A Louisiana man has gone viral for his love of art and a special memory of Waffle House.

Matt Dawson, a pharmacist from Pineville, has been an artist for more than 30 years, but it wasn't until 2012 that he started turning this hobby into a side job to "make some extra money," he told Fox News Digital.

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Now, Dawson's latest piece, "Starry Waffles," is capturing attention on social media with thousands reacting to the 16x20 acrylic painting on canvas.

The work shows the classic Waffle House storefront with Vincent van Gogh's iconic "Starry Night" in the background.

Dawson said he has painted the recognizable yellow and red eatery a few times, and it's because of a special memory he attributes to the restaurant.

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"When my wife was sick, we used to go down to New Orleans to see a doctor… and every time we would come back, we would stop at [Waffle House] in Sorrento," Dawson shared, adding that his wife Amber Dawson once struggled with bladder and kidney issues.

"In addition to the tip, I would always put five dollars on the jukebox for the waitress to [put] on whatever artist they liked," he added.

Dawson said he loved his unique creation, but he was not prepared for amount of love it would receive from viewers.

"I thought I would have fun with this one and it kind of resonated with people," he commented.

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Within 10 minutes of posting "Starry Waffles," Dawson sold the artwork for $600, he said.

Dawson said he has been amazed by the feedback from those who have seen his artwork — including a comment from the official Waffle House instagram.

"I've got people that are painting it themselves, kids and adults, and sharing it online," Dawson said.

Someone leading a "sip and paint" event in North Carolina had even reached out to Dawson asking if they could recreate his viral "Starry Waffles" as its inspirational art piece.

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Dawson does paint more than just Waffle House, but his art will always have one thing in common, he said.

"I go with things that make me feel comfortable or bring back good memories," Dawson explained. "I don't like doing stuff just so it would sell."

Dawson prefers to paint with acrylic, the same medium as his "Starry Waffles," but he will also dabble with ink, watercolor and sometimes sculpture, he shared.

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The Waffle House-inspired saga will continue as Dawson said he has some other businesses in mind that may get a fresh, artistic twist.

Dawson's work can be found on his Etsy shop titled, MattDawsonArt.

His "Starry Waffles" painting is currently in 20-plus shopping carts of Etsy users, according to the e-commerce website.

Just in time for Easter, a rescue cat named Crash has been named this year’s Cadbury Bunny.

Cadbury’s 5th Annual Bunny Tryouts "Rescue Pets Edition" ended on Tuesday with a winner crowned.

Crash — from Boise, Idaho — was awarded his bunny ears as the first-ever cat to win the title.

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The cat received an "impressive number of votes from animal lovers across the country," according to a press release from Cadbury.

Eight-year-old Crash was rescued after surviving a car accident that left him severely injured and with only one eye.

The cat healed at a local shelter, where his quirky personality made "everyone quickly fall head over heels for him," Cadbury detailed.

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"Crash charms and impresses people as they visit the shelter, performing tricks like high five — the purfect preparation for his starring role in the upcoming Cadbury Clucking Bunny commercial," the company wrote.

Crash’s owner, Maddie Corey, is "jumping for joy" at the news of her cat’s big win, she said in a statement.

"But not surprised, as he is always the center of attention in any room," she also said.

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"He’s been through so much over the past few years and we appreciate the love his friends, family and cat enthusiasts across the country have shown."

Crash is expected to bring his "pawsome personality" to the Cadbury Hall of Fame and will star in Cadbury’s "Clucking Bunny" commercial for spring 2023.

The cat (and his family!) will also receive a cash prize of $5,000 and another $5,000 to be donated to an animal shelter of choice.

Cadbury is continuing its longstanding partnership with the ASPCA and celebrated year five of the tryouts with a $20,000 donation.

"Together, Cadbury and the ASPCA are committed to raising awareness for pets in need and supporting the ASPCA's mission of providing effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals," the brand said.

March Madness afflicts millions of American sports fans each spring. 

Victims of the fever exhibit spontaneous outbreaks of basketball jargon, cry over busted brackets and call in sick to work on Thursdays and Fridays. 

There is no known cure for March Madness. 

But basketballogists know its origin. The malady was first diagnosed in 1939 by Illinois high school sports administrator Henry "H.V." Porter. 

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He was as Illinois as a horseshoe sandwich. And he loved high school basketball. 

"When the March Madness is on him, midnight jaunts of a hundred miles on successive nights make him even more alert the next day," Porter wrote romantically of the state’s exuberant high school basketball fans during the raucous statewide tournament in March 1939. 

It’s the first-known use of a phrase now associated with the wildly popular NCAA men's basketball tournament — first held, coincidentally, in March 1939, just as Porter was penning his "March Madness" essay for "Illinois High School Athlete" magazine.

Decades later, the NCAA adopted and trademarked the phrase.

March Madness swept over the hardwood courts of small-town Middle America long before it emerged from the boardrooms of corporate America. It is now a familiar catchphrase in wider American culture beyond sports. 

Porter, its creator, had a poet's soul, an affinity for alliteration and a passion for heartland high school hoops. 

"He was a visionary. He was ahead of his time," Bruce Firchau, chairman of The Basketball Museum of Illinois, told Fox News Digital.

Porter captured the sports spirit of small-town America in the Great Depression. 

"The annual tournament of high school boys basketball teams, sponsored by the Illinois High School Association, grew from a small invitational affair in 1908 to a statewide institution with over 900 schools by the late 1930s," the association writes in its online history. 

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"In a time before television, before the college game became popular with the average fan, before professional leagues had established a foothold in the nation’s large cities, basketball fever had already reached epidemic proportions in the Land of Lincoln."

Porter didn't fight the fever. He helped spread it.

Henry Van Arsdale Porter was born in Manito, Illinois, on Oct. 2, 1891. 

The game of basketball was born two months later, in December 1891, created by physical education teacher Dr. James Naismith at the Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA, now Springfield College. 

Porter’s parents, Alfred Willis and Laura Beckwith (Hyers) Porter, were both Illinois natives. 

At least three previous generations of Porter’s family called Illinois home. One of his great-grandmothers was from a New Jersey family of pioneers who settled the Midwest. 

Porter spent his life working in high school athletics while spreading the gospel of the all-American sport born beside him.

"Equipment inventor, rule maker, high school coach and athletic administrator, Henry Porter’s innovations were vital to the evolution of basketball," says the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. 

"Porter published the first high school rulebook standardizing the game across the nation," in 1936, the Hall adds, and "served as the first representative for high schools on the National Basketball Rules Committee."

Porter worked with sports manufacturers to produce molded leather basketballs to replace the cumbersome and hard-to-dribble laced balls used in the early years of the sport.

"Under his leadership, high schools adopted the new ball in 1938, and later in the 1940s, adopted an even better composite-molded basketball," the Hall of Fame notes.

His influence spread nationwide. But Porter's heart never left the small-town courts of Illinois or those enthusiasts who loved high school basketball as much as he did.

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"Homo of the Hardwood Court is a hardy specie (sic)," Porter wrote in his influential 1939 essay under the headline, "March Madness." 

His description of basketball fans of the Great Depression still hits nothing but net today.

"The thud of the ball on the floor, the slap of the hands on leather, the swish of the net are music to his ears … He is biased, noisy, fidgety, boastful and unreasonable — but we love him for his imperfections."

Porter left his position as an executive with the Illinois High School Association in 1940, the year after he wrote his essay, to become executive secretary of National Federation of State High School Associations. 

He held the position until 1958, helping spread the concept of "March Madness" to high school basketball tournaments around the country.

