That one time they found a history teacher in Pomerode who had a swastika in his pool. My history teacher knew the guy and said he was totally not a Nazi, just a WW2 history buff.

Saiba quem é o dono da piscina com a suástica no fundo em Pomerode

Find out who owns the pool with a swastika at the bottom in Pomerode (Google Translate)

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

We had a guy behead his father live on social media and then try and break into a military base.

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.

Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins, An American serial killer who was charged with the murders of several people, mostly women, and admitted in his memoirs and books to various other murders. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Henry_Gaskins

It’s too quiet here, nothing comes to mind thinking of anything bizarre. Maybe that time people tried long-distance sabotaging one of the nearby buildings promoted on the historic registry as the bed and breakfast, only to learn late the registry leaves out its modern bank status, causing the act to be processed like bank robbery laws.

https://patch.com/california/imperialbeach/top-san-diego-weird-news-of-2013-imperialbeach

Here’s just a small sample from 11 years ago, before I even lived here. I think my favorite is the 200+ pounds of marijuana falling out of the sky

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/260-pounds-of-marijuana-drops-out-of-the-sky-in-san-diego/

Here’s a link since Huff Post removed the article

Well I live in Philadelphia, and just in the decade I’ve been here, I’ve seen some shit.

The unsolved Hitchbot murder, and then a local radio station’s attempt to repair our good name before the Pope arrived.

The dumpster pools in Kensington.

“Do attend.”

When the Eagles won the Super Bowl and chaos ensued. I can’t find any source on this in particular, but my gf and I agree we heard on the police scanners that a giraffe had been freed from the zoo and was running down Girard.

Drumline Elmo, who has become as big a celebrity in the city as Gritty.

Gritty, who is a national hero in our eyes.

All of which doesn’t even factor in the everyday life crazy. This place is wild, and I’m all for it.

The whole Lorena Bobbit thing happened in my home town.

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.

I remember a few years ago there was an attempted robbery at a Jack in the Box. Apparently the cashier told the would be robber, “you ain’t robbin’ shit.” Made it all the way to the front of r/atetheonion for a day or two.

Construction workers were digging foundations at a local work site and found a Soviet T-34 tank burried in the ground.

Important context:

• My town is not in Russia or the former USSR.
• My town is not in Europe either.
• Our military doesn’t even operate Soviet equipment.
• My town is also not next to a border with a country who might have operated Soviet equipment when it was also not so friendly with my country.

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!”

In Bonn (Germany), where I lived for a few years, there was an incident not too long ago where a homeless person carried a severed head in a bag, in broad daylight, to the district court and put it in front of the entrance, then sat down across from it.

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.