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wherever we go we get recognized and people want to talk about it. all three of my kids think it's a blast. [ screaming ] from trouble making antics to record-breaking tricks. a husband's frightful hijinx, and 102-year-old's daring plunge. >> with this hardened voice she said -- >> ready. >> a man unleashes terror. >> he said quietly, hey little mama, you see this knife? >> and the bus driver goes the distance to save a life. >> she was looking down and kind of teetering. >> ma'am, are you okay.
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>> i don't know what is going to happen but we have to stop. >> "caught on camera hellraisers and trailblazers." >> i was literally begging for my daughter's life. >> horrifying moments inside of a grocery store for a mother and her daughters. >> nobody would suspect he was getting ready to do what he did. >> june 17th, 2013, it's a weekday afternoon for the midwest city, oklahoma police department led by police chief brandon clays. across the street security cameras are recording outside and inside this local walmart.
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nothing looks unusual, including this man sammy wallace who's seen walking across the parking lot an in to the store. >> in the surveillance tape you see sammy walk aimlessly throughout the store going through different aisles, walking around. acting like he is on his cell phone. >> cameras are positioned in the back of the store, and the security camera shows alicia grocery shopping with her daughters, 12-year-old ashley and sitting in the cart 2-year-old zoe. >> mom is going to the milk, produce aisle, taking things and putting them in the shopping cart and doesn't notice sammy wallace walking through the store. zoe makes eye contact with him and you can see sammy looks at her. >> wallace walks by but a few moments circles back. he walks up to the cart and snatches zoe out of her seat. when keating turns around she can't comprehend what's happening. >> here's this huge, huge man standing there with my daughter in his arms.
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my first reaction is this can't be real? does he really have my baby, who is this. he said, hey little mama, you see this knife. >> the knife has a five-inch serrated blade and wallace is tresing it against zoe's side. he hands keating his cell phone and makes a bizarre demand that she call a man named kevin in dallas. >> she is trying to do what he requests but she is nervous and can't get the number pulled up and call it. >> i was going to do everything in my power to make sure the baby didn't leave the store with him. i panicked and started to scream at the top of my lungs. please help me. this man has my baby. please help me. as soon as i had everybody's attention, the store got eerily quiet and everyone crowded around. >> with zoe under his arm, wallace starts to walk away. >> i followed him along.
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all i knew is i didn't want to leave my baby's side. >> the 12-year-old sister is in shock because she sees what is happening and we have a patron who's a preacher, a local preacher here in oklahoma. he blocks wallace's path with the shopping cart and he says my name is sammy. you can look at my license and see. and then we got 911 calls. >> there is someone with a knife holding a girl hostage. he is in the meat department. i'm trying no to let him see me on the phone. >> moments after the calls come in, police rush to take positions around the store and evacuate the area. >> the s.w.a.t. team has arrived. we are trying to take tactical positions. so if we have to take a shot, we can do so. captain huff and sergeant miller who are our crisis negotiators arrive at the scene and start rapport with sammy wallace. we find out who he is, sammy wallace. we start doing a criminal background check and see if
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anyone is familiar with him. he has a pair of sunglasses on. he throws them on the ground. >> while negotiators engage wallace, zoe's mother is frantically pleaded for his daughter. >> he wouldn't listen. he wouldn't put the knife down. i went into extreme panic mode. i said i have to be praying. i put my hands down and said in jesus name save my baby. please save my baby. >> she is agitating the situation because she's a loving mother. we had to forcibly remove her situation and had to force her from the scene for her protection and the protection of zoe. we wanted to negotiate it in to a peaceful end. her daughter is taken out of the store. wallace is increasingly erratic and exhibits signs of mental illness. >> he is talking about illuminoty which is a group that talks about conspiracy theories. he feels like the government is watching him and indicates that president bush has been watching him. and he continues to ask us to
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call kevin, this dallas police officer. so we actually get ahold of kevin and kevin doesn't know mr. wallace only knows he has his numbers and calls him so many times it is almost to an harassing point. >> they offer him a chair to sit down. >> it was tactical advantage for us because we knew we had his movement restricted. if we have to shoot mr. wallace the child won't fall from six foot level of height but smaller level. >> zoe is remarkably calm but wallace is deteriorating by the minute. >> he's sweating profusely, agitated and irritated. david, who's trained in crisis intervention knows that mr. wallace is having a manic episode. he's trying to calm him down. >> after 30 minutes of negotiations, wallace still isn't cooperating. instead he begins to count down. >> get kevin here within 60 minutes or i'm going to hufrt this child. then it accelerated to 30
