(NEW YORK) — Say you’re looking to fly from Las Vegas to Charlotte, North Carolina. The flight costs $500. But a flight from Las Vegas to Washington, D.C., with a layover in Charlotte costs only $300.
Hypothetically, a traveler could use their layover as their final destination, skipping the last leg of their trip and saving themselves some money along the way.
This practice is called “skiplagging” or “hidden city ticketing” and it’s been around for years. The company Skiplagged was even founded in 2013 to help show travelers such “hidden city” flights.
Now, with steep summer airfare and travel bouncing back to pre-pandemic rates, some people may once again be considering this option, despite any risks it could entail.
“The reality is, the way airlines price their tickets, mostly with their hub and spoke model, creates really challenging pricing for travelers that want to go to a specific hub city,” said Dan Gellert, COO of Skiplagged.com.
But the cheap price tag could come with consequences. While skiplagging isn’t illegal, many airlines prohibit and penalize the practice.
In 2014, United Airlines and Orbitz sued Skiplagged, claiming the company’s CEO, Aktarer Zaman, “used his website to intentionally and maliciously interfere with Plaintiffs’ contracts and business relations in the airline industry.”
The case was dismissed on procedural grounds in 2015 when a judge in Chicago ruled the court didn’t have jurisdiction. But Skiplagged now puts explicit warnings on its site that this type of ticketing is risky, adding this disclaimer: “Airlines don’t like when you miss flights to save money, so don’t do this often.”
“The more a traveler does it, the higher likelihood an airline is going to say, ‘Hey, you’ve missed your end destination three, four, five times,'” said Gellert. “That is going to raise some flags internally.”
Gellert added that many travelers skiplag without any issues.
Some airlines have developed software to detect skiplaggers, according to airline industry analyst Henry Harteveldt. If the airlines do catch travelers engaged in the practice, Harteveldt said, they could delete frequent flier accounts, cancel return reservations or charge them more money.
Even if the airline doesn’t catch you, there are still logistical concerns that could throw your trip for a serious loop. If your flight is canceled and you’re rerouted through another city, it’ll be a headache, and likely an additional expense, to get to your destination. And you’ll need to travel light — you can’t check luggage, and if the plane is full and your bag needs to be gate-checked, you won’t be able to retrieve it when you get out on your layover.
“Skiplagging is a very risky bet,” Harteveldt said. “If you or a member of your family gets caught, you could end up in a lot of trouble with the airline… I’m just not sure that the savings are worth the risk, even with the high airfares we’re seeing right now.”
(LONDON and BERLIN) — German authorities said Thursday that “a number of items were seized” in Portugal during a renewed search for missing British child Madeleine McCann.
“These will be evaluated in the coming days and weeks,” the Braunschweig District Attorney’s Office in Germany said in a statement. “It is not yet possible to say whether any of the items are actually related to the Madeleine McCann case.”
German, Portuguese and British police took part in the three-day operation in the Algarve region of southern Portugal last week, during which officers were seen scouring the banks of the Arade reservoir for possible evidence. The area is about 30 miles from the Praia da Luz resort, where McCann was last seen in 2007. The 3-year-old was on vacation with her family at the time.
A number of searches have been conducted over the years, but the latest was done at the request of German authorities. Portuguese police said last week that all material collected during the operation would be handed over to German authorities for examination.
“Sincere thanks go out to all police officers involved in the search,” the Braunschweig District Attorney’s Office said. “The cooperation between the Portuguese police, the police officers from Great Britain and the and the Federal Criminal Police Office was excellent and very constructive.”
In 2020, German police identified 45-year-old German citizen Christian Brueckner as a suspect in McCann’s disappearance. Brueckner, who was in Portugal’s Algarve region in 2007, is currently in jail in the northern German city of Braunschweig for a different case.
“The investigations conducted here in Braunschweig against the 46-year-old suspect are are expected to continue for some time,” the district attorney’s office added.
(NEW YORK) — Canada has announced that it will begin putting individual warning labels on cigarettes and other tobacco products in an effort to further reduce their appeal, becoming the world’s first country to use such a measure.
Beginning on Aug. 1, Canada will implement a phased approach that will force cigarette companies to put individual health warnings on their products starting with king size cigarettes by the end of July 2024 and all other products — including regular size cigarettes and little cigars — by the end of April 2025.
