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Yeah.

So, you know, a bunch of...

Just a variety of different stories, um, that I found.

Uh, this one's really interesting.

So it seems like it's not the type of story we would normally talk about, not even newsworthy, in fact.

Uh, it's about police department, a police department in a town, uh, using social media tactics to try to get, uh, you know, find people that have warrants out.

You know, so they, they have a warrant out, they wanna get information about where these people are, so they, you know, you usually, you see the wanted posters, right?

Yes.

[laughs]

That's the old thing, you know? If it was 150 years ago, there'd be a wanted poster.

Um-

Well, they were still in the post office, weren't they, for a long time?

Yeah, probably, probably.

[laughs]

Who, who goes to the post office? But yeah.

[laughs]

So you, uh...

So wanted posters, but for the modern era, for social media, right? So they, they're posting on social media, probably with the police department's account or whatever-

Mm-hmm

... uh, "We're looking for this person." And they're offering rewards, but instead of saying, you know, uh, $100, you know, wanted, that kind of thing, they're offering, like, prizes, like Lego sets and games and stuff like that.

You know, they're trying to be cute.

They're trying to be like-

Sure

... oh, it's social media and all.

Something different, yep.