They don’t call it the Wild, Wild West for nothing.
This year, San Antonio racked up a bevy of truly bizarre headlines, including a naked bike ride that wasn’t, demonic Christmas portals, aquatic Edgars and multiple UFO sightings.
To be sure, it was a weird year for Texas in general thanks to breaking news about gay porn-actor pastors, testicle festivals, toddlers chugging beer and a man busted for making sweet love to a horse on more than one occasion. Even traveling by plane to the Lone Star State was fraught with flatulence.
What’s going on here?
Maybe it was the eclipse. Or maybe there really is something in the water.
The “Florida man” is a much-discussed trope in pop culture, but if he’s wrestling a gator, Texas man is roping an armadillo in his underwear.
Buckle up for some of our weirdest headlines of the year.
No one showed up for San Antonio’s World Naked Bike Ride on SaturdayClip of child chugging beer at University of Texas football game goes viralTexans use Whataburger app to track power outages caused by Hurricane BerylSan Antonio had fifth-highest rate of VPN searches after Pornhub cut off access in TexasShoppers camped out overnight for new Daiso store in San AntonioToys for Tots refuses to take donations for needy kids from San Antonio adult storeWindcrest candidate targeted by mailers drawing attention to her burlesque backgroundSurvey names San Antonio’s Woman Hollering Creek scariest road in TexasTexas-bound flight returns to gate due to farting passengerTexas Testicle Festival in Fredericksburg inviting people to have a ball this summerMan with ‘Edgar’ haircut spotted swimming laps in San Antonio RiverClip of San Antonio high-speed chase, arrest of laughing suspect goes viralTexas officials order closure of San Antonio massage parlor over human-trafficking concernsAlex Jones warns Texans the ‘deep state’ plans sinister shit for the solar eclipseVideo of man confusing San Antonio’s Tower of the Americas with UFO goes viralSouth Texas man arrested on charges of having sex with horse — againPissed-off Texans react on social media to early morning ‘Blue Alert’San Antonio-area supermarket unveils ammunition vending machineSchool-voucher ‘evangelist’ with Texas ties on leave after gay porn videos resurfaceSan Antonio fundamentalist Christians ask city to halt King William’s Krampus paradeSan Antonio police officer suspended for disrupting event she was hired to DJBody pulled from lake in Austin over the weekend renews speculation about serial killerKendrick Lamar feud escalates as Drake takes legal action in San Antonio courtSan Antonio resident records supposed UFO downtown in TikTok videoSan Antonio Krampus Parade counters satanic panic with ‘Puro Pinche Krampus Portal’ merch
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