“The new Tobacco Products Appearance, Packaging and Labelling Regulations will be part of the Government of Canada’s continued efforts to help adults who smoke to quit, to protect youth and non-tobacco users from nicotine addiction, and to further reduce the appeal of tobacco,” Health Canada said in a statement announcing the new tobacco labelling policy. “Labelling the tipping paper of individual cigarettes, little cigars, tubes, and other tobacco products will make it virtually impossible to avoid health warnings altogether. In addition, the regulations will support Canada’s Tobacco Strategy and its target of reaching less than 5% tobacco use by 2035.”
Canada announced other measures they plan on implementing as well such as strengthening and updating health-related messages on tobacco product packaging, extending the requirement for these messages to all tobacco product packaging and making sure there is a periodic rotation of the message.
“Tobacco use continues to kill 48,000 Canadians each year. We are taking action by being the first country in the world to label individual cigarettes with health warning messages. This bold step will make health warning messages virtually unavoidable, and together with updated graphic images displayed on the package, will provide a real and startling reminder of the health consequences of smoking,” Carolyn Bennett, minister of Mental Health and Addictions and associate minister of Health, said in the government’s statement announcing the new measures. “We will continue to do whatever it takes to help more people in Canada stop smoking and help young people to live healthy tobacco-free lives.”
While copies of the full regulations are currently available upon request, the new policy will be published for the general public on June 7 in an edition of the Canada Gazette, Health Canada said.
“The requirement for a health warning directly on every cigarette is a world precedent setting measure that will reach every person who smokes with every puff,” said Rob Cunningham, Senior Policy Analyst at the Canadian Cancer Society. “The new regulations deserve strong support.”
Canada first adopted imaged warning requirements on tobacco product packages in 2000 but the current health-related messages and images for cigarettes and little cigars have been in place since 2011. These new regulations also bring Canada into full compliance with the tobacco labelling obligations under Article 11 of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control by extending health warning and toxicity information requirements to all tobacco product packages.
“Tobacco use continues to be one of Canada’s most significant public health problems, and is the country’s leading preventable cause of disease and premature death in Canada,” said Jean-Yves Duclos, Canada’s minister of Health, in the announcement. “Our government is using every evidence-based tool at our disposal to help protect the health of Canadians, especially young people. Beginning next year, these new measures will help make sure that everyone across the country can receive credible information on the risks of tobacco use so they can make healthier choices for their wellbeing.”
(WASHINGTON) — With just days until a June 5 deadline, the Senate now is racing against time to pass the debt ceiling bill and avoid what would be an economically catastrophic default.
But while Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said work would begin immediately after House passage Wednesday night, it’s rare for anything to get resolved quickly in the United States Senate.
“We’re getting close to putting this threat of default behind us,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Wednesday. “But there’s still more work, perhaps the most important work, to do: passing it into law.”
No room for typical Senate delay
As the drama plays out, there is almost no room for delay if the bill is to get to President Joe Biden’s desk by Monday, the day Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned the U.S. could run out of money to be able to pay all its bills on time and in full.
The current goal, aides on both sides of the aisle say, is to pass the measure by late Friday.
In addition to the deadline, it could help that that’s also supposed to be the start of a three-day weekend for senators — and getting out of Washington is a time-honored motivator for faster action.
Schumer: No changes, ‘plain and simple’
Threatening to hold up the process, though, is a possible filibuster or time-consuming debate and votes on amendments being sought by various lawmakers, mainly Republicans, but some Democrats, too.
Senators normally are accorded great deference and time to have their say, but when asked Wednesday how many amendment votes he’d allow, Schumer punted. He emphasized the bill can’t be changed or else it would need to go back to the House for review.
“We are going to do everything we can to move the bill quickly,” Schumer told ABC News. “We cannot send anything back to the House. Plain and simple.”
“We must avoid default, we must,” he added.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had a similar “time is of the essence” message for his own conference.
“I can tell you what I hope happens — is that those who have amendments, if given votes, will yield back time so that we can finish this Thursday or Friday and soothe the country and soothe the markets,” McConnell said Wednesday.
Senate GOP leaders see Friday night passage possible
Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D,. told ABC News Wednesday that if Republicans get votes on roughly half a dozen amendments, even GOP opposition won’t block swift passage of the deal.
