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As a person who’s never lived in a small town, I have a somewhat romanticized view of the idea. Neighbors leave their front doors unlocked without any worries, and they drop by unannounced to bring over freshly baked cookies and homemade lemonade. Everybody knows each other’s names, and it’s impossible to leave your house without running into a friend.
But no place is without issues, and apparently, every small town has an “incident” that residents will never forget. Reddit users who grew up in rural areas have been sharing about the infamous incidents that occured in their towns, so we’ve gathered some of their most shocking stories below. Enjoy reading through and getting your dose of small town gossip, and be sure to upvote the stories that you can’t believe are true!
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#1
So this happened a couple years before I went there, but this was the talk of my high school for like half a decade and half the town knew folks involved so it just became town lore.
There was a special needs kid who was loved by our school and our community. He was always smiling and happy, and while only ever really talkative when it was about his own interests you couldn't help but like the guy and get along with him. Even bullies were kind to the kid, and while some people avoided him no one was ever rude or dismissive towards him. Just a genuinely good kid who was liked by all cause you couldn't help but like him.
He got beaten up by a bully who came to our school from the really f****d up last chancer school a few suburbs over.
Word got out when someone saw him in the infirmary bruised to the nines and crying. Dumbass bully took credit but really didn't need to since there were witnesses and word got around pretty quickly.
A dozen seniors cornered him after school when the bully was walking home and took turns beating the s**t out of them, apparently they almost killed him. Never saw him again after that so I've no idea what happened, I just know he got hospitalised for ages. No one was willing to rat them out, and the teachers and overworked cops didn't really seem too fussed in finding out who got rid of the bully.
The friendly kid came back a few weeks later all healed up and everything continued as normal.
RandomPkmnFan 1 year ago
They're one of the best type of stories, aren't they?
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Vinny DaPooh 1 year ago
Takes an extreme psychopath to beat up a special ed kid. Very likely that everyone knew who avenged him but felt they were heros and no need to get them in trouble for introducing the bully to karma
Marcos Valencia 1 year ago
Call it karma, call it lynching. Both are synonyms in this history.
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whineygingercat 1 year ago
Even the nastiest piece of slime in school knows 'you don't go after the Special ED or the disabled kids.'
Mildly Annoyed Penguin 1 year ago
I mean... Violence is bad... But I totally understand why they got rid of a bully in this way. If this is the only "language" a bully seems to comprehend...
Marcos Valencia 1 year ago
"A dozen seniors cornered him after school when the bully was walking home and took turns beating the s**t out of them, apparently they almost killed him." Violence was the only language the seniors used, and they were surprisingly good at this for such a quiet little town.
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Jenna Kay 1 year ago
Many years ago, a bully with a bad reputation tried to choke my daughter, who is high functioning autistic. It was a small town, and how he didn't know that she took martial arts is beyond me. She defended herself, and after getting thrown to the ground and throat punched, he was mercilessly made fun of for getting beaten up by a girl two grades beneath him. He was expelled for the rest of the year and from what I heard, never put his hands on another girl again.
Liam Storer 1 year ago
Well, it seems that he learned his lesson and understood it.
Load More Replies... Marcos Valencia 1 year ago
Who cares about the law? Of course, not teachers or 'overworked' cops. What a lovely place.
Allen Packard 1 year ago
Just so we're clear. Most bullies are dealing with some sort of trauma. My son has Aspergers. He was an easy target and I've seen my fair share of bullies. Every time, it's a sad situation.
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
If there were witnesses to the original beating, calling in the cops then might have had a bigger effect. You get over a beating for what you've done - an arrest record stays with you. (And the bully would probably still gotten his deserved beating in the JD center - from people who really know how it's done.)
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#2
My lunch ladies won the Powerball when I was in 9th grade. Each took home 1.1 million dollars. Each week, they each put in a quarter and bought Powerball tickers and one week they won. There were news teams there for days doing interviews. It was cool that most of the lunch ladies stayed working there. The older ones retired, but almost all of them continued to work. It was a really big deal for a long time.
Florence O'Grady 1 year ago
Lunch ladies are the best!!! The lunch ladies at M.A. Milam Elementary School in the 1970s were the best and sweetest ladies.
Lee Banks 1 year ago
A buddy worked as a school janitor for years. He hit the Powerball. Only one with the numbers. We were friends for darn near two decades before he told me. Didn't quit his job until health failed him. He just really liked the kids and the 'zen' aspect of the work. Man still has millions, but would never show it off.
Hemminsleifwa E 1 year ago (edited)
https://youtu.be/qj52B_h-1jc?si=CW01HqtOv2fKrOSb I think this must be them.
#3
Wind storm broke open cages of bunnies from the 4H program and ton of them got loose. Several years later you can’t seem to go around a corner without seeing several wild rabbits.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Poor bunnies. Domesticated bunnies don’t do that well in the wild. Although, obviously part of me is mentally going “Squeeee bunnies”
The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
We had a domesticated rabbit that kept escaping. She was already 5 years old. For the next 6 or 7 years (12 would be VERY old for a rabbit), we'd see her occasionally. (She was HUGE, and had fought off raccoons which had entered her cage. She was so fierce, we all screamed "SNUGGLES!" when we first saw Monthy Python's rabbit scene. And yes, she was named ironically.) For decades, there were multi-colored litters of bunnies in my parents' yard, which means not only did she and at least some of her offspring survive, but there were other domestic rabbits. (Domestic rabbits are from Europe, and a very different species from the local cottontails.)
Load More Replies... Panda Kicki 1 year ago
Here the roof of the exhibition hall caved due to snow, with hundreds of bunnies in. Lore says all wild bunnies around are from that, but in reality those who survived died of the cold and the roaming bunnies are from owners who got tired of them.
Lucy’s Human 1 year ago
A program for farm kids, or kids in rural areas, to learn the basics of taking care of animals, etc.
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SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago
This whole situation really went down the rabbit hole, didn't it? XP
OmMi 1 year ago
Well, at least its not a bad thing. I would love to see a bunch of bunnies around the corner.
