Right now Coronado's got a whopper.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:43 (fourteen years ago)
Huh - the first that came to mind for me apparently inspired a TV movie staring Marcia Gay Harden and Treat Williams.
It's long so basically what happened was a Dr. two streets away from where I grew up killed his wife because he was having an affair with the church organist.
http://www.guiltyheartsmovie.blogspot.com/
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:53 (fourteen years ago)
married, award-winning junior high school band teacher initiates "relationship" with 13-yo student, proceeds to bang her until she turns 18, at which time she realizes he is not actually going to leave his wife for her and she tells her parents. parents tell the school district, school district fires him. charges are filed but teacher flees state. Police work with student to lure him back, which he is gullible enough to fall for - police arrest him at the airport, he goes to trial, does time. Released, and is now back teaching music to kids at some other school
as a student at the school, I remember there being constant rumors about him being a sleazebag and a horndog and hitting on girls. my father, who taught on the faculty with this man and never liked him, relayed to me a conversation they once had in the teacher's lounge where he confided to my dad that he "should have had it [i.e., his dick] cut off when he was 18" because it had caused him nothing but trouble.
too true, too true...
― i hate it when rats eat my bushels (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 18 July 2011 15:54 (fourteen years ago)
Good Lord, Ned. Control yr plankers.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:55 (fourteen years ago)
That ain't my hometown and I'm not one to keep Darwin Awards folks from doing what they need to do best.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 July 2011 15:59 (fourteen years ago)
i grew up in the midst of the weirdo McMartin preschool trials...a very strange time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial
― tylerw, Monday, 18 July 2011 16:01 (fourteen years ago)
Although born in Columbus, MS, I'm sure Miami in the eighties has it beat.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 July 2011 16:05 (fourteen years ago)
The former high school football coach in nearby Smithville (hugely successful, something like a .700 record, pride of the community) was indicted last year on state and federal charges of molesting a bunch of his players over many years. The day he pled guilty on the federal charges was the day of the tornado that more or less destroyed the town.
― Josef K-Doe (WmC), Monday, 18 July 2011 16:06 (fourteen years ago)
my senior year of HS our wrestling coach was found guilty of sending lewd e-mails to students
― jesus and mary chapin carpenter (donna rouge), Monday, 18 July 2011 16:21 (fourteen years ago)
Goddamn flower thieves!!
http://www.ealinggazette.co.uk/ealing-news/local-ealing-news/2011/06/09/ealing-tory-leader-falls-victim-to-flower-thieves-64767-28852034/
― kip winger; radio ventriloquist (jel --), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:57 (fourteen years ago)
Hmm, I had a childhood friend held hostage with his family by his shotgun wielding fugitive dad in their home (a converted one-room school house, no less). I had another friend whose father was carjacked outside their home by a metalhead dude from my high school shop class, who proceeded to lead the police on a chase from Pennsylvania to Florida, with his estranged girlfriend hostage at gunpoint, until the police gunned him down.
I suppose neither of these things were scandalous, per say, but they were lurid.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 July 2011 22:01 (fourteen years ago)
Not really a scandal more like something from the Midlands' Dumbest Criminals:
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/9139765.Addict_hid_stash_under_cop_car/
― Operation Pooting (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 09:17 (fourteen years ago)