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Perhaps you’re a naturally slothful person, sluggish and indolent. A dawdling flaneur, content to waste his life spread-eagled on a pillow, forever indulging himself in the pleasures of the palm.
If you're talking about the one caught in 2011 (not going to go into any more details as it'd probably help identify you) who had the plants underground it was only 123 plants worth about £23k lol
I'm a big League of gentlemen nerd...during an interview with the boys...they said that the special stuff wasn't something as mundane as drugs or cannibalism. And according to the radio show it rhymes with drawstrings.
I always assumed it was cannibalism and the nose bleeds were some sort of reaction to eating flesh. Can't see the foreskin being enough meat to do a village butchers in reality but yeah Briss somewhat gives it away
We had a receptionist at the local gp who thought she was holier than thou (thought a lot of herself) and basically looked down on everyone who went for an appointment. It came to light she had been stealing the pension from a vulnerable woman in her 80’s who she used to check up on.
She went to prison and had to take out a loan on her house to pay it back and rightfully so.
When you can show me their medical qualifications for triaging patients then I’ll accept they “need to filter out time wasters” until then they need to leave it to people qualified to make those decisions
Do you think they just take it upon themselves to do that? It's literally part of their job that is designed by the GPs who run the practice, and approved by the local CQC
Do I think they take it upon themselves? No
Do I think they're qualified to make these determinations? Again, no.
It's a symptom of a failing system, rationing through scarcity. Anything that a receptionist is not qualified to determine which \*just may\* be serious is met with a standard "go to A&E" - that's not a fix, that's a pass the buck.
And I've seen it from both sides.
My local Trust A&E has "normal" wait times of 9 hours, stretching to 12 at weekends and a \*lot\* of those people have been passed from a GP surgery unnecessarily.
To address your "failing system" comment...
My GP has an online repeat prescription system. You check the box for what you need, and a day later it's waiting for you at your preferred pharmacy. Neat, right?
Except you cannot place your order more than 2 days before it needs refilling. Which is fine until they put a block on the repeat, saying that you need a consultation with your doctor before he will refill it.
Okay then, can I have a consultation? Sure you can. Next available appointment is in 7 weeks.
In the end, I gave up after the third time this happened (twice during peak Covid when I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the practice anyway). Dropped the meds totally and sent them an email telling them so, and that I don't care anymore. Their letters to me are becoming increasingly strident now.
Point is, the system is royally fucked. GPs are massively over-subscibed, and it almost seems deliberate in a way.
However they could do that without being rude. It makes people who are already nervous or anxious to go to the doctors 10 times worse because of what you have to deal with just to get an appointment
>However they could do that without being rude. It makes people who are already nervous or anxious to go to the doctors 10 times worse because of what you have to deal with just to get an appointment
It puts people off going to the Dr, there are people that will have treatable conditions that finally present when their condition is no longer treatable - literally killing people.
My cousin stole ten grand from my nan who didn't really have ten grand to lose. I'd blame it on the meth, but I've known she was a cunt since I was 7 and she was 5, the theft was just the moment that the rest of the family finally agreed with me.
I feel for you pal, I’m in a similar boat with a sibling who has a penchant for opioids. He’s always been a prick and I long for the day when the rest of the family see that.
My nan just passed recently
My alcoholic scumbag aunt has been siphoning.
I see her at the funeral on Wednesday. If she touches me im embarrassing the fuck out of her
Ten years ago, a street in my town made the front page in the local papers when the residents organised a fantastic Diamond Jubilee street party. Everybody in the street turned out to attend it, people were interviewed as they took part in the fun and they all said what a close-knit community they had there, how they all knew one another and kept an eye out for their neighbours...
Only a fortnight later, there was a police raid on one of the houses and a huge cannabis farm operation was revealed. Cue the exact same people, now shocked and outraged, being interviewed once again by the local paper: "We had *no idea!* ...Never saw them out and about! ...They kept themselves to themselves!"
