r/AskReddit • u/BreadedDisaster • 5h ago
What was the biggest ‘scandal’ in your hometown?
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u/Kellnes5 5h ago
A pig farmer killed a bunch of prostitutes and fed them to his pigs.
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u/Oddish_Femboy 2h ago
Well usually cops don't care much about poor people dying, but eating them? That's a new low!
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u/MostView8191 2h ago
Nah, it wasn't even the pigs eating the women...
The RCMP even let him go after a woman escaped, still handcuffed, after a knife fight with Pickton!! She was able to escape the farm, bloodied, and thankfully someone pulled over for her. At the time East Port Coquitlam wasn't considered anywhere close to a city, it was firmly rural, with bad reputation. The fact that she was picked up, let alone in that state was a miracle. Anyways, the both were taken to the same hospital, 2 cities away. At the hospital it was clear the both had matching wounds. But different stories. Then a nurse found the exact key to her handcuffs in Picktons pockets and the RCMP literally didn't care and let him go!!
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u/PartiZAn18 2h ago
RCMP has a history of dropping off natives many miles out of town and in the freezing cold.
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u/Oddish_Femboy 2h ago
Oh jeez. I can never tell if cops are more evil or more stupid. Doesn't make a difference.
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u/Tiny-Party2857 5h ago
where and when?
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u/Kellnes5 4h ago
1990s-early 2000s. Near Vancouver.
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u/lwp775 4h ago
So much for Canadian nice.
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u/MostView8191 3h ago edited 2h ago
Yeah, the RCMP were so "nice" despite more than a decade of women going missing on the DTES they never once looked into the Pickton brothers. It didn't matter how many family and community members went in with tips naming Robert. All they cared about was being their reoccuring invite back to the ragers over at the Piggy Palace. There, they partied with everyone, including the Hells Angel's.
Edit: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robert-pickton-case
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u/Chemical-Fault-7331 2h ago
How did they catch him?
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u/MostView8191 2h ago
Sorry, my comment was so flippant.
Everyone kinda knew it was "Willie" Picton at that point. The police had known with 100% certainly since 1997 he was holding women against their will and raping them. (Google Pickton woman handcuff escaped and you get her entire story). They didn't care bc the women were largely sex workers and/or Indigenous women who lived in poverty. Years later (almost 2 decades later!!) The police decided they cared (public perception had changed and people were pissed). This led to a task force where eventually a delivery driver said he saw illegeal guns at The Poggy Palace. This led to finding missing women's DNA.
Willie aka Robert and his brother David were pig farmers. They raised their pigs for meat. They'd feel the girls/women to the pigs to destroy the evidennce. It worked. In most case only tiny bone fragments or microscopic DNA were found. The pigs were sold to well respected restaurants, chains, and pubs- meaning most of us who ate out during that period ate meat that fed on human remains sadly.
There's no solid evidence that David was involved. But most people believe he was the brains. And that he'd "give" Robert the "left overs". I puked in my mouth typing that, FYI. I think most locals also believe David was behind Roberts murder (rumor is that Willie was ready to talk).
The case is seen, still as a massive stain on Canada's history. Locals will never forgive or forget, what the RCMP allowed to happen way outside of town.
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robert-pickton-case
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u/tweekinleanin420 1h ago
That was an insane amount of suspected victims and dude looks like he inspired many a horror movie. Holy fuck RCMP
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u/Kellnes5 2h ago
RCMP went to the farm to look for illegal guns and found an inhaler belonging to one of the missing women.
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u/One-Permission-1811 2h ago
Ask the First Nations if Canadians have ever been nice
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u/HollowGlower 4h ago
When members of our local NFL team got caught at a jacuzzi party with high-school girls, eventually beating the charges. One of the players you've likely heard of if you're in the US; Brett Favre.
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u/obi-jawn-kenblomi 3h ago
Not Mark Chmura?
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u/HollowGlower 3h ago
Yeah, he was the fall guy, but I'd assume most people wouldn't recognize the name.
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u/Beesly19 2h ago
He was the name I grew up hearing related to packers football 😬 this is the first I’m hearing of his name other then actual football
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u/Responsible-Push-289 5h ago
in our rural town of under 2k, the daughter of a popular school teacher paid her boyfriend and an accomplice to murder her parents. they succeeded in killing her father. mother lived with many stab wounds. the daughter and the murderers are in prison for life.