He followed up his 1939 "March Madness" essay with a somber but more powerful 1942 poem: "The Basketball Ides of March."

He wrote it as World War II drew interest, and young men, away from the basketball courts of the American heartland and into the battlefields of Europe and Asia.

"In a million lives where freedom thrives/And liberty lingers still/How eagles fly and heroes die/beneath some foreign arch/let their sons thread where hate is dead/in a happy Madness of March."

Broadcaster Brent Musburger helped popularize Porter's "March Madness" before a national audience while covering the NCAA tournament for television. 

He first uttered "March Madness" on air during the 1982 NCAA tournament. 

The tourney ended that year when an unknown 19-year-old University of North Carolina freshman hit the winning shot in the championship game against Georgetown. 

His name was Michael Jordan.

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Musburger traces the phrase he popularized to Porter and to Illinois, where he worked as a young reporter in the 1960s after graduating from Northwestern.

"At that time, the Illinois high school basketball tourney was very much bigger than (NCAA) March Madness, which had not really taken off yet," Musburger, now the face of VSiN Network, told Fox News Digital in an interview.

"Towns in the Midwest lived for high school basketball."

The Illinois high school tournament was so big in the 1960s that it spawned a madcap TV ad campaign by a Chicago auto dealer under the "March Madness" banner that included tourney scores from around the state.

"I cannot remember the name of the dealer or the brand of autos he was selling," Musburger said. "But it was a big deal in Chicago in the 1960s, especially with big-city high schools making inroads into the tournament" — long ruled by small rural schools.

The broadcaster recalled those enthusiastic ads and the madness displayed for Illinois high school basketball when he began using "March Madness" to describe the NCAA tournament. 

Small-town March Madness reached its zenith in Illinois in 1952, when tiny Hebron High School, with a student body of just 95 kids, made it all the way to the state finals in Champaign.

"Hebron became a basketball community years earlier, a really good basketball community," star of the 1952 team, Phil "Swish" Judson, told Fox News Digital. 

Amazon and sports superstores didn't exist back then. So Hebron's basketball coach years earlier enlisted a local blacksmith to forge hoops from iron so that Hebron kids could hang them from trees or barns and shoot baskets at home.

Swish Judson still has one of those iron hoops today.

The primitive hardware worked. Little Hebron High shocked Illinois basketball by winning the 1952 state title — toppling mighty Quincy High School. With its student body of 1,400 kids, Quincy's high school was three times larger than the entire town of Hebron.

Judson and his teammates, including brother Paul, were feted by what Firchau of The Illinois Basketball Museum called "the longest parade in Illinois history" — he estimates 80 to 100 miles long.

He can still chronicle the cavalcade town by town: "From Morris to Yorkville, up 47 through Sugar Grove, all the way up through Elgin, through Woodstock and around the town square twice when they eventually got to Hebron."

Years later, the Judson boys were watching the 1986 movie "Hoosiers." 

It's the story of fictional small-town Hickory High School, which miraculously beats a larger city school to win the state title. "Hoosiers" lore says it was inspired by 1954 Indiana state champion Milan High School. 

But it struck close to home for the 1952 Illinois schoolboy basketball heroes. 

Said Swish Judson, "A lot of things that took place in that film depicted Hebron." 

Noted Firchau, "Illinois basketball doesn't take a backseat to anybody, including Indiana."

Henry Van Arsdale Porter, the man who gave America "March Madness," died in St. Petersburg, Forida, on Oct. 27, 1975. He was 84 years old. 

His ashes are interred today at Memorial Park Cemetery in St. Petersburg. 

He and his longtime wife, Grace Kromminga, never had children. 

But his spirit lives on in the competitive zeal of American youth each March.

Porter was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame as the sole member of its 1960 and second class, largely for contributions outside the phrase "March Madness."

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The NCAA tournament, meanwhile, now bearing the name he brought to life, is an American cultural behemoth. 

The college athletic association gained the rights to "March Madness" after a long legal fight with the state of Illinois — the details of which have never been revealed. 

"From its humble beginnings to its widely known usage today, the NCAA’s March Madness trademark represents a valuable asset that the NCAA fiercely protects," wrote intellectual property attorney Josh Gerben. 

Added Gerben, "Over 85% of the NCAA’s yearly budget comes from the advertising and marketing of its three-week basketball tournament. As a result, the NCAA has a well-established reputation for protecting its ‘March Madness’ trademarks, the first of which was registered back in 1989."

Porter celebrated wholesome youthful pursuits on the hardwood in one of the most difficult times in American history, with the Great Depression lingering for a decade and war clouds looming overseas. 

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He found passion for basketball essential to the health of the nation in time of crisis. 

"A little March Madness," Porter wrote at the end of his March 1939 essay, "may complement and contribute to sanity and help keep society on an even keel."

To read more stories in this unique "Meet the American Who…" series from Fox News Digital, click here.

King James VI of Scotland ascended to the throne of England as King James I amid high treachery, global warfare and religious turmoil on this day in history, March 24, 1603. 

His reign shaped the world we live in today. It had a direct impact on New World colonization, English-language art and culture, Christianity and the rise of an independent United States of America.

Among other transformative events during the reign of King James I (1603-1625) are the following.

Explorers, entrepreneurs and religious separatists left England to establish the first permanent British colonies in Virginia and Massachusetts; he supported contemporary playwright William Shakespeare and other artists; and the poetic English-language version of the Bible he commissioned sparked a transformative moment in the history of Christianity. 

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"He supported the Virginia Company of London's establishment in 1607 of the first permanent English colony in North America, the first settlement of which was named Jamestown in his honor," writes Encyclopedia Virginia in its online account of the monarch's impact on American history. 

"James was renowned for his intellectual abilities, his flamboyant generosity and his passion for hunting."

He entered the world in Scotland amid extraordinary circumstances even by royal standards.

"Born in Edinburgh Castle on 19 June 1566, James was the only son of Mary, Queen of Scots and her second husband, Lord Darnley," states History Scotland magazine. 

"James inherited the throne at the age of 13 months, after his mother was forced to abdicate in his favor. His reign [over Scotland] totaled 57 years and 246 days — longer than any of his predecessors."

The path that led him to the throne of England was paved by one of the most notorious incidents in the sordid history of the British monarchy. 

Mary, Queen of Scots found refuge in England from her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, after being forced to flee Scotland in 1567. 

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Queen Elizabeth ordered Mary beheaded by an axeman in 1587, upon suspicion she was plotting a coup. 

Her blood-soaked dog famously refused to leave the top of her torso where her head sat moments earlier, as the executioners cleaned up the gore of her brutal death.

His mother's execution put the King of Scotland in position to succeed his cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England, upon her death in 1603.

Religious conflict swept over continental Europe with the outbreak of the Thirty Years War in 1618. 

England avoided direct involvement, but the nation simmered with internal religious tension.

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"James himself was fairly tolerant in terms of religious faith, but the Gunpowder Plot (an attempt by Guy Fawkes and other Roman Catholic conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament) in 1605 resulted in the reimposition of strict penalties on Roman Catholics," states the official website of the British Royal Family. 

Protestant reformists who opposed the Anglican Church also faced persecution and sought freedom to practice their faith elsewhere during the reign of King James I. 

The religious puritans we now call the Pilgrims left England for Holland in 1608, before finding refuge and laying the foundation of a new Christian society in the Plymouth Colony in 1620. Other Puritans followed them to America after James' rule, establishing the nearby Massachusetts Colony in 1630. 

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King James commissioned an English-language Bible in 1604. 

