bottomline famous hometown venue. Now let’s find a way to use these hot spots to bring more free- and lowcost events to Tulsa.
rights or organizations.” It’s such a relief to know our ongoing public-education issues are being addressed, one important issue at a time. “Man allegedly kills stepdad with atomic wedgie,” reported ABC News Jan. 9. Newsfeeds everywhere have buzzed with talk of Oklahoma’s atomic-
wedgie fatality. Pottawatomie County resident Brad Davis was arrested on a first-degree murder charge after an alcoholfueled fight with his stepfather turned deadly. According to reports, Davis’s affidavit states his stepdad “spoke ill” of his mother and then “swung first.” He hit him several times before
he issued the 58-year-old man the lethal punishment. He pulled the elastic waistband of the man’s underwear over his head, which left a ligature mark around his neck. The Oklahoma Medical Examiner Office determined the cause of death in this case was blunt force trauma and/or asphyxiation.
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Okie antics often translate well into amazing, poetic headlines. A top tragi-odd headline is absurd with a hefty dose of sad and a dash of WTF. Here are a few recent winners: “Man arrested after reportedly trying to eat marijuana cigarette,” ran in Tulsa World, Jan. 12. An Oklahoma Highway patrolman arrested a Tulsa man of shouldknow-better age after he noticed a “green leafy substance” in his mouth. He admitted to eating a joint after OHP pulled him over for a faulty brake light, per the arrest report. He also ‘fessed up to toking at his friend’s house. “Lawmaker: Don’t punish kids for chewing Pop Tarts into guns,” read the headline for an only-in-Oklahoma Associated Press story in mid-January. Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern introduced a new measure that would prevent schoolchildren from being punished for chewing breakfast pastries into the shape of a gun. The Common Sense Zero Tolerance Act, as it’s called, would protect students from punishment for possession of small-toy weapons, using their fingers or hands to simulate a weapon, drawing pictures of weapons, or wearing clothes that “support or advance Second Amendment
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