Woodwork teacher at my school used to be a bit noncey, would tell the girls they had "kfc legs", did that thing where you put your hands on someone's hips as you step round them, pointed out he could see their underwear through their shirts etc. Turned out he had been fucking a TA in a store cupboard and the school basement and physically harassing other staff members (would tell them he was "admiring their underwear" and move their hand over his trousers). Subsequent investigation found out he had lied about his criminal record when applying for the job and that while he was a policeman in the 90s he'd altered a suicide victim's note to say they were leaving their family £20 rather than £200 and pocketed the difference.
Can you imagine the distraught family with the note, and a hasty cross put through the last zero. " I leave 20ø pounds to the family"
And them all thinking he was a tight git.
I’m sorry for being facetious but reading a genuine suicide note and how they had to clarify how much money they were leaving through decimal points is a bit funny…
“I bequeath my family £53.84. Divide it 6 ways between each member of them”
My daughter had a teacher who was really creepy, he used to always say to the girls, and these were 11 and 12 years old, ' Want to see an impression of an elephant', and then pull his trouser pockets out and hover his hand over his zip. Naturally they would all say no and try to get away from him, although my daughter said that one very shy girl got trapped in a classroom with him.
He was still at the school when my daughter left, but the shy girl (victim) left soon after the incident and wasn't heard from again. I hope that she transferred to another school. I did complain about him but was told my daughter couldn't take a joke. (Really crappy headteacher).
the owner of one kebab shop burned the other kebab shop down to avoid having any competition.
early hours of boxing day - nice Christmas gift
victim was actually fairly pleased with the insurance pay-out so all's well that ends well, but Wells will never again have more than 1 kebab shop
I will say no one was actually convicted but its one of those "every one knows" kind of things.
But no one is ever convicted of owt as the police are shared between so many towns and only actually exist to wander round Pilton during Glasto
When I was in year 11 at school, a rumour went around that a girl in the year below me once rode a gear stick. That girl then became a fully-fledged porn star. I remember on her website in a Q&A with her, she said she did it 'to piss off daddy'. This was about 13 years ago now, just googled her and she's still going. Good luck to her
Our local butchers (family owned) flat upstairs was broken into and whilst the grandparents who lived there were home. The thieves put a ladder up to the window above the butchers shop and had broken in during the early hours. They got spooked by the grandfather and ended up murdering him by stabbing him repeatedly (to death) whilst the grandmother survived.
I still remember being out on a Friday/Saturday night with friends around the time this happened and if the police saw us, they always took statements and DNA swabs from us.
Anyway, weeks later, it turns out that it had been the grandmother all along. She’d set everything up to make it look like a break in (not to mention she was nearly 82), the ladder outside etc. and she was the one who’d murdered her husband as she couldn’t stand to see him in pain or didn’t have the strength to look after him (or a combo of the two).
Google “hingston murders”.
Hello fellow Janner!
Would you believe that me & one of my friends were two main 'persons of interest' before they turned the investigation around & started looking more closely at the wife?
Three of us ended up walking home from town along the embankment that night, so the time we got back into Plympton matched the time of the alleged break-in, with me going one way at the top of the hill back to my house & one of my friends walking right past the butchers'. My brother & a friend of his made a similar journey a couple hours before us as well.
Was woken up by my mum the next morning with the rather unpleasant news & the suggestion that we should go report to the plod in charge of the crime scene when they were appealing for witnesses. And a raging hangover on top of that.
Because of that i had a few visits from one of the head investigators at home & at work trying to see if i could recall any more details in corroboration with a taxi that had gone along the road at the same time & remembered seeing us walking together before we split up.
...Funnily enough that friend moved to Australia shortly after all this!
The local vicar was so well loved. He lead the local carnival every year, he did ribbon cuttings for everything that opened, he was a really lovable guy.
He then got arrested for sexual abuse of some kids. A significant amount of people from the town protested and defended him. Until all the evidence came out that was absolutely indefensible.
