30 Infamous ‘Incidents’ from People’s Hometowns

‘He hasn’t been heard from since’
30 Infamous ‘Incidents’ from People’s Hometowns

Every town has an “incident.” Sometimes it’s as simple as a story about the drunk guy who tried to switch seats with his dog after getting pulled over in an attempt to convince the police that his dog was driving the car. Other times, it’s more mysterious, like the guy who disappeared while running a marathon and was never seen again. 

Redditors recalled these stories and more when thinking about the infamous things that happened in their hometowns, and we definitely need a Netflix series about the Mormon gang.

HeadFit2660 . 6mo ago o Someone wrote a book about it called The Bluegrass Conspiracy it's the source of the real cocaine bear. 35 Reply ...
Carsharr 6mo ago . Pretty small town, but a few come to mind. The big one is a pretty widely publicized murder case where a guy from out of town came and killed his ex- girlfriend's husband. Не tried to defend himself in court which went about as well as you can expect. 56 Reply ...
Historical_Salt1943 6mo ago We had a 16yo girl who parked her car and left with her older boy friend without telling anyone. They did the whole csi deal and tried to track her down. Everyone thought she was abducted. Search parties, the whole 9. The couple ran out of money and had to return. The town was not very happy with her 64 Reply ...
StrummerCash3402 6mo ago A charismatic preacher, suddenly widowed when his wife died in a fire that destroyed their mobile home, stood to collect a $250,000 insurance policy, which had taken effect the day before the fire. She had uncovered his affair with a younger woman in their congregation, so he locked her in the mobile home and set it on fire. Не escaped and pretented he tried to get her out but couldn't. Не struck a plea deal after a two year investigation. Не had a kid with the younger woman - she named the kid Ash. + 83 Reply ...
BobRoberts01 6mo ago We had 2: A Mormon gang beating kids up in dry swimming pools. High Schoolers taking muscle relaxers in an illogical attempt at getting high. + 384 Reply ...
DStandsForCake 6mo ago Small community, where everyone knew everyone. A kid (who was then in the class below me) accidentally shot his brother in the stomach (and died), as they were playing with their father's hunting rifle. That family never really healed. The parents split up, and the kid (who's in his 40s now) became the village drunk. 286 Reply ...
Nervous_Chipmunk7002 6mo ago We currently have a serial killer on trial so there's that... If we're talking more trivial matters, I'd have to go with the time the prime minister was in town and outraged a lot of supporters of the opposition party by buying fancy doughnuts from a local bakery rather than the much cheaper (and much less tasty) doughnuts from a popular national (they haven't been Canadian-owned for years) chain. + 163 Reply ...
quietflyr 6mo ago . Edited 6mo ago A guy embezzled $3 million, killed his business partner, then took his own 15 year old daughter (who I played soccer with) to England and assumed his business partner's identity. They presented as husband and wife while in England. She had two kids during this time. They never revealed the paternity of the kids, but...
 6mo ago One of my neighbors when I was a kid used to dress up as her mother to claim social security checks in her mothers name, they were both old so I wasn't surprised she got away with it. Oh and when she was caught they found her mother's headless corpse in a seat in the lounge posed like it was watching TV but the head was on the fire place facing where the very decomposed body was. + 140 Reply ...
danethegreat24 . 6mo ago Dude got high on bath salts and ate another person's face off. 89 Reply ...
Random-loser2922 6mo ago 0 Some guy was pulled over for drunk driving and he tried to swap places with his dog who was in the passenger seat and tried to blame it on the dog 107 Reply ...
Inevitable-Leek-9290 6mo ago The Pizza Bomber Somebody ordered a Pizza, and when the pizza delivery man got there, he was Captured I guess you could say, and they strapped a bomb to his neck and was ordered to go on a scavenger hunt which included robbing a bank. Once authorities had caught up to him, he ended up blowing up. It takes so many twists and turns The Netflix Series Evil Genius is the whole story if you are interested 114 Reply ...
RealKenny 1y ago The dean of my high school ran off with the headmaster, leaving both their families. The principal of my elementary school was stealing money to pay gambling debts (way before gambling was legal in my state). We were fun back then 1 Share ...
