Clown Candidate, Skunk In Bed: New England’s 2017 Oddities

BOSTON (AP) — New England craved a little comic relief in 2017, and the mirth gods came through with all manner of welcome weirdness.
A man dressed as — and named for — a clown ran for the Boston City Council. An alien-like object with stainless steel legs rose from the sea near Taylor Swift’s beachfront mansion in Rhode Island. A woman who runs a topless maid service in Maine was arrested for shoplifting underwear.
And that wasn’t the half of it.
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