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
yeah but they probably don't help the environment much
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#4
A guy robbed the bank then ran to his home to hide… that was down the street. Took the cops an embarrassingly long time to get him
Hawkmoon 1 year ago
Same story here, but the guy was even dumber: it was snowing and all it takes for the cops was following his footsteps to his home.
Deborah B 1 year ago
I like the story where the small-town guy attempts to rob the bank, and the teller is like "Trevor Whitely, I see you every damn day, you think I don't know it's you in that stupid balaclava? You walk yourself on out of here, before I call your Mama."
Marcellus II 1 year ago
My mate's local post-office robber got swiftly arrested --- while waiting for the getaway vehicle, the nr. 46 bus.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
In prison ministry, sometimes I'd get stories from prisoners about how dumb they were to get arrested. One guy robbed a store and tried to flee in his car. On the sort of island that Jaws was set on.
I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
Lol, I live about 15 minutes from that island.
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UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 1 year ago
I hope every word of a story I heard in the 80s is true. A guy broke into a liquor store through the skylight. He tossed bottles of liquor up through the skylight on to the roof, but missed with a few and broke them. He slipped in the mess he made, cutting himself badly on broken glass AND dropped his wallet. He climbed back out of the skylight, fell off the roof, and then left a trail of blood to his house just a few doors down.
Charronne Johnston 1 year ago
Similar happened years ago. Bank robber grabbed the loot and ran down the street. Police caught him in the coffee shop other end of the block, counting out the cash in neat piles on the table top
Display_Name 1 year ago
One guy robbed a mom and pop store late one night. Guy stole pall mall cigarettes, Doritos, and Reese’s cups. He was caught because he left a trail of Reese’s wrappers along the way.
#5
Guy in my high school knocked up the daughter of the local fitness center owner. The owner offered him a car to leave his daughter alone and not be a part of the baby’s life. He accepted the offer and took the car. Once she gave birth, they ran away together in the car. The fitness center owner found them, torched the car, and threatened to kill the guy. They fought and the baby daddy won. This apparently garnered some respect from both men and now everyone seems like a happy family.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
I'm waiting for the sitcom version. Titled "Neanderthal rules" or something.
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Florence O'Grady 1 year ago
Sounds like he and she truly love each other. Anyone have an update on this story?
MaxMi 1 year ago (edited)
Ah like the whealty who got a girl pregnant and her dad wanted to have a word with him, so he arrived with his limo and his driver and he said if he was going to be a boy he would have provided him succesfull companies, a mansion and a crew of assistants to take care of his family, if she was goong to be a girl he would have provided her succesfull beauty businesses a mansion and a crew of assistants to take care of her family and asked what would you want me to do if it’s a miscarriage, to the dad reply "I would want you to try again"
#6
There were 2 kids 3 years older than me who got married about 2 years ago, and right after the wedding, they found out they were actually twins that were separated at birth. I wish I was joking but I'm not. They are still happily married.
Edit: this is small town Connecticut, by the way
arthbach 1 year ago
A friend was due to perform a marriage. She was visiting the bride's mother the day before the wedding, and the groom's mother came to visit. Whilst chatting, the mothers realised the bride-to-be and groom-to-be had the same father. They were half-siblings. Naturally, the wedding did not go ahead.
Warrior Mama 1 year ago
Me too. At no point did they realize they had the same birthday and were adopted? That might not be enough on its own, but if either of them had family they were still communicating with before the wedding you'd think people would be able to figure it out even pre internet.
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Fynne 1 year ago (edited)
There was a story on BP about a year ago where this woman said she was engaged to her biological brother and was asking for advice. Everyone in the comments was saying “go for it, love is love” and “it doesn’t really matter anyway” I couldn’t help being grossed out
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BK BigFish 1 year ago
Gross, but unsurprising. It's GSA - Genetic Sexual Attraction. We are, based on genetics, naturally attracted to people related to us. What stops incest, and makes us think it is gross, is the Westermarck effect (AKA reverse sexual imprinting), in which you are turned off by anyone you grow up with. Grow up apart, meet as adults, and it's natural to feel unusually attracted to each other. It has happened to numerous siblings, parents, and even grandparents. Again, gross, but it makes perfect evolutionary sense.
Rebekah Krause 1 year ago
Except I am pretty sure this is a theory put forth by a psychologist who was sexually attracted to her son she had put up for adoption (and was rejected) and nothing to suggest this is remotely normal. It’s complete pseudoscience.
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
Before Jeff Foxworthy rose to fame with "You Might Be a Redneck If...," there was an internet quiz. This was in the days of Usenet, before Al Gore invented it, mind you. My [redacted] from small-town Connecticut pretty much aced it. Just in case you thought rednecks were necessarily Southern. And yes, apparently there were plenty of rednecks on the internet with their 14K modems in 1990; this is why Commodore video-game sales were pretty meager compared to the popularity of the console.
#7
A slasher movie was filmed here and before production began the town cleaned up and painted one of the main areas that was going to be used in the movie. The studio then had to bring in a team to undo all of the cleaning and painting because it no longer looked authentic.
Deborah B 1 year ago
There's a pink house in Oxford (England) on a very period street. Every few years a historical piece is filmed there, for the houses and the cobblestones etc. Everytime, they have to get the homeowner's permission to paint their house white, and they agree, so long as they paint it back pink again afterwards.
VikingAbroad 1 year ago
And he never need to paint it himself. What a genius! 😂
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Fester Sixonesixonethree 1 year ago
I lived in the town where Groundhog Day was filmed. There was a paint store that refused to sell anything to the film, so they bought in an adjacent town. Cut off your nose to spite your face? You betcha.
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
This just happened in a town near me. Liam Neeson was here filming the sequel to one of his movies. The movie was partly set in Nepal, but they used an old mining town, Walhalla, in Australia. They painted the buildings a bright colour and changes the road surface. They are now in the process of taking it all back to the original paint etc, because the buildings are heritage sites.
#8
It was hushed up, but the former sheriff of my hometown stole people's lawnmowers and sold them for scrap for close to a decade.
Weird place.
ShyWahine 1 year ago (edited)
Let's take a mow-ment to consider the lawn-gevity of his crime...
SheamusFanFrom1987 1 year ago (edited)
Oh (John) Deere, the boys in blue really need to weed out this problem before it grows out of hand and becomes a pain in the (gr)a*s*s...
