This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

It's the end of the year and it's time for our annual mini stories episodes.

Maybe if I knew five years ago that these episodes would become an audience favorite and we do them every

single year.

I might have come up with a better name than mini stories, but here we are.

You got to dance with the girl that brung you.

Many stories are fun, quick hit stories that maybe came up in our research for another

episode or it was just some cool things someone told us about and we found really interesting,

but they didn't quite warrant a full episode in two months of hard reporting. But they are great 99 p. I story is nonetheless. My favorite part is we do them as

unscripted interviews where I'm in the studio interviewing the people who work on this show who I like an awful lot

sometimes I know a little bit about what they're going to talk about and sometimes I know nothing it is

very fun especially for me this week we have stories about mistaken identity,

unreachable iconic tour destinations, haunted architecture, and of course,

raccoons. Stay with us.

So I'm in the studio with Emmett Fitzgerald and I'm told Stay with us.

So I'm in the studio with Emmett Fitzgerald and I'm told you have a story about a park.

Yes, a park in Ottawa, Canada called Jack Purcell Park and you know it's a pretty ordinary looking park in many ways it's a little pocket park with some grass some trees community center

But there's one kind of distinctive feature I would say to the park which is the light fixtures.

So take a look at this picture.

So they're, they look like they're about 8 feet tall,

there's a post and an oval on top of it.

It kind of looks like lollipops, like a tennis racket or something like that.

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