When asked if that could be by Friday night, Thune agreed: “Yeah, I mean, I think it could happen fairly quickly if there’s agreement. But we’ll get a better sense of where our members are today.”
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tweeted Wednesday he will “insist on an amendment vote” on his alternative debt ceiling plan that would lift the limit by $500 billion while cutting spending across the board by 5%, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he would try to bring up an amendment to increase the level of defense spending in the bill.
The current Biden-McCarthy deal only allows a 1% increase in defense next fiscal year, which, accounting for inflation, would amount to a cut.
“I think that’s the worst part of the deal,” McConnell said Wednesday. “The defense buildup — which we began in December — peters out and then it’s only up slightly but more than domestic. So, I don’t think it’s as good as I would like, but if you look at the totality of the agreement, I think it should be supported and our defense needs will still be there.”
Despite those concerns, there appears to be general agreement on the bottom line: that if the bill is changed by even a single letter, it would have to return to the House and at that point — both it and the country would face an uncertain fate.
(NEW YORK) — The surveillance video, from earlier this year, is startling: Four masked men march in a line through a Home Depot store in New York — two of them looking like menacing bodyguards — while the two others confidently push carts stacked with almost a hundred boxes of high-value items that they take but never pay for.
When the same crew, allegedly doing the same thing, was approached by a security officer at another Home Depot store nearby, one of the men threatened the guard.
“I’ll knock you out. This isn’t worth dying for,” he said, according to prosecutors.
As Home Depot executives describe it, that New York-area crew is part of a growing threat to Americans across the country: so-called organized retail crime, where groups of criminals steal prized items to sell online or elsewhere.
While this kind of theft has been around for years, retailers say it’s reached unprecedented levels, sparking deadly violence at some stores. And federal authorities now warn it’s become an “absolute threat” to public safety and public health, declaring that violent gangs, dangerous international crime syndicates, and even groups with suspected ties to terrorism are increasingly dabbling in organized retail crime across the United States.
“These criminal networks, they may be full-time drug traffickers, but they see an opportunity to work with a crew that’s already stealing,” said Raul Aguilar, who oversees international organized crime cases for Homeland Security Investigations, the primary investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. “And because it’s hundreds of millions of dollars, [the money they make] can easily be diverted for [other] kinds of activities.”
‘Theft for greed’
“Organized retail crime is what I call theft for greed, not theft for need,” said Scott Glenn, vice president for asset protection at The Home Depot, which has been hit hard by organized retail theft. “[But] they don’t just come to a Home Depot and then decide to go home … they go to Target, they go to Lowe’s, they go to CVS, they go anywhere.”
The groups behind organized retail theft can be expansive — “like your traditional organized crime families,” as Glenn put it — or, as Aguilar noted, they can be just two or three people working together.
They target stores big and small, and they take whatever they know they can sell — from power tools and spools of wire worth $3,000, to designer clothes and even medical supplies, officials told ABC News.
“They do a lot of research about what is profitable,” Aguilar said. “They have shopping lists.”
Glenn said The Home Depot investigated about 400 cases of suspected organized retail theft in the past year alone — more than one per day — and that the numbers are “growing double digits year over year.”
The National Retail Federation’s most recent survey of retailers across the country reported a 26% jump in organized retail crime between 2000 and 2021, amounting to tens of billions of dollars in losses. Home Depot alone loses “billions of dollars a year” to organized retail crime, according to Glenn.
Asked what’s behind the recent spike of organized retail crime, Glenn cited two things in particular: the proliferation of masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, which allowed people to stay “a little bit more anonymous,” as he put it, and the explosion of online marketplaces, where people can be even more anonymous.
According to the National Retail Federation, online sellers like Amazon and eBay have been particularly popular with retail thieves, but criminals are increasingly using peer-to-peer sites such as Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace, which offer more direct transactions.
‘Keeps you up at night’
A Homeland Security Investigations report issued last year said estimates regarding organized retail crime found “the average American family will pay more than $500 annually in additional costs due to the impact.”
But there are also much broader — and potentially more concerning — implications, according to retailers and law enforcement officials.
“This isn’t just shoplifting,” noted Aguilar, saying that it impacts the supply chain — “and that has effect on the economy.”
