Posted on 06/21/2016 6:28:13 AM PDT by RummyChick
MUSCATINE, Iowa (KWQC) – R. J. Strong of Port Louisa, Iowa was spooked by what he saw a week ago Monday, June 13, at 2 a.m.
Strong posted on Facebook afterward that he was traveling near Ogilvie and F avenues in Muscatine County when he saw “some weirdo walking down the paved road in a black trench coat!!!!”
Several others on social media have reported similar sightings in recent weeks.
According to the reports, the individuals are seen standing beside roadways and sometimes actually stepping out into roadways as motorists are passing.
“My son has experienced this and it’s no joke,” posted Beatrice Wilson Strong. “It was really a frightening experience to him.”
“It’s happened to a few friends of mine out on [Highway] 22,” posted Cassie Pameticky.
The Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office has taken notice, posting Monday on its Facebook page, “We have had several reports of ‘men dressed in black’ entering the roadway in rural Muscatine County.”
Several people have told KWQC that these same individuals have been spotted walking across homeowners’ yards, although the MCSO Facebook post does not mention sightings on private property.
The MCSO is now asking anyone who encounters the individuals to “call 911 immediately.”
The sheriff’s Facebook post has generated several jokes and speculation that harmless pranksters are behind the sightings.
However, the MCSO says on its Facebook page, “We do take this seriously” and investigators are “hoping the public can assist.”
Merry pranksters.
Cholo’s.
Not a knock on you, OP. Why is this news at all?
Launch the drones..
Drudge thinks it’s news.
Since there is no longer a concept of “mental illness” in the US, the existence of ::”some weirdo in a black trench-coat” should no longer bother us.
Psychiatrists that charge $200/hr are free to collect insurance payments and...not really treat any patients.
Ekthelthior! ObamaCare!
Haha! I was waiting for someone to post this!
Because it made me smile, and in this bummer of a summer, that’s something good.
(School’s out. My bet is that some kids are having a little fun. So far, it’s not against the law to dress in black.)
They won’t let you remember.
Tommy Lee Jones on the lose.
When the Rainbow Gathering is scouting or has chosen a location, I think they do things like this as a kind of surreptitious advertising of their chosen location.
There actually ARE Amish around there, and not the touristy kind found near Iowa City.
Maybe it is Rumspringa time.
Are they all named John?
They keep it up some one might miss seeing them and when they get run over we well find out who they are.
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