for 18 months so they began their investigation in October after receiving complaints about the health workers behavior okay so when parents would take their children to be vaccinated the nurse would inject them with quote very secretly and very fast hmm and then through the vial directly into the garbage can hmm so some parents some of the parents that are like

involved in this lawsuit saw that the vial was still full hmm ouch yeah so the nurse hasn't been identified but she had also made frequent comments on discharging vaccines so this is a Google Translate so discharging I'm assuming throwing away vaccines yeah this sounds weird to discharge vaccines this kind of guy yeah sounds like a weird word yeah that that sounds like applying it I can look to the actual article because I always save

the link just to check those kind of discrepancies it sounds like an injection right she would but yeah it was a vaccination but then it would make sense just the one I did not keep the link it's okay in any case all right she's doing something wrong with the vaccines so when they tested the affected children's blood it was discovered that many didn't have the antibodies that would be expected from receiving those vaccines feels like a smoking gun yep

weird so legal case sensors on the nurses falsification of vaccine records which showed jabs had been administered when they allegedly hadn't and the misuse of public funds by throwing away unused medicine mmm yeah it seems like a big word to say misuse of public funds when you're just throwing out some vaccines but sure well yeah of course you bought them all yeah yeah yeah I mean I agree with I agree that's it's just misuse of funds throwing them away when

yeah these things can save lives the Spanish media has reported that up to 400 children could be affected hmm yeah so the last note in this article is like anti-vaccine sentiment is generally rare in Spain yeah they have the second highest rate of public confidence in vaccines in the European Union after Portugal yeah Spanish government statistics show that uptake of most infant vaccinations is more than 90% so good numbers yeah I will point out

though yeah okay that the Basque health system is separate from the Spanish yeah although the vaccine thing I think was done nationally yeah yeah that's a whole thing together but yeah we yeah and perhaps other vaccinations as well like no well Bella and what are the MR MRM it's rubella mumps and measles right you got it son of a nurse for some reason I'm a daughter of a nurse sorry that's what I meant like my dude friend Julie like all right so okay so Douglas was

unable to find many stories so I'm gonna tell the rest of the stories okay it is true comments about this nurse before we move on no I was just gonna say just in general that yeah I mean that I was I had a big problem during the COVID times ethically with with the fact that the Spanish government took over the Basque health system and I thought that was unwarranted and it was just an interference in our business there are other aspects like buying vaccines

together where not only did the Basque country get together with Spain to buy vaccines but different nations in Europe got together to buy right and bigger batches right and of course I'm up for that but but they all they took it over for I don't exactly remember how long it was something like two months you know during the first outbreak of of the of COVID yeah and I just didn't like that I mean I trust in Osaka that said to make the right moves and I think it's just

confusing and yeah it wasn't yeah I mean I imagine it was just a collaboration because it was so out of control and there were so many deaths here too it was pretty high on the deaths in terms of Europe yeah but like you know it wasn't it wasn't unusual more than anywhere else like the Basque country specifically wasn't bad no you know no just Spain and yeah because of the number of older people it's just a general consequence so yeah that's that's my thing you know I

wish they had just left to Sake that's alone and that that was irritating I didn't like that okay I wanted to register all right what do you think of this nurse though thinking that it's ridiculous weird right I mean I mean it's it's it's fake news right that's the cause of that is fake news what do you mean it's it's because Facebook has so many weird like disinformation misinformation yeah yeah so I mean it's not something that I think I don't think

it's something that would naturally occur here you know to for the antivaxxers to just sort of start movement or anything mm-hmm so I see it kind of like as an outside influence in the beginning although now you know there's people who firmly are skeptical yeah and it's an unfortunate situation particularly with the COVID vaccine yeah but like the other childhood vaccines that everybody gets these days and developed countries the danger is that

