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.
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
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 😁
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.
I love gritty. I grew up in Seattle and found the whole Kraken logo and team name were just so uninspiring. Especially when the Flyers just went all in on just being cool as hell with Gritty. Fortunately I was already a Canes fan so the boring Kraken thing doesn't bother me at all
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.
In 2001 "Kuno the killer catfish" was accused of swallowing a dachshund. It was a big story at the time, people were trying to catch the fish but failed. Two years later a big ass catfish was found dead, proclaimed to be Kuno, stuffed and is displayed in a museum to this day.
In the city where i live right now, in 1975, two teenagers, a 16 years old male, and a 13 years old female, went for a motorbike ride in a field next to a wood. They never came back. Their bodies were found, shot point blank by 22 caliber in the head and in the chest. Their bodies were placed one over the other voluntarily. There were some claims that they were also found naked, but police data isn't clear about that. They never found what really happened.
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.
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.
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.
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.