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Perth Now
08-06-2025
- Perth Now
How a grieving family tracked down their stolen car with a pair of AirPods
A grieving Melbourne family has taken the law into their own hands to chase down their stolen car, using an unlikely piece of technology to get their beloved vehicle back. The Mernda family's 2016 Holden V8 Commodore was stolen from the car park of Sunshine Hospital on Friday. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Fed-up Melbourne family takes the law into their own hands to chase down their stolen car They were at the hospital saying goodbye to their dying grandmother, returning to the car only to find it had disappeared. Frantic, Kosta Theos realised he had left his Apple AirPods in the car's centre console. 'All of a sudden a light bulb clicked,' he told 7NEWS. The headphones provided the family with regular location updates, allowing them to hop into another car and give chase. They finally caught up to Holden, which was captured on dashcam driving erratically and weaving though traffic. 'I'm thinking it's gonna clip a tree, or clip a car and then it would have been mayhem,' Kosta's father and the car's owner John Theos said. 'It was getting thrashed, he was going over the footpaths, over roundabouts.' Dashcam footage shows the Theos family chasing after their Holden V8 Commodore. Credit: 7NEWS John Theos is the owner of the car. Credit: 7NEWS They continued to chase the car through Melbourne's north and east, desperate for help from the police who they called during the pursuit. Another car involved in the chase, a black Subaru with stolen number plates, was helping the thief by stopping Kosta and John from getting too close. 'While we were chasing our car, the Subaru (had) gone in front of us, blocked us off,' John said. The chase lasted an exhausting two or three hours, ending when the family found it dumped in a court. The family were at the hospital visiting their dying grandmother when the car was taken. Credit: 7NEWS The car was found dumped in a court. Credit: 7NEWS 'We risked our lives, we had to chase, my children were in the car, we were panicking,' John said. 'Yes, you might say: 'Why did you go?' But we've got a car that means a lot to us.'
7NEWS
08-06-2025
- 7NEWS
Melbourne family chases down stolen vehicle taken outside Sunshine Hospital
A grieving Melbourne family has taken the law into their own hands to chase down their stolen car, using an unlikely piece of technology to get their beloved vehicle back. The Mernda family's 2016 Holden V8 Commodore was stolen from the car park of Sunshine Hospital on Friday. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today They were at the hospital saying goodbye to their dying grandmother, returning to the car only to find it had disappeared. Frantic, Kosta Theos realised he had left his Apple AirPods in the car's centre console. 'All of a sudden a light bulb clicked,' he told 7NEWS. The headphones provided the family with regular location updates, allowing them to hop into another car and give chase. They finally caught up to Holden, which was captured on dashcam driving erratically and weaving though traffic. 'I'm thinking it's gonna clip a tree, or clip a car and then it would have been mayhem,' Kosta's father and the car's owner John Theos said. 'It was getting thrashed, he was going over the footpaths, over roundabouts.' They continued to chase the car through Melbourne's north and east, desperate for help from the police who they called during the pursuit. Another car involved in the chase, a black Subaru with stolen number plates, was helping the thief by stopping Kosta and John from getting too close. 'While we were chasing our car, the Subaru (had) gone in front of us, blocked us off,' John said. The chase lasted an exhausting two or three hours, ending when the family found it dumped in a court. 'We risked our lives, we had to chase, my children were in the car, we were panicking,' John said. 'Yes, you might say: 'Why did you go?' But we've got a car that means a lot to us.'
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Daily Show' Feasts On Musk-Trump Breakup With A Simple 6-Word Solution
'Daily Show' correspondent Michael Kosta on Thursday shared a brutal proposal to resolve the vicious war of words between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. 'By the way, can we just point out how crazy 2025 is? Most people can't afford to eat eggs anymore, meanwhile these two billionaires are attacking each other from different social media platforms that they each own,' Kosta said. 'Maybe we should eat the rich!' Moments later, Kosta advised Musk and Trump to let cooler heads prevail, 'Let's not say something we can never take back, right? Right?' He flipped to Musk's 'really big bomb' on Thursday: his claim that the Trump administration is withholding the Jeffrey Epstein files because the president is named in them. Kosta appeared stunned as his audience clapped and cheered at the post. 'America, tonight, we are a nation at war,' said the comic as he took off a pair of eyeglasses. Kosta added that it's 'huge' of the president's 'own best friend/sugar daddy' to make such an allegation, but it comes as no surprise since Americans have seen Trump party with Epstein. 'Although, I like that he ends it with, 'Have a nice day,'' Kosta said of the post. 'I don't know if Trump is, but I sure am!' He then spotted how 'some sober minds are calling for a ceasefire' in the feud before turning to Ye — a self-described Nazi formerly known as the rapper Kanye West — calling on two to knock it off. 'Broooos please noooooo 🫂 We love you both so much,' Ye wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Kosta weighed in, 'Look, you know you've gone too far when Kanye West is saying, 'Please, stop being messy on the internet!'' Check out more of Kosta's Thursday monologue on '.' 'Daily Show' Has The Most Wicked Way GOP Can Get Back At Elon Musk's 'S**t' Talk Stephen Colbert Exposes Elon Musk's Most Glaring Trump Hypocrisy Seth Meyers Spots Surefire Sign Trump's White House Couldn't Stand Elon Musk
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Daily Show' Has The Most Wicked Way GOP Can Get Back At Elon Musk's 'S**t' Talk
'Daily Show' correspondent Michael Kosta on Wednesday called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over his reluctant response to Elon Musk's escalating attacks against President Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill.' Kosta — while teeing up a clip of Johnson's monotonous response to Musk — said Republicans turning on the bill after just one post by Musk 'must really piss off' the House speaker who 'busted his balls for months' working on it. 'Don't take that shit, Mike!' said Kosta before serving a brutal diss of the former White House adviser. 'Tell that pasty, South African, belly-flashing, sperm-fountain, absent-baby-daddy, friendless, Ziploc-bag-full-of-jizz, ketamine —.' Kosta, after pausing for applause, piled on more insults, ' — ketamine-Rasputin, dead-eye-deadbeat, DOGE-donkey, Hitler-waving, semen-distributor where he can shove his tweets! Come on!' The comedian then turned to video of Johnson's humdrum words for Musk. 'With all due respect, my friend Elon is terribly wrong about the one big, beautiful bill.' Kosta made a mockery of the response. 'Ohhhh, my God none of them are good at this,' he said. Moments earlier, he clowned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for her post-vote backlash against the bill Tuesday when she revealed she was 'adamantly OPPOSED' to a provision on artificial intelligence. He played a clip of Greene who, in remarks on the House floor, advised lawmakers to 'carefully' keep an eye on the bills they pass. Kosta chimed in, 'Yup, no shit!' 'I mean, congrats on coming out against a crazy thing in this bill but you weren't aware of what was in it? That's your job. This isn't book club. You can't just read the first seven pages and then be like, 'I love it, Linda, more rosé.'' Check out Kosta's Wednesday monologue on '.'
