IDAHO DOMINO'S PIZZA DRIVER'S KIND GESTURE LEADS TO 40 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN TIPS AFTER VIRAL VIDEO

New York Post

 

Idaho Domino’s pizza driver’s kind gesture leads to $40K in tips from strangers after viral video

By Adam Silverstein

Published April 5, 2026, 5:10 a.m. ET

 

A small detour turned into a big payday for an Idaho pizza driver on the verge of retirement.

 

Dan Simpson, a 68-year-old Domino’s delivery worker in Boise, went viral after he stopped at a convenience store to buy Diet Cokes for a customer when his restaurant ran out — a kind gesture that’s now earned him more than $40,000 in donations.

 

The customer, Brian Wilson, didn’t answer his call asking for a soda substitute, so Simpson shrugged and ran across the street to grab a pair of 2-liter bottles for his delivery on March 27.

 

“On the surface, it probably looked like such a small gesture,” Wilson told the Idaho Statesman. “But to us, it felt like so much more than that. That kind of thoughtfulness and personal care just feels so rare these days.”

 

When Simpson arrived, Wilson didn’t have extra cash to tip and offered to call the store — but the driver waved it off.

 

“Oh, you don’t need to. It’s a good tip,” Simpson said in the video.

 

Footage of their viral interaction on TikTok has racked up over 600,000 views and sparked a wave of support.

 

Wilson was so moved by the kindness that he launched a GoFundMe to help the driver, who is retiring on April 30 and has struggled financially, and has nearly reached its target of $45,000 in eight days.

 

Wilson also revealed why the moment hit home.

 

“What Dan didn’t know is that my wife and I are both visually impaired, so running out to the store for a ‘quick’ pickup is not something that is simple or easy for us,” he said.

 

“What may have seemed like a tiny inconvenience to solve on his end actually made a huge difference on ours.”

 

Simpson told the outlet that the response has been hard to process.

 

“This can’t be real,” he said, recalling how he kept checking his phone as donations poured in. “I’m thinking, ‘This has got to be some kind of a scam.’”

 

The longtime delivery driver, who works nights to supplement his job with the Idaho Department of Agriculture, said he’s always tried to help others.

 

Simpson revealed that he spent time in prison for a DUI in his past, got sober, returned to school more than 20 years ago, and has still struggled to save for retirement despite years of work.

 

“I’ve always tried to be a pretty nice guy and help people out, because I know what it’s like to be down and out,” he said.

 

Viewers rallied around the feel-good moment.

 

“The world needs more Dans,” Wilson wrote in his TikTok caption, a sentiment echoed across the social media platform.

 

“I love when humans human,” responded one user, while another said, “This is old school respect and going beyond duty.”

 

After donating to Simpson, one person wrote in a message on GoFundMe: “I love that people respect how hard it is to do this job and risky, especially for older people. Bless you for doing this and happy retirement Dan!”

 

Now, thanks to a quick stop for soda, Simpson is heading into retirement from his state job at the end of April with a financial boost and possibly bigger travel plans.

 

He plans to continue delivering pizza for Domino’s and hopes to use the GoFundMe money toward a trip to see the Redwood trees in California.

 

“They say I went the extra mile, but for goodness’ sake, it was no big deal,” he said. “Well, now I might go to Hawaii. Actually, I’d rather go to Melba.”

111 THOUSAND SPIDERS BUILT A WEB ACROSS TWO COUNTRIES

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

 

111,000 Spiders Built a Web Across Two Countries and Yes, It's as Terrifying as It Sounds

By Ryan Brennan

March 31, 2026 12:30 PM

 

Picture a spiderweb roughly half the size of a tennis court. Now put it deep inside a cave that straddles the border of two countries — and fill it with 111,000 spiders from two species that normally eat each other.

 

That’s exactly what researchers found inside the Sulfur Cave in the Vromoner Canyon, located on the border of Greece and Albania.

 

Their findings, published in the journal Subterranean Biology in October 2025, describe what might be the world’s largest spiderweb — and the bizarre truce happening inside it.

 

A Blanket-Like Spiderweb Hidden in Total Darkness

 

The web was first observed in 2021 by cavers from the Czech Speleological Society. Marek Audy, who originally discovered the spiderweb, described it as “dense” and “like a blanket.”

 

Located 50 meters (164 feet) from the cave entrance in a permanently dark section, the web stretches along a narrow, low-ceilinged passage and measures 106 square meters (1,140 square feet).