that would spread right yeah that people would be more and more reluctant to get vaccines and that's an issue in general but I don't think it's a specific concern for the best country yeah yeah it sounds like 18 months it turns out it's the only thing she can do really huh like did she go into the field for this like was this her her whole project yeah I'm gonna go to nursing school I'm gonna go ahead do all the grueling hours I'm gonna get the grit the marks you

need to get into nursing school yeah just to do this like how do you pass it you have to go and you go I don't believe in this but the correct answer would be this yeah she'd know the correct answer but you know it depends how young there if she was super young I could believe that she's probably just change her mind at some point I would suppose maybe yeah perhaps yeah I know I do one I hope yeah perhaps yeah she'd been working for a long time and it was

just in this period of 18 months something changed her mind and she decided it could be specific to COVID vaccines because there's a lot of no it was you didn't say anything about being COVID vaccines more like those childhood ones really yeah yeah I misunderstood that she has to be dealt with that's dangerous I mean who cares about COVID right but measles I know right there's new outbreaks because of those things and then people haven't been vaccinated

get it you know it's a mess it's a mess yeah good it's good that the system's dealing with this problem can't believe that got away with 400 children yeah maybe it's not too late to maybe they caught it oh it's a they want me yeah it's all those now all those things are pretty low when you were supposed to get it yeah we don't have many cases so it should be addressable now yeah and they will have that list of whoever she treated right yeah it's a question of

just going and then it sounds like it tested several kids mm-hmm and it was not too long ago right no this is an October when they filed the lawsuit right so they'll or made the reporter they denounced her how do you say that they reported her yeah all right so interesting so this story I feel like we had a story similar to this on another cheeky soda about a squid that appeared on a beach right a giant squid maybe it was a dead giant squid

something recalls yeah yeah well this was a dolphin oh poor baby I know on a beach in Deba mm-hmm so this dolphin appeared on this beach in April mm-hmm and apparently a year ago like a year from this time there were there was a whale that had beached on the same beach okay and a bunch of people that were at the beach kind of got it back into the water and it's assumed that it found its way back to its herd or whatever okay but on this occasion this year so that

was a year ago was a dolphin and people also tried to save it I tried to put it back into the water mm-hmm but they you know it just kind of ended up dying so they this is a quote from one of the bystanders or whoever was trying to help the dolphin you he they gave it the pronoun he mm-hmm he was with uh oh no this person was with the chip with some children his kids or something we saw him at the edge of the water and we tried to take him into deeper waters and

at one point used a like a piece of material to help move it okay like a tower or something yeah trying to move it back into the water yeah because then you can you can have two or three people can try lift it together yeah and so they did manage to get him into an area where there was enough water for him to swim yeah so they did give the dolphin the male pronoun he moved he wag this is the quote he moved he waggled but with hardly any strength he did not advance

and after a short time he turned on his side and allowed himself to be carried away by the water until he ended up on the shore again where he died poor bubba yeah and they were saying that this is a striped dolphin it's a species that inhabits the waters of temperate or tropical zones around the world totally out of place yeah and their size and shape is similar to that of other dolphins that inhabit the same waters however their coloration makes

them easy to sting distinguish the underside or the ventral part is white or pink but this one had dark too dark yeah too dark blue strands or blue bands mm-hmm that start from behind the ears and end on the pectoral fins mm-hmm yeah like yeah we're googling yeah pictures it looks like a beautiful dolphin so this one often moves in large groups so it's kind of weird that it's out of place like on its own and alone yeah well but a poor baby yeah well I have to

say here though how weird I've never seen a dolphin here have you or whales but I know there are whales there are seen I've never seen one no I haven't either I mean we have to remember they were hunted extensively in the best country so it's kind of understandable yeah but here I just clicked on the Wikipedia and it does show like that this area would have the of this K would be it's okay so it's definitely the northern and