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minutes and then 60 seconds. he started in ten thes. he went 60, 40, 30, 20, and captain huff knew this is critical and at the same time he takes the knife from the rib cage and puts it to her chin and neck and the child starts to squirm. that's when captain huff felt the child was being injured. ace's countdown doesn't stop and captain huff is forced to make a decision. >> in this case when he has the child so close to him and close to his head he knew he had one option, to shoot him in the head. he knew it had to be point blank range. he tried to squat down to divert his attention. he looks to the left, which was a good tactical approach on our part. >> captain huff walks toward wallace, points his weapon at wallace's head and pulls the trigger. >> i heard the shot go off and i
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thought, oh, my god, they just killed her. i thought she's dead. i just started screaming and jumping around. >> the shot kills sammy wallace and saves the life of 2-year-old zoe. >> captain huff takes zoe out of sammy's arms. immediately hands her off to sergeant miller who rushes her up to alicia, who's at the front of the store. >> when i saw zoe i nearly flew through that door. she had blood all over her. he kept saying it's not her blood. it's not her blood. she's okay. i reached out and grabbed her and pulled her in to me. it was the best moment. it was the best moment of my life. >> come here. can i have a kiss? >> the s.w.a.t. team approaches wallace, remove the knife, and wallace falls to the floor. that's how we disarmed him. he literally still had the knife clinched in his hand even after shot in the head.
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>> d police discovered wallace had spent the last decade incarcerated in texas prisons. >> we learned from his family he was paranoid schizophrenic, not taking his medication. >> i felt sorry for him. my heart broke for him. i don't want anybody to die and i pray for his family. >> we had no choice. sammy wallace dictated the end of the situation. david huff is a hero. this will affect captain huff for the rest of his life. i'm sure his heart was in the middle of his throat when he pulled the trigger, but he saved that child's life. >> it is because of his decision that my daughter is alive. when i watch her play i've never been more thankful. coming up, an overachiever at dizzying heights. >> i was so nervous about jumping with her. i had never taken anyone that old. >> three, two, one. >> and later -- a judge doesn't
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er go to the post office again. you may have seen face jumpers before but probably never met a thrill seeker like 102-year-old dorothy custer. with only a few seconds to pull the chute, face jumping is not -- base jumping is not for the faint of heart. it's a thrill that world renowned base jumper sean chase nearly every day in twin falls, idaho. >> i have done 2,150 base jumps as of today.
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i definitely down to risk my life for it still. it's definitely the passion of my life. it's different from sky diving. base jumping is more basic. there's no parachute. no time for one. we pack it like it is the only chance, since it is. >> the bridge sits 500 feet above the snake river in twin falls and it's a hot spot for base jumpers that can legally jump from the bridge any day of the week without a permit. >> i jump off this bridge, i'd say probably four days a week, about five times a day, on average, about 20 jumps a week. >> three, two, one, see ya! i feel very confident in what i'm doing. i don't feel like i'm taking a huge risk every time. fun stuff. >> living just a few minutes away from the action of the bridge is 102-year-old twin falls resident dorothy custer. ♪
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>> there was a guy from new york who said playing harmonica is the best thing in the world for your lungs. so i kept it up. >> player harmonica hasn't been the only key to her longevity. dorothy thinks it is all in her head. think positive and help others. that's why we are here on this earth. >> for her 102nd birthday, her grandson proposed an idea. knowing her love of adventure, he thought she should celebrate a big birthday in a bold way. >> greg, her grandson call canned me one day. i told them i would take people on tandem base jumps and he asked if i could take dorothy. i said i need to meet her and
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see if she is in good physical condition enough to do it. a couple of days later i went and visited her. she's so sharp. she was actually in really good shape for 102 years old. that's when i decided to go for it. >> i said, would you jump and i said, i don't see why not. as i said there's only two things that happen. i could either make it or i wouldn't and either way it didn't make any difference. >> reporter: june 2nd, 2013, sean and dorothy get suited up for their tandem jump from the middle of the bridge. >> i put her in full body armor, pad s made for motorcross just in case we jumped in to anything. i didn't want her to get hurt. >> cameras are positioned to capture every angle on sean's helmet, dorothy's hand and another base jumper who will jump alongside them. >> we had to have her climb over the rail which was going to be challenging. so we brought a ladder out. >> i climbed over the ladder and got over the railing on to this stand.