Some guy 1 year ago (edited)
I swear, sometimes it seems like all small-town cops watch the same bad movies and call them training films. "Well, I guess we gotta be a bunch of speed-trapping drug dealers. Yuck yuck!". I know they're not all that way, but to give someone that much relative power in an environment with no real oversight all too often can lead to "king of the anthill" syndrome.
#9
This old lady would helplessly walk around busy parking lots with her walker. She looked so dirty and homeless, and people would drive up to her and give her stuff. Then her family came out and told everyone to stop doing that because she was actually very rich and was pretending to be homeless.
Rebekah Krause 1 year ago
Greed. Anything given to her is avoiding spending her own money.
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Negatoris Wrecks 1 year ago
My landlady growing up would do this. She grew up super Kennedy and her property was work over $5 mil in 90's money and her fridge and pantry were always loaded. We lived in Hawaii and she'd have Alaskan king crab 2 nights a week. She'd wander around town in her dirty bathing suit and raggedy bathrobe taking coffee and cookies from all the places in town that had carafes you could access. 4 different places stopped leaving the self serve drip out.
Captain McSmoot 1 year ago (edited)
There's a "homeless" family in Goodlettsville, TN who do this. My brother used to live there. He noticed that every day they would be wearing different clothing. He noticed their clothing rarely, if ever, repeated. He concluded that he, a hard working individual, had less clothing than this "homeless" family. Where did they keep their clothes? Why did they look like pirates disguised as people disguised as homeless? We will never know. I have half a mind to go there with my brother, follow them at a distance, and see where they call home.
Legen ( wait for it ) dary 1 year ago
A report crew from the news did this in Portugal some years ago and found out that a men who was sitting in a corner actually had a good car and a good house. His justification was that he made more money sitting on the street then work and people give him money because they want to.
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Charlie the Cat 1 year ago
Beggars in London can make up to £600 per day. More than I earn in a week.
#10
The county sheriff shot himself through the leg while training. He claims it was a faulty holster and he was re-holstering the gun. I'm pretty sure he just had his booger hook on the bang switch at the wrong time.
FatKidShakeDown 1 year ago
Thank you for your service...of the word "booger hook" into my vocabulary.
#11
The 40something drunk man who broke into the high school dressed as batman to prank scare the high school classes by staring in the windows then running away giggling uncontrollably to appear somewhere else on campus and scare a different class. There was an hour and a half long lockdown and he ended up found and arrested.
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
Commissioner Gordon was so disappointed in him. "Wait till I put up the goddam Bat Signal next time!"
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
in that photo above?... that dude is going to wreck himself if he tries to jump like that. His feet will catch.
#12
Local cop was taking multiple highschool girls out of town to take advantage of. The thing was each girl thought she was the only one. Then they all figured it out about each other then got mad and turned him in.
Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago
In the recent news, no less than three cops in totally different parts of the country have been arrested for sexually assaulting and raping kids. It’s absolutely disgusting.
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The Idaho Potato 1 year ago (edited)
It's called rape, not 'taking advantage of'. Say it for what it is.
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago (edited)
I hope that cop is rotting in prison where all the other inmates use him as a human toilet.
RajunCajun 1 year ago
I live just south of Baltimore. some priest were taking advantage of school girls and killed the nun that tried to stop it. https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/baltimore-nun-murder/
Farah Kamal 1 year ago
I shouldnt be laughing but oh well. Anyone wanna join me in helll? (hey that rhymes!)
Imagineer 1 year ago
They didn't care about it until they found out they weren't the only one? There's a name for those ladies.
DarkViolet 1 year ago
They were high school students, and they were groomed. The adults involved are totally to blame; they initiated the misconduct and they could have stopped it.
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NetworkMan 1 year ago
Lets also remember this story is probably set in the USA, where highschool kids are up to age 18. I'm just saying this could be werid yes, but not an 'underage' thing. He wasn't arrested, he was caught for doing it to multiple girls and they all found out about each other and confronted him. Lets also remember that cops can be as young as 18-21 in the USA, so this could be a story about an 18 year old cop dating multiple 18 year old girls for all we know.
#13
Fighter pilot drew a d**k in the sky.
Tammilee Truitt 1 year ago
If you look at the map outline of Dallas/Fort Worth it is a d*ck and ball sac. My hometown. Grew up seeing it displayed on the traffic reports.
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
When the answer to what's up, "hard d***s and airplanes," becomes literal.
#14
Depends on what incident you want: People were convinced the high school was cursed because no less that 4 kids every year died (I’m talking grad classes of maybe 40 each year loosing 4-8 kids for various reasons) Most of my graduating class ended up getting caught drinking in class the one day I didn’t show up. The field party where some dumbass was smoking behind a dried hay and caught the whole veils on fire. And the soccer coach murdered his girlfriend and tried to kill her two children but thanks to lockdown training they knew to play dead until he left. The subsequent trial, and then the kids coming back to school. And half the town, including at one point the sheriff had a heroin problem.
Kristal 1 year ago
At first I thought they were talking about Hogwarts with all the kids dying
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
I was thinking maybe they had a hellmouth in town. Back in the day, TV shows used to always forget that previous episodes happened, leading to shows like "Murder She Wrote" having 26 people a year killed in a tiny village of Cabot Cove. It was like every episode was a reboot. So it was kinda hysterical whenever "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," which DID have story arcs, would acknowledge some real-world effects of its events, comments like crashing property values, etc.
Load More Replies... Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
That sounds like an awful place overall...and that thing about the kids dying every year is sad, creepy, and uncanny 😶
Negatoris Wrecks 1 year ago
I like how the part about the graduating class is spooky at first, then you read the rest of it and you're like "ah, ok, makes sense"
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Smoking behind a dried hay and caught the whole veils on fire? Have to guess it was the field.
Lauren S 1 year ago
Anyone want to comment on how lockdown training prepared those kids to survive a murderer? So sad they need lockdown training, so sad the information ended up being useful, so sad they lost their mom that way. It’s all very sad. Poor town probably believes being in a constant state of fresh raw grief is normal. No wonder people struggled with substance abuse. But maybe it’s a chicken and egg thing, did the drugs lead to deaths or did the deaths lead to drugs to self medicate?
