Weird Iowa Rewind: Waukee and UNI Gangnam Style, Escaping Winter in Stolen Car, Sexual Abuse Charges

If you missed the Marion Patch over the weekend you missed out on a lot of weird Iowa news gathered by Patch editor Deb Belt for Saturday. Read on, unless you are sick of Gangnam style.

Iowa celebrates its weirdness in many ways. First up, is just pure fun.

The Teen Advisory Board at the Waukee Public Library filmed their version of the viral video dance Gangnam Style in the Middle School thunder dome and at the Waukee Public Library.

Enjoy their creativity, courtesy of a video they uploaded to YouTube.

Is Cedar Falls abandoning the Interlude Dance for a parody of Korean musician Psy's hit video "Gangnam Style"? The latest "Gangnam/Panther Style" video comes via the University of Northern Iowa women's basketball team.

This is just sweet, yet unusual. There's a new car in the showroom at Bob Brown Chevrolet in Urbandale. It's not a hybrid, and it doesn't have all the bells and whistles.

But the sentimental value is priceless. A 1968 turquoise Chevy Impala has returned to the dealership after 45 years with the Haag family. The car, which has only 71,000 miles on it, originally cost $4,000 and was used on many family trips.

Who isn't ready for spring after our first temperatures that dropped below zero in two years?

A Coralville man has had enough of Iowa and is facing a serious felony charge after being accused of stealing a vehicle from Iowa City and driving it to Mississippi because he was tired of Iowa's cold weather. Harold Edward Schneider, 46, allegedly admitted to stealing the vehicle and traveling to Mississippi because "he was tired of the cold weather and the snow and he wanted to get South where it was warm.

As always we have oddities from police and court files.

A man who was accused of threatening to kill homeless people in Ames and was involuntarily committed to a mental institution has now entered a written guilty plea to reduced charges. Michael Ray Nootz, 56, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree harassment, a serious misdemeanor.

He also ran a write-in campaign for Story County Sheriff after the confrontations at homeless camps.

West Des Moines drivers were reportedly surprised and called police to report a woman talking on her cell phone and smoking a cigarette as she sat in her idled car, which faced the wrong way on busy E.P. True Parkway. Callers said the car was traveling eastbound in the westbound lane of the street. and other traffic charges. 

And lastly from the police files, an Ankeny man is facing six counts of third-degree sex abuse of a minor. Following an investigation last year into the sexual abuse of a Bremer County minor, an arrest warrant was issued for 34-year-old Ryan Porath of Ankeny, but he was out of the country, the TV station reported.

Then, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents arrested Porath at a Detroit airport in December. He is now in an Iowa jail.