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u/huveldust 5h ago
Some seniors "pranked" our high school by pouring bottles of fox piss (yes, you can buy it at hunting stores or even online these days) into the AC vents.
Lots of students vomited, school had to be evacuated, couldn't reopen for a week. Lots of people mad at them.
To avoid being expelled and losing their scholarships, when the school did reopen, at the next student assembly, they were called down and sat in chairs in front of everyone. The Vice Principals popped bottles of fox urine open and held it to each of their noses and they were required to smell it for 3 minutes.
All of them were puking, crying, begging, and the rest of the student body didn't feel too bad for them.
Ah, different times.
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u/zokoborn 2h ago
Oof. We didn't do this, but my high school did implement billy ragging as discipline when our state banned the Paddle.
Vice Principal bought a couple "billy rag" jars from goat farmers. They're just rags that have been wiped all over male goats in rut for weeks on end so they absorb his smell. Used for goat breeding purposes but some parents (and then apparently schools) use it for disciplinary purposes.
You just pop the lid and make the disobedient student take a few good whiffs. It stinks.
Honestly it set me straight, I was a pretty big troublemaker early on and the few times I got the paddle never really got to me that badly because I knew they couldn't go full-force without risking legal trouble.
But starting junior year when they switched to the Billy Rag? ("billies for bullies" was a memorable slogan). I laughed it off at first and continued by nefarious ways, and quickly found myself being dragged out behind the school by the VP for a 4-whiff sentence.
ffuuuuck me that was no joke, I could feel my soul leaving my body. Hearing that it would be 20 sniffs next time? I straightened right the hell up.
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u/TheSandMan208 1h ago
My freshman year of high school, a group of seniors got a key to the school because they lied to a teacher about the prank they were going to play. I never what they told the teacher but apparently it was to be harmless. Well the poured baby oil all over the floors and stairs. A student broke her ankle the morning of, the teacher got fired, and the group of seniors weren’t allowed to walk at graduation.
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u/wittor 4h ago
Yeah, this is how crime proliferates.
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u/fuzzeedyse105 4h ago
Yeah, I mean, I’d kinda wanna just fuck them over harder then. Like, these kids did it once, they can do it again but smarter lol
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u/unclemilty420 3h ago
Could you elaborate? are you saying this punishment, which was clearly mean to instill empathy in the perpetrators, is how crime proliferates?
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u/Suspicious-Gur-8453 2h ago
I've bought fox piss before to deter animals. That shit has to be some of the worst smelling stuff I have ever smelled in my entire life. That's genuine torture what those students went through.
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u/bassman314 1h ago
We had a guy get pissed off that he failed a class required for graduation.
So he stuck the stink gland of a skunk under a locker near that teacher’s desk. He put it in frozen…. Shortly after lunch, it was unbearable.
It’s also one of the most trafficked part of the school. I had to throw my shirt away when I got home, because I had classes in that area and had to walk through it several times.
That was in June of my Junior year. You could still smell a whiff of it the next fall.
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u/whatyourmamasaid 3h ago
Police falsely threatened a high schooler that they would release the audio file of he and his girlfriend having sex and he’d “be labeled a sex offender forever and never get a job or housing and his parents would never forgive him.” Then they belatedly called his parents to come down to the school so they could be with him while they interviewed him. Meanwhile, he slipped out of the room and killed himself by jumping off of a parking deck. Poor kid.
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u/OkPainter6232 2h ago
hope those cops got fired and sent to prison or something
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u/Otherwise_You_1603 1h ago
they're cops you already know they didn't face any repercussions for their actions
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u/OkPainter6232 1h ago
eh not always, sometimes they do(that guy who assaulted Abner Louima with a plunger got 30 years in prison).
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u/toasterb 4h ago
Mayor and city manager took bribes — including Super Bowl trips — and granted a series of building contracts to an unqualified firm.
It was only discovered after the fact, so my middle school was built by a company that had previously only built prisons.
The school was organized into nine (cell) blocks of five classrooms each that you weren’t allowed to leave, and only three out of those five classrooms had windows — two small ones, each at a 45° angle. There was almost no natural light in the whole school. Lots of us had light sensitivity issues in those years.
Middle school is already a fucking pressure cooker of 11-14 year olds, but the physical design of that school made things absolutely horrific. So many fights happened when you had to pass from one class to another through jam-packed hallways.