#15
A Walmart employee quitting over the store intercom and calling out the store manager for being a pervert, and posting the video of her doing so on social media. It spread like wildfire.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
What did the video show the manager doing? And did it reflect on how she performed her duties as manager?
#16
A little over 30 years ago, the police and fire departments played in a charity basketball game that raised funds for DARE. Shortly after the game, some of the cops that played gave short anti-drug speeches for the crowd. Early the next morning, state police came into town and arrested a lot of those cops for being part of a local drug ring. A more lighthearted one happened only 5 years ago. The town's getting ready for its annual Christmas tree lighting when the organizers noticed the wiring for the lights had been damaged. They report it to the police, who then put out a bunch of public notices about how "vandalism will not be tolerated in our family-friendly town" and beefing up security around the area. It ended up being a squirrel that chewed through the wire.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The D.A.R.E. officer where my wife taught was very inspiring and influential - until she got busted for cocaine.
#17
A light shining into the sky a couple times from out in the woods. Police went out to check it, found a man no one knew in a cabin no one knew of, LOADED with guns and ammunition. When asked why he had so many, what he was doing shining a light into the sky…
He was sending a beacon to the aliens bc they told him to shine a light to guide them, when he had things ready for them…. Yeah.
#18
Teacher at the local elementary school had a nervous breakdown while her class was at recess. When they came back in she was completely naked and just scribbling on the white board while mumbling to herself.
Panda Kicki 1 year ago (edited)
That beats my story. Chemistry teacher want to teach us gasoline fumes are dangerous. He put a small metallic "slide" with a rag of gasoline in one end, and lights a candle in the other. The fumes are bigger and faster then expected, the rat catches fire as well as teachers arm, he flings out and rag sets curtain on fire. Evacuation and had the rest of the day off.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
"the rat catches fire." The animal-lover part of me hates the other half that thought this typo was hysterical.
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Meilin Kai 1 year ago
Nervous breakdown, seizure, or diabetic emergency? Not all irrational behavior is a "nervous breakdown." Poor teacher. Once they were stabilized they were probably mortified.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I went to a Jesuit high school which was the place the order sent priests who had had nervous breakdowns. Once I knew that, it explained so much about what went on.
Mysteria 1 year ago
My math teacher once rewarded us for our hard work by showing us a trick where he put gas filled bubbles on his hands and lit them on fire so they shot up. He was perfectly fine and nothing set on fire. It was cool.
Barbara Kelly 1 year ago (edited)
I was in school shortly after WWII ended. One of our teachers was a veteran soldier. Unfortunately, one day he had a panic attack, the result of PTSD (then called "shell shock"), in his classroom. Terrifying for the students and staff. Poor man! - and there were/are many others like hm.
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
My chemistry teacher had a nervous breakdown. The class found him in a fetal position under his desk. Ambulance has to take him away. Good news is he recovered and came back a year later.
#19
We had a super duper senior .. he was mentally slow and maybe 20years old. He was pretty beloved at the school actually. One day he stole his moms car and drove it through the glass the front doors of the school . Luckily not on a school day, nobody was hurt /arrested or anything but it was widely talked about. Also a girl was sleeping with a boy in her class and her dad caught them having sex. the guy jumped out the second story window naked . He fell into the car and the windshield wiper blades caught his balls on the way down and he had to get one testicle removed. I knew this to be true bc I knew everyone including the dad, daughter and the guy it happened too.
Some guy 1 year ago
Shame on you for laughing at such a horrible wipeout!
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#20
Remember when the animals got loose in Ohio? That one
I knew the guy. He was nuts.
I'm a Jimmy 1 year ago
Remember a thread titled “What is the craziest thing you’ve ever seen from a tree stand?” (Tree stands are used for hunting white tailed deer). Guy said he heard some rustling and out popped a giant tiger (in Ohio). It was related to the incident mentioned. Note: my craziest was much less scary… had a squirrel crumb on me.
Curry on... 1 year ago
Wow! And most of the animals were killed by police. https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2021/10/18/zanesville-exotic-animal-massacre-10-years-later
KieLeaHar 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah, I’m obviously old enough to remember how heartbreaking this was for those animals… For those interested you can Google: 2011 Zanesville, Ohio animal escape The link below doesn’t seem to want to work.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Zanesville,_Ohio_animal_escape
#21
The thing I was most aware of was that a teacher was sleeping with one of the high school students, then he (the student) got her pregnant and she kept it. She was fired, don’t know what she does now, and the dude who knocked her up is the local drug dealer now. I was in the same year as the kid that resulted from that, he was a nice guy. Felt bad for him cause everyone was always trying to figure out who the kid was, since everyone knew he’d be at the school that year but didn’t know who it was. If you ask me, kind of f****d up to stay in the same town and make your kid go to the same high school that happened in.
RajunCajun 1 year ago
I dated a girl one summer for a couple of weeks, then I started my last year of HS to find out she was a new teacher. We just acted like we had never met and went on with our lives.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Where I taught, a teacher knocked up the daughter of the president of the school board. Did he get fired? Not at all. In fact he got promoted. The school board president apparently didn't want the father of his first grandchild to be out of a job. (Otherwise the president would be stuck paying the bills for his daughter and her child.)
Linds 1 year ago
One of my old classmates became the biology teacher at our old HS and decided to f**k one (or a couple) of her students. Her HUSBAND helped her cover it up. Although obviously she's in jail n whatnot, it was such a shock since we were actually semi friends in school. Our entire graduating class that was part of a fb group had a field day with this.
#22
Teacher swinger-sex ring got exposed. Everyone in the school and their parents found out pretty quick. Middle School Vice Principal ended up divorcing his wife due to later swinging incident.
Vinny DaPooh 1 year ago
The way I interpreted it was that the vice principal wasn't aware his wife was a swinger til the story broke. I'd be pretty pissed if my wife was having consensual sex outside the marriage. Maybe I'm old fashioned but I think if you feel the need to have an affair you might as well get divorced and truly do what you want.