It was published in 1611. 

"The most influential version of the most influential book in the world, in what is now its most influential language," The Times of London enthused in 2011, in its celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.

Praised for its beautiful translation of previous Greek and Hebrew texts, the King James Bible made the stories of the Old and New Testaments widely available to common English speakers for the first time — and on both sides of the Atlantic. 

The King James Bible played a powerful role in the spread of English as the world's universal language and proved particularly popular in American Christianity, faith experts note.

James suffered a stroke and died at his hunting estate Theobalds on March 27, 1625. He was 58. 

He was succeeded by his son, King Charles I, and is buried today at Westminster Abbey near both his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, and her executioner, Queen Elizabeth I. 

Nearly 100 cats and dogs were rescued from a Northbrook, Illinois home that caught fire on Monday, and now they need homes.

When fire crews responded to the house fire, they discovered 43 dogs and 48 cats living in deplorable conditions.

Harleigh Garcia, the founder and executive director of Border Tails Rescue in Northbrook said once the situation was uncovered, animal control was there by 10 p.m.

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Crews worked until 3 a.m., she said, and by 7 a.m., animal control workers contacted Border Tails Rescue.

"It was a very quick timeline," Garcia said.

Border Tails Rescue is a dog shelter, so they could not take the 48 cats that were found living in the home.

But all 43 dogs were accepted into Border Tails Rescue, most of which had some type of issue.

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The dogs are all Chihuahuas and weigh between five and nine pounds, though one was 17 pounds and considered to be the mom.

The shelter named all the dogs after actors and actresses, and the 17-pounder was named Meryl Streep. Streep, Garcia said, was estimated to be 12 years old and a hospice case, meaning she does not appear to have ever received medical care, has a severe heart murmur and has a large mass in her abdomen, about the size of a plum.

Streep was part of a bonded pair with a cat named Robin Williams, and both dogs are together in a foster home.

Many of the other dogs had fleas and skin, hair, and dental problems.

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All the dogs will need to be spayed and neutered, and once adopted, will require microchips.

Garcia explained that when her organization first heard about the situation, they did not flinch or show any type of nervousness. Instead, they walked in and took care of business without pause because the dogs needed help, she said.

Of course, the endeavor of taking on 43 dogs is a costly one.

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In fact, Garcia estimates it will cost about $25,000 to get the dogs the care they need while also ensuring they have a roof over their heads and staff to care for them.

The shelter is funded through donations and adoption fees. To help pay for the care of the 43 new tenants, Border Tails Rescue is accepting donations on Facebook. The organization hopes to bring in $21,500.

Ultimately, Garcia said the goal is for each of the dogs – not just the 43 taken in this week but all the dogs at the shelter – to find forever homes.

An elementary school teacher who shares her young students' daily grievances is going viral after compiling the hilarious tales that land in her "Tattle Box" each day.

"Kids are going to tell you every little thing that’s going on," Jillian Magee, 30, a third-grade teacher in the Washington D.C. area, told Fox News Digital.

"They would interrupt me mid-sentence in the middle of class with very random tattles on other students."

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Magee, who has been teaching for seven years, said when students would alert her to the fact that someone "bumped into me on purpose" or "didn’t mind her business," she needed a way to keep them on track and while she returned to her daily lessons.

"I eventually started telling them to just write it down on a sticky note and put it on my desk," Magee said. "But then my desk would be full of sticky notes." 

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Her solution was to create a "Tattle Form" – asking students to provide their name and some information about their "tattle."

Then she transformed an empty tissue box into a receptacle for everything that might be bothering her students.

She sifts through the complaints each day to learn what is on her students’ minds.

"If there's anything that's super important," Magee said, "I always address it and talk to them about it."

Important tattles could be anything that involves inappropriate words, Magee said, or something that she knows is not true and the student may have been trying to get somebody else in trouble. 

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"I've never posted any of those," she said. "But they are the ones that I’m like, ‘I definitely have to talk to you about this.’ Chewing loudly and making fart noises — I don’t need to talk about it."

"Conflict resolution has been one of the benefits of the "Tattle Box," Magee said.

"I think it's a really good form of positive communication," she said. "It helps them with solving conflicts."

It has also helped reserved students find their voice, Magee said. 

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"If they have something that they want to tell me, but they're too afraid to say it in person, they can write it down instead," Magee said. 

"I think it has added to their confidence," she added. "They are learning that it's okay to speak up — that they can say something."

Even if the tattle is a small annoyance and not an emergency, writing it down can help each child, Magee said.

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"You don't even have to put your name on it. Just throw it in the box, just to get it off of your mind to make you feel better about it." 

Magee said she can often see a storyline amid the notes.

"If there's a series in the day where all the kids are saying the same thing, those are my favorite," Magee said. "I think one of them was that there was a ‘student farting,’ and I think I got four of those one day."

"Or ‘chewing loud,’" she added. "I got three of them. When I put them in order, it just sounded like a story, and I was able to piece together what happened just based on what they said."

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers have reportedly been frustrated — and 55 percent said they plan to leave their profession earlier than planned, according to a recent survey by the National Education Association (NEA).

"I think that those statistics are real," Magee said. "There are very tough days that we have…when you have little notes like this that you can just kind of giggle over, it makes you feel better about what you're doing."

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Magee shared the "Tattle Forms" in a series of TikTok videos, which are garnering millions of views.

Magee said she was shocked to learn her video went viral, but it also meant she was reaching other educators.

"This is like gold for teachers because this is something that's happening in every classroom, every day," Magee said. 

"It's very relatable for teachers to realize ‘I'm not the only person who is experiencing this.’ I’ve seen a lot of comments from teachers saying that they are going to implement the ‘tattle form’ in their classrooms too." 

A grandfather from Massachusetts is having a viral moment after his daughter shared online the text messages he sent while taking on a babysitting job for her.

"He’s definitely a fun dad," Madfis of Los Angeles, California, told Fox News Digital of her father, John Madfis, 75. "He loves to be the center of attention, loves the limelight. And Arlo adores my dad."

Madfis and her husband, Gideon Boomer, 42, were planning a three-day trip before the birth of their second child when Madfis’ well-intentioned father, known to her son Arlo, 5, as Poppy, offered to babysit.

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Madfis said that what ensued over a three-day period was too good not to share with her followers on her @almostmakesperfect TikTok account.

The video, which garnered over one million views was titled, "How to have a relaxing baby moon — don’t ask your dad to babysit." The footage includes the texts that Madfis received from her father while he took care of Arlo.

"In his mind he's like, 'Oh, yeah, yeah, it's really easy,’" Molly Madfis said. "He raised me 37 years ago and so he’s thinking, ‘I’ve done this before.’

"But a lot of time has actually passed and things have changed," she added. Plus, I had a nanny. I'm not sure how much he actually did back then."

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Her dad offered to babysit Arlo several times, Madfis said, but she had some reservations. 

"We have this video of Arlo as a baby and he was swaddled up on the couch. And my dad is next to him, on his phone and his laptop at the same time.," Madfis said, adding that in that particular video, Arlo falls over and her dad, John, gave him a tap and made sure he was OK before going back to what he was doing.

"So that's kind of like the kind of grandpa that we've always joked about him being," Madfis said. "He's a good grandpa. My son adores him, but, I mean, he’s not the first person I would think of for babysitting." 

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Madfis ended up giving in and allowing her dad John to babysit. On day one, John was caught on camera leaving the house 30 minutes late, taking Arlo to school without a backpack.