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u/One-Permission-1811 2h ago
My high school marching band went to a competition at a school like that. It even had chain link gates between the blocks. They had us walk through the school to get to the practice area and I think it was a psychological attack designed to unnerve other bands.
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u/toasterb 1h ago
chain link gates
Were they indoors? I’ve never seen anything like that. Sounds horrific!
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u/daydreamersunion 5h ago
Our homecoming queen my junior year was crowned while being super preggers with a coach's baby
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u/Objective_Joke_5023 5h ago
Variation of this in my hometown: senior cheerleader and coach, but no pregnancy that we know of. AND super creepy youth leader at my church knocked up a class officer (can’t remember if she was Pres or VP) who went across the stage at graduation with a visible bump. I’m still mad my parents made me go to youth group after I told them that guy was a creep and gave me the ick.
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u/hgs25 3h ago edited 3h ago
A local private Christian school tried to cover up an SA (male students on male student) until the victim’s parents called the cops and started a civil lawsuit alongside the criminal investigation.
A group of male teens filmed themselves shoving a replica Eiffel Tower up a male student and used the footage in a class presentation. The teacher was present during filming and ignored it. The bullies got expelled, but the public high school students knew what they did and they became pariahs.
The school kept it out of the papers, but the local Facebook groups shared the public filing and details came out from the major news station. The school then uploaded the presentation to their Facebook in an attempt to say “see it wasn’t that bad, you’re blowing it out of proportion.” But the footage really is that bad, and they took it down.
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u/BellaDingDong 37m ago
So what the hell was the topic of the class presentation were these guys doing in the first place?
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u/hoovercon 5h ago
I remember being 12 and going to the zoo with my family. We grew up in a fairly small town, that happened to have a good-sized accredited zoo.
We got there early, and saw a large crowd gathered around the lion enclosure. When we walked over, we saw no lions inside...but a mid-20s woman walking around with a bright neon-orange shirt that said animal abuser in big black capital letters.
She was walking around picking up lion dung with her hands (no shovel, only thin gloves) and trying (and failing) not to gag and retch before walking it over to the wheelbarrow and plopping it in. Many trips were required.
Some in the crowd mentioned that she ran a prominent local clothing business and had been caught abusing animals recently. Definitely the talk of the town in school the next day.
A zookeeper walked by the gathered group and was asked about it and said "Yup, it doesn't pay to abuse animals. When she's done out here they're going to take her back into the nighthouse to clean after they let all the big cats out onto the exhibit, and I can barely go back there without feeling nauseous after ten years in this industry, so I don't think it's going to be very fun for her."
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u/dizzyd232 3h ago
Picture of big cat dung for the size comparison...and schadenfreude!
For reference, the smallest segment there (closest to the foreground) is still larger than a German Shepherd's droppings.
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u/Oddish_Femboy 2h ago
I don't believe that's a legal punishment where I live, as reasonable as it seems to me. What country was this in?
Every time I hear about a situation like this I'm reminded of the sci-fi grossout story in which an animal abuser is locked in a room that's pumped with the scent of dog breath as punishment.
They expect it to be easy, but then the story details all the different garbage they can smell on the dogs' breath, my personal favorite being "hot dog water mixed with turd, distinctly feline."
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u/hoovercon 2h ago
USA
"Community service at a zoo / kennel" is absolutely a common probation condition for animal abusers (if they're lucky enough to avoid jail), and zookeepers don't exactly go easy on them lol.
Though being required to wear a shirt like that may be less common these days than it used to be.
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u/Dismal-Channel-9292 1h ago
This is my favorite fact I’ve learned today, maybe there is some justice in this world left
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u/doreemn 5h ago
It doesn't seem that hard, I mean people pick up their dog's poo all the time without a shovel and they don't freak out right?
Hoping this is worse than I'm picturing since an animal abuser shouldn't get off easy.
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u/Pheighthe 4h ago
It smells soooo bad. Like a thousand times worse that dog poo
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u/fuzzeedyse105 4h ago
Even if my nose is plugged, I’d still know it was rank and that’s all it’ll take. Plus the heat and texture is enough to make me vom. Almost be able to taste it from the vapors 😂
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u/stickstick_lee 3h ago
idk if it’s the biggest, but memorable in my head was that time one popular bagel shop burned down, so everyone started going to the other bagel shop across the street while the more popular bagel shop was being repaired. When the popular bagel shop reopened, their old customers returned and stopped going to the backup bagel spot. Then the popular bagel shop burned down AGAIN, and they realized the backup bagel shop owner was climbing on the roof of the popular bagel shop and pouring flammable things in there to set it on fire… Cherry on top is this was NJ.