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>> then i just grabbed her because she only weighs 90 pounds and put her down on the platform. >> he was right there hanging on to me. there was nothing to be afraid of at all. i had all the confidence in the world in sean. >> sean and dorothy are standing on a platform that is affixed to the end of the sglij we had to turn to where her feet were over the edge. that's the hardest part when they jump because it is not a natural thing. it is the things that bad dreams are made of. >> i wasn't nervous. it didn't bother me a bit. heights just don't bother me. i climbed too many trees and too many high haystacks. >> her camera's good? >> yep. >> now there's nothing left to do but jump. >> i was so nervous about jumping with her. i never had taken anyone that old. i asked if she was ready and she
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just, with this hardened voice she said. >> ready. >> there was no hesitation. she wasn't backing down. we gave it a big countdown and windt for it. -- went for it. three, two, one. it was just silence. she wasn't pushing against me or anything. when the parachute opened she started laughing. and it was hilarious. i just felt real calm hearing her laugh because i knew she was fine. when she was silent i wondered if everything was okay just from the opening of the parachute. the landing was definitely going to be the scariest part of the whole thing. that's how most jumpers get hurt. i knew with her i had to have the softest landing i have ever. and i flared the canopy and grabbed her pants and pulled her legs up so her feet barely touched the ground. >> that was so quick. >> all right. >> i can't believe you.
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[ laughter ] >> yes! >> oh, boy. that was a thrill. but it was so quick. seemed to me it was fast. it was too short. i wanted to go a little farther. that was so cool. >> her jump may have felt short but it set big records making dorothy a trailblazer as the oldest known base jumper. >> i think i'm the oldest one that was stupid enough to jump off. >> i'm very honored to be part of that. it was a big challenge. i'm happy that i got to do it now her and i are just best friends. >> you have to play for me sometime. >> come out and i will play anything i know. >> okay. >> turkey and the straw or whatever. >> i think it is a huge inspiration for the whole world to keep on doing things and not have excuses that they are old.
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[ bleep ]. >> a young woman disrespects the court. [ bleep ]. >> but this judge overrules her hell raising behavior. >> come back again. february 4th, 2013, closed circuit television cameras are recording proceedings inside of a miami-dade courtroom when circuit judge rodriguez calls upon his next case, 18-year-old penelope soto. she's charged with possession of the controlled substance xanax, a prescription drug used to treat anxiety disorders. >> penelope soto. you are charged with possession of xanax.
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>> according to her arrest affidavit, soto had been found the day before with small bags of xanax in her purse she did not have a prescription for. in order to set her bond, the court just first determine soto's assets. >> are you working? >> yes. >> how much money are you making a week approximately? >> approximately 200 bucks a week. >> do you own any property of value, a house, car, bank accounts, significant amounts of jewelry? >> yes. >> what do you own. >> i own a lot of jewelry all right. and a car. >> how much would you say your jewelry is worth? it's not a joke. we are not in a club now. >> it's kind of -- >> it is -- >> be serious about it. >> you are serious. you just make me laugh. i apologize. >> it's all right. how much is your jewelry worth? >> like what.
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>> like -- >> the judge doesn't understand soto's reference to south florida rapper rick ross. >> have you had any drugs in the last 24 hours? >> actually, no. >> actually no. >> soto has no prior convictions the judge sets her bond at $5,000. this day in court should end here, but soto takes it one hell raising step further. >> bye-bye. >> adios. >> come back, ma'am. come back. come back. count one will be 10,000. >> are you serious? >> i am serious. adios. >> the judge doubles soto's bond, and the exchange gets a laugh from onlookers in the
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court. lesson learned, not really? [bleep] >> come back again. come back again. bring her back again. >> what's up? >> i believe i heard you saying -- >> yes, i did. >> i believe you -- did you say [ bleep ] me did you say that? >> yes, sir. >> i find you in contempt. 30 days in the county jail. >> okay. >> our whole system depends on respect for our judges and their orders. when there is disrespect the judge has to do something meaningful. here it was jail time. >> 30 days in the county jail. >> after spending four nights in county jail, soto is once again facing the judge and this time she's not laughing. soto's private attorney, steven h. rosen has filed a motion to have the criminal contempt charge dropped.
