Can we all agree that 2024 has been a weird year? We decided to look back on a few of our favorite absurdities as we get ready to ring in 2025.
Mystery fireworks
It was Oct. 27 — not the Fourth of July, New Year’s Eve or even Halloween — when a massive fireworks show lit up the Downtown Long Beach skyline.
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It jolted neighbors awake and sent police scrambling to figure out what was going on. The culprit? A group of people setting off an unsanctioned pyrotechnic display from the Queensway Bridge.
There’s still some mystery left to this day: Why? Maybe they had a premonition about the Dodgers winning the World Series three days later.
An INSANO statue
When a statue of a man standing at least 30 feet tall appeared off the coast and anchored just off the beach, nobody new exactly what to make of it — at least at first.
Quickly, we all connected the dots that it was a towering likeness of Kid Cudi promoting his new album, INSANO…