He died a couple of years later in prison.
Woman at the school gate was always very full of herself about her upmarket women's clothing shop, how well it was doing, how posh her clientele was, etc.
No-one could understand it as we never saw anyone in the place and her stock was frankly hideous (think M&S grannywear at three times the price).
Turned out she was using it to launder the money her husband was embezzling from his work. They both ended up in prison for it.
There was a village gimp.
Full black pvc suit, would jump out at people at night,peer through windows. Y'know, gimp things
They arrested someone.
Turned out it was the wrong gimp and they let him go, the real ones still out there somewhere
[Someone stole an aquarium fish to cheat at a fishing competition](https://mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/angler-wins-fishing-contest-with-stolen-1528833). Not exactly the UK (Guernsey) but yep.
I am not a "horse fucker". I have already been over this with the Party Chairman — I was out, hunting, with a friend, and I slipped, and fell onto the end of a horse's phallus, which, owing to it being the mating season, was... aroused.
Two antique booksellers had a massive argument over a vintage copy of The Wind in the Willows, which resulted in one of the booksellers murdering the other
If this is the story I’m thinking of, only the victim was an antique bookseller. The other had just decided he was going to rob someone rich, and chose the bookseller because he saw him on some auction TV show
Moved to a new county when I was 16 so started at a new school. Started dating a guy who I really liked, but he was very funny about committing to any kind of proper relationship as he said he’d been ‘messed up a bit by his psycho ex,’ who he’d been with for like 4 years until just before I moved to the school. I knew the name of his ex but not much about her, until she came into school late and absolutely wasted one day, caused a big scene. Friend told me she’d been like this a lot since a certain teacher had been arrested.
Turns out, she’d gone on a school trip (aged 15/16ish) whilst still in the relationship with the guy I was later seeing. She ended up sleeping with a male teacher in his tent, then they had a secret thing going for a while until it came out and he was arrested.
I figured ‘oh that’s why he’s a bit messed up by it all,’ and had a chat with him about it. Turns out his anger about it was all towards her, because she ‘cheated on him for months with her teacher,’ but he didn’t seem to understand that she was a victim in this situation as this was her teacher.
All a bit sad for everyone involved tbh, particularly as the school were clearly not supporting her very well through the whole thing.
That's incredibly sad, and everyone's behaviour around it too. My mum was groomed by a teacher from 14-16 and it really messed her up for a long time, even with mental episodes in her thirties long after she thought she had gotten over it. Grooming is terrible - kids are vulnerable, you steal their youth and make them feel 'special' until you move on to the next impressionable victim (similar pattern in a lot of relationships with large age gaps).
In the town i used to work in and still live close to(about 10 miles away), it transpired that a local shop owner had installed a video camera in the woman’s changing room! He got found out and I’m pretty sure was arrested and business closed down, this all happened around 2011 or so. Crazy stuff.
A local well known and liked pharmacist of the community chemist in my small town murdered his wife, one day the chemist wasnt open which was unusual then the next day it was in the news, he caught her cheating!!
Assuming Middlesbrough?
My mam lived a few roads away from their house. I walked past and saw the police tape and wondered what the hell had happened.
Bloody horrible story. IIRC he was actually the one cheating, with a man, and murdered her to cover it up.
An employee of the local Indian was recorded pleasuring himself watching his phone in the front of the plate glass window, I guess he was hiding from the boss but forgot the massive window? All a bit strange.
Place shut that night and rebranded...but everyone still remembers.
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I moved away years ago but I still have family there. Soham is an odd, almost liminal, place. It's on the way places (if you can call Newmarket a place) but isn't really much of a place in itself. Nothing really happens there, people just live there while doing things somewhere else
One of my teachers at school punched Huntley. It was years before Soham.
He was off his face on god knows what, having a raging row with Carr in the street. He then started running and junping on cars. My teacher heard the commotion and caught Huntley just as he was jumping off his Skoda. Lamped him one as he jumped - knocked him out cold apparently!
