Weird Iowa: Jesse James Surfaces, Party Bus Ride Goes Awry, Bouncer's Strange Discovery and Alleged Robber's Bad Day
Iowa has no shortage of weird news. Here's some of it from around our Iowa Patches.
Some names come with a little baggage. Take Jesse James, the infamous outlaw from the late 1800s. Flash forward a couple hundred years, and a present day Jesse James lives right here in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He allegedly tried his best to keep the spirit of the name alive this week. Find out what Jesse James Johnson, 20, of Cedar Falls, allegedly did to get Tasered by police, not once, but twice, and why he is facing four charges. Here's a hint: the more famous Jesse James was a bit more successful at eluding police. Moving on to West Des Moines, we find Jacob William Nielsen, 18, of Des Moines. This young man allegedly attempted an armed robbery of an, ahem, "gift shop" that sells glass pipes and other smoking accessories. It apparently was…
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9:51 pm on Saturday, May 12, 2012
Prolly what happened was the body of the vehicle flexed as it turned warping the hole where the door is, therefore unlatching the latches on the door allowing it to swing open. I drive a city bus for a living, and have actually had windows swing out from the side of the bus when the buses body torqued a way it wasn't supposed too, while going over a bump. So I just fit it back into it's frame. more ›