"After that, I had my brother come every morning and he helped Arlo get dressed and go to school on time," Madfis said. "I was like, 'He can't be late every day.'"

Madfis said she also arranged for a babysitter to come and oversee bedtime each night because she was not sure that her dad could handle it all.

"And he was so offended," Madfis explained. "He was like, ‘I can do it.’"

Madfis prepped all of their meals and even left instructions so her dad wouldn't have to think about it, but none of the meals were made, she said.

"Somehow that was too hard for him," Madfis said.

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In addition, John often fired off texts before figuring things out on his own, Madfis said, like when asking which app to use to turn on the car radio. "Which one," the text read. "Never mind, got it."

"He's just one of those people that will text me before thinking, ‘Oh, should I text?'" Madfis said.

On the last night of their getaway, Madfis got a barrage of texts about which temperature should be used to cook dinner in the toaster oven.

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"We were out to dinner on a date on our last night," Madfis said. "It was 6:30 and my son hadn't eaten. So I was like, okay, I'm just going to order you pizza, I guess."

After Arlo and his Poppy enjoyed the pie that arrived, Madfis got another text: "Huge pizza. Should I refrigerate? Put in plastic bags?" "When he was texting me nonstop, I was like, ‘I need to make a video,’" Madfis said.

"My dad is just fun. Everyone who watches him on my Instagram loves him because he's just such a character," she added.

At one point, Madfis texted her dad, asking for some photos of her son. His reply: "Why? You know what he looks like."

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"I honestly think he meant that seriously," Madfis said.

Comments left on Madfis' TikTok video were mostly from people praising the lighthearted story.

"Okay but this is cute lol," one person wrote.

"The "why you know what he looks like took me OUT" #TeamPoppy" another chimed in.

"Kid had the best week of his life and will remember it forever," said another.

Others shared their own tales of grandparent-babysitting adventures.

"Bahaha my dad set the fire alarm, extreme cold alarm, and security system off 30 minutes after I left…the accuracy!" one woman commented.

"When my mom stays when we are out of town my kids are technically watching her," another wrote, while including a crying-laughing emoji. "she can’t even work the TV lol."

John Madfis of Newton, Massachusetts, is a stock market investor and World Boxing Organization judge who has refereed 460 fights — including 30 championship fights. Still, he always makes time for his grandkids, Madfis said.

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When Madfis and Boomer returned from their "babymoon," the house was in order thanks to reinforcements a worn out Poppy admitted that he appreciated greatly, Madfis said.

"He said it was actually pretty hard," Madfis said. "I'm not even sure why he was so exhausted, but just sharing presence with Arlo and having to be responsible for another life was a lot for him."

Madfis said that Arlo "had a blast," regardless of any babysitting challenges his Poppy may have faced.

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"He was just along for the ride," Madfis added of her son. "He was like, ‘Oh yeah. We're having fun.’" 

Madfis encourages everyone to check out her dad’s fun dance videos on Instagram.

"He would be so happy," Madfis said. "That's all he wants to be known for. He doesn't want to be known as a bad grandpa." 

An animal rescue service in Florida is holding an adoption event for their longest-staying resident – a mixed-breed dog named Nicholas.

Nicholas is a 3-year-old affectionate canine who loves being around people, but does not get along with other dogs. He has been impounded for 95 days.

Orange County Animal Services said that Nicholas has been ignored because some households find mixed-breed dogs less desirable.

"He has watched hundreds of other dogs get adopted before him," Orange County Animal Services said in a Facebook post. "We've posted him on social media, on the news, and we've reached out to hundreds of rescues. And for 94 days, Nicholas has just been ignored."

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"We are not going to let that happen anymore. We want everyone to see Nicholas the way we see him," the Facebook post added. "We want them to see the playful pup, the sweetness, the yearning for attention."

Animal service workers will throw Nicholas a "Pick Nick" event on Saturday. The energetic canine will be uncaged and allowed to roam in the play yard.

They hope that potential adopters will give Nicholas a chance and see how well he interacts with people.

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"We believe he deserves this chance to show the world that he's so much more than 'just a mutt,'" Orange County Animal Services said. "And we know once he struts his stuff, Nicholas is going to be adopted." 

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Anyone interested in taking Nicholas home would only have to pay $55 to adopt him. The pooch has already been vaccinated, neutered and microchipped.

Are you adding a new furry friend to your life but don’t know where to start? 

After all, while puppies are a joy to have around, they also require tons of care and attention.

In honor of National Puppy Day, check out the following tips.

They'll help you prepare for your puppy and train your pet after it's arrived at its new home.

You’ve probably heard of baby proofing your home, but have you heard of puppy proofing? Puppies can get into a lot of trouble, so puppy proofing is important to keep your pup safe and (hopefully) out of trouble.

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There are tons of different things to do when puppy proofing your home, according to the American Kennel Club. Some important things to do are to keep electrical cords far out of reach, keep cleaning supplies high up or behind a locked door, keep your toilet bowls closed and put away any small items that your pup could choke on. It is also important to move all the sharp objects out of your puppy's reach as well as secure the trash cans so that your pup can’t get inside.

You will also need to puppy-proof the backyard of your home since that is a place where the two of you are likely to spend a lot of time. Some things you will need to do outside are fence your yard, fence around in-ground pools and remove any toxic plants from the space.

There are tons of supplies your new puppy is going to need. Some important things you should buy right off the bat, according to Chewy, are dog food, food and water bowls, a collar, an ID tag, a leash, poop bags, a dog crate, treats, a dog bed and lots of toys. 

When buying toys for your pup, make sure you also purchase some enrichment toys that keep your puppy busy. Puppy trainer Andrea Arden told Fox News Digital about the importance of enrichment toys and provided an example of a popular one among pet owners, The Comfort Bone. Toys like these are hollow, so treats and food can be placed inside.

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When preparing for your new puppy, Chewy also recommends getting things like training tools, potty pads, dental products, grooming essentials, flea and tick control, as well as stain and odor remover to help you clean up any messes that are bound to happen.

Establishing a schedule is important for your puppy and your family if there will be multiple people taking care of the pup.

Early on, try to set up a schedule for when you are going to feed and walk your puppy as well as when bedtime will be.

You can also create a schedule within your family in terms of who will be taking of each task. Maybe one person feeds the puppy every morning and someone else does a morning walk. Delegating tasks for each member of the family can help you work together and make sure the puppy is getting everything that it needs. 

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When setting up a schedule, it’s also important to talk to your family about rules for your puppy. One common rule families should establish is whether the puppy will be allowed on the furniture. Make sure you and your family members are all following the same set of rules for your puppy.

It is vital that your pup gets set up with a trusted veterinarian for yearly checkups, emergencies and to make sure all vaccinations are up-to-date.

Arden shared tips with Fox News Digital on puppy training and tips to make the process go as smoothly as possible.

She recommends getting involved in puppy classes early or to begin training at home as early as you can. This will help to set good expectations and boundaries for your puppy.

You’ll also want to teach your puppy hand targeting foundation behavior and impulse control foundation behavior, according to Arden. 

For hand targeting foundation behavior, teach your puppy to touch its nose to your flat palm. Once the pup does this, provide the pup with a positive verbal response like "yes" and give out a treat. 

As you increase the distance between you and your puppy, this technique becomes the foundation of "come when called."

Impulse control behavior will help your pup to not jump on things (or people). For this exercise, hold a treat over your puppy's head. Don’t worry if he starts jumping toward the treat; this is normal. Once he calms down and stops jumping, allow the puppy to sit for a moment and give the treat.