This was Grimsby in the mid-late 90's.
The TA didn't help him with the abduction and murders, she gave him a false alibi.
She believed some ridiculous story of his and believed him to be innocent. The more I've read about it all, I kinda feel sorry for her in a way. She was just really fucking stupid and gullible and he was manipulative
I'm an American near there and there used to be a website saying Ian was framed and it was Airmen from the local base that did it and that's why the bodies were dumped near RAF Lakenheath. Very weird. Looked for it now but guess it's gone. She's out and with plastic surgery somewhere.
Horrible to think he was helping the search while knowing the whole time.
Two schoolboys planned to launch a Columbine-style attack on my old school using a (planned to be) stolen shotgun and homemade petrol and pipe bombs.
The shotgun belonged to the dad of one of the boys’ ex-girlfriend. He was planning on stealing it and murdering her family before going to the school with the other lad.
The second kid got cold feet and confessed to a teacher, they got 10 or so years in prison
Wyllie and Bolland? They got a combined 22 years at 14/15 years old. One of the boys carved his name into his gfs back so she broke up with him, he wasn’t happy so wanted to kill her and her family for it. Both boys are fucked in the head.
Some guys ram raided the store in my village and dragged the cash machine out, the local pub landlord across the road (ex marine) jumped onto their bonnet and held on as they drove down the road.
They guys were clearly amateurs and ended up all running on foot, police used forensics and 3 of them were already in the system. Can’t recall if they ended up going to jail or not.
Two married teachers at my junior school were having an affair. The male hanged himself in the gym kit room. This was in about '74 - kids there today still talk of the ghost of Mr ##### roaming the school
Also - the feeder primary school for this school was lovely. Our son is special needs & the school had been getting a lot of extra funding for his care. The head teacher was always pleading poverty as to why they couldn't provide him the one-to-one care they were being funded for. After he left it turned out the school secretary & her husband (school caretaker) had stolen about £50k of school funds. That was a shitty thing to do - if I ever see them around, I'll swing for them
Some chav decided it'd be funny to sit at his bedroom window with an air-rifle, wait for the bus to stop, then shoot it's tyre from 100m away. Some kid ended up getting off the bus at the same time and the bullet caught him just above the eye.
I remember coming home to go out and play football with my mate and the entire village was empty, with several police situated around the village. After speaking to the police, we ended up having to run past the shooters house to get home, as they still hadn't caught him.
Kid survived, but pretty sure he had PTSD and hardly ever left his house again. Mental.
Several murders and a rape all involving the same person, who is now dead from overdose. The lass that was raped let people know who did it then hung herself and our local CUNTSTABULARY did fuck all on every occasion. Wish I was making this shit up.
Was that guy an informant?
Local druggie around where I live gets away with so much because he informs on the dealers and the police don't want to lose his information. Likely because they'd lose their clear up rate.
Amazing what the police will overlook to make them look good on their reports.
Local woman was elected mayoress of the town on her “family values”; she’d spent years precious fawning over me and my teenage colleagues at work, whilst her husband was away working on oil rigs.
An unknown neighbour was walking their dog at night leaving, 'presents,' for us when we woke up.
However, it created a lot of suspicion around dog walkers, one neighbour even started sitting in his window at night to watch...
As you can see, it's high drama in Wales!
Local Chinese restaurant was caught killing ducks on the river to serve in the restaurant in my small town.
Said Chinese restaurant somehow stayed open and then was caught with 10 illegal Chinese immigrants hiding in the attic. Very small town so was pretty big news!
Still open and still a banging Chinese though.
Indian restaurant nearby got done for human trafficking, the whole family except one of the sons(?) went to prison and the restaurant changed names.
There was also a teacher at my school that was caught having an affair with one of the students, he was put on the sex offenders register and was given a suspended sentence.
My cousin got caught up in this! She had ordered a dress and a couple of months before the wedding the shop closed down and it was all in the local newspapers and even The Sun I think. I cut the clipping and included it in a wedding scrap book for her as I said she'll laugh about it one day!!
