In Meanwhile, in Texas, we explore the genuine weirdness that our fellow Texans often engage in
The writer of an oddball 2016 crime story recalls emailing with an accountant who skimmed $17 million from Corsicana’s Collin Street Bakery.
Wichita Falls resident Jim Loudermilk carefully removed a 1930s racing sailboat from an old downtown building and restored it to its original glory.
The band aims to bring Texas Guns and Roses to its kn-kn-kn-kn-knees—or at least compel it to change its name.
From the man responsible for emptying it.
Plus, porch pirates spread manure on a home after getting pranked, a teen swallowed part of a dog toy, and more.
It’s impressive, really.
Plus, a man broke into an animal shelter and released more than 150 dogs, and a police officer completed an arrested driver’s food delivery.
Plus, Rice University engineers turned a dead spider into a gripping tool and a man ate 52 spring rolls in ten minutes.
Plus, a man stole $10,000 worth of bleachers, and landscapers discovered human remains in a backyard barbecue pit.
Plus, a man broke ancient Greek vessels at the Dallas Museum of Art, and a mysterious figure walked near the fence of the Amarillo Zoo.
Plus, a man robbing a Port Arthur home stopped first to mow its yard, and a 77-year-old man went for his first skydive in decades.
Is that you, Buc-ee?
Plus, a teacher resigned after she reportedly lit a student’s hands on fire, and a Dallas resident ran her thousandth marathon.
Plus, authorities seized 31 pets from an animal hoarder, and two MMA fighters wrested away a shooter's weapon.
Plus, José Altuve pays a fan a visit, and a woman tries to smuggle four spider monkeys into the U.S. in a duffel bag.
Plus, a woman finds unidentified ashes in a Goodwill urn, and a Houston driver leaves a barbecue grill unattended in his truck bed.
Plus, a homeowner sets a Christmas light show to Lil Jon and fishers get rescued from a Lake Amistad sandbar.
Cod this story be any stranger?
Plus, a woman in Temple threw her soup at a restaurant employee.
Plus, a Lubbock couple found their chihuahua hidden in their suitcase at the airport, and other head-turning stories.
A Sugar Land store called Buky’s might be the most egregious case to catch the attention of the litigious beaver, but it’s hardly the first.
It can be lifted only with a construction crane.
Plus, a man sued a restaurant for allowing him to get “too drunk.”
Plus, home security footage captured a deer hoof-fight over corn feed.
Plus, a boy flushed his grandmother’s wedding ring down the toilet, and a 72-year old trained for his 787th marathon.
Plus, a thirty-year-old woman in El Paso County posed as her thirteen-year-old daughter to attend middle school.
It’s an unconventional but attention-grabbing strategy.
Plus, an elementary school was evacuated after a 10-year-old lit a toilet paper dispenser on fire.
“I don’t want anyone who comes into my restaurant to forget that day,” says Brent Johnson, owner of Bar9Eleven.
Plus, a Houston woman went to Fort Worth to cut off 24 feet of fingernails.
Joe Exotic has a lot of competition. The big cat seen roaming a Houston neighborhood this week is just the latest.
He challenged a reporter to perform the calisthenics, then decided to do them himself.
The unrelated incidents both ended safely for the animals.
He confessed after someone spotted him in surveillance footage.
Plus, a man pretends to be conducting a CIA investigation at a Longview children's museum.
They didn’t manage to steal any art, but they did vanish into a storm drain.
Plus, the Stinnett police chief allegedly faked a document demonstrating an annulment of his marriage.
“If the country can have a chuckle at my expense today, I’ll accept it," he says.
Plus, Post Malone donates thousands of pairs of custom-made Crocs to students.
Plus, a horse cloned from an endangered Mongolian breed was born at a Canyon veterinary hospital.
Plus, fifty thousand purple martins descended on a parking lot in McAllen.
Plus, a rare pink grasshopper was spotted in Travis County.
A squirrel went postal in a Houston suburb, and Waco finds something new to feel some civic pride about.
A California man tried to bring his pet possum on a passenger plane, and a clerical error brought a temporary $37 million windfall to a Rowlett couple.
Plus, a woman goes to a pharmacy and discovers she's dead!
Plus, Pennywise the Clown has just the place for you!
Plus, some people in Houston really, really want a Popeyes chicken sandwich.
Plus, two Amazon drivers were accused of stealing a dog in Parker County.
Plus, a school district accidentally auctioned off its students’ private information.
Plus, an escalated karaoke squabble and a Little League embezzlement.
