Doorbell cameras are an important line of home security, allowing people to see who is at the door even when they are not at home. When doorbell camera footage makes the news, it is often for something weird like that guy in California who licked a doorbell for a few hours and then walked away. […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Accompanied minors
Parents in search of a good bottle of wine or a high-end selection of spirits will no longer have to leave their kids tied up outside the liquor store. You can forget about needing to leave a note on the window of your car that says, “Don’t worry; the A/C is on and he’s listening […]
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Chicken-Fried News: High steaks
Gov. Kevin Stitt is getting to work on the big issues. The first piece of legislation he signed into law was “constitutional carry” in February. Since, he has approved more than 300 other laws dealing with medical cannabis, abortion, agency autonomy and, well, guns again. But one piece stands above the pack, proving Stitt’s “top […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Hold the phone
Countless hands have been wrung raw over the negative influence the ever-present cellphone has on modern life, but Oklahoma Department of Corrections is worrying about them more than the Momo challenge. Earlier this month, The Oklahoman reported that the department has confiscated nearly 1,800 contraband phones from inmates since the beginning of the year and […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Bad actor
There was no indication of anything but a tragic accident, but as France’s Notre Dame cathedral burned last month, Videodrome sleazebag TV exec turned real-life right-wing Twitter tumor James Woods tweeted “Whether by design or accident, the great and glorious history of Christianity is being eradicated from the face of the new Europe. #Heartbreak.” To […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Modern-day Oklahoma!
After decades of being defined to outsiders by the whitewashed original Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, Oklahoma! is getting modern-day trappings on a new television series as a reimagined version takes its turn on Broadway. Skydance Media announced last week that it reached an agreement with Oklahoma! rights holders to produce a modern-day show with new […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Good poo
Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden is finally selling its poo. We are not sure who asked for this, but we are glad it is here. Two years ago, the zoo’s horticultural curator Lance Swearengin “looked up at the zoo’s ever-growing mountain of organic plant and animal waste” and saw gold. Brown gold, but gold […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Help needed
University of Oklahoma (OU) is looking for a director of payroll and employee services, and they only want the best of the best. OU has not had the best semester, having faced scandals left and right. But the university wants to move past its milquetoast responses to racism, pay inequity, layoffs and bad finances by […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Scrappy Don’t
It’s a scenario worthy of The Wire, except with, you know, way more actual wires. Oklahoma City utilities officials and police officers are, according to a report by KOCO anchor Evan Onstot, “pulling their hair out” over what mayor David Holt called an “epidemic” of copper wiring theft that has disabled streetlights along sections of […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Icarus Exotic
In the pantheon of weird Oklahoma news, no one has flown higher than Joseph Allen Maldonando-Passage — the man most everyone knows as Joe Exotic — the openly gay Libertarian presidential and gubernatorial candidate who founded the Wynnewood zoo famous for allowing guests to play with lion-tiger hybrid cubs. Exotic’s unique persona has led to […]