Nancy's Notes

Even in a pandemic, and in the midst of an election process, there’s still no shortage of strange news and crazy people. Perhaps reading of someone else’s erratic behavior or wild stories helps us deal with our own problems a little bit easier. Of course, since we all have cameras in our hands, most of these odd situations are on someone’s cell phone and released to the world. See if the following stories lighten your own load.

Runaway Porta-potty seen rolling down Route 66 — A portable toilet in place at a roadway construction site at a busy intersection got caught in a strong gust of wind and was last seen traveling down Route 66 in Albuquerque, N.M. Several motorists and passengers shared videos of the traveling porta-potty. Someone was even inspired to pair the video with the song, “Dust In The Wind,” by Kansas. No injuries were reported, and it was unclear if anyone was inside the porta-potty at the time. (9/11/2020)

Disorderly goat takes over cop car, chews up the paperwork, then head butts deputy — A sheriff’s deputy in Georgia had a run-in with the baddest of the bad recently when she returned to her cruiser to find a goat chewing up a large stack of paperwork. The Douglas County Sheriff’s office said the unnamed deputy was serving civil papers at a residence. She typically leaves her car door open as she’s had to retreat from vicious dogs in the past. But this time, when she returned to her vehicle, her bodycam proved the goat was eating her papers. The goat even knocked the police officer to the ground as she was trying to rescue some of the documents. Thankfully, no one was injured in the incident, but her stack of papers didn’t fare so well. (9/18/2020)

Halloween display of a skeleton strip club gets under neighbors’ skin — Some neighbors in Richmond, Texas, had a bone to pick with Angela Nava’s Halloween skeleton strip club display. The homeowners’ association called Nava’s pole-dancing skeletons and dollar-bill waving customers “offensively positioned” and “inappropriate.” Nava got a letter saying she had 30 days to shut it down. She said she just wanted to provide laughs in a difficult year and will bury the club display on Nov. 1. “Everybody in my section of the neighborhood has been very supportive,” she told the Houston Chronicle. “I do have a few haters. We have to respectfully agree to disagree. For me, this is just a great creative outlet.” Nava said she will keep changing the scenario a bit every night until closing. Not bad for a club that was dead from the start. (10/28/2020)

Woman in labor makes her husband stop at elections office so she can vote first — There are civic duties and then there are motherly responsibilities. And one pregnant woman in Florida fulfilled both last week Tuesday as she stopped to vote on her way to the hospital to give birth. She had already gone into labor when she arrived at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office in Orlando, Fla. Poll worker Karen Gonzalez told the FOX News network that the woman had asked her husband to stop and vote on their way to the hospital, which was only about a half-mile away. The wife reportedly waited in the car as her husband went inside, waited in line, then asked for poll workers to help his wife vote early. according to Gonzalez. “He’s like ‘Yeah, she’s about to have a baby, but she won’t go to the hospital to have a baby until she votes,’” Gonzalez told the outlet. “I was like, OK, Where is she? What can I do to help her vote?” Gonzalez went out to the car, where she reportedly found the pregnant woman breathing heavily. She checked her ID, handed her a mail-in ballot and told her to send it in by 7 p.m. on Nov. 3. “She said, ‘No! No! No! I need to fill it out right now,’” Gonzalez told FOX News. “So she filled it out. I gave her an ‘I VOTED’ sticker, and off they went to the hospital.” Eileen Deliz, another early voting clerk for the supervisor’s office, told a local newspaper reporter that it was a unique event for poll workers. “We are very, very busy, but when something like that happens it just makes our day,” she told the paper. “It kind of validates what we do and the importance of voting. Every election cycle brings us a great little story.” (10/29/2020)