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Alex Ruddies 1 year ago
Why even bother? If all parties are consenting and no one is getting hurt, let them have fun.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
No, most people are entirely normal. But then there's nothing to report so you don't hear about them.
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An airplane crashed into the towns only water tower. Just happened to be a crop duster fully loaded with herbicides. Very sureal sight to see because it took more than a month to find a crane large enough to remove the plane from the water tank on top of the tower. You drive by, and all you see is the tail of the airplane ✈️ sticking out the top of the tower.
Mark 1 year ago
Props to the engineers of the water tower for having a plane go halfway through their water tower and remain standing
Cooter McCoughlin 1 year ago
And props to the water tower is exactly what happened
Load More Replies... Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
Nearly ever time I watch an American true crime documentary, they show the town’s water tower with the town’s name on it. Is this a thing in America, or am I just watching the wrong sort of programmes?
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
We saw a small plan do a emergency landing outside school. Except some destroyed crops on the field everything was fine and he just walked up to school and asked to bortow a telephone.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
The town I grew up in, back during the Depression, the local newspaper editor tried to drum up some Christmas cheer and maybe some business for the local merchants. This was 1932 and he hired a stunt man dressed as Santa Claus to parachute into town and lead the Christmas parade. The day of the jump Santa was found drunk in a bar so the editor dressed a store mannequin in a Santa Suit and pushed it out of the plane............the parachute didn't open and the whole town watched Santa auger in. Everyone was screaming and one woman went into premature labor. The editor left town, but was always known as "The Man Who Killed Santa Claus."
#24
The Farmington Mine Disaster I live in a small town in West Virginia and before I was born this happened. So one day the coal miners went into the Mines as per usual but something was off. It smelled like gas the coal miners found out to late that there was a gas leak. As they were using their pickaxe's sparks started flying and the gas was lit aflame. 78 of 99 people died that day people that were fathers, sons, grandparents, uncles, and cousins. All of this happened because the mine had low safety protocols or protection for their employees. Hollywood caught wind of this story and even made a movie about it thr movie is called miner 9 and is based off of the farmington mine disaster the incident even pushed the government to change the coal Mines to make them more safe.
Florence O'Grady 1 year ago
This and other incidents of mine owners not caring about their employees is why we now have Unions!!! THANK GOD FOR UNIONS!!!
Donald 1 year ago
"You load sixteen tons, what do ya get? Another day older and deeper in dept."
Load More Replies... Vicki Perizzolo 1 year ago
And Manchin still gets cool money to keep that disastrous stuff burning
Fester Sixonesixonethree 1 year ago
The gas must have been methane, because natural gas has no odor.
#25
A little girl had a seizure (or hit her head. Nobody knows for sure) in the YMCA swimming pool, went unconscious, and drowned during a youth swim team practice. My sister and her friends were also on the team. They saw her at the bottom of the pool and thought she was just messing around. Lifeguards and instructors weren’t even paying attention.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
I tried to dive into a pool at age 4 and hit my head. I don't remember pain, just feeling relaxed and looking at all the pretty ripples.on the surface above me. Next thing I knew, I was being roughly dried off with towels and family were telling me I knocked myself out. Close!
Griffy 1 year ago
I knocked myself out running on a hotel pool deck and hit my head. I couldn't even walk straight. I vaguely remember wobbling around the pool looking for someone to play with, after that I was taken to the ER. My dad said concussion. Weird thing is, my migraines began after that.
Farah Kamal 1 year ago
My sister, now 9, nearly died at 3 in a local pool because she fell in and couldnt breathe. I was terrified. Alhamdulilah, my dad went in and got her out, no injuries. Thank the Lord!
#26
We had this guy who was a survivalist type before it became a thing. He was able to purchase the bubonic plague vials by pretending to be a research scientist, and proceeded to infect a bunch of rats with plague. He wanted to study what medicine works best against plague rats. Luckily the FBI caught up to him, and plague man was stopped before any plague rats escaped!
The fun part is if he did this today, he'de probably be considered a hero to some. I actually met him a few times before he got arrested. I thought he was a priest of somesort because he was always in all black, and had a huge beard.
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
TIL that you can buy plague online if you are good at falsifying stuff.
Bart 1 year ago
Not so difficult to get as there are still cases every year in the US, in 2020 2 people even died of the bubonic plague in th US
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martin734 1 year ago
That was rather pointless as even the most basic of research would have told him that broad spectrum antibiotics such as Doxycycline has been a very effective treatment for plague since the 1960's and is one of the more commonly prescribed antibiotics for urinary tract and sexually transmitted infections.
Nicola Koh 1 year ago
good thing he wasnt around to hear that the ones who spread the black plague were probably humans (and the friends they carried around)
I heart Boo-BI-es 1 year ago
The bubonic plague is usually transmitted by fleas, which tend to live on rodents.
martin734 1 year ago
It is also transmitted far more efficiently by human to human contact.
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Our high school principal cheated on her husband with another married staff member and that guys wife sent him flowers with a card that said “Happy Valentine’s Day, Adulterer”. The kids that worked as assistants in the front office saw it and told everyone
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
I would say, “It’s not that hard,” but apparently it is
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In 2016, a girl who was in my high school class died suddenly in her sleep. No rhyme or reason why. She just died. Rocked the entire town and especially me and my classmates since she was in our class. Still don’t know why she died six years later
Aileen Grist 1 year ago
could be SADS - sudden adult death syndrome - same as the baby one just as unexplainable
The Original Bruno 1 year ago (edited)
SADS is Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome and is caused by heart attacks, and sometimes may be related to Brugada Syndrome. Turns out SIDS is OFTEN (but not ALWAYS!!!!!) caused by suffocation. Safety measures to prevent suffocation have drastically lowered SIDS cases by about 80%. Such safety measures including getting rid of loose bedding, sleeping babies on their backs, not sleeping with babies in the bed and not allowing smoking near babies.