I mean I think it goes up to about England temperate would would it fit into temperate climate right maybe it's one of those where if it's like winter they might not be here you know and they'd go to warmer waters and then in summer they come up here because yeah that could be the case yeah it's definitely heating up yes yes so they thought maybe this was the tropics I don't know imagine that maybe that was maybe maybe the more the sea was too warm and it thought they

were somewhere else who knows hmm yeah all right so I'm gonna tell this other story because I saw so many of these stories when I was searching so they're really concerned right now about the security of security guards particularly on public transport no because there have been like an uptick in assaults on these security guards and I had been thinking a lot because of our last story about what was his name cold though that I'm Yaga the guy that killed the the

serial killer that killed the four people in our last story in Victoria remember Douglas you were there I told you the whole story that guy right that guy I just didn't recognize just terrible at names yeah but yes the one that killed remember he like he was kind of like a con man and a hustler yeah but one of his jobs that he did after being a bass teacher was a security guard so it got me thinking about like the job of a security guard and I don't want to

like throw any shade at people that work as security guards but they always kind of seem a bit sketchy right like you couldn't be a cop but yeah you want to have some sort of position of authority mm-hmm so I don't know I this story caught my eye yeah I would say it's it's a role that some people might gravitate to maybe not the best more than others like I would never want to be a security guard yeah no would you I mean I'm a doorman so yeah I'm sorry I know yeah I've

never been interested in violence at all yeah I'm there to keep the peace and you know and in my books I'm clearly just there to kind of tell people what the situation or what they can or can't yeah like it can't come in or not right but like when it's a security guard somebody doing something wrong and they're already in the place basically you don't have any other authority than to say don't do that exactly I have to call the cops yeah right yeah so yeah that's what

this is about is that there's they're trying to get more I don't know what they're trying to accomplish like what they would want a security guards to have it's kind of just being talked about right now because there was a um these have all been kind of happening in the same area on the Renfe train okay one agent had to receive medical attention from being pushed onto the ground they got attacked in the there was a group in San Sebastian port on

what some group of kids or young people attacked this guard and another one was attacked in a supermarket in a room these all seem to be happening in Kaputkwa yeah at the end of March but this most recent one so they're calling it like an increase in these assaults on security guards that are primarily well no this one was in Renfe there two of them were in Renfe and the other one was off the port and the other one was in the supermarket right so they're very so

they kind of find themselves to be defenseless because they're they can't they don't really have any real authority yeah like you can't actually tell somebody you can tell somebody stop doing that mm-hmm but you don't really have the law I guess on your side you have like the public you have the private institution that you work for's mm-hmm permission to tell people what to do mm-hmm but like literally you can't arrest anyone no you can't detain anyone

right like so this one that was most recent was a the the security guard got attacked by a group of people who were smoking on the train mm-hmm oh my gosh yeah so went to tell them to stop smoking and they attacked wow intense so yeah there's all these unions like saying come on we need to but I'm not sure what they really want yeah it's a hard one cuz like I don't know what they want like do you want you don't want to give them guns you don't want to give

them don't want to use ours or yeah you know like things like that because I'd be happy with some more protective gear but how much is that gonna help right yeah cuz it's not like gun violence it's just people know cushion and maybe some punches yeah and it was for smoking sort of things it's always like these minor and I guess like the thing in the supermarket was somebody maybe shop lifting or something that's something clearly against the law like you were

saying sure shoplifting is against the law but it's not that thing as well yes but these things are not super you know you're not putting the public in danger by shoplifting or smoking on a train in the sense that like you're not still breaking passed with yeah but you're not tasked with you know having to stop somebody from causing harm to others and perhaps there are cases where that is the case I don't know what that kind of policy would be if they're supposed to

intervene or not yeah they might not be yeah supposed to intervene and just call people but I've seen security guards so many times too that are just like taking their authority way too far to the umpteenth level right yeah interrogating people like you are clearly I've seen it happen where it's like a clearly racial bias like you know so I also have my issues there what's that you want it's a similar one to the police right like they have for telling kids to stop