At the stores themselves, according to authorities and retailers, thieves are often armed with guns, knives, bear spray, or even tools taken from store shelves.
“We’re starting to see a lot more violent acts taking place,” said David Johnston of the National Retail Federation. “It greatly impacts the retailer’s ability to keep their environment safe.”
At a Home Depot in Pleasanton, California, in April, Blake Mohs, a 26-year-old employee set to be married in August, was fatally shot after he tried to stop a suspected thief. Two people have been arrested on murder charges in the case.
And late last year, 82-year-old Gary Rasor, a retiree working at The Home Depot in Hillsborough, North Carolina, died after being shoved to the ground by an alleged thief, who was then arrested on a murder charge. The case against him is still pending.
“It’s unconscionable,” Glenn said of the deaths. “That’s something that keeps you up at night.”
Homeland Security officials are also concerned about who’s sometimes behind organized retail theft. Gangs and other dangerous groups, including the Aryan Brotherhood and crime rings from Eastern Europe and South America, have used organized retail theft to raise funds, according to Aguilar. And there are “definitely ties” between certain organized retail thieves and drug-trafficking organizations, including some of the cartels identified by the U.S. government as a global threat, Aguilar said.
In addition, said Aguilar, “some of these networks are tied to the terrorist financing networks around the world.”
When pressed for more details, he said, “There’s still too many active investigations, so I can’t really specifically get into those.”
Some media reports and others have questioned whether law enforcement officials and retailers have been exaggerating the scope of organized retail theft and the threat it poses to the U.S. homeland. As far back as 2021, the Los Angeles Times reported that although retail and law enforcement sources cite “eye-popping figures,” there is “reason to doubt the problem is anywhere near as large or widespread as they say.”
But Aguilar rejected such suggestions, insisting organized retail theft “absolutely is a threat.”
‘Part of the solution’
Glenn said The Home Depot is looking to stem the tide of organized retail theft by “taking a multifaceted approach”: locking up often-targeted items behind cages, launching new forms of technology, and pushing Congress and law enforcement to do more.
Retailers expect the newly-passed INFORM Act, which requires online retailers to verify certain information about their sellers, to help combat the sale of stolen and counterfeit goods — but they say they also want Congress to allocate funds for a federal task force specifically targeting organized retail crime. The Combating Organized Retail Crime Act, which would establish a coordinated multi-agency response and create new tools to tackle evolving trends in organized retail theft, was introduced by the House of Representatives in February.
“The feds … actually have some really, really good data-sharing and intelligence-sharing capabilities,” Glenn said.
Meanwhile, as local and state authorities try to tackle the issue in their communities with nearly a dozen state task forces, Homeland Security Investigations is “using all of its investigative authorities” to do what it can, Aguilar said.
Over the past three years, the agency has tripled the number of cases it’s investigating, often using fraud-related and money laundering laws to open cases, he said.
But Aguilar said that to really help stop organized retail crime, consumers need to be “part of the solution.”
“I think the first thing they could do is pay attention to what they’re buying online,” he said, advising consumers to be skeptical of items being sold as new with deep discounts.
“Pay attention to who’s selling them, make sure to read the reviews,” he said.
(NEW YORK) — Teenage birth rates have fallen to their lowest levels ever, new provisional federal data published Thursday found.
The report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, showed the birth rate among 15- to 19-year-olds in 2022 was 13.5 per 1,000 females.
That’s a 3% drop from the rate of 13.9 per 1,000 in 2021 and a record low in the United States.
Aside from an increase in 2006 and 2007, the teen birth rate in the U.S. has been continuously declining since 1991.
“I’m excited the U.S. has made significant progress in reducing pregnancies among youth,” Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, dean of the Duke University School of Nursing and whose research interests include teen sexual and reproductive health, told ABC News. “The all-time low should be an indication that we’re continuing to move in the right direction.”
For the report, the authors looked at birth certificate data received and processed by the NCHS.
They found that birth rates declined not just across all teens, but for both younger (ages 15–17) and older (ages 18–19) groups as well.
There was a small drop among 15- to 17-year-olds from 5.6 per 1,000 in 2021 to 5.5 per 1,000 in 2022 but a larger drop among 18- to 19-year-olds from 26.6 per 1,000 to 25.6 per 1,000.