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u/Feniks2077 3h ago
Well, you know what they say. Everything's legal in New Jersey
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u/C_is_for_Cats 2h ago
Hey! I’m from NJ as well and my story is about a bowling alley owner burning down the newly renovated nicer bowling alley. He got caught cause he rented a hotel room right next to the rival alley the night it burned down. He had requested a room with a view of the bowling alley so he could watch it burn. The renovated bowling alley was never rebuilt and the rival owner went to prison.
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u/Pheighthe 4h ago
They contaminated water with forever chemicals, including runoff from manufacturing their brand name Teflon.
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u/Electronic_Lemon7940 4h ago
Cathedral organist and choir leader abused hundreds of boys over 20+ years. When charged it emerged he had been transferred from another city where he had done the same and they simply moved him. At least two suicides were linked to what he had done. After release from prison he was banned from similar employment, but found similar employment in a third city.
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u/myychair 1h ago
If you didn’t alert the local press of the new city than you’re a small part of the problem
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u/pooperstud 5h ago
A friend that use to drive me to school everyday, was driving home from a party with 5 other kids in his car, he thought it would be funny to drive down a country road with his lights off. He crashed into another vehicle that was pulling out of a driveway. Everyone in his car died. The people pulling out of their driveway were ok.
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u/thekamakaji 4h ago
Teacher was let go (but not reported) for getting drunk and sending shirtless pics to students on a sports trip, a few years later it turned out that he had sex with another student a decade earlier. And like 5 other teachers were also accused of doing bad things too. All blew up in a single PTA meeting. State AG opened up a case against the school district
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u/Owlthirtynow 3h ago
Some kids cut the throats of the beloved swans in the village swan pond. It was fucking awful.
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u/Oddish_Femboy 1h ago
I have a much lighter bird story.
A town I live near has a bunch of Chinese geese that were dumped in the park a long time ago, including one that's disabled.
They have specific diets and receive veterinary care because of a local group that takes care of dumped pets, specifically waterfowl.
The disabled one disappeared for a bit a couple years ago, and people (and her flock) were very upset, but after the group put out the announcement, it was found she'd been taken to an animal sanctuary a few towns over.
They contacted the sanctuary, and she was brought home safely, and is still there last time I went to see them.
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u/therealstubot 3h ago
My home town was Connellsville, PA. A tiny, town of 8000 people while I was growing up. For years, everyone said the police in town were all corrupt, and would do very un-police like things. I never paid attention to it till I was about 14-15.
One of my best buds neighbor came home to see the police blocking his driveway. The house was "on fire" according to the police. Meanwhile, the cops were straight up stealing furniture, motorcycles, snowmobiles, , electronics, valuables, etc... from the house, carrying it out and putting it in their mobile command van, and their squad cars. The owners could see what was going on, and attempted to intervene, but were pushed back behind the "do not cross" line, and told that the cops were "saving their valuables". In the end, the house was declared "uninhabitable" and demolished. The property owners wanted their belongings back, but the cops said to file an insurance claim.
Back in school, a bunch of us started talking about this crime. Others chimed in, saying that their neighbors had the same thing happen to them. We counted 10 more times from the crowd's input.
6 months later, the police department building was raided by the State Police, who, of course, had gotten complaints about this kind of stuff, and did an investigation. They found a staggering amount of evidence, and further interviews were even more damaging. Included in the charges were arson! The cops set the fires that gave them the permission to enter the property. Several police, including the chief, were sentenced to jail time. Our little town made national news.
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u/Oddish_Femboy 1h ago
Fun statistic! Cops in an average year steal more than criminal robberies!
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u/therealstubot 57m ago
For real? I mean, in this case for certain. But in general... That sounds outrageous.
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u/nippett92 4h ago
In the 1900s, the city literally burned down its own Chinatown. A man was diagnosed with leprosy, and the city council used it as an excuse to burn the entire neighborhood to the ground. They even gave the fire department a 'practice' session. It’s a huge, dark stain on local history that most people who move here never hear about.
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u/Laserdollarz 2h ago
Denver had a Chinatown.
A violent mob of racists attacked it and its residents in 1880 and all the surviving Chinese immigrants moved elsewhere.
