Seems odd she can deliver that to NPCS, so now there's an unusable genie lamp sitting around on that lot?

I was playing one of the families, and one of the teenagers had that pterodactyl statue on the top of her head!

I wouldn't come off, I couldn't grab it or delete it with a sledgehammer. Then finally I deleted her, and it was gone the next time I played that family

As long as any of the playable sims can select the genie lamp, it should still be usable. I don't think it matters who received it. I never know who receives them in my game. Whenever I get a genie lamp, I choose someone to use it. If I don't know which sim I want to use it, I put it in one of their inventories and decide later.

The Sim who receives it gets a memory about it.

Once it happened that nobody got a memory, so I had all Sims in the household, who wanted to, make a wish.

In my games it's often toddlers that get the genie lamp o.O
I think it's related to how long they have a consistent platinum aspiration meter.

I decided to play the Grunt family today, since I've never played them before and wanted to try something different. After a few sim hours or so, I got a message saying that General Buzz was going to age up in 24 hours, despite the fact he was only halfway through his adult years. I dismissed it as a minor error though. Then, the next morning, at 7 AM I got the message 'A school bus will arrive for General Buzz in about an hour'. I found it quite amusing, and sure enough, when the school bus came along, he had the option to get on it with his children. He then got off the bus at 1 PM with Tank and Ripp, and even started to complain about his grades before pulling his homework out of his butt!

So yeah. I have come to the conclusion that my Strangetown is seriously borked.

Strangetown is pretty corrupted as shipped.

The thing is, I don't have the regular screwy Strangetown; I downloaded clean templates for all my 'hoods after Riverblossom Hills got corrupted.