Only in Wisconsin...

Sometimes when you leave a good party early, the party doesn't want you to leave. Waukesha Alderman Emanuele Vitale was the unfortunate victim of an accident leaving the Wisconsin State fair Wednesday night.

As Vitale, 70, readied to leave the Wisconsin State Fair on Wednesday night, a half-barrel of beer getting hand-trucked by a grounds employee toppled across his right leg and rolled over his left ankle, he said Thursday.

The blow to his foot felt "terribly painful," and his ankle swelled, Vitale said.
He was taken by ambulance at about 8:30 p.m. to West Allis Memorial Hospital, where X-rays came back negative, he said. On Thursday he was back on his feet, though limited to hobbling around.

The Waukesha Freeman's headline, "Beer barrel injures Waukesha alderman at state fair" is definitely an only-in-Wisconsin headline. The Wigderson family wishes the alderman a speedy recovery.