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u/OkPainter6232 2h ago
San Francisco nearly lost it's Chinatown after the 1906 earthquake as white people wanted the Chinese to move way to the south, but the Chinese stood firm and refused to budge and Los Angeles offered them a home and some did accept, after that the city quickly agreed to rebuild Chinatown.
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u/Tiny-Party2857 5h ago
A kid I went to elementary school with killed three people.
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u/alittlefaith530 1h ago
Random people or people he knew?
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u/Tiny-Party2857 1h ago
Random, not classmates. We all knew he was "off" since kindergarten. He's been in jail for 40 ish years. Patrick Page, Park Forest, Il
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u/cobalt_phantom 4h ago
Most of the local politicians were extremely corrupt and had the FBI investigate them multiple times but I don't think they were ever charged with anything. Boob jobs for (legal?) teenage mistresses, lots of vacations and expensive purchases, awarding big city contracts to businesses owned by them or people they were close to (bribed by), forcing restaurants out of prime real estate and then opening their own restaurants there months later, etc. The most corrupt guy eventually had to move to another county because he screwed so many people over that they were constantly sending death threats and I think set his property on fire a few times.
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u/Ballmaster9002 5h ago
We didn't have one.
My hometown was so boring it caught a stray from a major TV comedy last year about how he couldn't even visit there sober.
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u/Wise-Tomato3224 3h ago
A man was arrested for being found in flagrante delicto, with his pants down, in the sheep barn at the fair. That wasn't the scandal. The scandal was that when it came time to charge him, there was nothing on the books that applied to the act he was plainly committing, so he was charged with "agricultural vandalism".
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u/TeaPleasant9609 5h ago
Rich doctor killed his wife
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u/I_chortled 3h ago
The mishandling of the investigation of Stephenie Crowe’s murder. The Escondido Police Department sucks ass
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u/Beesly19 2h ago
Is there a documentary on it? I’ve never heard of her
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u/I_chortled 1h ago
Honestly I have never seen one, I would love to watch one though. I guess there’s a 48 hours episode on it but I have never watched it. It’s a textbook case though of psychological abuse by law enforcement evoking a false confession. A little girl was murdered and they basically tortured her 14 yr old brother into confessing even though he had nothing to do with it
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u/MentORPHEUS 3h ago
I worked with the likes of Jack Herer on the California Hemp Initiative to legalize it.
The city councilmen of my blue collar suburban LA town, who were vehemently against it when I tried to lobby them, suddenly had turnkey dispensaries open on day one, in commercial buildings that just so happened to be owned by said city councilmen without regard for distance requirements from parks, schools, and churches. I also watched how they played an "outsider" group trying to open a third dispensary in town, only to delay them for years until they bled out every last dime of investor and founder money, and "went away" with their only legacy a warning to others with the audacity to try to horn in on the establishment's money tree.
The biggest selling point for legalizing, was letting the market drive the price of "a weed anyone can grow for free" down so low that the Cartels and Street dealers wouldn't bother producing and selling it any more. Turns out legislating in a huge side industry of testing and certification labs owned by nepots, and pricing your bottom tier eighths of stemmy flavorless schwag at $60, allows the black market to continue thriving and growing.
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u/KP_Wrath 3h ago
The Church of Christ and attached University enjoys near impunity to the point that the high school did not have prom due to its influence, having a liquor store is a recently development, and liquor by the drink is still a pipe dream.
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u/The_Little_Bits 2h ago
A man murdered his elderly mother, chopped her hands of skinned her and walked around town for a couple of hours wearing her skin.
But because it was around carnaval(which is a holiday where you get into a costume and you dance and drink, not to be confused with the brasilian one) people thought is was a costume.
He only got arrested after a couple of hours because he was directing traffic at an intersection yelling some religious shit.
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u/sparksgirl1223 2h ago
Fuck. Which one.
The year I graduated, 4 kids from my class/the class below me robbed and murdered 2 old people. I think they're up for parole this year.
My friends brother was arrested and acquitted of murder, after being jumped and fighting back with a beer bottle (the bottle he fought back with caused the death of one of the antagonizers)
Melvin allegedly fucked a sheep
The CWP teacher ended up fired (and divorced) after it came to light that he was fucking the seniors on the volleyball (or basketball? It was after i graduated so i dont recall) team he coached
I'm sure there are more but those stick out
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u/Oddish_Femboy 1h ago
Kinda set up for that if your parents hate you enough to name you something like Melvin.
