A Weird Year: The Oddest, Funniest MA Stories Of 2021

Wayland MA

28 December, 2021

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WAYLAND, MA — Weird stuff happens every year, and 2021 was no exception. Here's a selection of some of the weirdest, funniest and most unexpected stories from across Massachusetts that happened over the last 12 months. Tofu Creates 'Unfortunate Smell' Behind Grafton Mystery Stench Some compared the smell to that of burnt toast, while others characterized the stench as "nasty." Some residents called the police over the stench, while others began searching for dead livestock, hoping to get to the bottom of the problem. From A Whale's Mouth To Kimmel, Cape Cod Man Tells His Tale A real-life tale of Jonah. In June, a humpback whale briefly swallowed a commercial diver near Provincetown. Bus Shortage Has 11th Graders Using Party Bus With Stripper Poles Some Boston students ended up taking a party bus fully equipped with a stripper pole and neon lights to a field trip due to the ongoing nationwide school bus driver shortage. 'No, You Are Not Seeing Double': 2-Headed Turtle Hatches On Cape The diamondback terrapin hatchling was born with a rare condition called bicephaly. It occurs because of genetic and environmental factors influencing the embryo during development, according to wildlife officials. Potato Mystery Confounds Wayland Librarians When Wayland librarians began finding potatoes strewn across the front lawn of the library, they did their best Kinsey Millhone impression to find the culprit. They also ended up in a Stephen Colbert joke. Naked Boston Woman Drove Golf Cart Through FL Crime Scene: Police Police said the woman "had a distinct odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from her person, and she was completely nude." Market Basket Shorted Customers On Coffee: Lawsuit Some people were so upset about getting only half the amount of discount coffee they bought, they made a federal case over it. Debate Arises Over Number Of Speed Limit Signs In Waltham In 2021, a man cited for speeding pleaded with the city install more speed limit signs to prevent other motorists from making the same mistake. Norton Mom Calls 911 For Son's Bad Haircut: Barber Posts TikTok The TikTok posted in September shows a woman calling the police on a Norton barber because she said he cut her teenage son's hair "too short." Nearly A Decade Later, Arlington Woman Reunited With Brando Photo "He looks really good, really sexy in the picture," Winona Campbell said of the Marlon Brando portrait from the 1950s. Wrong Number Lands High Schoolers FaceTime With Tom Brady, Gronk What started innocently enough as a rounding up of phone numbers on a group text ended with a high school basketball team in Michigan getting surprise time with former Patriots quarterback and Super Bowl champion Tom Brady and tight end Rob Gronkowski. Who Invented The Fluffernutter? Only In Massachusetts It's just peanut butter and fluff. But the story behind the name of the famed Massachusetts sandwich is much deeper than you think. Accused Water Bottle-Tosser Must Stay Away From TD Garden A 21-year-old Braintree man had a serious problem with Kyrie Iriving, which he expressed by hucking a water bottle at the NBA star. Meet The Wilmington Dad Who Sparked GameStop Craze Keith Gill, 34, is known on YouTube as Roaring Kitty and on Reddit by the expletive-laced handle DeepF-------Value. MA Woman Sues Six Flags After Slipping On Goose Poop, Breaking Ankle A Six Flags employee directed the woman to a shortcut. That's when she encountered a small hill covered in "geese feces," the suit said. Minivan Gets Stuck On Steps Of Boston City Hall One guy in a minivan made a seriously wrong turn in downtown Boston and ended up dangling over a long stairway on the brutalist City Hall plaza.