OrSomethings 6mo ago of We have a race up and down a mountain (Mount Marathon) on the 4th of July. It's not a huge mountain (up and down usually takes 1-2hours) and there are race workers/volunteers along the route. One man just disappeared during the race and was never seen again. They never found his body or any evidence of him. There were a lot of rumors about his faking his death, running off with a mistress, etc. 339 Reply ...
roronoa_cholo E 1y ago . A couple that decapitated their 3 children because they thought they were possessed 2 ...
- and - - - the - House - 4 Swimming_Limit2496 1y ago Beef between tennis players and pickle ball players. Lots of cut up nets. Made it into the Boston news (I live in needham, about 30 minutes from Boston) 1 ...
Zephyr4 . 14y ago We had a woman fake her own kidnapping because she was scared of getting married. She was dubbed The Runaway Bride. 39 ...
antellite 14y ago One of the deputies accidentally shot the sheriff a few years ago. The whole town walked around singing I Shot the Sheriff for months. + 31 ...
114631 1y ago A girl in my high school was learning how to parallel park and when backing up, accidentally hit the gas instead of the brakes and ended up pinning her mother (who was guiding her from behind the car), to a fence and killing her. It was really sad. 1 Share ...
xScribbled e 14y ago My town is so small we can barely have scandals. Just the other day a horse got hit by lightening and it made the front page of the Sunday news. + 60 ...
vpkumswalla 6mo ago Serial killer in the 90s, Herb Baumeister. I can walk to his property where he buried the bodies. His wife and kids were clueless. His kid found a skull and Herb said it was from a medical skeleton that his dad (a doctor) had. His wife denied access to the property to the police for awhile because she believed her husband. + 919 Reply ...
No-The-Other-Paige 6mo ago The mayor's aide hit my mom with his truck when she was 13. Guy needed glasses to drive but wasn't wearing them. The mayor made all charges go away even though Mom was severely injured. Just things that happen in small towns. Her whole family except for her own parents sided with the mayor. Years later, one of Mom's cousins married his son. We don't speak to or see anyone from Mom's side of the family. + 4.8K Reply ...
entre thatidiotsherbet e 6mo ago . Edited 6mo ago That tornado that jumped over the interstate. Yes, I'm serious. + 1.5K Reply ...
undeaddeadbeat 6mo ago A few years ago a couple cops got drunk while on duty and played Russian roulette and one of them got shot in the face and died. Very recently a cop drove his vehicle directly into a gay bar and then when the owner ran outside to be like wtf? said cop arrested the owner for refusing to show identification and then arrested the other owner for resisting arrest also known as asking why the cops drove into their business and then got mad at the people inside the business. 348 Reply ...
ImSky-- 6mo ago My next door neighbor lost his mind and held his wife and son hostage for 8 hours in their house and the SWAT team was there. Spike trapped his car and surrounded the house. I was only 8 or 9 and, at the start, was more concerned about my ability to go to school because that day was field day. I wasn't allowed to go to school and had to be evacuated out of my house by 4 SWAT members. Не ended up surrendering and I missed out on my last field day... Fuck you, Joey's dad.
CFO-Charles 6mo ago A landlord called a plumber because of clogged drains. Turns out the cause of the clog was from a fleshy substance which turned out to be the remains of a missing girl. Tenant ended up being convicted of two murders. I happened to know the sister of one of the victims. + 4.5K Reply ...
President_Calhoun 6mo ago I've told this on Reddit before, but one evening in 1974, a high school boy was involved in a very minor fender bender in front of our local theater. Не panicked and fled the scene. They found his car several miles south of town, parked by the expressway with the motor running. Не was nowhere to be found. Не hasn't been heard from since. + 6.6K Reply ...
KYlibrarian 6mo ago The retired principal of the elementary school was on his riding lawnmower in his yard. Не apparently went a little over the property line onto his neighbors yard. The neighbor came out and shot him dead. + 2.9K Reply ...
DoTheRustle . 6mo ago . Edited 6mo ago Some nutjob rammed the front door of city courthouse with his SUV with the intent of getting in and taking hostages. Instead the city swat team was about 30s away in the middle of a drill, so the van was already loaded and ready. Не didn't get very far... + 2.1K Reply ...
DameLibrio 6mo ago I'm frome La Crosse, WI. A guy out on Goose Island hid his mom in a chest freezer so he could continue to collect her SS money. 25 Reply ...

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