sitting on some steps hmm yeah that's and it's like what were the kids doing they were just sitting on some steps hanging out you know yeah I mean I think there's so many issues there you know like there's humans and power and how easy it is to just not know how to use it or use it too much there's a lot of issues there training and then psychological appropriateness of a job to people mm-hmm yeah it's you know I think the solution would be just for all to be

robots but we're not quite there yet but you know what would the robot do I mean it would number one nobody's worried about if it's that smoking yeah extinguish the cigarette just make it really annoying GPT that would be actually good look just make it really annoying for them to just be on the train the security guards can do that too they can take a whistle and start they wouldn't be any physical danger like the robot could be on the

floor going beep beep beep beep this person is smoking I think you're being disparaging towards robots there Julia with that voice my 1980s ruling us soon we have to be nice to them we don't be nicer robots they don't have feelings why not sure and you're not sure either they might yes let's leave the options open yeah it's okay in your world that robot would come up and try to like you know like try to talk them down like do you really need to have a cigarette

right now just try to defuse the situation I mean I'm just how would they intervene I think the first request would be a request no second one would be what I'm really sorry it seems like you didn't notice you were in a train would you mind turning off the cigarette and the second one according to law number 774 sanctions include this well why not right you gotta use I am going to be forced to intervene physically now and the police have been called well

yeah maybe yeah the police will be meeting you at the next stop I have identified you as Jose yeah yeah that's right facial recognition I am sending take a 300 euro fine to your house yeah in this right exact moment okay see it lots of possibilities that's that story okay get some Tesla bots on let's see what other one was doing a train from now on okay this one do you have anything else you want to say about the security guards go robots stay on

brands all right so in Kaputka four people were arrested for identity theft in the theoretical driving test okay identity theft wait for it is it like you're taking the exam for me yes oh my gosh that is hilarious so two of the defendants traveled from Navarra and Barcelona to take the exam in place of the real candidates or the okay but we're supposed to be taking a lot of work here yeah so they've arrested four people between the ages of 37 and 50 for

impersonating their identity upon payment so they got paid in order to pass the driving test in best saying how do you say they assign and as PTA hmm yeah yeah I did not want to take the fucking theoretical test I mean I feel it like if I could just get so I can drive but I don't have my driver's license yet which is like a shame because I know how to drive okay so you're you don't have a lot of license here because I have to take the test I gotta do some driving

testing and I passed both the practical and this was a story for you not suggestion Julie would come and I'll just study for the stupid test the right way yeah so they paid some people to go take this test because what a pain in the ass to have to take this test weird like because like on the one hand I would I would assume like younger people are not very good at driving and maybe young people would do that but at 40 50 year old no these are the ones

that are we're arrested that we're taking the test being paid to take the test so maybe it was for like a 20 so I think it was yeah I don't know I have to check interesting I don't know who because that would make more sense right like people are driving less and less and yeah and you could have been older too because it's quite expensive as well I mean you could be paying up to like a thousand euros just to get take through one theoretical test and all the

driving practice right and then you take the practice driving test so yeah it's very expensive here okay get your driver's license I know people a lot of people travel out because every municipality yeah so people go to different areas yeah to take it because it's a lot cheaper than the country yeah so but that's not illegal it's fine you know right to just national Galicia and take yes in Galicia because it's cheaper I actually considered it I thought about

maybe I'll just go spend a month in Cantabria take some time I actually didn't know you didn't have a valid license here I'm surprised because you know Americans I know and I miss driving a lot crazy but I really don't I mean one way of her drive but I do kind of miss the idea that I could rent a car if I wanted to you know these kind of things that's when I'm like damn it and yeah and I miss driving and I would like to be able to drive but anyway so um

