Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about dark-sided stories all the time but today was different when one of their news segments was unintentionally such a downer that it earned the name 'Dave's Downer News'.
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00:00all right on to other news of the day in massachusetts a dude was almost killed after
00:13eating oysters well like they can jump up and bite you if you don't know he got some sort of
00:19crazy infection oh no here's that story now from wcvd i know if you like oysters you don't like
00:26these oh so i thought it would be like he was allergic to something eating he ate them and
00:32got really sick and they were just visiting massachusetts here's the story we've never
00:37eat oysters we just started like had them for the very first time this spring and we came here and
00:42he was like i can't wait to get good oysters it was the perfect boston trip for the thurmans from
00:47kentucky they arrived july 1st to celebrate their 20th anniversary but plans derailed the morning
00:53of the 6th which was actually our anniversary chris woke up super super sick his stomach
00:59swollen they rushed chris to tufts medical center where doctors say he had a rare bacterial infection
01:05called vibrio and while they can't be sure they believe it's highly likely it came from those
01:11oysters they said it's super super rare that vibrio itself is common but this particular strain they
01:18haven't seen i guess and make anyone that sick doctors removed part of his intestines and put chris
01:25on a ventilator jesus nine surgeries i know sorry a couple times they didn't think he was gonna make
01:30it oysters yeah today was what they say is a miracle so they were able to extubate him and he
01:38immediately started talking and asking for us so today's a good day he looked at man he said
01:43hey mom those are the sweetest words i've heard it all the time today's a good day
01:49it's a good day today's a really good day your newscast is a bummer day
01:56jesus christ huh i'm sick of this so the whole family ate oysters at three different restaurants
02:04they say the health department is working to try to figure out exactly where chris might have gotten
02:08sick but the family just hopes to bring him home next month he's alive lisa i know it's great but
02:15i mean the whole thing he just started eating oysters and now he can't up next a child with cancer
02:21stop it he almost died man his stomach was yeah exactly yeah that's my new news sounder when i
02:33and now time for the alligator 911 call this poor guy starts that way help now we've got god help us
02:41alligator golf in six hole i was 200 par at the time i still gotta finish i
02:50the dave news he's alive i know but it was the saddest news there is
03:01dave hunter now it's time for one of dave's news downers yes he had to remove part of his
03:07intestine yes he'll never be the same an oyster super rare condition here's all of his family
03:16members and how sad they all are individually they're happy they're happy now he's alive you're
03:21his mother how do you feel i'm just a great day it's just a terrible great day and uh the wife how do
03:29you feel about a terrible great day though it was terrible the child how do you feel child it was a
03:36terrible great day it was terrible god my god on we know well the lady falling it's just i had to
03:47share you the update on that one and then this was i thought it had a happy ending i mean i know it's
03:54nice to get the updates but we you had to know that those two gate like i didn't need an update
04:01to know that the two gators tore her to shreds right i mean we didn't need to hear the 911 call
04:06of the guy you know i did it traumatized calling it's okay i appreciate it giving them the play-by-play
04:14we heard the moment he saw the deadly yeah i mean i get it the only way it would have been worse if
04:19he was giving you play-by-play play-by-play as he was happening oh my god one has her arm oh the
04:25other's doing the death roll he's got her leg she went underwater i don't know oh this bubbles lots
04:29of bubbles and lots of blood oh my god it's back to the surface now they're chomping on her head
04:33i think her brains are floating now oh my god yeah that would have been worse
04:39sorry guys hell of a thing i can't wait to see what's coming up next now i'm all nervous about
04:45what's ahead jesus yep okay it's like you know what i'll start light with the lady and then i'll go to
04:53the boston uh oyster thing that'll be a couple good laughs and then uh then i'll hit them with the real
04:59sad stuff oh yeah so it's probably somebody depressed who put their mouth around the barrel
05:02oh come on anything what do you have next um okay uh i don't think this is too bad okay
05:12a canadian woman claims when she called 9-1-1 because of an intruder sleeping in her home
05:20uh-huh the canadian dispatcher said oh just uh we're a little tied up hey you could just maybe
05:27wake the guy up for us say uh no that sounds very canadian oh yeah
05:32could you just uh either a one of two things hey can you get him a blanket and then put it on
05:38him hey maybe he's just tired yeah he's tired hey sometimes he might have been doing stuff you know
05:44like chopping down trees let's get the latest on that now here from cbc news here's this uh
05:50this canadian hipsters oh my goodness i hope she didn't wake him up and he killed her
05:55where did the video go oh here it is down here let's take a listen go ahead cbc news
06:01angela chalmers woke up to the sound of her dog loki growling and barking at the top of her stairs
06:08shortly before seven in the morning i walked halfway down the stairs and there was a strange man
06:16lying right here on my couch and it was terrifying chalmers went back upstairs and quietly woke her
06:23roommate the pair barricaded themselves in a room upstairs with the cat tower
06:28while hiding in the closet only to be told police couldn't come right away
06:33they said that uh these were really busy and would they mind or would we mind
06:39have you seen more going downstairs and waking them up
06:42calmer said her instinct was to hide and protect herself because she's lived through something like
06:47this before the 44 year old was the victim of a violent home invasion in vancouver 12 years ago
06:52she says she was beaten and left for dead oh my god no i didn't know that was coming i swear to god
07:00she was beaten i swear to god i had no idea and look what it's done to her i thought it was just a
07:07canadian hipster and a drunk guy no that's why she's like she that's why she's traumatized stop it
07:12come on yeah let's hear what else whoever would have thought
07:16oh she's barricading cat towers up by her door she's desperately desperately trying to
07:26oh man i'm sorry lady okay back to case of what appeared to be mistaken identity oh they didn't when
07:34they realized that i wasn't the person that they wanted to rob i sat there and listened to them have
07:40a conversation about what to do with me and they decided they would kill me
07:45oh my god oh my god come on what they did a bad job of kill her they did a bad job of killing her
07:55they had a discussion they sat and just discussed what should we do we're gonna have to kill her
07:59because she knows too much yeah probably probably yeah i mean we tortured the wrong girl hey so we
08:04gotta kill her now hey go get your twig hey yeah you gonna kill her i'm gonna kill her hey
08:09well we'll both try and kill her flashed back to all of those things where i was held hostage
08:16and beaten with sledgehammers she acknowledged she was beaten with sledgehammers
08:21stop it that didn't happen you know what here's the next one it's gonna be fine it's a canadian
08:26woman who a drunk man was on her couch laugh it up here we go and take it away and oh she's walking
08:35a little funny i'm not sure ah she's a crazy canadian hipster who was almost beaten to death
08:42with sledgehammer this is amazing this is like watching a never-ending train crash oh my god i
08:47don't know what's to come i gotta throw everything out so what else you got dave i'm not gonna do
08:54the massachusetts bank robbery story where the guy killed himself i'm not gonna do that
08:58stop it you're not gonna do it stop it garbage
09:02that's what he was gonna bring it on home with
09:10it's hard to find
09:10it's a twist it is everything dark everything has a dark twist to it
09:16oh i'm just trying to do the best i can yes no yeah he's excited okay let's move on all right