Weird Iowa Rewind: Bus Drives Through House, Unconscious Man Dragged from Burning Car, and Rodeo Clown Faces Prison for Pot Growing

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 week. 

Weird food is always a part of Iowa lore. Patch has written about fair foods on a stock, about the 5-pound Adam Emmenecker menu item on the Jethro's BBQ menus and more.

In Ankeny, you are either weird or just out of touch if you haven't joined the throngs of people who gather at the Yankee Clipper on Tuesdays to devour their famous tacos made on hot Indian frybread. Yum.

A West Des Moines school bus driver is lucky in a weird way that he only faces a traffic charge after police said he drove too fast for snowy road conditions Monday. The bus went out of control and barreled through the front of a house. Anthony Banks, the driver in the accident that caused $75,000 damage to a home, was charged with failure to maintain control. Fortunately, none of the children on the bus were injured.

The snow brought another weird incident that could have been tragic.

Urbandale police officers pulled an unconscious driver from his burning vehicle after it slammed into a church's air conditioning unit. Police said Ian Waseskuk, 18, of Urbandale was "doing doughnuts" in his car when it crashed, caught fire and knocked Waseskuk out. The rescue was captured by the patrol car's dashcam.

Being a rodeo clown is an offbeat job. Even weirder? Supplementing that income with money earned from a massive marijuana-growing operation. from 2004-2011, an offense for which he now faces a possible punishment of 20 years or more in prison.

Two-time NCAA National Champion Matt McDonough, a former Linn-Mar student from Marion, earned second-place honors in the Big Ten wrestling championships for the University of Iowa. That, apparently, wasn't good enough. Daily Iowan reporter Sam Louwagie tweeted that he found the Hawkeye 125-pounder's trophy in the garbage. And Deadspin piled on, calling Louwagie a "hobo wrestling reporter" and poked at McDonough, too.

An Ames Main Street building looked like Spider-Man was crawling up the side of it. Three duct tape statues were spotted apparently on their way to the second floor of a newly remodeled building home to Iowa State University's Integrated Visual Arts and Design on Main office.

And, as always, some just plain weird items from police reports.

Cedar Falls police arrested a Tripoli man they say used his cell phone to film two nude women. Kevin Kay Robinson, 30, was charged with two serious misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy-nudity. Police say Robinson was seen by "one victim holding a cell phone over a wall while she was tanning in an adjoining room." After examining Robinson's phone, authorities discovered that a second person who had been video recorded.

A 42-year-old Johnston man reported his vehicle was stolen from the parking lot of Doc's Lounge. Witnesses describe a white man who appeared intoxicated took the vehicle. 

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