Gran Turismo there was two Pakistanis the four people that were arrested two of them were Pakistani and two were sub-saharan okay age 37 39 40 and 50 I'm glad they're so good at passing I know and like in yeah and they're they're taking it in another language not their native language that's pretty good just kind of like that's half the reason you probably didn't do it right you're like I heard you could take it in English but like I have an app I mean

imagine that practice exams and it's all in Spanish so I might as well learn right you know whatever the what do you call it I'm sure you could like spot like five mistakes in exam yeah because they're always trying to trick you too it's always like a multiple choice question so they're always trying to trip you up you know horrible yeah like in most choice exams so that you also have to think that way too like they're trying to trip you up by say by picking

the wrong one like it's like if this happens should you pull off on an exit and stop and one time I selected that for example in one of these practice exams it was like no you should actually continue don't stop on the pull on the exit get off the exit and go somewhere where you can stop so that was like the trick yeah it's like okay yeah I guess so you have to read it literally like don't stop on an exit which I would never do but then when you're thinking

about it in your head you're probably thinking there's a there's an extra bit on the road and you get off the main road you know to be on the side yeah and that would be safer I can't remember what the actual answer was but hmm but I just remember getting that wrong like to exit the freeway or whatever the motorway well not got it wrong because it's like I stopped in the exit which is like I would never stop in the exit I mean let it be registered I don't drive never

have never tried to pass not interested um so but also one of these guys hmm the okay so they have an maybe they weren't taking it in they had help from the outside while taking the exam oh they didn't even know it themselves yeah that's what this in this case because I'm gonna tell you how one of them did it okay so the examiner's detected that another applicant used an electronic device made up of a Wi-Fi router a portable external battery and a micro

camera located located on his shirt Wow and a small size telephone through which he received responses via vibrations in the form of a more morse code Wow Morse code that's well I'll tell you what the Morse code oh it's like one two three four answer is a one vibration is B2 and C3 is that how much is that Morse codes I know no I it's not maybe it is for numbers maybe I don't know interesting any yes and then the investigators learned that this man

oh so this is a different one it's not the Pakistani or sub-saharan it's a Moroccan man was paid two thousand euros to do this exam it's a good amount of money yeah wow nice gig that guy really want to take the exam huh yeah yeah so there you go I mean I think everybody's gonna start it's not start everyone you stop driving soon anyway so yeah that's the point definitely not I like driving I would like to continue driving I enjoy it I love driving in

games it's hilarious yeah especially like dying flying off sides so fun in VR recommended to everybody all right shall we do a final story let's go one was my favorite of all okay okay and this is a Florida man so it's finally you had a Columbia one I've got a Florida man story Florida man story is a genre yes it is we have to have a Florida man and I was fucking stoked to find out his surname was Basque yes I can tell this story man running from cops stops to pet cats goes to jail

it's a crime to arrest the man petting a cat well he wasn't arrested for that he was sure no no no I'll tell you the story okay I'm gonna just gonna read this to you okay but while I'm in is petting a cat it should be illegal to rest yeah yeah leave the cats alone sir step away from the cat but I'm betting I'm betting we have a situation here three hours the man does not stop cats like calm down so therapeutic he's running away he's running away what is

happening here okay so police say the Florida man led them on quite a chase all right all right a Bokum a raton man last week who was in the middle of fleeing police stopped by a home asked for water and then proceeded to lay down and play with the homeowners cats lay down what kind of house some stranger comes up to you lays down on the floor and it's penny my cats I'm not so sure about that which essentially is what kind of caught so I'll tell you

this Florida right weird place yeah I got a visit very Florida no never been to Florida curious I am very really curious yeah I do want to go to Florida someday I want to see this this 1920s architecture yeah and then the bird I just want to see yeah I mean and it's like in the Caribbean essentially too so it's like a lot of pretty places as well got all those alligators like that's fucking crazy yeah my grandfather loved watching the birds like yeah it's like tropicals like

tropical yeah yeah I follow a few plants channels on YouTube hmm and the gardens they tour down in Florida beautiful yeah they have things from all the tropics and yeah looks like a really cool yeah yeah it's a shame about their politics she yes exactly the DeSantis is in charge that fucker oh that's a mini crime I know and I don't want to get political but man that man makes me so mad anyway so the man okay so the man was accused of taking