Over time, start to increase the amount of time you hold the treat over the puppy's head. Eventually, your pup will stop jumping and will patiently wait for the treat.

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Establishing a potty spot early is important for a puppy. Also, remember to provide a reward every time your pup goes to the bathroom in the designated area.

Puppies need their playtime and they will need more exercise as they get older. 

A general rule of thumb to follow is that a puppy needs five minutes of exercise per month of age for up to twice a day, according to Canine Journal.

By that logic, a puppy of four months can get 20 minutes of exercise twice per day.

When it comes to exercise, there are tons of different things that you can do with your puppy. You can go on a hike or a walk around the block. You can play fetch or tug of war. You can run around the yard with your puppy or play with toys inside.

Puppies are most likely not going to sleep through the night for the first few months. Some things you can do to help your puppy get acclimated to sleeping in their new home is keeping their crate in the same room as you and settling down around the same time every night, according to the American Kennel Club. 

If you are looking for ways to help your pup get settled down, taking a nighttime walk may be a good idea to get it ready for bed.

Also, be aware that your puppy may not be able to go that long without going to the bathroom and may need to go out during the night.

If your pup starts to whine at night, don’t let it in bed with you, unless you plan on allowing the pup to sleep there on a regular basis.

There are mysterious creatures of urban legend in U.S. and Canadian regions that have stood the test of time, both fascinating and frightening those who encounter the folklore surrounding them.

These creatures, known as "cryptids," are reported throughout the United States and Canada. They play a significant cultural role in the history of many cultures and small towns.

Here's a quick explainer — followed by a deep dive into four of them. 

A "cryptid" is defined as "an animal (such as Sasquatch or the Loch Ness Monster) that has been claimed to exist but never proven to exist," says Merriam-Webster. 

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Stories of cryptids are popular for a multitude of reasons, Dr. Angus Kress Gillespie, a professor of American studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey, told Fox News Digital. 

"We all love stories because they fire our imagination and they give us a break from our daily routines," said Gillespie. 

"But these stories are especially fascinating because they are legends," he said — and therefore they "force us to deal with the issue of belief." 

A person's brain is not wired to "just sit on the fence" when it comes to a topic of belief, he explained. "Most of us will be either a believer or a skeptic." 

He added, "This, in turn, leads to some interesting debates among our family and friends."

There's also a "local pride" element, Gillespie said, when mysterious creatures drive tourism and interest in an area.

"Most of us meet these monsters not in the field but at a festival," he said. 

Now — check out these four. 

Many Native American tribes in the Northwestern part of the U.S. and Canada have legends dating as far back as anyone can remember of similar ape-like creatures who walk on two legs.

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Some explorers claim to have taken photographs of this creature.

The photos, however, tend to appear blurry — leading to questions of authenticity, folklore specialists note.

The creature is known by many names, including "Bigfoot," "Sasquatch" and "Wild man," says the Encyclopedia Britannica. 

Regardless of name, these creatures are reported to be up to 15 feet tall, to live in the woods and to communicate by shouting, that reference notes. 

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They also play an important role in folklore. 

The Sts'ailes, a sovereign Coast Salish First Nation located in British Columbia, Canada, called these creatures "Sa:sq’ets," a word that was anglicized into "Sasquatch," notes the Agassiz-Harrison Observer, a Canadian newspaper. 

Sts'ailes Nation includes Harrison Lake, British Columbia and several surrounding towns. 

The Sts'ailes believe that Sa:sq'ets are the caretakers of their lands and that they exist between both the physical and spiritual realms, said the paper.

The Sa:sq'ets is featured on the Sts'ailes tribal flag and is also used as a logo, said the website. 

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The Village of Harrison Hot Springs, located on Harrison Lake, is home to the Sasquatch Museum and also hosts the annual "Sasquatch Days" celebration, the website notes.

Apart from the Sasquatch, arguably the most famous American cryptid is the Mothman. 

The Mothman was reportedly first spotted by two couples on Nov. 15, 1966, near an abandoned National Guard Armory building and power plant in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, an article published by the Smithsonian Institution indicated. 

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The creature was described as "a menacing figure standing six to seven feet tall" with glowing red eyes, notes the Smithsonian Institution. 

The Mothman reportedly rose in the air similar to the way a helicopter does — and was able to fly very efficiently, according to the first sightings.

The local media were stumped by the reports, with the Point Pleasant Register reporting the incident under the headline, "Couples See Man-Sized Bird ... Creature ... Something." 

The Athens Register in nearby Athens, Ohio, went with this headline: "Winged, Red-Eyed ‘Thing’ Chases Point Couples Across Countryside." 

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Eventually, the creature became known as the "Mothman." 

Over the next year, there were a handful of reports of sightings in and around Point Pleasant. 

Point Pleasant, however, sadly became known for more than just the Mothman. 

Thirteen months to the day after the initial Mothman sighting, the Silver Bridge — which linked Point Pleasant with Gallipolis, Ohio — collapsed into the Ohio River without warning, said the West Virginia Department of Transportation in a 2022 article commemorating the victims. 

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A total of 46 people died in what was the "deadliest bridge disaster in modern history," said the West Virginia DOT. 

After the bridge collapse, Mothman sightings stopped, leading some to wonder if the cryptid was "a sinister harbinger of doom" or some sort of warning of the upcoming catastrophe, said the Smithsonian.

Now, Point Pleasant is home to the "Mothman Festival" each September, where "people from all over the world gather around our charming Main Street to celebrate their favorite cryptid during this one of a kind event," the event's website notes. 

One cryptid became so well enmeshed in local folklore that the National Hockey League named a team after it. 

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The New Jersey Devils are not named after the prince of darkness, but rather the Jersey Devil, a cryptid supposedly haunting the Garden State since the late 18th century. 

The creature is also called the "Leeds Devil." 

"They say it has a horse's head, long legs with hooves, two short front legs and a bat's wings. No one knows how tall it is," says New Jersey's official state website.

Some reports of the Jersey Devil say that it is six feet tall, while others say it's only three or four feet tall. 

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Regardless of height, the creature is reported to have red eyes and produce "loud screeching sounds." 

"It's very ugly, and people are terrified after seeing it," says the New Jersey website. 

"During the day, the Devil lives in the wetlands. At night, it comes out to scare anyone it meets."

The Jersey Devil has several equally bizarre origin stories, notes the state of New Jersey. 

One takes place "on a dark and stormy night in 1735" when a woman named "Mother Leeds" was delivering her 13th baby. 

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"No one knew for sure exactly what happened, but people had lots of ideas," says the New Jersey website. 

One said Mother Leeds herself "wanted the baby to be the devil," while another states that the child "was born with a tail, wings and hooves and flew up the chimney." Yet another states that the child "looked normal, but then it changed." 

Other Jersey Devil origin stories involve curses placed upon young women. 

One telling of the tale states "a town put a curse on a young girl who fell in love with a British soldier during the Revolutionary War," the New Jersey website says. "When she gave birth, it was to the Jersey Devil." 

A similar story says that the Jersey Devil was born after "a gypsy cursed a girl because she didn't give the gypsy food." 

While Sasquatch, the Mothman and the Jersey Devil do not have a history of being inherently violent toward humans, the same cannot be said for the Native American legend of the Wendigo. 

The Wendigo, also spelled Windigo or Wiitiko, is a cannibalistic creature described in the folklore of Algonquian-speaking peoples, says The Canadian Encyclopedia.

These peoples include the Ojibwe, Mi'kmaq, Abenaki, Algonquian and many other tribes/First Nations across the United States and Canada. 

