There Are 2 Farfrompoopen Roads In America: Weird News

Wait, there are two Farfrompoopens in the United States? We understand the mental constipation here is palpable, so we’ll try to wipe away the confusion as best we can: Farfrompoopen is the name given to at least two roads in the United States.

One Farfrompoopen Road is in Arkansas and the other is in Tennessee. We can only guess at the reasons. We’ll let your seventh-grade self’s mind go where it will go on that one.

At least Bucket of Blood Street has an origin story — a colorful one from the “roughest, toughest, most lawless town of the Old West.” It makes sense when you understand the truth behind the street’s name, and it is cool that it has endured all these years in its unedited g(l)ory.

Farfrompoopen and Bucket of Blood aren’t the only street names that’ll make you scratch your head and wonder who comes up with this stuff.

• Read more: 11 Of The Weirdest Street Names In America

‘Click Click Boom’

As her husband Joshua showered in their Hudson, Florida, home, Dusty Southwell took the handgun he kept on the nightstand and began singing “Click Click Boom,” a song by the American rock band Salvia the couple had enjoyed singing together. And then, as he was drying himself off, she fatally shot him, according to police.

The now-accused killer said in a May 14 911 call that her husband was dead and she had “pulled the trigger,” according to a Pasco County arrest affidavit.

In an interview with police, Southwell said she thought the gun was unloaded when she pointed it at him and pulled the trigger as he toweled himself off. The force of the bullet knocked him back into the shower.

According to authorities, Southwell called her daughter before dialing 911. The report said Southwell had denied arguing with her husband before the shooting.

She faces a felony murder charge for an unpremeditated act.

• Read more: Woman Sings ‘Click Click Boom’ And Then Kills Her Husband, Police Say

‘Baptized In Gravy’

There are a lot of jokes going around Chicago as the hometown of Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost), who was elected in a papal conclave earlier this month to head the Roman Catholic Church. One is that it has gone from a venial sin to a mortal sin to put ketchup on a hot dog. Would Chicago-style pizza and Malört replace wafers and wine as the body and blood of Christ? And on it went, making social media a surprisingly pleasant place to be.

Portillo’s made one of the best plays on the pontiff’s Chicago roots with an Italian beef sandwich called “The Leo.”

“In the name of the gravy, the bun, and hot giard, we introduce The Leo: a divinely seasoned Italian beef, baptized in gravy and finished with the holy trinity of peppers — sweet, hot, or a combo,” the Chicago-based restaurant chain said in a news release.

If that doesn’t satisfy your palate, there’s always Pope-A-Roni pizza and cookies with the pontiff’s face in the icing.

• Read more: ‘Baptized In Gravy’ And More Pontiff Pontifications In Food

Rats! No Babies

No one would go so far as to say rats are people, too, but golly, poisoning them the way Fairfield, Connecticut, has in the past is “an awful way to die,” says Ted Luchsinger, who serves on the city’s Conservation Commission.

In short, the poison causes internal bleeding and the rats bleed out over time. Poison also endangers raptors that prey on rodents, he said.

As an alternative, the city is embarking on a pilot program with Wisdom Good Works, a Flagstaff, Arizona, company that offers a humane and environmentally friendly way to eliminate the rat population over time.

Instead, the Arizona company's pellet-shaped “Good Bites” are loaded with plant-based substances that interfere with the reproductive cycles of rats and make them infertile.

• Read more: Rats! No More Babies

Latest On ‘DelCo Pooper’

In the last installment of Weird News & Oddities, we told you about a woman in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, who became a social media sensation pooping on another motorist’s car.

The alleged pooper was in court this week, where prosecutors tacked an open lewdness charge on top of the previously leveled indecent exposure, disorderly conduct, depositing waste on a highway criminal mischief, and harassment charges.

• Read the latest: Accused ‘Pooper’ Makes 1st Court Appearance

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