The Weirdest News from Far-Flung Texas, June Edition

[TexasTowelie]

DUMAS // A runaway teenager was found safe after she hopped a coal train and rode it more than 300 miles. Adalie Rivera, 13, disappeared while on a family vacation in Colorado Springs, and was found by a farmer in Dumas four days later. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal reports that Rivera, who was covered in coal dust, told police she got off the train “because she ran out of Skittles.”

GROVES // A McDonald’s robbery went south after the thief tried to pass off a hairbrush as a handgun. Gevondis Demond Joseph, 29, demanded cash while wearing a leopard-print bathrobe and orange Crocs. According to a Facebook post by the Groves Police Department, he held the hairbrush under the bathrobe to make it look like a weapon. Joseph made off with about $130, but was arrested after a brief chase on foot.

SILSBEE // A pair of peacocks that frequent the Silsbee Dollar General store have become local celebrities. “They’re like our mascots,” store manager P.J. Schexnayder told the Beaumont Enterprise, adding that the more gregarious of the duo habitually greets shoppers at the door, while the other “prefers to roam around alone behind the store.” The Enterprise held a contest to name the birds, who will henceforth be known as “Jay and Silent Bob.”

COLLEGE STATION // Nothing hits the spot quite like a late-night burger run, but you’ve got to time it right. Robert Lee Mahoney, 20, was arrested for driving under the influence after he fell asleep in a Whataburger drive-thru lane. KBTX reports that a Whataburger employee called police at 4:40 a.m. to report a customer asleep at the wheel. Mahoney eventually woke up to the sound of knocking on his car window — and admitted to officers that he’d downed three beers earlier that night.

Read more: https://www.texasobserver.org/strangest-state-drunken-drive-thru-cocaine-granola-bars-and-pig-e-mon-police-officers/

[Zoonart]

1. I had a visiting peacock...

up here in the Lower Hudson Valley of NY. I was surprised at how gregarious they are, or this one was. He would just show up when I was walking in the woods of my property. I would turn around and there he would be on the path, so I named him Houdini. It got so I could call his name and he would come running down to the house from the woods. I would feed him and he would hang out on my deck rails most of the day.

Houdini disappeared during Hurricane Sandy and I was sad that he might have suffered in the storm, but my local UPS driver, who would see Houdini from time to time near the road, told me that Houdini was owned by a neighbor about a mile away who had penned his birds (he kept several different birds) during Sandy and had since moved.

So, Houdini...wherever you are, I miss you.

[furtheradu]

2. Thanks for this!

I LOVE TEXAS!
(mostly)

[TexasTowelie]

3. You're welcome.

I thought it would be good for a laugh.