Things got a little um, backed up in Waukee this week and we're not talking about traffic.

When the Waukee Area Chamber of Commerce hosted its 2nd Annual Cow Patty Bingo event Thursday night, they figured Chamber members would come, have a root beer float, mingle with other Chamber members and stand by while a celebrity cow pooped on the lawn of a local lumber supply company.

If only it was that simple.

Chamber members braved near 100 degree temps for nearly four and a half hours before Josie the cow finally took a dump. Talk about a bowel "mooovement."

In our humble opinion, Iowa City is more weird than Ames, but let's put that to the test with these next couple stories.

An Ames man was accused of getting out of a car naked, exposing himself and drunk driving early July 14.

Police say the driver got out of a car naked and, well pleasured himself, about a block away from a woman who reported it to police, criminal complaints stated.

The woman told police that she thought she could remember the plate number which contained the letters “ISU.” Iowa State University police stopped the vehicle about 6 a.m. and officers said the man driving matched the physical description that the woman provided, complaints said.

And -- surprise! -- the man's blood-alcohol level was .198, complaints said.

Now, compare that to Iowa City, where police arrested a man and a woman they say were having sex in a front yard on Tuesday.

According to an Iowa City Police complaint, the couple was seen engaging in oral sex in the front yard of a residence at the 500 block of Normandy Drive. A neighbor contacted police.

When an officer arrived on scene, he noted that the pair was still "doing the same thing." They were then separated and arrested.

And -- surprise, again! -- charges against the couple include public intoxication. 

That's enough to want us to switch over to politics. In Iowa, political losing appears to be the new political winning -- or at least continuing to try to win.

First to Ankeny, where the Polk County Central Committee members chose John Landon Wednesday night as the GOP nominee for this November's Iowa House District 37 race.

Landon was selected with 12 of 21 votes cast at a special nominating convention to determine the Republican winner of the District 37 race. Four nominees were chosen and two ballots were cast before Landon was declared the winner.

Fair enough. But the weird part? The special nominating convention was required because none of the candidates in the previous election received enough votes to be declared the winner.

And where did Landon finish? Third, with 360 votes.

Now look over to West Des Moines and Waukee, where Jeff Mullen, the fiery Waukee Point of Grace Church pastor who unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Pat Ward for the Republican nomination for Senate District 22, still sounds like a candidate in this video. 

In the video, Mullen decries the historic separation of church and state, which he claims doesn’t exist. To those who suggest he cannot politick from the pulpit, Mullen says he responds, “What the hell you smoking? You see, I know what they are implying because they drank the IRS political punch.”

Mullen didn’t immediately return phone calls asking if he’s planning to a write-in or third-party campaign for the district, where registered Republicans and independents both outnumber Democrats.

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