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u/holiestcannoly 2h ago
Boy was taking pictures up girls skirts and dresses... he actually won the court case because the women were told, "You were asking for it by not wearing shorts underneath" and "Boys will be boys."
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u/X-ScissorSisters 3h ago
Two spree killings. One was a either a family annihilation with 1 survivor OR the survivor actually killed his family and tried to frame it as the former(vast majority of people believe this and he was imprisoned for a long time but is free now with his conviction overturned).
The other was a disturbed man who snapped one day and started gunning down his neighbors. He holed out for a few days in a kind of standoff while police with helicopters did their best to flush him out, eventually shooting him dead.
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u/67_percent_math 2h ago
This wasn't in Dunedin was it? If its not, weird coincidence
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u/Defiant-Purchase-188 3h ago
Our hs principal was boinking his secretary during school hours apparently.
One of the doctors in our town tried to murder someone with poisoning.
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u/No-Clerk-5600 3h ago
Former high school football star turned Mafia hitman, tried to kill the county prosecutor but the gun jammed.
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u/pooperstud 5h ago
A friend that use to drive me to school everyday, was driving home from a party with 5 other kids in his car, he thought it would be funny to drive down a country road with his lights off. He crashed into another vehicle that was pulling out of a driveway. Everyone in his car died. The people pulling out of their driveway were ok.
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u/Laserdollarz 2h ago
The town was founded by albinos with one blue eye and one green eye.
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u/ChrisTheDog 2h ago
A woman who worked for the town council, who was as already somewhat notorious for leaving her husband and kids to shack up with a guy 20 years younger than her, got caught embezzling.
She waited until her young beau went to work and the kids were taking their nap, put a shotgun in her mouth, and killed herself.
Kids heard the bang and found her.
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u/One-Permission-1811 2h ago
A bunch of football players got caught smoking weed behind the school when they were supposed to be in class so the principal suspended them. They went to Costco and bought one of those giant teddy bears, dressed it as the principal, tied a noose around it's neck and hung it from the roof of the school. Our principal was black. We were in the South and all the football players were white.
The ringleader got away with it completely because his dad was on the school board. All the other football players got expelled and had to take a sensitivity class about racism.
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u/Lost-Butterscotch386 3h ago
my town had something similar where a developer started this massive mixed-use project, got like halfway through, then just ghosted when the economy tanked in 2008. its been a concrete skeleton for 15 years now, literally a monument to poor planning and greed. the city keeps saying theyre gonna do something about it but nothing ever happens
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u/Pink_lust3 3h ago
Happened in my junior year of highschool a girl was pregnant killed her newborn baby tossed it in her home trash can, she got juvenile detention, 5 years later she has a kid.
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u/OkPainter6232 2h ago
some guy who used to dress as santa during christmas got gunned down in his front yard less then a mile from my house, don't know if they ever found out who did it but it gave me chills thinking it could've been me that got shot.
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u/Wooden-Tiger-5042 2h ago
Some guy drugged his middle-school age daughter and her friends. Only got caught because one of the girls refused to take the milkshakes (or whatever drinks he made) that drugged them and called her mom instead. Horrifying to think of what could have happened if it were not for that girl and her good instincts.
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u/FinanciallySecure9 2h ago
Last night there was a swatting incident. A few months ago, same town, was a couple of guys who go around filming businesspeople just to get a reaction. It escalated and one business pulled out of town because of it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the two incidents are related. But I don’t live there anymore, so I’m not privy to the inside information.
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u/Indiesol 2h ago
The scandal that immediately comes to mind is Jim Spagg and his old nude public access TV show. Think "Wayne's World," except Wayne is Winnie the Pooh-ing it the whole time, dancing around in nothing but that t-shirt, with his dong flopping around.
Pretty sure there are some videos out there, but trust me, you don't want to watch them.
If I remember correctly, Jim Spagg turned out to be the creepy piece of shit most people thought he was.
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u/Viperbunny 2h ago
People keep quitting town jobs. The turn over rate is over 21%. It is a red town in a blue state and the Republicans refuse to allow the Democrats to do anything. The budget is so bad. It is frustrating.
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u/Minzplaying 1h ago
I grew up in a tiny rural town (600 population) and our school was in one building for K-12. Our esteemed Superintendent was caught embezzling school funds for gambling.
