About this episode

The episode features bizarre stories including a jewelry heist involving stolen construction equipment and a miraculous cardiac arrest revival in New Zealand.

A man goes looking for another drink and somehow ends up at the center of one of the most bizarre jewelry heists imaginable—complete with stolen construction equipment, a handful of gold, and possibly the least intimidating getaway vehicle in criminal history. Then, a woman in New Zealand suffers cardiac arrest in a supermarket parking lot and is miraculously revived by a passing stranger. But while paramedics are fighting to save her life, someone else is hard at work making sure she doesn’t escape the consequences of overstaying the 90-minute parking limit. Also, a listener shares an unforgettable story from his late uncle’s time as a Marine in Vietnam. It’s another collection of astonishingly poor decisions, bureaucratic absurdity, and the kind of true stories that could only be found in The Shallow End with Schnebly and Toth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Schnebly, Toth

Topics covered

• jewelry heist
• cardiac arrest
• Vietnam War
• bizarre stories
• poor decisions
• bureaucratic absurdity

Keywords

• jewelry heist
• cardiac arrest
• New Zealand
• Vietnam
• poor decisions
• bizarre stories

Mentioned in this episode

Places: New Zealand

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