The Canadian Encyclopedia says that "according to most Algonquian oral traditions, a Wendigo is a cannibalistic monster that preys on the weak and socially disconnected."

A person becomes a Wendigo "after his or her spirit is corrupted by greed or weakened by extreme conditions, such as hunger and cold." 

Other stories tell of humans becoming possessed by a Wendigo.

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Wendigos are described differently according to various tribal traditions, says The Canadian Encyclopedia, but typically have ashen skin; large, sunken eyes; sharp teeth; and a distinctive, foul odor. 

Some legends say Wendigos have antlers or horns or a skeleton that is visible through its skin. 

Wendigos have been part of Indigenous folklore for generations, and the first European to report on their existence was French Jesuit missionary Fr. Paul Le Jeune. 

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In a 1636 letter to his superiors, Le Jeune wrote,"This devilish woman … added that [the windigo] had eaten some Attikamegoukin — these are the tribes that live north of the River that is called Three Rivers — and that he would eat a great many more of them if he were not called elsewhere." 

The cryptid even lent its name to Wendigo psychosis, a mental disorder that leads a person to become obsessed with cannibalism, says The Canadian Encyclopedia. 

A restaurant in Manchester, England has caused a bit of a stir after adding a dish made from squirrel to its menu. 

Street Urchin, an English market diner, has a constantly changing menu, its website notes.

One of its newest dishes — deep-fried squirrel — is eliciting reactions.

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"The crispy buttermilk wild grey squirrel is paired with a creamy pulled ham hock cassoulet," Jam Press reported. 

The squirrel is "served with boujee hazelnut bread croutons," as well as a "nettle pesto" and costs £22.50 (nearly $28), said Jam Press.

The United Kingdom is home to two different species of squirrels: the Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) and the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), says the Natural History Museum's website. 

The grey squirrel is far more prevalent than the Eurasian red squirrel, despite not being native to the United Kingdom, the museum also notes. 

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There are about 2.5 million grey squirrels in the U.K., compared to roughly 140,000 Eurasian red squirrels, they said. 

It is legal to shoot or trap squirrels in the United Kingdom, said Jam Press, but the critter is not a commonly served food item. 

Reactions to Street Urchin's new dish were decidedly mixed, Jam Press reported.

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"Some things are so good it makes me want to break my vegetarian diet," said diner William Lailey.

This dish, however, was not one of them. 

"I draw the line at creamy rodent stew," he said. 

Others were more adventurous in their palate preferences. 

"Looks very interesting," said Mong Yang Lo, who was quoted by Jam Press. "Definitely would give it a go." 

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One diner likened the deep-fried squirrel to a more conventional food item. 

"Tastes like chicken thighs," said diner Deanna Thomas. 

The Dallas Zoo in Texas has introduced the newest member of its animal family.

A baby female warthog named Tikiti was born on Feb. 17, Fox 4 Dallas reported.

She was born to the zoo's warthog parents, Weela and Tom.

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The name Tikiti is Swahili for watermelon, shared the station.

After her birth, Tikiti was not as active as the zoo's caretakers had hoped for, so a team from the Dallas Zoo was tasked with providing "around the clock care," Fox 4 shared.

She has not made her public appearance yet, but the zoo told Fox 4 Dallas, attendees could expect to see her in the "Giants of Savanna" habitat in the near future.

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Warthogs are of the same family as domestic pigs, according to National Geographic.

These animals are herbivores, primarily eating grasses and plants. They will dig with their snouts, a term coined "root," for roots of bulbs, National Geographic reported on its animal facts webpage.

These mammals can grow from 12 to 20 pounds and have a lifespan of 15 years, but are considered to be decreasing in population, according to National Geographic.

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You know us on screen — but what about off? 

I thought it’d be fun to check in with some of your favorite Fox personalities (plus a few surprise appearances!) to learn more about who they are behind the scenes. 

And who’s on the docket this week? 

It’s none other than Greg Gutfeld, one of my co-hosts on "The Five" and the host of his very own show, "Gutfeld!"

Hope you get a kick out of our Q&A below!

And stay tuned for lots more — I'll have a revealing new Q&A each week. 

GG: Larry Kudlow. 

GG: Beach.

GG: Lateness. I’m never late. Makes me physically ill and very angry when people are late.

GG: A box of sharpies.

GG: Obviously dog. Gus is a dog that acts like a cat. He crawls all over me. I forgot a French bulldog is still a bulldog. He’s very stubborn. Stylish, but stubborn.

GG: I’d probably major in philosophy. You can read Shakespeare on your own time. But who can read Schopenhauer on their own?

GG: Talk show host. (No joke!)

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A graphic artist from Hungary is testing the world’s attention to detail with a new digital seek-and-find brain teaser, and this time it’s with a marine mammal illustration.

Gergely Dudás, of Budapest, shared the visual puzzle with Fox News Digital, which depicts five seals hidden in a herd of walruses. 

The illustrated seals blend in with the tan walruses that have been drawn with prominent tusks.

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Some of the walruses have been accessorized with colorful scarves, neckties, hats and sunglasses.

Dudás posted his seal and walrus seek-and-find picture to his various social media accounts on Wednesday, March 22.

On Facebook, which is Dudás' social platform with the highest following, the hidden seal puzzle has generated over 465 reactions, 60 comments and one share, at the time of publication.

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Most Facebook users have reported that they’ve been able to find the hidden seals with relative ease.

"Found it! Easy!!" One Facebook commenter wrote. "Love these, they are fun!!!"

"Took me a moment but I FOUND THEM," another user wrote.

"Found 5 seals of approval!" Another Facebook user commented, which was punctuated with five seal emojis.

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Need help finding the seals?

See the answer on Dudás’ website: dudolfsolutions.blogspot.com/2023/03/five-seals-solution.html.

Dudás is a comic author and artist who has published a number of illustration books, including "Bear's Springtime Book of Hidden Things" and "Bear's Merry Book of Hidden Things: Christmas Seek-and-Find: A Christmas Holiday Book for Kids."

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His seek-and-find artwork and brain teasers have also been featured on miniature prints, coffee mugs and various other pieces of merchandise.

He has more than 167,000 dedicated followers on Facebook, more than 48,900 followers on Instagram, more than 8,300 followers on Twitter and hundreds of followers on Pinterest.

An Indiana mother and father are alerting people about an overlooked danger after the tragic loss of their two young children last year.

On April 23, 2022, Crystal and Brian Clark, along with their son Xander, 9 and daughter, Ziva, 8, went out to Indian Oaks, a nearby campground that the family frequently visited.

It had been fairly windy that day but the sun was shining, Crystal Clark told Fox News Digital.

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"I decided after [lunch] we should go for a golf cart ride because it was a beautiful day," Crystal Clark added.

After seeing some friends go for a ride, the Clarks decided to do the same and meet up at their favorite fishing spot.

"Ziva was taking their fish off [the line] 'cause that was one of her favorites things to do, and then she'd kiss it and then she'd toss it back in the water," said Crystal Clark.

"She loved everything," she added. 

"She loved every animal, fish or not."

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Xander was very excited to go fishing that day, but the family decided to instead go for one more ride on the golf cart, with the parents in the front and the kids in the back, before settling down to fish.

"The trails are always open. People drive their cars to get to their campers, so it's not like it was in a rural area that wasn't used often," Crystal Clark noted.

The family had decided to make their way back when the parents heard a loud noise.

"It was so loud, you didn't know which direction it was coming," Crystal Clark recalled.

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"We didn't know until it was too late."

