News of the Weird: The Week That Was
Tim Griffin's Scam Warning. Camden Raccoons. A Conway Tombstone. Planets Aligning. And more!
Thanks to Monday's holiday this week zipped quicker than we expected. Don't forget to check out our site for our investigative articles you may have missed and one on Pine Bluff's legendary Big Banjo Pizza.
We're starting off this News of the Weird newsletter with a real Public Service Announcement from Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin.
Before we return to the weird, Suzi failed to check out the color of the week. Now we will carry on.
We got a lot of tips lately.
In Camden we have learned about a serious issue involving a raccoon in a rental house.
The tenants apparently told the house's owners about it but nothing was done. “You can hear them all thru the house and even the fireplace! Fireplace is barricaded so they can't get thru, but it's only a matter of time!” That from a Facebook post where we were tagged. The post said one of the raccoons may weigh 50 pounds! We had to check this out. Our source said the issue has been taken to the mayor and the city's code enforcer. They visited the house. The mayor from a distance, we were told. On Saturday, the landlord sent someone out with a trap, but the tenants have not seen the landlord. We will keep an eye on this!
Speaking of animals…this from Japan. But still, too, weird to pass up. “The man known only as Toco spent around $14,000 on his hyperrealistic dog costume, which was completed last spring.” Now he wants to be a panda. People are never satisfied. Is Panda life better than a dog's life?
Don't forget.
We got tagged in something, and, of course, we checked it out. At Oak Grove Cemetery in Conway, there's this. Thanks, Arkansas Transparency on Tik Tok for helping us out.
The planets — or most of them — are apparently aligning on June 3.
As we pointed out last week, the MAGA crowd is winning on the meme front.
Leave it to Suzi to stump FB AI when she asked it to do this.
Maybe it's because she forgot the commas.
We wonder…will we see this again in January?
We will end on this note. And we are serious about this. That's why we do what we do at the Reckoning.
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The raccoon’s name is Rocket and that’s his house now.