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Shelby Moonheart 1 year ago
My older cousin died in 2020, she just didn't wake up. She seemed healthy all her life and was in her late 50s. The autopsy showed an unknown heart issue.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
During my senior year, right before we graduated, 2 members of our class died. One girl was killed in a drunk driving accident about a month before graduation. The other person literally dropped dead at our yearbook signing picnic the week before graduation. Turns out he had a potentially fatal heart condition. The teachers had to perform CPR on him right there in front of us all. It was definitely not the celebration of our high school years we had been expecting. :(
DarkViolet 1 year ago
In 1976, a senior at my high school was shopping with friends when she suddenly collapsed with a seizure. Tests determined that she had had a massive cerebral hemorrhage. She remained on life support for a week until her parents made the decision to turn off the machines, as she no longer had any brain activity. She was perfectly healthy up to that point. Everyone, including her fiancé, was devastated.
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
Surely there was autopsy, just family didn't want to disclose any information.
#29
It started with the kids from down the road playing my neighbor's haystack.
My neighbor was, unfortunately, bats**t crazy. So he put bear traps in his haystack.
The kids found the bear traps, luckily without getting caught in one, and ran home to tell their dad.
Dad comes over with a baseball bat, proceeds to beat the c**p out of the bear traps.
Few days later, my neighbor spots the kids' dad driving by in his pickup truck, so jumps into his own truck and follows him. They wound up in the nearby wildlife preserve, shooting at each other's trucks with hunting rifles. Luckily they didn't hit each other, just the trucks.
That finally caught official attention and they ended up in front of a judge. They both got scolded, neighbor for owning old-style illegal bear traps and kids' dad for damaging property.
Mike F 1 year ago
So many of these are straight up BS. No mention of the fact that the entire narrative began with kids on someone else's property. My guess is, if this happened at all, "playing in a haystack" was a euphemism for some other nonsense the kids were into. Again, if it happened at all.
#30
When I was in high school (early 2000s), one of the elementary school lunch ladies - who also ran a babysitting business - had a child die in their care. While this was eventually ruled as a tragic case of SIDS, it opened up a decade-old investigation into a previous death of another child in her care. This turned into a murder investigation and she was convicted and sentenced to twenty years for pushing the kid down the stairs. The victim was the brother of a student a grade below me. The lunch lady's daughter was in the same grade. They were friends until all this blew up. The town has about 2500 people in it and everyone knows everyone else's business. A lot of my classmates were babysat by this woman at one point or another. And, again, we all knew her because she served us meals in elementary school and her kids were in our classes. It was a wild time. There was an A&E documentary about it too. She's finished her prison sentence now but I'm not sure if she moved back to town or not. I haven't lived there in years and barely keep up with hometown gossip.
Xavier Egan 1 year ago
"What in the seven hells" made me laugh out loud, got to be the best phrase i've heard!
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The Idaho Potato 1 year ago (edited)
My current physics teacher grew up in South Carolina. He knew a guy with a surname similar to Gauss (we were learning about Gauss's Law: ∯𝐄⋅d²𝐫=(ε₀)⁻¹∭ρ d³𝐫) as in it was pronounced the same but was spelled a bit differently. He ended up changing his last name either because he didn't like it or for some other reason. Either way, this guy ended up being a serial killer.
#31
After homecoming a car full of students were driving home and got a flat tire. They were just over a hill and not all the way out of the road. The two girls were inside the vehicle but the two boys were standing at the back blocking the tail lights. Another student driving home rear ended them and both boys lost both legs. On a happy note both went on to play in the Paralympics at least.
Krd 1 year ago
More like "footnote"! (or even worse, "footnope"). Where is the express lane to hell, I clearly have a ticket!
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Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 year ago
Life happens. Good on them. I'm glad to hear they went to compete at the Paralympics rather than becoming addicted to opioids and wasting themselves away.
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“The incident” A girl from my hometown was texting and driving. As she was in the Highway, she swerved into the side of the road and killed a cyclist. This was one of those “known” small town girls (3 sport athlete, famous last name, etc etc. if your from a small town you know what I mean). Long story short, she basically got off with little repercussions because of her popularity. I know her punishments were losing her phone and license until she was 19, 200 hours community service, and I think she served a day or two in jail on his death anniversary. It literally tore half the town apart. One side was like “she’s so innocent, has a promising future, etc etc” while the other side wanted her in jail for years. While her punishments were absolutely not severe enough, I know for a fact her social punishments were far worse. People would make a “skrrrt” noise around her in the halls of our high school, people would chant stuff at her while she played sports, and I’d say about half of her friends completely abandoned her. Overall, a really s****y situation for all parties involved.
Vinny DaPooh 1 year ago
So basically her punishment was to get teased about murdering someone???
Anikulapo 1 year ago
That’s not teasing. It’s ostracising, bullying, etc. You can decide if it’s justified or not, but it’s not teasing.
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Tams21 1 year ago (edited)
The implication of the last statement is that the driver is also suffering but as promising as her future apparently was, she wiped out the future of the cyclist and ruined the lives of their family. She should have gone to prison, I have zero sympathy for her "s****y situation".
Dread Pirate Roberts 1 year ago
Yeah, I can definitely say I don't feel sorry for the driver. She got off easy.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
When she finished school and moves away, none of this will follow her.
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Rachael Maree 1 year ago
Can’t be that s****y a situation overall when someone lived and just got teased, whereas the innocent person ended dead…
Fickle_Pickle 1 year ago
Sometimes being treated as a pariah is a much worse punishment. For someone that age, where social status and good reputation matter the most, that's like worse than imprisonment.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
A drunk woman ran over and killed my father. She was not even issued a citation as she was involved with the Chief of Police.
Pyla 1 year ago
You really have no idea do you? ROADS ARE FOR ALL VEHICLES!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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One old guy thought he could drive one of those huge dump trucks and ended up dropping the damn thing down the stone stairs and seats from the towns community basketball court, nobody got hurt but the truck ended upside down. People from the neighbouring towns even came to take pictures. The old guy was my grandpa. He also survived. Why he though he could drive the thing ? He used to be an engineer. An agricultural engineer...
ƒιѕн 1 year ago
So...is the basketball court inside a pit? Possibly down the side of a steep hill?
John Luckmann 1 year ago
My dad is an agricultural engineer and he's one of the smartest people I know. I've never seen him not be able to do something . Maybe his grandpa was the same way and this just happened to be the time he couldn't.