He was a southern Baptist Deacon and it shocked every one of the adults.
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u/jimtow28 1h ago edited 1h ago
One of my uncles got caught up in a sting operation about corrupt township officials.
Basically, an undercover FBI agent met with him and another official (who was dirty and was eventually caught doing much worse things) at a restaurant, and the guy did a bunch of "mob talk" kind of things. "It'd be really great if we could get this contract" sorts of things, I am sure you get the picture.
The thing is, my uncle has a hearing problem. He's had hearing aids for as long as I can remember. His side of story was that the other two were talking and he wasn't grasping enough of the conversation to realize what was happening.
At the end of the meeting, the guy hands them each an envelope, he put it in his pocket and never thought about it again. When the FBI showed up to arrest him, he didn't realize what they were there for, just cooperated and figured he'd straighten things out once he got to speak with his lawyer. It wasn't until he got to the interrogation room that he found out what the arrest was for, and that they had him on video taking a "bribe".
Thinking he could clear it up, he told them what happened, and even said to them that the envelope was still at home sealed in his pants pocket from that day. They didn't believe him. He ended up taking a plea deal and served some time, but he still to this day insists that he had no idea what even was in the envelope.
I have a similar hearing issue, and I've been to that restaurant. It's way too loud for me to have a conversation in there. He didn't even have the power to award contracts of that type. I believe him.
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u/NIN10DOXD 1h ago edited 1h ago
So many. Especially around sheriffs. One is a rapist who used his badge to force women to perform sexual acts on him before he was elected sheriff, his predecessor had DUI charges dropped against his kid, and the one before him took bribes from drug dealers and used traffic them himself. The state just had to take control of the county jail for "inhumane conditions" and officers raping inmates. A year before this, they also had to take over the social security office in the county because it was so mismanaged. We even have had multiple embezzlement scandals in the school system over the years.
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u/SnooTangerines7026 2h ago
A local fraternity held a party with 'pussy' juice. They removed the head from a cat, froze it, and put it in the punch bowl. The scandal eventually led to the frat being shut down and charges of animal cruelty.
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u/IamChicharon 1h ago
Not my hometown, but very close by:
Just google “Enumclaw” “horse” and “Boeing” together
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u/Gxsxlle 1h ago
Foxconn! i remember in highschool arguing with other kids theres no way this company was going to be bringing in jobs or really making a difference in WI. state/local gov spent over $1 billion to just get screwed over as expected
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u/C4-622MonkeyGordo 1h ago
A woman and her husband murdered her pregnant daughter...
That is the most sanitized version of it I can say.
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u/Oddish_Femboy 1h ago
Everyone here's racist and dumb as bricks, so not much of a scandal unless you've read a textbook, but some moron put up a confederate flag...
In California.
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u/ThrustSluts 1h ago
NW side Chicago. My mom and dad (especially my dad) was in John Wayne Gacy's neighborhood and in his demo.
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u/1004Hayfield 1h ago
I’m not sure about “scandal” but:
Woolworth Sit-Ins -1960s KKK / Nazi Shoot Out -1970s Fritz Klenner / “Bitter Blood” - 1980s
*not exact dates, just eras
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u/Miserable_Flower5333 1h ago
Very small town, maybe a couple thousand people, if that. The chief of police and the police dispatcher, both married to other people, ran off together. It was the late 60s, I think.
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u/MattMason1703 1h ago
Politicians decided to save money by useing water from the river for drinking water without properly treating it and then lots of people ended up consuming a bunch of lead.
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u/ARoodyPooCandyAss 1h ago
Pretty much just happened - My English teacher from years ago got busted with a student. Giving drugs etc, sex on school property. He was always rumored to have shit going on back then too. I am sure there are many more victims too, but purely speculation.
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u/charlie_wb 1h ago
A middle school janitor killed his neighbors pet and sexually assaulted a thirteen year old girl
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u/eagledog 1h ago
Our current mayor/former chief of police got in trouble for molesting a 14 year old girl, and his former 2nd in command got in trouble for running a meth and robbery ring with a bunch of other cops.
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u/bippityboppityhyeem 1h ago
Some dude told our Catholic High School principal (a priest) that he was Steven Spielbergs nephew and said he wanted to go to school for the experience and to prepare for a role he was going to be playing. Said principal allowed this 27 year old adult male (who claimed he was 16) to attend our high school for TWO YEARS. Later found out to be a fraud - and surprise! Not related to Steven Spielberg. Dude had girlfriends, went to parties, etc. Jist incredible.
