11. The mayor of my hometown (Toledo, Ohio) submitted a proposal to offer discounts on property near the airport to the deaf community because they “wouldn’t be bothered by the noise.”
Aside from the whole “let’s isolate the hearing impaired outside of town” aspect, he refused to accept that the vibrations caused by departing and arriving planes would cause problems for the deaf.
When people predictably had problems with his proposal, he went on TV, crying, saying that he was being picked on, and his idea wasn’t being given a fair chance.
As much as it sounds like Trump, it was Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.
12. There was a circus elephant that sacrificed itself to save a baby elephant from getting hit by a train. Not sure how widespread the story of jumbo is, but it’s a pretty big deal in my hometown. St Thomas, Ontario for those wondering.
13. In junior high school, we attended a 3-day camping thing at a state park. Found out later that it was a serial killer dumping ground and there were two children’s bodies in a barrel on the grounds the entire time.
14. Dudes rolled up to a chicken joint and murdered 7 people.
15. My states then treasurer had to resign because it came out he would go sniff chairs that female colleagues had been sitting in. Yeah.
16. In my Mom’s hometown by the ocean, there was a decommissioned lighthouse. The caretaker used to live in it with his family, but it’s been abandoned for years.
Then, every once in a while, townsfolk would look out toward the ocean at night and see lights on inside the tower. Yet it was all locked up, no electricity, and no signs of forced entry when examined by officials.
17. Had a vampire cult in town that consisted mainly of teenagers. The leader and 2 of his followers went to his GF’s house in Lousiana and killed her parents to “rescue” her.
They were eventually caught when one of the followers got homesick and called home.
18. In the 1800’s, an eccentric millionaire created a pig farm called The Sanitary Piggery, where the pigs all had their own rooms and beds, in which they slept on silk sheets and ate human food.
19. A d*ckhead picked up the football (England) in a private school lunchtime football game. He ran with the ball and was tackled. Thus the game of ‘Rugby’ (named after the town) was born.
20. A guy lured homeless people into his house under the pretense of giving them a warm meal and place to sleep, but instead, he butchered them.
Then he went to town and sold the “meat” at the main market. He sold it as pork and people actually bought it. 🙁 He apparently “processed” more than 40 people within a 3-4 year span.
That story about the Elephant is not completely true. Jumbo did, in fact, die on a railroad track in St. Thomas, Ontario, but by the time the train hit him, he was already dead.
“Jumbo died at a railway classification yard in Canada at St. Thomas, Ontario. While out exercising, he tripped and fell on train tracks, impaling himself on his tusk and dying instantly. Shortly after his death, an unexpected locomotive ran over his body. Barnum told the story that he died saving a young circus elephant, Tom Thumb, from being hit by the locomotive, but other witnesses did not support this. The most popular version of the story has the elephant being struck and killed by the locomotive.
Barnum’s story says that the younger elephant, Tom Thumb, was on the railroad tracks. Jumbo was walking up to lead him to safety, but an unexpected locomotive hit Tom Thumb, killing him instantly. Because of this, the locomotive derailed and hit Jumbo, killing him too. According to newspaper accounts at the time, the freight train hit Jumbo directly, killing him, while the other elephant suffered a broken leg.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo#Death
The girl who tried to marry Charles Manson a couple years ago is from my hometown. My cousin dated her brother for about a year.
No. 15 Ahh yes good old Western Australia, keeping it classy.
19 is Bulls**t, because modern rugby was invented about 30 years before modern soccer.
In my hometown, during WW2, the Germans was building a navel battery outside of the town, and would often fill up the railroad station with freight wagons.
One day two guys was walking past this a row of these wagons, and then one guy says to the other: “I bet, that I can piss over one of these wagons” and the other guy responded, of course, with “I don’t believe you”. He then stood with his d*ck out and successful pissed OVER the wagon, but precisely on the side of the wagon stood a German officer, who suddenly had a wet cap, and was confused over the very precise “water” coming from the other side. He went around the train and then promptly had the pissing guy arrested, and sent him to Frøslev prison camp.
And that was the second biggest “Resistance action” happening in the local area, during WW2.