The report did not discuss reasons behind the drop, but experts told ABC News it’s a combination of factors including more teens abstaining from sex, contraceptives becoming more easily available to teens and more pregnancy prevention programs aimed at teenagers.
Dr. Monica Woll Rosen, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Michigan Medicine who specializes in pediatric and adolescent gynecology, said there’s also been an increase in popularity among teens for long-acting reversible contraception, like intrauterine devices (IUDs).
“In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics came out and said that it should be used as first line for birth control,” she told ABC News. “And sort of the marketing around that has caused a lot of teens in this age group to get the IUD and therefore not become pregnant.”
Guilamo-Ramos said these decreases are encouraging to see but said it’s important to keep an eye on the data to make sure birth rates among teens are not slowing down.
“From 2007 to 2021, on average, the sort of reduction in the teen birth rate was about 8%,” he said. “And if you look at the more recent data that was released in the report, it’s 3%. Something kind of to keep an eye on and that it appears like that rate could be slowing down in terms of the progress.”
Rosen added there is more work to be done when it comes to reducing the number of teen pregnancies.
“The number is not zero and teens get pregnant all the time, who may not want to be pregnant but may not be aware of contraceptive options or options for emergency contraception and so [people should] still consider education necessary and at the forefront and the birth rate can still improve even though it’s at an all-time low right now,” she said.
The report also looked at other provisional data and found that overall births did fall to 3,661,220 in 2022 from 3,664,292 in 2021, but it was described by the authors as a nonsignificant decline.
Additionally, the general fertility rate among women aged 15 to 44 declined, but by less than 1% from 56.3 per 1,000 to 56.1 per 1,000.
Among race/ethnicity between 2021 and 2022, the provisional number of births declined 3% for American Indian/Alaska Native and white women and by 1% for Black women from 2021 to 2022.
However, birth rates rose 2% for Asian women and 6% for Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic women.
The report also focused on pre-term births and found the rate declined 1% in 2022 to 10.38%, from 10.49% in 2021.
(NEW YORK) — A beloved swan was reported missing from a New York state village’s pond on Monday. Three teenagers are now accused of killing the mother swan, who was then eaten, authorities said.
The three teens face felony charges in connection with the death of Faye, as well as the theft of her four cygnets — fixtures at the Manlius Swan Pond in Manlius, a southeast suburb of Syracuse, police said Wednesday.
The teens — friends from Syracuse — were arrested and charged with grand larceny and criminal mischief, both felonies, as well as conspiracy and criminal trespass, both misdemeanors, Manlius police said.
An 18-year-old suspect was arraigned and released on his own recognizance, police said. He is scheduled to appear in court on June 15. The other two suspects — a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old — were released to their parents because they are juveniles and will appear in court at a later date, according to police.
The teens allegedly hopped a fence overnight over the Memorial Day holiday weekend and captured Faye, who was nesting with her cygnets, and killed her at the pond, according to Manlius Police Sgt. Ken Hatter.
“Family and friends did consume the adult swan,” Hatter said during a press briefing on Wednesday.
The teens reportedly believed the swan was “just a very large duck,” and did not realize she was not a wild animal but property of the village of Manlius, Hatter said.
“They were hunting, is what they told us,” Hatter said.
Tips from citizens led investigators to a business at Shop City Plaza in the town of Salina, where they found two of the cygnets, police said Tuesday. The other two cygnets were subsequently found at a residence in Syracuse, police said.
The juveniles reportedly told police they wanted to raise the cygnets, which have since been turned over to a biologist, Hatter said.
Swans have been a fixture of the village since 1905, according to Manlius Mayor Paul Whorrall.
A male swan named Manny, who was Faye’s mate, was unharmed in the incident. He will be removed from the pond because he could become combative due to the loss of Faye, Whorrall said, while noting that swans mate for life.
The town is looking into increasing security measures at the pond in the wake of the incident.
“We’ve had swans for over 100 years, we’re going to continue to have swans as part of this village,” Whorrall said during Wednesday’s briefing.
(WASHINGTON) — Federal investigators have in their possession an audio recording of former President Donald Trump from July 2021, on which he acknowledges he held onto a sensitive military document after leaving office, sources confirm to ABC News.
