Weird Iowa Rewind: Stranger Needs a Back Shave, Kicking and Biting Suspect, Train Gang Spurs Sheriff Candidate

Editor's Note: Each weekend Patch brings you the top weird, or strange news from around Iowa. Here's a quick recap on what you may have missed last weekend.

Iowa is a place of plenty - plenty of weird.

Let's start off with cute weird. Kids are getting into the campaign season spirit. Take a look at photos of elementary school students mock voting in Johnston, particularly the ones dressed as Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.

By the way, Halloween costumes do not equal endorsements.

An Ames man has launched a last minute write-in campaign for Story County Sheriff. The key issue on his platform?

Ridding the area of a freight train gang called the Freight Train Riders of America. The former train engineer was arrested earlier this year for threatening three men, including two homeless men, with a knife while taking up the cause himself.

Our Marion Patch has compiled some of the more memorable ads on the local Craigslist page. This week, this list is topped by a man seeking someone to shave his back, another person who needed someone - anyone - to punch him over and over, and a person looking to get shot in the leg.

Seriously, folks. I don't make this stuff up. I couldn't.

Remember when you were a kid, dropping to the ground lifelessly so when mom or dad picked you up you were like a sack of potatoes? And, then kicking and screaming and biting.

West Des Moines police officers got a blast from the past from a 21-year-old suspect, who allegedly played out the full routine.

Speaking of days gone by, former President Bill Clinton gave folks in Waterloo a history lesson. It was at the Battle of Waterloo that Napoleon was defeated, he told the crowd, according to our Cedar Falls Patch.

“So far, the good guys have won,” Clinton said. “Make sure it happens again.”

Time to make another stand in Waterloo, I guess.

Finally, here is a creepy sort of weird bit of news. From, where else, Iowa City.

Iowa City Police arrested an alleged peeping landlord. Police say he had a peep hole in the ceiling next to the vent fan that would allow the viewer to peep on the female tenant while she was in the shower.

Hopefully filling the peephole won't come out of the security deposit.

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