'Father of the Year' and '#1 Packer Fan' should be awarded to this fine dad who restrained his 7-year-old son with tape for an hour for refusing to put on a Green Bay Packers jersey and then taping the jersey to his son.

Mathew Kowald was cited for disorderly conduct, held in jail for three days and was released after paying a fine of $186.

Kowald, contacted later Wednesday by the Portage Daily Register, said the incident started as a joke. His son challenged him by saying he wouldn’t root for the Packers. When he tied the boy up, the youngster was laughing while his wife took pictures, he said.

“Then he couldn’t get out and he got upset and that’s it. It lasted a minute,” he said. “I didn’t mean no harm, and he knows that, but I haven’t been able to tell him that.”

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A State Street Family Album is an interesting photo essay about the homeless who live on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin.

This photo-essay is about some poor people who live on the street. They are not cardboard cutout poor people; they are real, living, breathing, human beings. They have problems and feelings.
           State Street in Madison, Wisconsin is a pedestrian mall that runs from the capitol building to the University of Wisconsin campus. It is home to some of Madison's least fortunate. These are the discards of our society: the poor, the veterans, the homeless, the drug addicted, the alcoholic, the runaways, the abused, the unemployable, the people that nobody wants. They deserve something better than the lives they lead now, but these photos are not about how bad their lives are. These pictures are mostly about how good their lives are.
          Stop and talk to these folks that you have previously been ignoring. You will find out something that you didn't know before. You will discover that they are just people.

[via MeFi]

As reported on Yahoo-News, a hunter in Wisconsin got quite a surprise when he hit a deer, which turned out to have 7 legs (4 functioning, and 3 smaller appendages)  The deer also had male and female reproductive organs. 

The hunter said of the deer:
"And by the way, I did eat it,  it was tasty."

Here's the full article.

Being a Wisconsin native, I had to make a post about Weird Wisconsin.  Weird Wisconsin posts stories about strange happenings around the state.

Weird Wisconsin's mission statement:

When you think of Wisconsin, it's the smoky tang of bratwurst sizzling on the grill, foam cheddarheads, Friday night fish frys or fish boils, the Green Bay Packers or Milwaukee Brewers, herds of holsteins or guernsey cows grazing in meadows, blaze-orange-wearing deer hunters, rippling fields of grain stretching to the horizon, the Dells, snowmobiling, camping or hiking in our myriad state parks, the wild expanses of the Nicolet or Chequamegon forests, Oktoberfest in La Crosse, the State Fair ..

However, beneath this mundane reality lies something more mysterious, sinister, macabre. The outright weird comports with everyday reality, yet because this weirdness is seldom collated or even mentioned in contemporary media outlets, few know the true extent of The Weirdness That Lurks All Around Us.

This is the mission of this website; to collate the weirdness, to call attention to otherwise anomalous events or people; to label and perhaps explain unexplained phenomena; to invigorate the imagination; to celebrate the uniqueness of the Wisconsin State of Being; to rescue us from the Creeping Monotony so much of America seems bent on becoming.

Remember, when you are in Wisconsin "you are among friends."  There are only friendly ghosts in Wisconsin.