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>> mr. rosen, miss soto. >> stand up. >> as you know -- >> you may sit down. >> thank you. >> i want you to understand that there is case law that is specifically says that what you did, flipping the finger and what you said -- i'm. >> i'm sorry. >> listen, do not say a word. >> i just. >> okay. >> flipping the finger and what you said is contemptuous language. contemptuous behavior. you get contempt. that is with you the rest of your life. >> now it's the attorney's turn
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to plead her case. >> her judgment on that day was impaired by her ingestion of drugs and alcohol prior to her coming to your courtroom. that impairment, even though i don't condone her actions, led her to the conduct that was contemptuous before you. >> soto's attorney brings forward an administrator from an outpatient mental drug and rehab facility who evaluated soto while she was in jail. >> she presented symptoms ofening a zeierty. this is common for substance abuse and she consumed alcohol, they combine it with xanax and it is dangerous. >> soto's mother is next to testify. >> tell me about miss soto and her behavior with you at home. >> sweet. kind and concerned always. about everyone. >> finally, it's soto's turn to address the judge.
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>> my behavior was very irrational and i apologize. not only to the court and you but to my family. >> don't cry. i'm not a monster. >> the forgiving judge accepts soto's apology. he drops the contempt of court charge along with a 30-day sentence and he's hopeful for soto's future. >> will go on to be, who knows the next president of the united states. >> soto successfully participated in a year-long court-ordered drug rehabilitation program. as a result, the felony possession of a controlled substance charge was dismissed. coming up. a woman on the edge. >> she was looking down and kind of teetering. >> and the bus driver who makes a life-saving stop.
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here is what's happening. pope francis delivered his second christmas address before a crowd of tens of thousands in saint peter's square. he called for peace and condemned religious persecution and violence against children. the father of a jordanian pilot taken by isis pleading for his release. now back to "caught on camera."
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a vintage plane crashed at a northern california air show. no report on the pilot's condition. 60 people were treated for injuries on saturday in a stampede in los angeles. it happened after the end of the floi may weather fight. officials say the stam speed was sparked by fans mistaking a loud noise for a gunshot. back to caught on camera. >> skiers take on a back flip of record-breaking proportions. >> whoa. >> he may only be 21 but mikhail kingsbury has scored major
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athletic fetes. just outside of montreal, is kingsbury's training ground and it's there he got the big idea to break a world record. the source of his inspiration, a 35-year-old photograph of a >> april 14th, 2013, at the top of the mountain kingsbury preps for a potentially record-breaking day with a whopping 30 skiers ready to attempt the jump. family and friends watch in anticipation, capturing it all on camera. >> i went like this. i was moving, moving. i was like oh, we're going to be limit 25. the jump is not large enough. so i was kind of nervous at first. >> for their first practice run, kingsbury starts fall, performing the back flip with just one other person. so far so good. so kingsbury ups the ante, each time adding more and more people. >> we did a group of 12, and then 18 so we don't break the record now. we did 18. okay.
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let's put everyone now. >> all 30 skiers get in to formation at the top of the jump, and off they go. they make the flip. woo! >> once airborne, some of the skiers lose their grips and their hand-to-hand chain is broken. the group sets up to give it one more try. >> everybody was excited and we said three, two, loud, go. and then the people that were higher because it was flatter had to go first. and everybody jump pretty much at the same time. >> this time, a record-breaking success. >> the landing was perfect. the photographer catches the jump frame by frame.
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>> it's impressive to see 30 people at the same time do a back flip and land pretty much at the same time. wasn't just to beat the record a cool event to have fun and if you do win worldwide. >> from a moment of greatness that's one for the record books to a moment of greatness that's the difference between life and death. >> miss are you all right? >> october 18th, 2013, nfta bus driver darnell barton is working his route enough buffalo, new york at the beginning of the rush hour. he picks up students at a high school and heads across the overpass. the closed circuit cameras are recording when he notices a woman across the guardrail leaning over the narrow edge.
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traffic is rushing by beneath her and the woman appears to be on think brink of suicide. >> she was looking down and teetering a little. i thought it was fake. pedestrian walked by, a cyclist rode by. that added to me not thinking it was real because of the normalcy going on around her. >> even though others are passing the woman by, barton decides to stop his bus that's full of passengers. >> i thought that if this were a loved one of mine, or me, what would i want someone to do for me? that's what i thought. i said i'm going to stop. i'm going to stop. i don't know what's going to happen but i'm going to stop. >> miss, are you all right? miss. ma'am?