#34
Our small town is not known for much, tucked away in the UP of Michigan. But, there was (is?) an ultra top secret military facility up there. One night we were at a campground situated on a lake next to the only highway to or from that facility, and there must have been some kind of emergency down that way because the town's entire contingent of cops and fire trucks came by lights ablaze and sirens blaring. We're NOT used to seeing that kind of response, so everyone took note. Not 15 minutes later, that event repeated itself. None of us can think of an explanation and it's become local legend that the facility is f*****g with spacetime or something.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Was there a very heavy mist that day, and was a small grocery store involved?
Veronica Richard 1 year ago
Upvote for small town in the UP! Spent a lot of time between the bridge and Wisconsin!
Epsilon-11 1 year ago
(Site 246 is located in the UP of Michigan. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!)
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Had a mayor that became mayor after someone crashed into one of the busiest intersection’s traffic light. Never fixed it and blew the entire towns money on a Porsche (that he totaled by hitting a pole) and other stuff. He resigned and was basically chased outta town EDIT: Have a few more stories, but the next mayor destroyed the last mayor’s work (fixed the light) and brought a bunch of growth to the town, but sadly died of cancer a while back.
Richard Stevens 1 year ago
Boy Scout I my subdivision made a small nuclear reactor in a shed in the back yard. Book about him called The Radioactive Boy Scout.https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjo2Pn1u5SEAxUJm4kEHSrSCkgQFnoECDcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDavid_Hahn&usg=AOvVaw1prgL_mpf3wz-WiCntljUx&opi=89978449
#36
In 1992 two girls, 11 and 12, were found murdered. Police rounded up a husband, wife, and stepson trio local to the area. They were a little slow and confessed to the crime. A few years later a man was convicted of a different murder, a blood test revealed that he was the main perpetrator. I'll spare the horrible details, but you can read them here: (warning, his confession makes me want to vomit) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://mycrimelibrary.com/william-sapp-ohio-death-row/&ved=2ahUKEwjBsrmo6v_7AhWhjIkEHeSeCOI4ChAWegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw0A-0MnLO-nFWeQsUb5KkTj It rocked my small town, and the fact that a serial killer was responsible and not discovered for almost five years made it even worse. After he was sentenced, he gave up parental rights to his three kids. His wife gave them up as well. He is on death row now, I doubt he'll be missed.
AJay 1 year ago (edited)
Don't read the site please it contains so much that you never want to hear. I have written a short summary in case there is anyone who wants to know more. Many trigger warnings apply including sexual assault: ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ Sapp and a few other men brutally r*aped multiple young girls and murdered them with blunt force trauma. Later, Sapp repeated this violent crimes on other young girls and confessed to all his crimes. Sapp was convicted of all counts and specifications of varying types of assault, evidence tampering, rape, kidnapping, abusing a corpse, murder and attempted murder. The jury recommended death on each aggravated murder count. The trial judge sentenced Sapp to death on each count. The court of appeals affirmed Sapp’s convictions and death sentences.
Libstak 1 year ago
Thank you, I don't need more detail than that, much appreciated.
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Tara Moov 1 year ago
If folks REALLY want to puke, I read the full account (incredibly horrifying abuse to those little girls) and then what the rapist and killer told another inmate: "But God forgives me for it now because I’ve been saved." No, claiming yourself a born-again Christian after multiple rapes, murders and attempted murders of women and children does not erase your crimes.
Wendy Me 1 year ago
I grew up in eastern Ohio near Steubenville. When I left, my mother sent me a community profile piece about the corruption there and that it was "the best place in the US to commit and get away with murder." When I was in school a daughter of a very prominent family was killed and left in her car. They attributed it to a drug deal gone wrong but I'm unsure if it was ever actually resolved.
What do you think ?
Bobby 1 year ago
My home town had Hunter Gandee. A 13 year old who carried his little brother with cerebral palsy from the high-school to the University of Michigan on his back, a distance of about 40 or 45 miles. It's a real tear jerker if you read up on it
Little Miss Lady 1 year ago
People like this restore my faith in humanity. It's like they're just pure light and goodness in human form.
Load More Replies... J Adams 1 year ago
There was an old lady, who’s house was full of dogs no exaggeration she would walk upwards of 10 a time a couple of times a day in the local park, sadly she looked as though she was homeless even though she lived on a street where houses were quite expensive at the time, her hair was matted, her clothes were stained and you could smell her coming around a corner before you saw her. When she died bizarrely there were tv news and print journalists hanging around asking everyone about her, turned out earlier in life she was a dr even taught medicine at a premier university but the reason for media interest was that she had developed a treatment for premature babies that is now used the world over
Iván Galarraga 1 year ago
There's a saying in my country "pueblo chiquito, infierno grande" small town, big hell
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
So if you remember this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge Well That's pretty close to my home town. There was a couple who rolled into the fair grounds that winter from Idaho. They were set on joining those yahoos. They were too late and teh Bundies had surrendered. So they camped out at the fair grounds for the winter. The grounds keeper had a bad feeling about them so come spring when it was time to ask them to move on, he brought in the Sheriff. When they searched teh travel trailer they found a .50cal MACHINE GUN. The kind you see mounted on HMMWVs and APCs. He stole it from a gun store in Idaho and was headed to Malhuer to "help" with the standoff.
Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
Forty years ago now....my public school had a lunch program where elderly residents from the nearby retirement home would come every day and eat lunch in the school cafeteria. Usually when we were outside at recess. One day, somebody called in a bomb threat at lunch....and the retirement folks rolled up in their bus, right on time. To this day, we still refer to it as "The day the old ladies came to see the school blow up."
Red_panda 1 year ago
Not my town, but a town down the road from where I live. A few years ago (like 10) the high school got caught with a nude photo ring. Like every student at the high school had a nude photo of every other student. It was a HUGE deal because some of the seniors were like 18/19 @?and the freshmen were like 13. All extracurriculars (dances, games, etc) were completely canceled the whole rest of the year. And to this day the high school has a strict no phones policy. At the time it was a big enough deal that the high schools in my town (like 50 miles away, and much bigger) started checking phones and such. I don't think anyone got felony charges pressed against them, but I know there questions if there was going to be.
