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Old 11-20-2009, 10:58 AM
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Dallas is even stranger, but while San Antonio was ranked 15th, "weird" Austin was 54 spots lower at 69.

http://www.tableseed.com/strange/

Study: Lincoln is the second-strangest city

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The report from Tableseed ranked cities by analyzing 2,000 Associated Press "strange news" stories released over the past year, counting the number of stories in each city and state and adjusting for population.

The report also ranked the top 10 strangest states. Not entirely surprising, Florida came out on top.
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Old 11-20-2009, 11:04 AM
 
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That certainly is an innovative way to define "strange". I would love to know which stories put us in the rankings. In defense of this city, somewhat....I have to say the talent doing the reporting may have something to do with it.
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Old 11-20-2009, 11:14 AM
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I would love to know which stories put us in the rankings.
My guess is that the woman who ate her baby and the woman who said that Jesus told her to run another driver off of the highway would have figured prominently in those rankings. Sadly, I'm sure those were far from the only stories that were counted.
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Old 11-20-2009, 11:20 AM
 
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and don't forget the far from normal amount of stabbings where it's one member of a family stabbing another family member. That is just not normal at all and I'm still shocked when I see the stories, even though they're pretty routine here.
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Old 11-20-2009, 11:44 AM
 
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Only 15th?
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Old 11-20-2009, 11:52 AM
 
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I would love to know which stories put us in the rankings.
Tweety House?
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Old 11-20-2009, 12:04 PM
 
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Tweety House?
exactly! I could go out all day long and find strange things to write about! I'm going to start free lancing!

RD....you're right about the stabbings, but honestly....SA is not out of the ordinary. The cannibal mother....I can't even talk about.

I love Florida, but something just isn't working right in that state. Too much inbreeding because they are landlocked??? I dunno....was that where they guy had sex with his domestic animal?
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Old 11-20-2009, 12:27 PM
 
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Florida is landlocked? The Florida that is a peninsula with water around three sides of it? What?

Texas is weird in general. I'm sorry but every time I see a crazy news story on the 'net I expect it to have happened in Texas.
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Old 11-20-2009, 12:38 PM
 
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Florida is landlocked? The Florida that is a peninsula with water around three sides of it? What?

Texas is weird in general. I'm sorry but every time I see a crazy news story on the 'net I expect it to have happened in Texas.
Cuz the state motto is "Watch this! Here, hold my beer!" Is this why, LG?
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Old 11-20-2009, 12:49 PM
 
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florida definitely deserved the #1 ranking. I've lived there before, I met my wife there, my grandma lives there and so does a cousin, but that is the last state I would live in again. They're just freaks of nature and I don't know what causes it. It's definitely not because they're the only land-locked peninsula in the world, though.
and where else do family members stabbed each other almost every day? I've never been anywhere in the world where that was common and that includes Bosnia, where they're seriously crazy alcoholics that kill people for fun.
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