THE DAILY WIRE · CALIFORNIA · 2026-11-06
The Year in Bizarre, As Told By People With Cameras, Not Paws
NBC Los Angeles has published its annual roundup of 2025's most bizarre stories, a civic tradition as dependable as gridlock and, this reporter would wager, heavily subsidized by the animal kingdom without so much as a byline.
The outlet's list compiles the year's strangest local headlines, though the available report does not specify which incidents made the final cut, how they were ranked, or whether any four-legged party was consulted. Webster's crawl could confirm only that the list exists and that Los Angeles, a city with a documented coyote population patrolling its hillsides and alleyways, had a full calendar year to generate material.
This is, in this columnist's professional opinion, the central injustice of the year-end-weird-news genre: the animals do the work, the humans do the ranking, and the credit lands entirely on whoever was holding a phone. Nobody interviews the coyote.
Webster tracked down Desmond, a Los Angeles coyote with reported opinions on the matter, for an eyewitness assessment of who actually generated the city's weirdest material this year.
His account of the awards season differs sharply from the network's official tally.
The list airs regardless. Spun and done.
“I've personally stolen a breakfast burrito off a Metrolink platform and nobody put that on a list. Humans only notice weird when it happens near a camera crew, which tells you everything about who the real strange ones are. Coyotes are crepuscular, by the way — look it up before you caption us wrong again.” — Desmond, Los Angeles coyote
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