Deson 1 year ago
Late 70's small town wisconsin. A traveling circus dropped by and setup in a park. An elephant decided it was going to take a walk without anyone's permission. Decided to change from a walk to a run. Right through a retirement home. The elephant's back was just a few inches higher than the ceiling in the hallway it ran down. Did a lot of damage but no one (including the elephant) was hurt. PIctures of the carnage ended up in our yearbook. Here is a link to a Blog that describes the incident. https://kellykizerwhitt.blogspot.com/2012/05/day-circus-came-to-town.html
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
I went on holiday to a small town in Scotland. Two things stood out in the local paper. 1. A story about a bloke who had given a young high school kid a bit of a kicking, they printed his name and address, if that had been my town he would have had ‘visitors’. 2. A report about all of the milk being stolen from the local shop, hundreds of pints of milk, who can hide / use that much milk? Is your neighbour eating a lot of cereal, maybe eating a lot of rice pudding?
Susan Bosse 1 year ago
My hometown is The Town That Dreaded Sundown. The Phantom Killer murdered several people back in 9146. Never caught the guy. They think they know who it was but no one was ever arrested. They made a couple of movies about it. My 8th grade boyfriend's great-aunt was one of the victims. Maryann from Gilligan's Island played her in the original movie.
CalamityOne 1 year ago (edited)
Not sure IIRC all the details correctly, but in my area back in the 1980s, a pair of brothers decided that the fastest way to make money was to... make money. Don't know what they were going to use for plates, ink, or printing press, but they contacted a paper manufacturer and ordered one or two of the massive rolls of specialty stuff that only had one use - to print U.S. currency. Not sure why they thought having such specific paper shipped to a residential address way out in the countryside wouldn't attract attention from the government, but I think both the FBI and Treasury Dept. performed a joint raid, and both brothers went to prison. On release, I think I heard at least one of the brothers went back to prison for forging a judge's signature on some paperwork...
Bobby 1 year ago
My home town had Hunter Gandee. A 13 year old who carried his little brother with cerebral palsy from the high-school to the University of Michigan on his back, a distance of about 40 or 45 miles. It's a real tear jerker if you read up on it
Little Miss Lady 1 year ago
People like this restore my faith in humanity. It's like they're just pure light and goodness in human form.
Load More Replies... J Adams 1 year ago
There was an old lady, who’s house was full of dogs no exaggeration she would walk upwards of 10 a time a couple of times a day in the local park, sadly she looked as though she was homeless even though she lived on a street where houses were quite expensive at the time, her hair was matted, her clothes were stained and you could smell her coming around a corner before you saw her. When she died bizarrely there were tv news and print journalists hanging around asking everyone about her, turned out earlier in life she was a dr even taught medicine at a premier university but the reason for media interest was that she had developed a treatment for premature babies that is now used the world over
Iván Galarraga 1 year ago
There's a saying in my country "pueblo chiquito, infierno grande" small town, big hell
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
So if you remember this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_National_Wildlife_Refuge Well That's pretty close to my home town. There was a couple who rolled into the fair grounds that winter from Idaho. They were set on joining those yahoos. They were too late and teh Bundies had surrendered. So they camped out at the fair grounds for the winter. The grounds keeper had a bad feeling about them so come spring when it was time to ask them to move on, he brought in the Sheriff. When they searched teh travel trailer they found a .50cal MACHINE GUN. The kind you see mounted on HMMWVs and APCs. He stole it from a gun store in Idaho and was headed to Malhuer to "help" with the standoff.
Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
Forty years ago now....my public school had a lunch program where elderly residents from the nearby retirement home would come every day and eat lunch in the school cafeteria. Usually when we were outside at recess. One day, somebody called in a bomb threat at lunch....and the retirement folks rolled up in their bus, right on time. To this day, we still refer to it as "The day the old ladies came to see the school blow up."
Red_panda 1 year ago
Not my town, but a town down the road from where I live. A few years ago (like 10) the high school got caught with a nude photo ring. Like every student at the high school had a nude photo of every other student. It was a HUGE deal because some of the seniors were like 18/19 @?and the freshmen were like 13. All extracurriculars (dances, games, etc) were completely canceled the whole rest of the year. And to this day the high school has a strict no phones policy. At the time it was a big enough deal that the high schools in my town (like 50 miles away, and much bigger) started checking phones and such. I don't think anyone got felony charges pressed against them, but I know there questions if there was going to be.
Deson 1 year ago
Late 70's small town wisconsin. A traveling circus dropped by and setup in a park. An elephant decided it was going to take a walk without anyone's permission. Decided to change from a walk to a run. Right through a retirement home. The elephant's back was just a few inches higher than the ceiling in the hallway it ran down. Did a lot of damage but no one (including the elephant) was hurt. PIctures of the carnage ended up in our yearbook. Here is a link to a Blog that describes the incident. https://kellykizerwhitt.blogspot.com/2012/05/day-circus-came-to-town.html
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
I went on holiday to a small town in Scotland. Two things stood out in the local paper. 1. A story about a bloke who had given a young high school kid a bit of a kicking, they printed his name and address, if that had been my town he would have had ‘visitors’. 2. A report about all of the milk being stolen from the local shop, hundreds of pints of milk, who can hide / use that much milk? Is your neighbour eating a lot of cereal, maybe eating a lot of rice pudding?
Susan Bosse 1 year ago
My hometown is The Town That Dreaded Sundown. The Phantom Killer murdered several people back in 9146. Never caught the guy. They think they know who it was but no one was ever arrested. They made a couple of movies about it. My 8th grade boyfriend's great-aunt was one of the victims. Maryann from Gilligan's Island played her in the original movie.
CalamityOne 1 year ago (edited)
Not sure IIRC all the details correctly, but in my area back in the 1980s, a pair of brothers decided that the fastest way to make money was to... make money. Don't know what they were going to use for plates, ink, or printing press, but they contacted a paper manufacturer and ordered one or two of the massive rolls of specialty stuff that only had one use - to print U.S. currency. Not sure why they thought having such specific paper shipped to a residential address way out in the countryside wouldn't attract attention from the government, but I think both the FBI and Treasury Dept. performed a joint raid, and both brothers went to prison. On release, I think I heard at least one of the brothers went back to prison for forging a judge's signature on some paperwork...
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