CNN
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNN
What's so funny about tennis? Daily Show's Michael Kosta says it could prepare you for a life in comedy
Have you heard the one about the funny tennis player? You probably haven't, by the nature of their work, they are notoriously serious people; but one man can vouch for them. Michael Kosta was once among the top-ranked tennis players in the world and now he's a successful, Emmy-winning comedian. His journey is as unorthodox as it is fascinating, and he says that it's tennis that made him funny, although he wasn't laughing much at the time. Kosta made it up to number 864 in the ATP singles rankings, which certainly makes him one of the best tennis players in the world. 'Just to give you some insight into how proud I am of that,' he told CNN Sports, 'I'm 45 years old now, I've been a comedian for 22 years and number 864 is still my email signature to this day.' But as he explains in his new book 'Lucky Loser,' there is nothing glamorous about the life of a tennis pro who is struggling to make it. He recalled a tournament in Mexico City where he had partnered with a college friend to split the cost of a hotel room: 'The draw came out and we were playing each other. I went to bed that night and said good night to my opponent, who then beat me the next day. 'He said, 'Well, now that I've qualified, I get a free hotel room. Do you want to stay with me?' So not only did I stay with the guy I was about to play, I then stayed with the guy who beat me. For some reason, I don't feel like Roger (Federer) and Rafa (Nadal) are managing that.' Despite having won so many junior trophies that his family had to rent a storage unit to keep them, he found himself living on a shoestring budget to try and keep his dream alive. Kosta traveled all over the world to try and make it as a professional. But in the end, he ran out of money and self-belief, he'd barely made $11,000 on the ATP Tour and he knew it was time to try something else. 'It's very, very tough,' he surmised. 'It sucks.' Kosta might not quite have realized it at the time, but the grind of being a wannabe tennis pro was preparing him for life as a comedian. 'You lose a lot when you're 864 in the world,' he told CNN. 'I would lose on a Monday or Tuesday, that would give me five or six days until the next tournament. Instead of obsessing over my matches or the difficult life I had chosen, I would write down these ideas, jokes and interactions that I thought were funny. It was a good way to decompress from the stress of it all.' Not only that, he understood that the tennis circuit was an interminable slog through some questionable establishments in backwater towns, the comedy circuit for a beginner would be no different. 'You're alone, you're problem solving,' he said of the similarities between the two professions. 'Playing tennis, dealing with difficult situations, gets you ready for the real world. 'I've done a bit, it's going great, and then the waitress trips and drops all the glasswear, or you get heckled, or the microphone goes out. I felt comfortable handling those situations because of tennis.' Is there any other sport where the loser has to give a speech? Tennis players learn to be good communicators. Kosta felt as though he had an advantage over many of the fledgling comedians he encountered at the start, he'd been coached to tuck his shirt in, shake hands with strength, look people in the eye and project confidence. He noted in Lucky Loser that the people telling jokes for a living were often the complete opposite. 'Comedians are dressed very poorly, many are noticeably drunk, half are not speaking clearly or are mumbling, they aren't making eye contact with the audience,' he wrote in the book. When he exchanged tennis sets for sets on stage, he brought an athlete's mentality to his craft. 'I remember these older comics would say, 'Man, it seems like when you have a bad set, you just keep going, it seems like it doesn't bother you.' And I go, 'Oh, I didn't know I was supposed to sit around and be sad about it, I just thought it was time to go practice!' 'The whole reason I've been able to climb up the comedy ladder is because I experienced loss and disappointment over and over again as a tennis player.' That's not to say that he ever enjoyed failing in either profession, but he discovered that a bad night on stage was much worse than a defeat on the court. 'Physically, emotionally,' he explained, 'to be a professional tennis player is harder than being a professional comedian. But to bomb a joke, the rejection is personal. When I lose, maybe my opponent played well, maybe I was injured. But to bomb a joke that came from your soul, when a group of people say, 'Absolutely not,' that hurts way more than losing 6-0, 6-0.' So, are tennis players funny? Kosta thinks some are, but they just can't show it. He recalls the impersonations that Novak Djokovic used to do at the start of his career, which he stopped because it was only fueling his opponents. 'I believe Iga Świątek is actually pretty funny, but when you're No. 1 in the world, everyone's trying to bring you down, she's reluctant to share it,' he said. 'Coco Gauff is remarkably light-hearted and goofy for someone who plays at such a high level, and I appreciate that so much.'