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>> ma'am? are you okay? >> when i called out to her, she kind of looked back at me and then looked back down at the ground at the under passing traffic again. you could tell she was sad. ma'am, are you okay? i wanted to stop her from looking at the under passing traffic and get her mind off of that. >> barton makes a call to dispatch asking they send help and fast. what happens next is remarkable. ma'am, are you okay? ma'am? >> so i walked really slowly towards her. i had my hand out and not doing anything to try to startle her. and at that point she turned around and started to look back at the traffic again. so that's when i kind of lunged and grabbed her and wrapped my arms around her. >> instead of pulling the woman across the guardrail, barton
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poses a question to her. i said, do you want to come on the right side of the guardrail? that's the first time she spoke when she said yes. i ask canned her a question to kind of a, put her at ease. because this is a stranger grabbing me. and also, to give her the feeling of power, if you will, saying, okay. i still have a choice. i have to make a decision. i have to think about what do i really want? do i want to jump? do i want to come on the right side of the guardrail? >> with his arm around the woman, barton waits until an ambulance arrives. when he gets back on the bus, it's to a rousing round of applause. [ applause ] barton finishes his bus route for the day and heads home. things are back to normal. that is until barton's employer
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takes notice of the video and decides to share it with the public. within a couple of weeks, the video becomes a worldwide sensation. >> i remember getting a text message, hey, man, you are trending on something -- i didn't know what that meant either. said, that's cool. not knowing what it meant. and the mayor made may 7th barton day. i'm a private person. so this is culture shock for me. i'm truly honored. >> billionaire businessman donald trump gets wind of the story and sends out a tweet that makes a generous offer to barton for $10,000. >> this is very special and he's a special guy. he has to be rewarded for that. >> i'd like to say i'm going to -- i don't know buy a
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bentley but i am going to pay bills and, you know, i don't want to take some of the money and start something that is long lasting and can benefit other people. >> as for the people that passed barton by, barton believes it is part of a greater plan. >> it was meant for me to be there and not them. i can't be angry with them because it wasn't their assignment. it was mine. my prayer is that when it is their assign an time for them to step up that they do. >> coming up -- >> screaming ]. >> i wanted to make sure we were locked if for life and then i could have a permanent victim. >> a husband stirs up trouble. >> wake up! >> when "caught on camera: hellraisers and trailblazers" continues.
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around the world. [ screaming ] >> in winston-salem, north carolina, this family can never be sure what's around the corner, especially for this wife who's a regular target of her husband's pranks. >> i would describe my husband's personality as -- he was not a prankster when we were dating, but after we got married it was like green light to pull all the pranks he wanted. >> i wanted to make sure we were locked in for life and then i could have a permanent victim. >> reporter: july 19th, 2012, the family is on the road with a long drive ahead of them. siblings caden and alana are in the back seat while sabra is
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sleeping in the front. >> idle hands, you know how the saying goes and my mind was idle and i had my camera phone and i just had it ready to record. >> okay. so there's a truck getting towed and looks like it is coming at us and my wife is asleep. we are going to see if we can scare her. >> babe, wake up. there's a truck. [ screaming ] [ laughter ] >> i thought we were going to crash head on and then i hear his smirky little laugh. and i was like oh, it's a prank. he's got me. >> he screamed. he's like going real close. >> i'm sorry. it was funny. bye, truck. it was getting towed. >> i wasn't really mad. it was one of those like, i was in a good sleep. you woke up me to pull a stupid prank on me. so let's turn the camera off.
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i'm over it. >> she may be over it but the rest of the world isn't. manny uploads the video to his youtube channel and the prank takes off, wracking up millions of views. >> my jaw dropped and it kept climbing. saber was kind of mad because she's like 2 million people are laughing at me. i was in the dog house for a while. >> it isn't the only time especially when manny forces his wife to face her biggest fears in a prank. >> my son had a rubber snake that looked real. i was like, let's just see what happens. >> my wife is terrified of snakes, bugs, spiders, and so we're going to use a are rubber snake in the toilet. i put the snake in the toilet and left the head sitting on the rim and closed the lid and i like to hide my camera so they are not seen. when she does her chores and sees the bowl we will see reaction.
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>> i have to pee! >> okay. [ screaming ] >> i just saw something long and swirly so in an instant i thought it's a snake. >> as if saber hadn't had enough of a scare, manny has another creepy crawly prank. >> she has a set of gloves that were furry on the outside and they were balled up and thought at this time looked like a creature. i put it under a table and attached a fishing screen. i pulled the string and looked like it was crawling out from under the table. she came in the door and saw it. >> manny, that's not funny. >> but when somebody says it's not funny.
