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The Culture

Meanwhile, in Texas . . .

Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.

By Texas Monthly and Jeff Winkler
January 2014 0
Illustration by Ross MacDonald
  • A Corpus Christi womanbrandished her handgun at a pack of threatening coyotes while she was jogging. 
  • A November poll found that Texas A&M is now more popular than the University of Texas, which was 8 percent more popular than A&M the last time the poll was conducted.
  • William “Bill” Williamson, the designer and builder of the Capitol rotunda’s iconic star of Texas, died at the age of 88.
  • A rodeo clown was struck twice by lightning while attending a “Rednecks With Paychecks” off-road racing competition in Saint Jo.
  • An NFL Network crew came to Frisco to film a seventh-grade student who plays football even though he has only one hand.
  • A number of North Texas establishments discovered that a serial bandit was stealing infrared automatic flushing devices from their bathrooms.
  • Shortly after El Paso named its Triple-A baseball team the Chihuahuas, a petition was launched to change the name to something less “non-intimidating.”
  • Isaac Hanemann, of McAllen, achieved a perfect score on the ACT.
  • The Dickinson Independent School District affirmed a cafeteria worker’s decision to toss a twelve-year-old student’s breakfast in the trash because he didn’t have enough money in his account to pay for it.
  • A study reported that Texans are more “temperamental and uninhibited” than most Americans.
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