The recording was made during a meeting at Trump’s Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club, that Trump held with people who were helping former chief of staff Mark Meadows with his memoir, according to sources.
Trump indicated during the recording that he knew the document in question was secret, the sources said.
Meadows was not present for the meeting, the sources said, but other Trump aides, including Margot Martin, were there.
Special counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents after leaving office, has questioned witnesses about the recording, sources familiar with the matter said.
The special counsel’s office declined to comment to ABC News.
A Trump spokesperson said in a statement to ABC News, “Leaks from radical partisans behind this political persecution are designed to inflame tensions and continue the media’s harassment of President Trump and his supporters. It’s just more proof that when it comes to President Trump, there are absolutely no depths to which they will not sink as they pursue their witch hunts.”
“The DOJ’s continued interference in the presidential election is shameful and this meritless investigation should cease wasting the American taxpayer’s money on Democrat political objectives,” the Trump spokesperson said.
News of the recording was first reported by CNN.
On the recording, which ABC News has not listened to nor obtained, Trump is heard attacking Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley and referencing one document in particular that Trump claimed Milley had compiled, according to sources. Trump, who said on the recording that he still had the document in his possession, said the document was about attacking Iran, sources said.
The specific nature of the document described in the recording is not known.
The July 2021 conversation took place several months before representatives for Trump handed over to the National Archives 15 boxes of presidential records that included documents with classified markings, and more than a year before Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was searched by the FBI last August.
During the August search, investigators uncovered more than 100 classified documents after Trump’s team failed to comply with a June 2022 subpoena seeking all such records that remained in his possession.
It’s unclear whether the document allegedly referenced in the recording was among those documents initially handed over to the Archives or those seized by the FBI in the August 2022 search.
On Friday, The Revivalists will release their new album, Pour It Out Into the Night. The record features the lead single “Kid,” which the “Wish I Knew You” outfit feels indicates the “caliber” of the record.
“It’s the band performing at our best level together with really well thought-out arrangements and production decisions,” guitarist Zack Feinberg tells ABC Audio.
That attention also applies to the album’s lyrics, which Feinberg describes as being “very real to us.”
“We go deep with some personal stuff on the material,” Feinberg says, to which frontman David Shaw adds, “There’s some raw stuff on there, for sure.”
“And there’s some fun tracks, too,” Feinberg continues. Shaw laughs, “Quintessential Revivalists album, baby!”
Pour It Out Into the Night arrives five years after the last Revivalists album, Take Good Care, dropped in 2018. During that time, a lot happened to the band members personally, not to mention the whole worldwide pandemic thing.
It was in the midst of said pandemic that Shaw often found himself writing or singing in his studio late at night and into the early morning.
“I’d wake up at, like, 3 a.m., I’d be up for three hours, kinda be in that interesting twilight area,” Shaw shares. “And certain things would kinda just pop out.”
Thus the title Pour It Out Into the Night, which Feinberg also thinks reflects a “recurring motif in our lyrics, which is this sort of unburdening.”
“Kind of how you are as a person,” Feinberg tells Shaw. “Which is to go forth and be vulnerable, and get it off your chest.”
Penned by Dylan, Dallas Wilson, Josh Melton and Matt Alderman, the track, as Dylan recalls, was very much inspired by a real-life situation.
Dylan’s longtime best friend, Micah, was having trouble finding the love of his life and decided to seek advice from the singer/songwriter.
“He’s like, ‘Man, you’ve been with your wife since you were 15. What do I got to do, man?’ So I just gave him a laundry list of things, like, ‘Hey, you got to find you one like this and maybe one like this and not like this and like this,'” Dylan shares with ABC Audio. “When I got off the phone with him, I told myself, ‘Dang, I just described my wife to my best friend.'”
This heartfelt conversation later sparked the inspiration for “Can’t Have Mine (Find You A Girl).”
“I started thinking about it, I was like, ‘Man, he needs to find a girl, but he can’t have mine.’ I wrote that in my phone and it turned out to be great,” he adds.
Today, Micah is not only in a relationship, he’s gearing up to tie the knot in September. “(Micah) did find him a girl. I’m going to take full credit for that. I am the matchmaker,” Dylan boasts.
Dylan is currently top 30-bound on the country charts with “Can’t Have Mine (Find You A Girl).”
