For Fun - some weird Texas stories from 2019

Funny stories from Texas from 2019

https://www.texasobserver.org/weird-texas-stories-2019/

We need some fun!!  Here are some weird and funny stories from Texas from 2019

-1 A woman was banned from Walmart after drinking wine from a Pringles can while astride an electric shopping cart. The Wichita Falls Times-Record-News reports that when a police officer arrived at the store around 9 a.m., employees said the lone ranger had been riding around the property since 6:30. 

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Okay, you can’t make these up!!  (I’m not sure why she put the wine in a Pringles can?)

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-2 There may or may not have been a monkey—or a chimpanzee, a raccoon, or Bigfoot—on the loose in Santa Fe, but the internet sure wanted to believe. According to the Galveston County Daily News, police received two credible reports of a monkey sighting in the same neighborhood, two days apart. After searching the treetops via drone, they failed to find the animal. A flurry of news reports followed, as well as a parody Twitter account. “Aside from the great peacock escape of 2016, I don’t think Santa Fe has dealt with a search on such a national stage.” 

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Still more believable than the first story

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-3 A man posed as a Beto O’Rourke campaign volunteer in order to break into a house and steal a Popsicle in Austin.. The Austin American-Statesman reports that a neighbor questioned James Bradford Gibbon II, 28, when she saw the man loitering on a porch. Gibbon, who was wearing a black Beto T-shirt, replied that he was “campaigning for Beto for president.” A few minutes later, another woman arrived home to find Gibbon in her kitchen, holding the wrapper of a frozen treat he’d just filched from the freezer.

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Maybe it was a hot day and he needed to cool off!!

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-4 A city council member from Abilene announced that instead of seeking re-election, he plans to spend more time working on his underground bunker. Steve Savage told KTXS that he’s creating an “ultra-safe” home within a ballistic missile silo. The silo, which Savage recently purchased, is one of 12 built by the military during the 1960s near Dyess Air Force Base.

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Without windows - of course

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-5 From Corpus Christi “A hit-and-run driver led police on a thrilling low-speed chase to catch his John Deere tractor. The man allegedly backed into a van with his tractor.

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What’s the slogan “Nothing runs like a Deere”!!

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-6 From San Antonio: “A pair of hikers in Government Canyon State Natural Area called 911 to report that “an animal had been following and growling at them, so they had taken refuge by climbing a tree.”   And, what was the noise? —the sound of cars passing over rumble strips on a nearby road. 

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Actually, those rumble strips can be a bit scary!!

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-7 Got Pets? “A man tested the limits of Petco’s “all leashed pets allowed” policy by walking his 1,600-pound steer into the store. The man walked into the store with his Watusi cow (with the hug 9-foot horns!!!

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And, the store welcomed him!!

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-8 Livingston Mayor Judy B. Cochran bagged a 12-foot alligator—the same creature, she believes, that ate her miniature horse a few years ago. “Typically, the Gators don’t bother us, but we’ve been looking for this one.”  She used a seasoned raccoon to attract the 580-pound animal to her pond, where she shot it. 

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She is mounting the head and using the hide for boots!!

There you are - some weird things from Texas in 2019!!

Karen