Weird News of the Week: Halloween Pole

Halloween Fun

It could only happen in Utah: City officials in Grantsville took to Facebook on Oct. 18 to demand that a Halloween display centered on a street sign be removed, Fox13Now-TV reported. The tableau featured a skeleton pole-dancing while two other skeletons sat in folding chairs with dollar bills in their hands. “Displays like this are not acceptable as it is against city code to attach anything to a street sign,” the city wrote. And the pranksters complied: They moved the display to a front yard, with a new lighted pole, lights on the ground to make a “stage,” and a tip jar. One commenter on the city’s page gushed, “I salute the Halloween Decoration WIZARD that created this MASTERPIECE.”

Awwwww!

While Amir Khan and Kat Warren of Washington, D.C., were visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Oct. 19, they became stranded along with other tourists at the top when a man was discovered climbing the structure. On hand with the couple was Associated Press reporter Pat Eaton-Robb, who was also visiting. Lucky for them, Eaton-Robb caught the moment when Khan decided to propose. He had been planning to do so later that evening at a restaurant, but “she always wanted to be proposed to on or under the Eiffel Tower. So I figured, ‘This is it, this is the moment,’” Khan said. While romance was in the air atop the tower, police were arresting the climber, who was inexplicably carrying a banner that said something about singer-songwriter Billie Eilish.