 

According to Audy, it’s built from a multi-layered patchwork of individual funnels that form a spongy mass.

 

“When there’s danger, the female crawls back and hides, and no creature of a higher order can dig her out of there,” Audy said.

 

Two Unlikely Spider Species Living In Harmony

 

Here’s where it gets truly strange. Researchers estimated spider numbers by counting individual web funnels and collecting specimens for further analysis.

 

What they found were two species sharing the web: roughly 69,000 Tegenaria domestica (barn funnel weavers, also known as common house spiders) and 42,000 Prinerigone vagans spiders.

 

Under normal circumstances, barn funnel weavers prey on the smaller Prinerigone vagans. So why aren’t they attacking each other?

 

Researchers believe the cave’s poor lighting impairs the spiders’ vision, creating an unlikely truce between the species.

 

Dr. Lena Grinsted, a senior lecturer at the U.K.’s University of Portsmouth who was not a part of the study, offered some context.

 

“Spiders, in general, are not particularly good at seeing stuff … and that includes these two species,” she told the Associated Press.

 

There’s also the matter of food. An estimated 2.4 million midge flies buzz around the Sulfur Cave spider colony, giving the spiders a never-ending supply of food.

 

Researchers think the food supply, combined with the darkness, limits the hostility between species.

 

“So often if you have spiders in close vicinity, they will fight and end up eating each other,” said Dr. Grinsted. “We can sometimes see that if there’s an abundance of food that they sort of become a bit less aggressive.”

 

Still, don’t imagine these spiders as friendly neighbors.

 

While the spiders likely work together in building the web, Grinsted said it’s “highly unlikely that they cooperate in anything else like prey capture, in brood care, or looking after each other’s babies.”

 

A Spider Colony With Similar, Yet Different, Relatives

 

Upon further analysis, researchers discovered something else surprising: the spiders inside the cave are genetically different from those found outside.

 

“The DNA is interesting because they revealed that the species which live inside the cave is different from the one which lives outside the cave,” Dr.

 

Blerina Vrenozi, a biologist and zoologist at the University of Tirana in Albania who co-authored the study, told the Associated Press. “So it’s the same species, but different DNA,” she added.

 

Their sulfur-rich diet has significantly reduced the diversity of their gut microbiomes. Both findings suggest the colony does not mix with outside spider populations — they’ve adapted exclusively to cave life.

 

So the next time a cobweb in the corner of your ceiling gives you a shiver, consider this: somewhere beneath the mountains between Greece and Albania, 111,000 spiders are quietly coexisting in total darkness.

 

And the blanket of silk they’ve been creating is rewriting the rules of spider behavior.

TEXAS MOM FORCED TODDLER TO USE UNNEEDED WHEELCHAIR AND FEEDING TUBES

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

 

Texas mom forced toddler to use unneeded wheelchair and feeding tubes: warrant

By Shambhavi Rimal

April 3, 2026 12:59 PM

 

A North Texas mother accused of medically abusing her 3-year-old son falsified records to get feeding tubes and forced him to use a wheelchair unnecessarily before CPS removed him from her care in February, an arrest warrant alleges.

 

Kaitlyn Rose Laura, of Glen Rose, faces charges of serious bodily injury to a child and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office.

 

According to the arrest warrant affidavit prepared by Sheriff’s Office Detective Michael Weber, Laura is accused of falsifying her child’s medical history in order to get unnecessary treatments at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth and Children’s Medical Center Dallas.

 

Texas Child Protective Services removed Laura’s son from her care on Feb. 14, the affidavit states. The 31-year-old mother was released on bond with conditions including no contact with the victim or other children under 17, according to court documents.

 

Laura’s defense attorney declined to comment on the case Wednesday.

 

Timeline of alleged abuse

 

During an appointment at Cook Children’s hospital in Fort Worth in March 2025, Laura told doctors that her son “always had difficulty gaining weight” and his sheets “smell like acid,” which she said led her to believe he was vomiting overnight, the affidavit states

 

In the following month, detectives wrote, Laura provided falsified records for her birth experience including her son “needing oxygen,” which did not match his birth records. Toward the end of April 2025, the mother started sending messages to the hospital’s GI team asking for G-tube placement and saying that her son’s physical medicine and rehab provider told her to ask if that was something to consider. Later a doctor noted that there was no medical record for the recommendation and Laura “twisted her words,” the affidavit states.