$2,000 out of a friend's wallet following a night of partying then he crashed a Lexus into multiple vehicles including a cop car and fire hydrant and then he ran into this residential area so right the cops were I know they hit he hit a cop car what a mess yeah so everybody all the cops were following him right so the book of Riton and the Delray Beach police departments were on his tail I hear a lot of heavy steps yeah so the man walked up to Candice

Noonan's backsliding glass door and let himself in okay so he just let himself into this woman's house another crime saying that he was a landscaper working next door he asked her for a glass of water and she obliged what a generous woman I know she's like oh okay he must be thirsty so when she returned with the water the man was lying down on the floor playing with her cats and then this is her quote it was very odd I mean this guy's on something come on he's

crashing into police so when Noonan's husband tried to question the man he fled outside and tried to get away from police by diving into the intercoastal waterway he dived in some water okay the crew on board a police boat landed him like caught him uh-huh and then they took him to jail so yeah so his name is Daniel Pinedo Pinedo and so I looked up the surname which is in you know it sounds like Castile yeah yeah it's Pinedo Vela Patino this is full name

so this is a it's Basque I looked up the surname origin Basque habitual name from Pinedo a town in Alaba mmm which is a province of the best country how interesting and the name is comes from a variant like a pine forest or it comes from a variant of Pineda which means pine forest okay Pinedo is a variant of that name and it's the name of a town right yeah so he was 21 he now faces a long list of charges including burglary of an occupied dwelling so that's him

walking into our house I suppose three counts of drug possession three counts of assault hit and run and grand theft auto among others he's 21 he's a baby but he loves cats you gotta love that redeeming he's got to get at least two years off of his sentence because of the cat he's got a big heart yeah he's like oh look how cute your little cats are that is adorable I mean I love cats but I don't throw myself on the floor not if I'm running from the cops I would throw

myself on the floor not if I'm running from the cops in the middle of a that boy's not that boy's not well proof baby no he probably was on drugs it did say that the night before he was at a party and stole two thousand dollars from his buddy I know that's a fun wallet to have a party so I'd be happy to be partying with somebody with two thousand dollars in there I know who carries dollars in their wallet never heard of credit cards down there yeah sketchy

totally sketchy but it but a good story I liked it nice and nice and lightweight yeah it was diving into water nobody died yeah I mean it was quite the chase right crashing the Alexis into the three cars and a cop car and a fire hydrant I wonder if the fire hydrant like exploded the water yeah the classic movies that's definitely gonna do that in reconstruction yeah I mean it's very charismatic coming out like so you're working next door I didn't know the

Miller's were doing any work in there yeah I see no work so he stole so from that house did he take the glass I think I don't know like that's the weird thing is that was the report he stole something from the no oh you mean the burglary charge that charge I think it's just entering her house oh that's considered burglary well walking in I would say I yeah now that you know it's like breaking and entering kind of thing like letting yourself into somebody's

house it's not your house but that's considered burglary it's just for me bro it feels like it should be stealing well maybe the glass of water they're like we're charged with the glass of water wait a second it is because the burglary is stealing like legitimately yeah but I think you could probably get charged with burglary just for entering a property that's not yours mm-hmm trespassing or something that that's the word I was looking for our forceful

entry yeah forced entry that's kind of word is what I would call it but yeah but he didn't he must have just it was open so he just walked in maybe I don't know is that excuse I don't think it's an excuse well no of course not yeah not forced entry but yeah I think I see what you mean I guess yeah it wasn't forced but it wasn't a burglary either someone's home it was less of a burglary but I love that she like obliged him like I'm okay yeah sure I mean if you've got a

stranger in your house I think I just obliged to get him out of here as fast as possible I don't know she left him alone right went to go get the glass of water and they came back and he was on the floor like a nice lady that was just like oh okay yeah sure only Florida ten points Floridians well Americans are kind of friendly like that most well I shouldn't say that because there's a lot of stories where they're not friendly but there's a lot of friendly stories

