A memory of the wildest ever story just came to me and I wanna hear from everyone.
I have two.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Brink’s_robbery Summary: an armored car was robbed by desperate “most-wanted” types. Bug national new.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilchrest_Road,_New_York,_crossing_accident 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.
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.
Ah yes, the enshitification
What might the public shitting accomplish tho?? I’m so confused 😭
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.
Corrupt sheriff was brought down by a University student.. Whitley county is the only one that doesn’t send drugs for disposal to a central statewide disposal facility. Nobody can prove corruptions until two students start digging. Cops get mad and start threatening them. Money laundering, theft, extortion, threats are all uncovered. Lexigton police finally bust the guy for 18 year sentence. Not a single blip in the national news. I often wonder if there’s more justice stories out there that we never hear because it isn’t useful as a component of a larger narrative.
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That is usually what Nazis say about other people that display swastikas.
About 10 years ago someone actually burned to death from static discharge at a gas pump like 2 miles down the road from my house. It’s extremely rare, but it does happen.
Big fight in a local downtown McDonald’s. Someone films a few seconds of it and a split second of the end of the video shows a guy pulling a raccoon out of his trench-coat. Makes the news worldwide.
And we thought waffle house had bad fights…
Rest in peace Rideau street McDonald’s
Ottawa!
I’ve seen that video somewhere!
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.
Yeeep that’s the one
This was an urban legend when I was a kid in the 70s
20 years after the chicken lover episode of South Park…
the chicken was asking for it.
filthy fowl fucker
Some folks were killed in a molasses flood, others were injured… the streets in the area would reek of molasses for decades after on hot summer days.
That is insane!
It’s even worse than you might imagine
In my little college town, there was this intense party culture. No frats, just kegs. In the 80s, apparently a school wide party became so large the local police force was unable to shut it down. The students commandeered an entire apartment building, and everyone just kinda had to wait for it to be over when they said.
We have a historical site marker plaque on the spot where Elvis Presley jumped out of his limo to break up a fight and save a guy from an ass-kicking. Also, the official city bird is the plastic pink flamingo.
The whole Lorena Bobbit thing happened in my home town.
Well it’s more of a family story. My grandfather was around 13 during the war (ww2). We’re from a wetland area and he told me he and his friend used to hide from nazis by jumping next to the plank (lined up planks were used as roads), into the water, and breathing through a reed.
Fun fact: Everybody including kids had boats, and sleighs for the winter. Everything happened over water.
Eventually he ended up having to work for them without pay. He had to bike hours every day to get to this landing strip he had to work on for them.
No airplane ever took off there. The allies bombed the living daylights out of it! He also told me he saw dog fighting in the sky and how exciting that was.
Today it’s a nature reserve! The countless bomb craters have water in them, and are teeming with life. So I like to think he helped improve the local biodiversity 😁