A tree had collapsed onto a Ford F-150 and the branches fell on top of the Clarks' golf cart, which then rolled off the roof, hitting their children in the back — less than six inches behind their parents.

Both children were pronounced dead at the scene, FOX 59 in Indianapolis reported at the time.

After their children's deaths, it took the Clarks about seven weeks to return to their family's beloved campsite. 

Yet while there, Crystal Clark shared a "crazy idea" with her husband that she said she'd been thinking about for a while.

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"What do you think about doing a billboard with the kids on it to try and spread awareness to save another life?" Crystal Clark said she told her husband.

Brian Clark did not think it was "crazy" at all.

Crystal Clark said that in October, she reached out to a company about advertising on a billboard, but she had a difficult time at her first go.

She then took to her own Facebook page to spread awareness about the necessity of checking trees after a storm or windy day.

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"Today is a windy day. Please check your trees. Please be aware, you could save a life," she wrote on Facebook.

"The next thing I know, I get a contact from Lamar billboards," Crystal Clark said.

The company "heard what happened," she said, "and were very much wanting to help us."

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On the week of March 6, 2023, Lamar Advertising installed the Clarks' billboard.

It reads: "Check your trees! After Storms, Heavy Rains and Windy Days. You would save a life! Xander and Ziva Clark — killed by a falling tree 4/23/2022."

"I bawled by eyes out at just helpful they have been," Crystal Clark said of the company.

After the first billboard went up, Lamar put up nine digital billboards across central Indiana, without telling the Clarks and without asking for any additional fee — but simply "out of the kindness of their heart," Crystal Clark said.

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The Clarks are now focused on spreading their warning in the hope that "nobody else has to deal with what we are dealing with," Brian Clark told Fox News Digital.

"Crystal says it all the time, 'You worry about your children falling out of a tree. You don't worry about a tree falling on them,'" he said. 

While falling trees may appear to be a "freak accident," they're not as rare as people think, the Clarks said.

Through their outreach, the couple said, they've heard from people who have found themselves in similar situations.

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"It's just something that you don't think about … [The] bottom line is just to get somebody to think and check something before, you know, it happens to them, too," said Brian Clark.

Bert Cregg, a professor in the Department of Horticulture at the Michigan State University College of Agriculture & Natural Resources, wrote in an online article, "Damaged trees and hanging tree limbs are extremely dangerous. Trees that are damaged in storms often have decay or other hidden defects and can drop without warning."

In addition, various types of damage can occur to trees "from violent weather," according to Lindsey Purcell, an urban forestry specialist at Purdue University's Department of Forestry & Natural Resources.

"All parts of the tree should be inspected during a post-storm assessment," Purcell noted in an informational online brochure about trees and storms.

The unimaginable may have happened at Indian Oaks, but that place will always be full of fond memories of the kids, the Clarks noted.

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"Of the three years that we were out there, that was probably the most our children grew," Brian Clark said. "Being away from computers, and games and TVs … Our kids got that freedom to be able to be outside and do things that not everyone gets to do on a regular basis."

The children both loved the outdoors and were very active, their parents said.

Rain or shine, their son Xander could be found shooting hoops, even if it meant he was "slipping and sliding all over the porch," Brian Clark said. 

Daughter Ziva was a competitive gymnast with aspirations of going to the Summer Olympics, and if that did not work out she would try and go for the Winter Olympics and be a professional snowboarder, Brian Clark said with a laugh.

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Xander, a third grader, loved science and math and dreamed of being a scientist.

"Xander was always the one asking all the questions. He always loved to learn," Brian Clark said.

Ziva was known as the "firecracker" of the two.

The second-grader enjoyed serving as the "assistant" at school by helping her classmates with projects, or being the first one to volunteer to bring a friend to see the nurse, Crystal Clark said. 

As brother and sister, the kids were the perfect pair and "were a good balance" of each other, Brian Clark said.

"She would draw out his fun, and he would reel her in and teach her things as well," he added.

Crystal Clark said she has been amazed by the outreach and the responses the family has received to their story.

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While they'll continue to raise awareness, the parents have found this time of healing to be very emotionally and physically draining, they said.

"You think it would be easy because we are talking about our kids, but it's also because we've lost them [that it] hurts," Crystal Clark said. 

"We want to talk about them but the grief of it's just really hard."

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The Clarks hope the billboards are working and that their message is preventing something like this from happening to anyone else.

"We really could have just saved a life by putting this out there," said Crystal Clark.

Revolutionary firebrand Patrick Henry bellowed, "Give me liberty or give me death!" while proposing to fellow Virginia leaders that the colony raise troops to battle the British on this day in history, March 23, 1775. 

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?" the rousing orator reportedly thundered before the Second Virginia Convention at St. John's Episcopal Church in Richmond.

"Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

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His demand that Virginia form citizen-soldier companies of cavalry and militia in the cause of liberty proved prescient. 

Just four weeks later, on April 19, open hostilities broke out between armed colonists and crown at the Battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts, igniting the American Revolution.

Henry's fellow Virginian, George Washington, arrived in New England in July to lead its militiamen. 

It was a symbolic and physical union of the far-flung northern and southern colonies in common heroic cause against the age-old system of hereditary monarchy that had ruled the world for time immemorial. 

Washington most likely heard Henry's stirring call to arms. 

He was one of about 120 American patriots from Virginia, including Declaration of Independence signatories Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee and Benjamin Harrison, called to consider the course of the colony's future at the convention. 

They met in Richmond instead of Williamsburg, then the capital of Virginia, 50 miles away, to avoid the gaze of royal governor Lord Dunmore John Murray. 

"Henry pleaded with the delegates to recognize that the presence of [British] armies and navies was an act of hostility, not of reconciliation," writes the website of Historic St. John's Church, where he delivered the stirring oratory. 

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"He warned them that the time for action had arrived, that no matter how weak they perceived themselves to be, they would be even more vulnerable if disarmed and in the presence of the British army."

St. John's hosts a reenactment of Henry's speech every March 23.

"One voice can change the world," the church website notes. 

Henry's demand of liberty at all costs became a patriotic rallying cry for the American people during the War of Independence. It stirred future generations in the global fight for freedom. 

His speech, though powerful, passionate and patriotic, was recorded only years later. 

"Henry's first biographer, William Wirt of Maryland, was three years old in 1775," writes the website of Colonial Williamsburg.

"An assistant federal prosecutor in Aaron Burr's trial for treason at Richmond in 1807, and later attorney general of the United States, Wirt began to collect materials for the biography in 1808, nine years after Henry's death. From the recollections of men like Thomas Jefferson, Wirt reconstructed an account of Henry's life." 

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The fiery moment in Richmond was among the milestones of Henry's life Wirt chronicled years later.

The combative climax of his speech before the convention is largely undisputed, however.

"Henry's words were not transcribed, but no one who heard them forgot their eloquence, or Henry's closing words," states Colonial Williamsburg. 

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Henry served nobly in service of Virginia and then the cause of American independence. 

He spent more than 20 years as a member of Virginia's House of Burgesses, signed the Declaration of Independence at the risk of his life, fortune and sacred honor, and served five terms as Virginia's first governor. 

Henry died amid a battle with stomach cancer on June 6, 1799. 

"Every Virginia paper devoted long sections lamenting his loss and the impact he had on American and Virginian society," writes the American Battlefield Trust. 

"He may only be known for one speech, but that speech represents a lifetime of work in the pursuit of liberty."

A woman from Georgia has gone viral for the candid and humorous obituary she wrote for her father eight days after his death.

