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Best of Weird Iowa 2012: Naked Mallers, Bar-Hopping Baby, Zombies Attack, Strippers Galore, Bridezilla Barks and Bonkers at Walmart

The year that was? It was Iowa weird. And we can prove it.

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Giant gorillas on the UNI-Dome? Check. Big Bird on the roadside? Check. Gasket-blowing Bridezilla, "pistol-whipping" of nuns and a Mother's Day brawl?

Check, check and check.

From all of the above to bar-hopping babies and an OWI on a golf cart, 2012 was weird, weird, weird.

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Here, compiled, is the good, the bad, the weird Iowa of 2012.

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