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>> that's not funny. >> it's always funny. so we ended up laughing about it afterwards. >> for manny, anyone is fair game for a pranking including his son caden. >> my son, he does not like people in costumes for some reason but it was halloween and i had a big foot costume and clam loring to see more pranks. the rest of the family may be
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sleeping with know one eye open. >> i don't particularly love it. you never know what i'm going to look like. hair is going to be done or if it's going to be in the middle of the night. i don't want to look bad on you tube, but it's all for fun. that's how he gets his giggles, i will go with it. >> i want people to have a good clean belly laugh. that's what it's all about. . >> coming up, he saw four boys coming down the stairs and he said here we go. this is it. we have been robbed. >> things are not always what they seem. >> you don't see kids every day doing the right thing. >> when caught on camera, hell raisers and trailblazers continue. to come together, even when we're apart in stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, and more, swanson® makes holiday dishes delicious!
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hours. it may sound like a robbery in the making. but is it? august 25th, 2013. on a sunday night in wayne, new jersey, employees at a local store called buddy's small lots gets disturbing news. >> i got the phone call from nelson, our vice president. he said there was a break in in wayne and i'm on the way there now. i don't know what happened and i don't know how bad it is. >> i got here to the store and realized we had a problem with the lock. there seemed to be an electrical malfunction. they didn't lock properly. i went down to the office and started looking at the surveillance stains. >> he saw four boys coming down and said this is it. we have been robbed. two of the boys had things in their hands. he said definitely things are missing. >> who are the four young men seemingly caught in the act? take a closer look. they are not burglars.
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they are students at the nearby william patterson university. thomas janes, kelly gal more. anthony and gilani bruce are players on the pioneers. >> we had a break from the first practice and we decided to go shopping because thomas needed batteries for his remote controller and kelly needed a cable for his speakers. >> they head to buddy's small lots to pick up what they need before getting back to practice. that's when the store security cameras capture their entrance. >> when we walked in, we saw the lights flickering and we thought it was halloween costumes. >> usually when you see halloween stuff, it's somebody trying to jump out at you. >> halloween is not the best time of year because i'm a punk. i'm scared of a lot of things. i'm short so i got to be scared.
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>> we stayed close. i'm not going to say we were scared. we stayed close and saw the lights and stuff on. they opened. >> we drove that far. we wanted to get it. we spent them trying to search. >> we walked around and stood there for about five minutes waiting until we looked at the time. we had to get back to meetings. we were sitting there and said should we leave the money or put the stuff back? >> just then he spots the security camera. >> we had no choice but to leave the money. if we leave, they probably took something. >> he leaves the $4 for his auxiliary cable on the counter while making sure it's in plain sight for the camera's lens. james follows, paying the dollar it costs for the batteries. as if this all wasn't honest enough, they take it a step further. >> i told tommy, just leave
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extra change for us because i know in new jersey the tax is 7% of a dollar. if you are only buying something a dollar, the tax is going to be about 7 cents. i said try to leave enough for the both of us. i had no change and he had change. >> all of a sudden you see them go to the register and putting money down. whoa, really? what's happening? he's counting out and realized there was a camera and he is going tax. he is putting his tax on the counter as well. who does that? >> for the buddy's employees, reviewing the footage, it becomes clear. >> we leave emergency lights on a lot. apparently when the looks malfunctioned, it appeared as if we could be open so the boys pushed the door and it opened. why wouldn't you come in? >> these young machine are not hell raisers, but trailblazers in the doing the right thing department. the employees decide to reach out to local news to help track
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down these guys. >> my brother called and asked me, you know what you on the news and the first thing that came to mind is, is it bad. they said they wanted to congratulate you guys. >> the video makes national news. >> character is what you do when nobody is watching. you guys did the right thing so congratulations. thanks for joining us. >> as if national tealgz is not enough, buddy's small lots rewards them for their honesty. >> they asked the boys to come down and thank them and give them gifts and gift certificates that all four of them came back. >> i'm glad i have the friends that deal with me and not the right thing to do. >> you don't see kids every day do the right thing. they were so young. >> even though we are young and african-american and italian and have afros and dreads, we are
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still people and do the right thing because we were raised to do the right thing. >> my family call me honest abe now. >> there some things we mere mortals can't explain. >> i swear to god. >> from mysterious lights in the sky -- >> they looked triangular in shape and they had a red led light. >> to a creepy night at the museum. >> it was actually moving. >> i thought someone was playing a trick on me. >> mythical beasts. >> what is that? oh, man.
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