This is normal during the Great Port Townsend Bay Kinetic Sculpture Race. Feathers, headgear, human powered land, water and mudbog machines, as well as Kinetic Kops and bribery of the judges. All trying to be Most Mediocre.
Not whacky, nope.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: whacky.
I love it. Most Mediocre. I keep trying to excel at that myself.