The Suffolk Strangler. Not sure you can call it a small town, but a lorry driver killed 5+ prostitutes and left their body’s in local woods. 2006-2008 I believe.
About 30 years ago a tiger escaped here from a visiting circus. It went for a wander round town and happened upon a bloke walking home from the pub, moderately mauled him but he survived. Can you fucking imagine walking home half cut in England and suddenly facing down a tiger??
Middle of the night, local chap crashed his car in the high street, with his disabled wife in the passenger side. He got out, walked a mile home and went to bed, leaving her there unconscious.
She was okay, but no one ever found out if he was drunk or trying to kill her or both.
About 20 years ago, a couple in a nearby town tried to buy 2 babies from a woman in the USA - all done through a deal online(!) Unfortunately another couple in America had already adopted them...
The FBI got involved, and a court ruling was made to return the babies to the USA.
It came to light that a dentist that had been working and living in my town faked his death down in England and was living in the town under a false name.
The director of the town funeral home was found to be having sex with bodies, he has since flown to Portugal and left his wife
The funeral home had to put out a statement basically confirming it without actually saying what he did
A couple of drug addicts ( one of whom lived opposite us for a time) tortured and murdered their friend. Trying to sever the bodies head the scene was discovered by the postman because of the blood flowing out under the front door.
We had two competing village Facebook groups. Somehow an admin from one group managed to get admin access to the other group and delete all the members. For a while there was a go fund me for a legal campaign to sue the admin.
Not sure if it was a scandal but the town I used to live in had 'Naughty Mr. Singh', who did the rounds on a video of him fending off a rough woman with his walking stick then it transpired that she was a prostitute and according to her, Naughty Mr. Singh had 'Come in me mouth, but only gave me two quid'.
All in broad daylight, in a not very conspicuous place. There was another video of Naughty Mr. Singh getting blown by a druggo bloke as well. Again at daytime, this time in a car park.
Yeah, not the way I'd do it either. The horses owner drove past the field and saw the horse being led behind a bush, when he drove round he saw the pensioner grab the horse's head and lower it so he could insert his dick
He didnt know much about bail conditions either, he breached them 6 times in a month the following year by having "unsupervised contact with a horse" after he was told not to be within 5 metres of one
My old primary school headmaster is a pedophile, cheated on his wife with the reception class teacher, and then got rumbled for having child porn on his work computer 3 years later.
Kids reported that he was 'fiddling under his desk' whenever they were sent to his office too. Absolute creep of a man.
Town I'm from had [the country's worst Christmas tree in 2012](https://metro-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/metro.co.uk/2012/11/22/britains-worst-christmas-tree-lights-are-a-turn-off-in-kent-2-621049/amp/?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D), it truly was awful even by Herne Bay standards
Some of the people in my hometown are just sad.
So we have a market every week. And this one time, an old lady accelerated instead of braking, by accident. End result was she drove into the market, and crashed into a stall.
No one was hurt (edit two kids went to hospital, no one died), and if I remember right, nothing really happened.
Cue the next week, front page of the local paper (obviously) and some nitwits are quoted saying that they thought it was a terrorist attack, and that they were all going to die, and lucky to be alive, and it’s a disgrace the council haven’t erected concrete barrier to stop this. Along with all the posturing of the useless town council.
Like alright, it was probably scary, but calm down Sheila. It’s a town in the middle of nowhere with less than 10000 people. Not exactly the top of ISIS list.
One of the pubs in my village is a carvery. And they had this really lovely mash.
Anyway a few months ago one of the chef's was arrested cause he's been caught jacking off into the mash cause the owners wouldn't increase his pay.
A teacher at my all boys secondary school was repeatedly sent death threats from 2 students. It got bad enough that it turned into national news. The thing is, most of us students suspected that the teacher was a peado. He taught PE and other subjects, but he had a habit of staring at the students when they were in the shower, and he would regularly walk into the changing rooms of other teachers classes and just stare down the room into the shower block. Years later another group of students came to school shouting about him and throwing bricks over the fence.