Halliea Milner, the owner of Go With It Farm in Sandy Springs, Georgia, shared a 715-word obituary on Facebook that honored her late father, Kenneth "Kenne" Joseph Pluhar Jr.

Pluhar died on his birthday – March 2 – at the age of 62, according to Milner. 

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He died "after losing a battle with sepsis" while admitted into an intensive care unit at a local hospital in Alton, Illinois, Milner wrote.

She described her father as an outdoorsy person who was "hard as nails" and "stubborn."

Pluhar’s three true loves were "hunting, fishing and drinking," according to Milner. He also enjoyed listening to country and western music.

"Like every sad cowboy song, he couldn’t stay married, but that didn’t keep him from trying. Again. And again." Milner wrote of her father. "He had a total of 4 legal marriages (and divorces) and one common law marriage under his belt - that we know of."

Milner noted that she is Pluhar’s only known child, and that she too is a mother of one.

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Pluhar grew up in Oakridge, Tennessee, and worked as a carpenter.

"Kenne had a green thumb, was outdoorsy and was a skilled carpenter - this meant that he was great at growing his own weed and was champion of ‘hide and seek for $2k a week’ when he worked for the union," Milner wrote. "He actually was a halfway decent carpenter - people bragged about his ‘craftsmanship’ - if you could convince him to show up and work, which most people weren't capable of accomplishing."

Milner wrote that while Pluhar was known to start fights, he had a strong friendship that spanned 50 years.

She noted that her father was "emotionally unavailable and yet overly sensitive, all rolled into one," which Milner considers a "family trait."

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Pluhar also liked to tell "a good story," one which includes how he saved a life by being a doomsday prepper, according to Milner.

"Kenne was good at just about anything he tried to be good at and was wicked smart - but that didn’t stop him from trying his best to do absolutely nothing except drink, smoke, and listen to music," Milner wrote.

Pluhar is survived by his father, Kenneth Joseph Pluhar, Sr., his siblings, his daughter, Halliea Milner, his granddaughter and a "plethora of nieces and nephews that he terrorized and traumatized in countless and original manners," his obituary states.

"Truly, it was survivorship when it came to Uncle Kenne," Milner wrote.

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Pluhar was preceded in death by his mother, Connie Mckinnon Donnelson, who he called "mommy" until the day he died, according to Milner.

"Proof positive that even the biggest a------- (jerks) have a soft side, you just may have to dig deeper to find it," Milner continued.

Fox News Digital reached out to Milner for comment.

Milner’s obituary has gone viral and countless social media users have offered their sympathies in addition to their thoughts on Pluhar’s recapped life.

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"This is brilliantly and hilariously written," one Facebook user wrote to Milner. 

"Quite the tribute," another user shared. "He clearly had a rather unique place in your life."

"Talk about a GREAT obit. All the grit and grime with sprinkles of love," another user commented. "You truly get a sense of who and what he was all about."

Pluhar’s obituary has been published in local newspapers.

Multiple articles in Psychology Today, a human behavior magazine, state that humor can help people cope with grief and stress.

Milner told local news station Fox 8 Cleveland WJW, which is affiliated with Nexstar KTVI, that it took her about 45 minutes to write her father’s obituary.

The Milner and Pluhar family will host a celebration of life event in the "good old fashioned Kenne way" in Woodriver, Illinois, on Friday, March 24.

A previously unknown painting by famed U.S. artist Jackson Pollock has been discovered in Bulgaria by police investigating international art smugglers, officials said.

The work could be worth up to $54 million, Bulgarian National Radio reported, citing experts.

Several people, including Bulgarian citizens, were arrested in the international operation, state news agency BTA reported on Tuesday.

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The report did not give a description of the painting or any other details on the work.

Pollock, a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement of the 1940s and 50s, was known for his technique of pouring, dribbling and dripping paint in wild patterns onto large canvases. He died in 1956.

"This is an international operation with the participation of Europol, Greece and other countries," Petar Todorov, Bulgaria's Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, said, according to the Novinite news agency.

"To our great joy, we managed to establish and keep this painting and at the moment the expertise shows that it is an original."

A Reddit user took to the social media platform to share a vexing neighborhood issue, asking if he or she (the gender wasn't clear in the post) was in the wrong on a property issue.

"I wanted to pour a new walkway from the end of our driveway (which terminates in our front yard by the sidewalk) around the house to our backyard," Reddit user OK_Discount6992 posted on the AITA ("Am I the A--hole") subreddit.

The property has a "nice little garden and gazebo set up" in the backyard, the original poster also said.

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The neighborhood is full of kids and "stroller moms and dads," the poster continued.

But when some of these neighborhood children "saw the wet concrete drying," the Redditor noted, they "stuffed sticks and rocks into it," while some "carved their initials in as well, along with their palm prints."

The poster was "not thrilled" by the neighborhood kids' actions — and proceeded to dig out the debris and "then smoothed the concrete back over and put up a sign reading, ‘Please do not disturb, drying.'"

However, a mom whom the Reddit user is "usually friendly with" called out the homeowner as a "mean old curmudgeon" who was "ruining precious childhood memories for the kids," the Redditor said.

This same neighborhood mom then told the Redditor that the children "may want to go back and look at their initials and palm prints one day and ‘reminisce,'" the individual shared on Reddit.

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The next day the sign had been taken down, the poster continued.

The Reddit user added, "It was lying in my yard by the birdbath, far away from where I'd placed it."

The Redditor asked others on the social media platform what they thought of the situation — and whether he or she was wrong for posting the sign and trying to keep kids off the new concrete. 

"It's my private property. These aren't my kids," the poster added.

One mother and grandmother in the Baltimore area said the neighbors were "outrageous" for berating someone else about that person's property.

"It does not mean you don’t love and care about the neighborhood’s children when you want nice property that you work hard to own and maintain," the grandmother told Fox News Digital. 

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"How awful to be called a name after kids ruin your walkway project," she added. "This may fall in line with the idea today that kids are always right."

A mom of three in Scottsdale, Arizona, said that the kids in question are learning the wrong lesson.

"What the parents should have done was to march the children back there and make them clean up the mess," she told Fox News Digital. 

"Why is this neighbor responsible for the kids’ memories?" she added.

The Reddit AITA community was quick to come to the Redditor’s defense, with the post garnering almost 4,000 votes in under 24 hours.

On the AITA subreddit, people on Reddit can reply to posts and indicate the poster is "NTA" ("Not the A--hole"), "YTA" ("You're the A--hole"), "NAH" ("No A--hole Here") or "ESH" ("Everyone Sucks Here").

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Users can "upvote" responses they think are helpful and "downvote" ones that are not — and in this case, the Redditor was deemed to be in the right.

"NTA," commented user Katja1236. 

"Tell the mom in question that vandalizing other people's property isn't ‘making memories’ and there are plenty of plaster mold sets she can buy for that purpose."

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That user added, "Ask her if you can spray graffiti all over the front of her house and require her to keep it so you can revisit old memories later."

The neighbors sound "delusional and entitled," said commenter Sea-ad3724. 

"It’s your private property and [you are] well within your rights to not be OK with kids messing up your work." 

That user added, "Maybe look into getting a camera in case they decide to do more than just put a sign in your birdbath."

A New York-based mom of sons told Fox News Digital of the situation, "This mom who chastised the neighbor for taking steps to protect the person's own private property has aimed her anger in the wrong direction. Instead of teaching her own kids an important lesson about responsibility, consideration and concern for others, she's firing away at someone else — maybe because it's easier to aim outside the family than inside."

She added, "Teaching kids right from wrong is a parent's job. And on this point, she flunked."