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ing back a 2015 decision to eliminate its review process for vanity license plates, the Associated Press reported on Oct. 27. Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has called the resulting vulgarities the “wild Wild West,” with about 400 offensive plates being subject to recall.
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Because the plates are technically the property of the state, new rules to stifle the nasty messages can be enforced, she said. Recall letters began hitting mail- boxes this month.
“Horrible! Look at that from the deck!” Gross told KRDO-TV. “I opened the front door and ... it was full of tumbleweeds.”
Mysterious Object
When she tried to drive away, she said, “I almost ran into the neighbor’s fence be- cause I didn’t know where I was. You know, you feel helpless. I thought it was a bad dream. I don’t know what we’ re going to do, how we get rid of those tumble- weeds. Oh, it’s horrible.”
A huge, hollow metal ob- ject sat by the side of the road in New Brunswick, Cana- da, for weeks, and no one seemed to know what it was or how it got there, the CBC reported on Oct. 21. Finally, the New Brunswick Depart- ment of Transportation had it hauled away. Canadian Forces spokesperson Jamie Donovan said it likely is not connected to the military, and the DOT won’t claim it, either. Lying on its side, it’s about 10 feet tall and has a concrete base and a hatch.
All Hail, The Cheetle
on their Facebook page.
“What I would say to those who want to engage in objectionable or question- able speech: Get a bumper sticker,” she said.
Marlies Gross of Fountain, Colorado, was trapped in her homeonOct.22—notby a menacing bear or a snow- storm, but by tumbleweeds that surrounded her house after a windstorm.
“At this point it really is a mystery we are looking into,” said Alycia Bartlett of the DOT.
The city of Cheadle, Al- berta, Canada, is the tem- porary home of a newly re- vealed shrine to snacking. A 17-foot-tall statue commis- sioned by Frito-Lay was un- veiled in early October. The work memorializes the sig- nature Cheetos experience: three fingers holding up one of the crunchy snacks, their tips covered in the powdery orange residue the brand has christened “Cheetle.”
Do The Dew
An unnamed 64-year-old woman in Gastonia, North Carolina, was charged for firing a gun within city lim- its on Oct. 24 after officers arrived to find her shooting at Mountain Dew cans in her backyard. Why? She told of- ficers that she didn’t approve of her father drinking the
CNN reports that the Cheetle Hand Statue will next embark on a tour of Canada.
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