but there are a lot of friendly people yes I was shocked by friendliness in America no they're really friendly yeah I remember it because like people say Bilbao is a very serious town like people don't smile a lot they're suspect no like you know for me it's just I mean I I worked in bars for years and years and so I like that you know my it's a little bit of a selfish point of view but from my point of view nobody's paying me to get some smiles in my face

right yeah yeah you don't have to kiss anyone's ass yeah and if I'm just serving you I'm comfortable not smiling most of the time I'll give people a mini smile but I don't want like free lines on my face for strangers so I can like that and then I go to to New York and I stayed at my friend's house first morning right after the airport arrival thing go out the street good morning beautiful day and I'm like I thought New York was supposed to be like yeah

resting bitch face as well but no it was super friendly now I remember going to New York to expecting them to be rude because it was a big city and being surprised that much really friendly and helpful much friendlier than the bow for sure oh yeah for sure for sure so yeah ten points everybody ten points hope you guys enjoyed the the story cheeky so whether or not it was cheeky well yeah that remains to be seen but it's cheeky in our hearts thanks for joining us for

another episode oh do we have a mini crime oh did anyone think of a mini crime didn't you think of well it's not really a mini crime this is talking about some old lady that is a thematic from the crime because we've had a security guard in the metro already so it's appropriate so I was on the metro and this lady was sending a text on her phone mm-hmm but made you know made sure that she was first in line to get out the doors of the metro on you know

leaving the metro right so it was like blocking the door with herself and wanted to be the first one out which is acceptable if you're paying attention fine like if she yeah if you got up there first fine go leave you'd be the first one out but she just kept texting and it was like we're at the stop she wouldn't open the door and there's all these people standing behind her yeah open the door lady we all have to leave but she was fizzy finishing her text

crime yeah but I imagine I mean she did eventually push the button and open the door but three seconds but I was so it's more about it's a crime because I was irritated is it is it having to like especially because somebody runs yeah like somebody runs up to the door to be the first one out you know what I mean you kind of you all she did that I didn't well yeah like it's one of these people that like goes I'm gonna be first one out you know like and makes their

way right to the door because everyone's moving toward the door yeah so it's obvious several people are getting off at this stop especially the main stop but she made sure she got right there but then go back to her texting yeah so I guess it's not that big of a crime tension crime it's just like this crime politeness crime yeah yeah well you know if you're not in that big of a hurry you know in general to the front people are quite nice in the metro though yeah but

I still get really irritated by people that when you're trying to leave they just start coming in yeah that's just like that drives me like and I lived in Tokyo for some time and they had the markings on the on the floor always and you'd have a place for like in right in front of the door which is like don't stand here because people are gonna exit the car and then next to on both sides you had a little little line yeah for queue up here yeah until everybody's

left because off the train yeah making room on the train I can't leave because people are in front of me right and I'm like come on guys yeah nobody learn about the Japanese no it's just insane to me I don't get it I don't get it either like let people off first and then go in you know yeah I know I get the pressure I am I'm I like to be the the guy opening door and I'm always like pressing before like when it's for arriving I'm like just for everybody to see that I'm I'm I'm really

trying we're not gonna wait one second to further as soon as it's able to open it's gonna come open I make all getting out of here I make a little bit of a show I'm always like click click click click click click click click click so nobody gets the seconds too late off the train and especially if you race to be the first one yeah yeah you should definitely be on the door duty that lady's in your black opening the door for everyone else black books alright Douglas well it's

always a pleasure spending this time with you and exchanging crimes of the best crime stories I hope everybody else enjoyed it as well yeah and hope see you next week yeah so we bid you a goor crimes of the Basque lands is written and produced by Douglas de Carvalho Julie Garcia I'm Megan Dooley the sound and editing for each episode by Douglas de Carvalho I'm Megan Dooley theme song written by Douglas de Carvalho Julie Garcia I'm Megan Dooley sung by the choir with no name and

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