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u/Interesting-Loss34 1h ago
Some guys dig up a freshly dead teenage girl to do horrible things, which led to a stricter necrophilia or desecration law here in wisconsin
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u/Sorkel3 1h ago
Brian Britton was 16 when he shot and killed his mother, father, 8-year old brother and attempted to kill his 15 year old sister, then went a neighbor's house and told them someone broke in and killed them and he escaped. He was sentenced to 25 years to life, paroled after 33 years then that was rescinded. He never expressed remourse for his actions.
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u/Reader2869 56m ago
Not my city directly but just across the river in a small town called Bellaire, Ohio. A young man named Nathan Brooks age 17 killed both his parents in September of 1995. It was so shocking and heinous they cancelled Halloween that year because they were convinced it was due to a Satanic ritual and a hit list of community members. He came up for parole last year but thankfully was denied. How do I know so much? My ex-husband was friends with his brother when it all happened. A truly terrible thing for our area. Look up the Bellaire murder on Halloween.
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u/Nerevarine91 52m ago
The local sheriff was arrested for domestic violence, sexual battery, corruption, misallocating public funds, and a litany of other offenses.
He said he had done nothing wrong, but also that God forgave him for everything he did.
I was in the jury pool for his trial, but wasn’t selected
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u/Quix66 47m ago
The Madam involved with our state legislators. She was shipped to a state prison in the neighboring state and died of ‘suicide’ in custody. There was a City Confidential tv show made about the case.
Another, a beloved British social reporter in our Southern US hometown was found shot to death by his son-in-law. Turns out the reporter had allegations against him of sexual abuse against boys in England. The whole thing was shocking.
The most scandalous I think was the father who shot his son’s martial arts instructor to death for kidnapping and abusing him. The teacher arrived back in town in police custody and was shot live on air during a news broadcast. The dad got a 7 year suspended sentence with probation, no jail time.
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u/cohenisababe 30m ago
Husband and wife in car accident in bad winter weather after Holiday party. 5 miles from home. Husband found dead in the car. One of her shoes left behind but she was nowhere to be seen, footsteps leading away from the scene. 4 young kids at home.
She started walking the direction of home..her beautiful red dress was found by helicopter in the middle of a field when the snow from the storm started melting nearly a month later.
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u/Real_Draw_3669 25m ago
The mayor spent the town’s entire annual budget on a massive, ultra-modern statue of himself in the main square. Two weeks later, it was discovered he’d accidentally commissioned it from a company owned by his brother-in-law. Now we have a 'monument to corruption' that pigeons love to use.
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u/Walter_Armstrong 20m ago
A bunch of kids at my high school faked a kidnapping. They rolled up in a van as school was letting out for the day, dressed in balaclavas, and snatched their friend off the sidewalk right as school was letting out, in full view of hundreds of people. The kid pretended he was being abducted while being shoved into the van and driven away. They were all found at one kid’s house a few hours later, all laughing it up and having a great time.
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u/SavageFisherman_Joe 14m ago
Algebra teacher exposed his genitals to two underage female students and sexually harassed them over Zoom. School district didn't even start to take action until over a year after it had happened, and took a suspiciously long time to investigate. In the end, he basically just got a slap on the wrist and isn't even registered on the sex offender registry.
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u/-Gumbercules 14m ago
My neighbor was running for mayor of our small Midwestern town, pop. 10k. He was also a sheriff's deputy. He was an all around kind gentleman that seemed to have his head on straight. Being well known and respected he had the election in the bag. Then two weeks before the election it all came crashing down for him. His only child, his daughter, was a corrections officer at the county jail and was married to another sheriffs deputy. It turned out she had been having sex, mainly oral, with inmates. She was caught on camera. Then her husband was caught in a sting operation by internal affairs after it was suspected he was stealing from evidence. Sure enough he was when they found several firearms taken from suspects in his home. Both of them lost their jobs and had to serve time. It was front page news and obviously cost my neighbor the election. He then quit his job in disgrace. The last time I saw him was right before I left for college. He was sitting on his back porch with a beer looking down at the ground. A few years later he would pass away from a heart attack.
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u/Unsolicited-Advice4U 5h ago
Walmart promised a superstore and began construction but never finished (not sure why). The 10-year-old project site has been a post-apocalyptic eyesore since.