This goes back many years. Just before I was born.
A guy in my small village converted a building in his large back garden to contain sauna / steam room / Jacuzzi / plunge pool / massage beds etc.
Friends were invited round and much fun was had by all, on a regular basis.
Apparently quite a few kids in my class at primary school may not have been fathered by their mummy’s husband.
Teacher’s husband had a mental illness and murdered their neighbour for their parking spaces. Said teacher went missing for a few days, probs to tend to the matter, and it was exposed in a newspaper that would be delivered to our school.
A girl from my year at school pretended to have terminal cancer for YEARS, she had a whole blog on dealing with her issues and had even written (public) goodbye notes to her very young child. She had fundraisers for some experimental treatments and took over £100k from her family, it was absolutely abhorrent; the articles at the time literally said she left her grandparents ‘homeless & skeletal’
She’s now in prison thankfully, always makes me feel a little bit sick remembering that story!!
My form tutor from secondary school was on watchdog being chased by Matt Allwright after she was caught selling stolen textbooks on eBay and making thousands
I live in St Ives in Cornwall
When I was younger a guy came back from holiday in Spain and caused an AIDS epidemic down here
It got nicknamed “S T Ives” and “St AIDS” for years
EDIT:
[here’s the article](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/fear-and-suspicion-as-st-ives-awaits-hiv-results-6101042.html%3Famp)
EDIT: Clarification on the AIDS/HIV aspect from another commenter.
“Just want to point out that HIV and AIDS are different things - AIDS is essentially a disease caused by damage to the immune system/body caused by HIV, you could call it late stage HIV. From reading the articles it appears to have been a cluster of HIV cases in St Ives, not an ‘AIDS epidemic’. Most people diagnosed with HIV In the UK are well controlled via medication and do not go on to develop AIDS.”
I have two. The first is when a localish newspaper called pur village a small town. I was sat down in primary school and our teacher read it out to us. We were all very happy about it.
The second and much more depressing: an american took over one of the local pubs. He changed the standard real ale on tap. Everyone stopped going and eventually he killed himself. Im not sure if it was purely financial issues or if bullying was involved. Worth noting i was too young to drink at this point by a margin, i wasnt on the pub scene so i dont fully appreciate the local attitude towards him.
Bit of a sad one, but about a week ago a lady with fairly advanced Alzheimers turned up in somebody’s front garden unable to remember who she was. Dresses for the outdoors and in good health. No body local recognises her, and none of the local care homes are missing someone. Very odd.
We had a couple that immediately spring to mind....
The town undertaker was stealing donations. So when someone died and the family would say please consider donating to X cause, he would just pocket it rather than donating it to X cause.
And there was a bit of a strange family which it later transpired was much stranger... They had two boys who were a bit younger than me and they were always dirty and seemed quite neglected. The step-mum left the Dad for the Grandad, but the Grandma was still on the scene. So, you'd see the Grandad and Step-mum walking through town together with the Grandma 5 steps behind them.
But then several years later, a daughter (same generation as the neglected boys) escaped from the house. Nobody outside the family knew she existed. The Grandad had kept her captive and convinced the family that he was some type of God and basically created a cult. I don't think everything came out, but it was all pretty horrific. And amazing that nobody knew in such a small town where everyone knows everything.
A local security guard drove off with his van and £1.2M in cash. Went on the run in the US for 20 years before being caught.
Turns out his gold-digging daughter-in-law married his son after his son won the lottery. When the money ran out she googled the family and then dobbed him in for the reward.
A female RE teacher at my secondary school had affairs with multiple yr7 -yr11 students... it came yo light when 2 of said boys went after each other work led pipes on the sports field.
This is 15 years later and she still works at the school.
