Weird Houston News That Can Only Happen in This City – Houstonia Magazine
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A pickup truck stuck in Buffalo Bayou is just one of the strange things that has happened in Houston recently.
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Every day in Houston is a wild adventure. In our Only in Houston column, catch up on the strangest news that’s happened in the city recently.
The beta testing of self-driving Cruise cars in Houston hit a speed bump when malfunctioning traffic lights left a line of autonomous vehicles stuck at a Montrose intersection. While human-driven cars obeyed the police’s commands, the driverless ones seemed oblivious, leading to a humorous standoff. The vehicles eventually cleared the intersection, but it seems the autonomous future still has a few quirks to work out.
From a modest trickle of water emerged a fully fledged fountain on a Heights street, nearly turning a few inland homes into waterfront properties. City workers took a whopping four hours after the geyser appeared to tackle this aquatic spectacle. Residents had been dealing with this water line break for over a week, flooding the phone lines with reports, but it took dialing the mayor and their local councilwoman to get it fixed.
A white Dodge pickup truck has been lodged in Buffalo Bayou since last November. The truck, which has since been spray-painted and even hosted an alligator gar, belonged to a then-missing individual whose body was later pulled from the water nearby. Challenging access and bureaucratic confusion delayed the truck’s removal, leaving it as a distinctive fixture.
Someone in Houston unleashed their inner comedian by reprogramming a digital sign on Westheimer and Montrose to display a, err, cheeky message: “Go Fuck Yourself.” Social media users, enjoying the humorous twist on their morning commute, couldn’t help but applaud the boldness. It was the talk of the town all day, leaving authorities perplexed as to who was behind this witty stunt.
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