With less than a week before final votes are cast in what is the most bizarre election I remember, I was pretty sure I'd seen and heard it all. There were certainly no surprises left.
Then along came this gem out of Wiscasset, Maine.
On Nov. 8, those voters will decide a referendum issue on whether or not to allow their volunteer firefighters to continue to wash their personal vehicles at the fire station. Yes, you read that correctly.
The town manager said the practice violated town policy and several votes by the selectmen to rewrite that policy have failed.
So, after months-long pitched battles between town leaders over the merits of the time-honored tradition of firefighters lathering up and hosing down their trucks and cars, the issue is going before the voters to decide once and for all.