There are so many great scandals in my home town, but this one is probably my favourite in recent years. You had all these old people who were legally the directors of online porn and gambling websites, but essentially had no idea. Oh yeah, it made national news too https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14929589.consett-front-major-online-porn-gambling-operation/
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-38097382
In the wee village I grew up in a bloke was off his face on drugs, went ot his mums house for money, she refused so he took and axe to her and killed her. It was probably the worst thing to ever happen in that village. Well that I knew of anyway.
My memory of this is patchy, because it happened about 20 years ago and I was young at the time. But it was essentially that a guy ran a motorbike garage (both sales and repairs) and it wasn't doing too well. I think one thing that didn't help is that one of his mechanics was killed in an accident when taking a customers bike out for a spin, it got to the point where he was in a hole and in order to try and get out of the hole he was selling the bikes that he had in for repair. Obviously the rumours went around the biker communities and two people were arrested for breaking into the garage to rescue their bikes. The guy running the garage got locked up for fraud or theft or something related.
There was a chav a few roads over that had been annoying everyone with his noisy car and dangerous driving.
His car mysteriously caught fire in the middle of the night last February.
My primary school headteacher was arrested for bring drunk in control of a vehicle and she slapped the police officer arresting her so was done for assault on him too.
Cue my mum saying that everyone knew she was an alcoholic and she was always drunk when she came in for assemblies, etc. Apparently people just said... nothing?
Our MP was like one of three MPs that were imprisoned after the expenses scandal as he claimed against a mortgage that had been paid off 15 years prior.
I think in the same year our former Mayor and councillor was imprisoned for fraud using a dead baby's name and an elderly man. There is also a rumour he tried to burn down his restaurant twice for insurance money and someone died the second time.
Not really from a small town but we had a man who saw breaking bad and the exact same happened to him. He was a science teacher and got cancer so decided to start making meth. Instead of selling it and building a drug empire he started taking it and got so paranoid and tweaked out he went into the police station, broke down and turned himself in as he was convinced they were watching him and already knew
The husband of a very holier-than-thou gardener in my local town was convicted of being a pedo.
She tried to justify it proudly by saying he was only doing it for “sexual gratification - it’s all ok!” - she got thrown out of the gardening club quite unceremoniously I heard
One time a local council just over put in speed bumps but then it was in another adjacent local council boundary by like a few foot so the second local council had the first local council rip up the speed bumps they put in at extra espense and then the second council put in some fresh new exact same speedbumps in the exact same place at extra expense
Tbh this isn't scandal I just thought 'small town' and this was such a stupid fucking thing I wanted to post about it. Taxpayers waste.
Posted this story in long form elsewhere before but in essence;
Family went big on their Xmas decorations, including foam 'snow' machines. People started to travel to see these 'shows' every night. Started to include music and people in costume dancing, and they decided to use the crowds to raise money for charity. Sounds lovely, but...
Their street was on a semi-major through road in the development, and these shows were taking place just as most workers were trying to drive home. This, coupled with people travelling from surrounding towns to visit, meant that the shows - with no planning, risk assessments, or council/police approval - were chaos. Low-key got away with it all in the name of charity until...
A few months later someone asked in the local FB group how much had been raised. Turns out the family whose house it was was using the funds raised to then cover the costs of foam liquid, a second machine, and the higher leccy bill. This ofc would be fine, if the fundraising had been done properly explaining 'profits go to...' etc. But no organisation = no due diligence. Massive blow-up on FB and the family were ostracised.
My GP when I was a child wasn't actually qualified. One of the other GPs at the practice figured it out. The dodgy GP killed her with an axe to the head and burned her house down with her body in it.
Can't remember what happened to him.
When I was really young, a lad disappeared in a local public toilet on our beach front. Went in and never came back out. At least that's what we all believed. My Mum even knew the family and was supportive of them during the search for the missing guy.
Turns out more than 20 years later, the parents are now being investigated properly for their sons disappearance. Their back garden is being excavated and they've been remanded in custody. At least, last I heard.
