Whats the nost bizzare local story from your city?
Whats the nost bizzare local story from your city?
CONTENT WARNING: NSFW, NSFL:
A teenage boy stole his neighbours chicken, then raped and it died during the incident. Yes a chicken.
The neighbour reported it. There were 2 eye witnesses. Medical examination of the chicken confirmed it.
The boy was arrested, confessed and tried. At this point this was national news.
In his defense the dude said, and I kid you not, the chicken was asking for it.
This is one of those news stories that I think about from time to time and wonder what happened to that dude.
Happened in like 2018 I wanna say.
the chicken was asking for it.
filthy fowl fucker
My favorite from my time working in the news industry:
Neighbor puts toilets in their yard facing other neighbors house. That neighbor builds a fence so they don’t have to look at the toilets. Original neighbor then hangs toilets from the tree so it is visible over the fence. Cue complaints to get toilets removed by city/county.
I believe the original dispute had to do with tearing out a shared bush and parking on lawn, but I don’t recall the details.
I wish my dog was that much of an intellectual.
F*** you, feed me.
Now put me out.
Here’s a squeaky toy Don’t spend it all in one place.
I have two.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brink's_robbery Summary: an armored car was robbed by desperate “most-wanted” types. Bug national new.
…wikipedia.org/…/Gilchrest_Road,_New_York,_crossi… Summary: school bus full of kids hit by a train. The reason why “this vehicle stops at all rr crossings” is a thing.
The attempted robbery of the Hyde Museum
Two guys, one of whom pretending to be a Vanderbilt, attempted to rob a museum but were foiled by getting stuck in holiday traffic in their stolen delivery van.
One of the guys was a suspect in the Isabella Stewart Gardner robbery about a decade later.
It’s even worse than you might imagine
Chicago suburbs. It's sort of an interconnected area, so this takes place over two adjoining towns.
There was a very public and stupid feud that took place between two middle aged men. Some of it played out in real life and some was documented on that now defunct website, Topix. One of them had been close friends with the the police officer who was convicted of killing at least one wife. I think he was also a cop. In any case, he was very vocal in defending Drew and anything the other guy said about the murder trial really seemed to get his goat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Peterson
The other guy claimed to be connected with the Chicago outfit. Or the cop claimed he was. I don't remember.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Outfit
Basically, it was two vaguely mobbed up guys in their 50s engaging in a very public and embarrassing battle of fists and wits in an otherwise unassuming suburb. They would trade insults on Topix, get into slap fights with each other at the local supermarket, and generally just behave like leaded gasoline sniffing idiots. Neither could just walk away from it. Both used their real full names.
A guy brazenly snuck into an army barracks, stole an Armored Personnel Carrier and then went on a bit of a rampage through the city. Crashing into a police station, law courts and Police HQ.
The media called it a tank rampage, because they didn’t know the difference between an APC and a tank.
The story is all but forgotten now, I never hear anyone talk about this incident. And the killdozer story in Colorado pretty much trumps it anyway.
There was a serial killer in Stockton, CA a couple years back that got hunted down to a place in the rural bits near Ione
That house is across the street and 1 over from me, and they get swat to visit them about once a year for some shit or another
Construction workers were digging foundations at a local work site and found a Soviet T-34 tank burried in the ground.
Important context:
There are some plausible theories, but to this day nobody really knows how it got here or why it got burried.
Ohh and the real kicker: the street this all happened on is named after an indigenous tank, so the news headlines all basically said “Tank found on Tank street!”
When two small-town newspaper reporters in Kentucky began investigating the corrupt local sheriff, they not only got headline stories. They also got death threats.
In Berlin, in 2004, a letfist local newspaper Taz initiated a move to rename part of a street their office is located at in remembrance of Rudi-Dutschke. He was a prominent socialist activist in the 60s, even survived assassination but unfortunately died a couple of years later.
Another newspaper, Axel-Springer has their headquarters on the same street. The same company did play significant role in dissing the student movement Rudi-Dutschke was part of and some believe they are indirectly responsible for the assassination.
What ensued was a long legal battle, where the court had to decide whether the street could be renamed. Taz won the court case and in 2008 the street got its new name.
In 2009, Taz installed a sculpture displaying well-known editors of Bild (owned by Axel Springer), the most sold tabloid in Europe. Their chief editor Kai Diekmann (sic) sports an oversized dick that goes up to the roof of the building. Of course Bild tried to sue, but they lost and the sculpture is there to be enjoyed to this day.
In Germany, you can have fun, but it must be blessed by the court.
Tiny town of 30k supported by lumber, paper, mining, fishing.
So much disposable cash in the hands of the shortsighted means lots of drugs. But it always was discreet.
Mounties get a man inside the operation really far, and on the way out he names about 20 guys.
For a few weekends after, townspeople would find abandoned cars on the logging roads, just over on the side, two people in the front, two people in the back, everyone shot in the back of the head.
Druglord cleaned up. Stayed outta jail.
For a few weekends after, townspeople would find abandoned cars on the logging roads, just over on the side, two people in the front, two people in the back, everyone shot in the back of the head.
Damn, that’s grim.
patch.com/…/top-san-diego-weird-news-of-2013-impe…
Here’s just a small sample from 11 years ago, before I even lived here