 

Laura told doctors her child’s condition was “deteriorating” and that he had “declining weight,” when he remained in the 43rd to 48th percentile for growth, investigators said. She took him to the emergency room for suspected dehydration, but he was discharged after showing no signs of it.

 

She also claimed her son was “burning calories,” and one message read, “Why is no one listening to me?”, according to the affidavit. A doctor described her as “very pushy” in seeking a feeding tube and resistant to other therapies. A G-tube was placed May 20, when the child was at the 60th percentile for growth, the affidavit states.

 

During a May appointment, the mother reported finding bits of dog food in the child’s bowel movement. When a nurse showed her a dog food pellet, Laura said the child may have eaten it while unattended at a babysitter’s home, the affidavit states. Later that month, she returned to the hospital reporting problems with the feeding tube and intolerance to feeds, but doctors reportedly observed no issues when they administered feeding. According to the affidavit, hospital staff suspected possible medical abuse, and the child was placed in a room under video monitoring.

 

Nurses noted the toddler ate all foods by mouth, including French toast, quesadillas, pancakes, chicken, rice, fries and pasta, consuming all of his calories orally, according to doctors’ notes. The G-tube was not removed before discharge as a precaution.

 

According to the affidavit, Laura also insisted on having her son on a posey bed, an enclosed tent-like structure that can only be opened from one side to restrict the child’s movements. While the boy reportedly showed no signs of needing one, the mom also asked nurses to provide him Benadryl while he was calm, stating she didn’t want him “misbehaving.”

 

The doctor at Cook Children’s reported the suspected medical abuse concerns to Fort Worth police; however, the detective wrote in the affidavit that the case was moved to Glen Rose police due to jurisdiction restrictions and then to the Johnson County District Attorney’s Office.

 

In the meantime, CPS did not remove the child from the mother’s care, and the mother decided to take him to another hospital in December. The day after Christmas at the Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, doctors noted that Laura “insisted” on a new feeding tube. In January the 3-year-old went through another surgery which required a second hole in his abdomen to insert a tube into the lower intestine for feeding, the detective wrote in the affidavit.

 

Staff at the Dallas hospital witnessed similar patterns of the mother reporting issues with the feeding tube and asking for a posey bed, the affidavit reads. The mother allegedly also asked for hospice services and total parenteral nutrition, which is delivered intravenously and bypasses the digestive system. However, doctors noted that the child did not require such care and was not terminally ill.

 

Detectives wrote in the affidavit that they found at least three separate GoFundMe accounts created by Laura along with multiple pages on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok to solicit donations for both herself and her son’s medical expenses.

 

Despite normal EEGs and other reports from Cook Children’s hospital, Laura wrote in posts in late May 2025 that her son had seizures cerebral palsy, a mitochondrial disorder, autism and developmental delays, the affidavit states.

 

In an interview with the detectives, the child’s father said that Laura was the medical caregiver for their son and he let her handle the child’s medical care, according to the affidavit. Laura used to work at a Granbury home health company that specialized in caring for patients with feeding tubes, the father said.

 

Another report of medical abuse came from a school teacher in October 2025, who told the detectives that the child’s behavior at school did not match the medical history reported by the mother. According to the teacher, the toddler consumed proper snacks at school and “shows interest in other people’s food.”

 

A special education teacher also told a detective during an interview that she has videos of the child playing in the playground without needing a wheelchair.

 

The teacher told detectives that Laura would use complex medical jargon to talk about her child’s health which would not make sense. After this report, Laura removed her child from the school.

 

During an interview with Detective Weber in March, the foster caregiver noted that the child has a “very good appetite.” The caregiver noted that the toddler can walk but “gets winded after a long walk” due to “still low but building muscle tone.”

 

The caregiver also said that she wonders if some of the child’s milestone delays including speech delays could be because of the environment he was raised in rather than his medical condition.

NASA SENDS ROVER TO SEARCH FOR INTELLIGENT LIFE ON THE VIEW

Babylon Bee

 

NASA Sends Rover To Search For Intelligent Life On ‘The View’

Entertainment

Apr 9, 2024 · BabylonBee.com

 

NEW YORK, NY — According to sources, NASA has sent a brand new rover to search for any signs of intelligent life on The View.

 

NASA scientists, who launched the mission in an attempt to answer the age-old question of whether or not intelligent life existed on the set of the popular daytime talk show, remained skeptical that any evidence would be found.

