Weird Iowa Rewind: Weird Gun in the Pants, Weird Vasectomies and Weird Weather is Weird News

Patch Editor Deb Belt compiled this latest batch of Weird Iowa for the March 23 column. Here's what you missed on Saturday:

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March Madness is known for office betting and … the most vasectomies performed in any month. Eww. True, and weird.

A West Des Moines urology clinic’s March Madness-themed advertising campaign aims to nudge men into undergoing a vasectomy. The clinic's ad touts a great benefit: “Your excuse to stay on the couch and watch the games,” the announcer cajoles in an ad for The Iowa Clinic. Clinic urologists perform more vasectomies in March than at other times of the year.

This winter has been weird by starting late and hanging on into spring. The Des Moines metro is vying against Minneapolis in the Weather Channel's own version of March Madness and Ankeny Patch is looking for your votes. In honor of the NCAA Basketball Tournament, weather.com picked 64 cities, placing them in four regions. Through early April, your votes will pick America's Toughest Weather City. 

Spring break weirdness. This is weird only because more than 100 Waukee , for their spring break. They chose to learn about the nation's capital, visit museums and place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The transition from winter to spring leads to an upsing in motorcycle accidents. The leftover salt, sand and loose gravel on roads before the street sweepers pass through can send motorcycles off course, said Marty Owings, an insurance agent in Marion. so drivers beware.

Is it weird that even as the Iowa State Cyclones make Ames proud with a trip to the NCAA Tournament the basketball recruiting goes on? . Morris, 6'1" and 175 pounds, is a point guard for Flint Bleecher High School in Michigan.

We lead off the weekly weird items from police reports with a Citigroup employee at the Urbandale office who found marijuana inside an envelope when checking a company post-office box. Police said the name on the envelope wasn't recognized in the office and the address for the illegal delivery was likely incorrect.

Cedar Falls Police say  He was taken to a hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to his hand and the investigation continues. The incident happened at B & B West, a convenience store.

In Iowa City, Charnise Lashon McCambry was arrested for drug charges following a traffic stop when a K-9 unit found a brown clutch in her vehicle with 63 grams of crack cocaine in it, according to police records. What's weird is that in 2011 during a drug raid she told officers that the cocaine they found in her apartment was actually baking soda that she used to brush her teeth. Officers later field-tested the substance which returned a positive for cocaine.

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