 

"From what we've seen so far, it doesn't look good," said Dr. Edgar Barnhouse, who led the research team. "Rumors have always existed that there may be intelligent life on The View, but until now, we've never encountered any concrete proof. This mission was intended to answer the question once and for all."

 

"So far, our sensors have detected nothing."

 

Viewers were eager to learn the results of the rover expedition. "I've always been a bit of a conspiracy theorist," said Janelle Parker, who has watched the show since its inception. "For years, I've pondered the existence of intelligent life on The View, but everyone thought I was crazy. Chances may be slim, but I'm holding out hope that they can find proof."

 

Early reports indicated that the rover had yet to encounter any sentient creatures. "Nothing of note has been revealed," Barhnhouse said. "Just a pile of organic goo called a ‘Whoopi Goldberg' and some old fossilized remains that have been identified as once being Joy Behar. But nothing intelligent."

 

At publishing time, NASA said the mission would also explore the studio to learn whether or not it truly was once inhabited by the enormous, vicious beast known as Rosie O'Donnell. 

WOMAN WHO WORRIED SHE WAS A PEDOPHILE DIAGNOSED WITH OCD

PEOPLE

 

Woman, 22, Worried She Was a Pedophile. Then She Was Diagnosed with a Rare Form of OCD: 'I Thought I Was a Monster'

By Vanessa Etienne  Updated on April 6, 2026 05:27PM EDT

 

For seven years, a woman believed she was a pedophile — until a rare diagnosis explained her intrusive thoughts.

 

Molly Lambert, a 22-year-old from Manchester, England, grew up struggling with anxiety and panic attacks. She recalled having constant thoughts about death and being kidnapped. But by age 15, things escalated and she would have constant sexual and violent thoughts about children.

 

“The thoughts took a turn that was not what I experienced before,” she told Southwest News Service. “I was starting to have thoughts that I was a pedophile, that I was a rapist, that I was a predator, that I could harm somebody else.”

 

Lambert said the intrusive thoughts were so bad that she felt like she was a danger to other people, including her friends and family.

 

But when she was 19 years old, Lambert came across a TikTok video about P-OCD, pedophilia-themed obessive-compulsive disorder. She started to realize that she wasn’t alone in her experience.

 

“I thought OCD — like loads of people do — was cleaning and organizing. That can be a part of it, but that’s one theme out of all of these other themes that you can experience,” she said.

 

According to the Mayo Clinic, "Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) features a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears that lead you to do repetitive behaviors (compulsions).” With P-OCD, instead of repeating physical actions, people experience ruminating thoughts, or the continual overthinking of a particular subject, event or emotion. What makes it challenging for many is that such thoughts typically continue with no conclusion.

 

People with P-OCD experience excessive worries and distressing intrusive thoughts about being sexually attracted to, and sexually violating, children, according to the National Institutes of Health.

 

Despite learning about P-OCD online, Lambert said she still felt anxious about her thoughts and kept them a secret. She struggled for years and dealt with “dark spirals” of shame.

 

“You think you’re a monster, that you don’t deserve to exist,” she said. “The shame is in how you see yourself. Even years later, that feeling can linger.”

 

Lambert tried therapy, but was never honest about her situation, telling professionals only that she suffered from “dark thoughts." Ultimately, her panic attacks from the intrusive thoughts worsened and she finally decided to be transparent.

 

In August 2025, Lambert was formally diagnosed with P-OCD.

 

“It’s not being a pedophile — it’s that these thoughts exist and your brain latches onto them,” she explained. “OCD is all about uncertainty. It tells you ‘what if?’ and you can’t prove it wrong.”

 

Although Lambert is getting help, she still has difficulty navigating the condition. She admitted that she wishes she were diagnosed earlier because it “could have saved me years of suffering.” However, she said going public about her experience has helped significantly, and she’s been able to connect with other people going through the same.

 

“Externalizing it helped the most,” she told the outlet. “For years I avoided talking about it, but once I did, it felt like the air cleared.”

 

“The response has been overwhelming,” she continued. “People say they’ve been crying, that they’ve felt like this for years and never told anyone. Parents have reached out saying they have obsessions about harming their children. Some people said they ended up in psychiatric wards or tried to take their own lives.”

 

Lambert said she hopes to remove the stigma and help others know that these unwanted thoughts don’t make her — or them — bad people.

 

“People don’t talk about it, and that makes it worse… You have to label it so it loses power,” she said. “It gives people permission to step back and realize it’s their brain — not them being a monster.”