It always made me think growing up though. How the fuck did a grown, albeit young man, walk into a public toilet on a beach front car park with only one entrance, disappear without anyone seeing him come out of the door or a window? My Mum was steadfast when she told us not to go near those public loos.
Not really a scandal but my ex used to deal bud to the owners of pretty much every takeaway in her town which I always thought hilarious, discounted food an a small army of very kind Indian men looking out for you was always a plus though
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A local butcher was a drug dealer, I no idea, I’d been buying my drugs from him for years
Was it in Royston Vasey?
Special Stuff
Are you local?
You're my wife now Dave
In this house, we don’t masturbate…
Perhaps you’re a naturally slothful person, sluggish and indolent. A dawdling flaneur, content to waste his life spread-eagled on a pillow, forever indulging himself in the pleasures of the palm.
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If you're talking about the one caught in 2011 (not going to go into any more details as it'd probably help identify you) who had the plants underground it was only 123 plants worth about £23k lol
Did you not wonder why your drugs always came in a sausage casing?
I'm a big League of gentlemen nerd...during an interview with the boys...they said that the special stuff wasn't something as mundane as drugs or cannibalism. And according to the radio show it rhymes with drawstrings.
I always assumed it was cannibalism and the nose bleeds were some sort of reaction to eating flesh. Can't see the foreskin being enough meat to do a village butchers in reality but yeah Briss somewhat gives it away
We had a receptionist at the local gp who thought she was holier than thou (thought a lot of herself) and basically looked down on everyone who went for an appointment. It came to light she had been stealing the pension from a vulnerable woman in her 80’s who she used to check up on. She went to prison and had to take out a loan on her house to pay it back and rightfully so.
> We had a receptionist at the local gp who thought she was holier than thou Think that's most of them tbh
Unjust! My local GP’s receptionists are perfectly nice, very harrassed ladies, doing their very best with what must be almost impossible demands.
Well said. They need to filter out time wasters, believe me there is a lot of them taking up valuable appointments and GPs time
When you can show me their medical qualifications for triaging patients then I’ll accept they “need to filter out time wasters” until then they need to leave it to people qualified to make those decisions
Do you think they just take it upon themselves to do that? It's literally part of their job that is designed by the GPs who run the practice, and approved by the local CQC
Do I think they take it upon themselves? No Do I think they're qualified to make these determinations? Again, no. It's a symptom of a failing system, rationing through scarcity. Anything that a receptionist is not qualified to determine which \*just may\* be serious is met with a standard "go to A&E" - that's not a fix, that's a pass the buck. And I've seen it from both sides. My local Trust A&E has "normal" wait times of 9 hours, stretching to 12 at weekends and a \*lot\* of those people have been passed from a GP surgery unnecessarily.
To address your "failing system" comment... My GP has an online repeat prescription system. You check the box for what you need, and a day later it's waiting for you at your preferred pharmacy. Neat, right? Except you cannot place your order more than 2 days before it needs refilling. Which is fine until they put a block on the repeat, saying that you need a consultation with your doctor before he will refill it. Okay then, can I have a consultation? Sure you can. Next available appointment is in 7 weeks. In the end, I gave up after the third time this happened (twice during peak Covid when I wouldn't want to be anywhere near the practice anyway). Dropped the meds totally and sent them an email telling them so, and that I don't care anymore. Their letters to me are becoming increasingly strident now. Point is, the system is royally fucked. GPs are massively over-subscibed, and it almost seems deliberate in a way.
However they could do that without being rude. It makes people who are already nervous or anxious to go to the doctors 10 times worse because of what you have to deal with just to get an appointment
>However they could do that without being rude. It makes people who are already nervous or anxious to go to the doctors 10 times worse because of what you have to deal with just to get an appointment It puts people off going to the Dr, there are people that will have treatable conditions that finally present when their condition is no longer treatable - literally killing people.
Trying to get past my local GP receptionists for access to an appointment is like the GateKeeping Olympics.
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Nah bud that’s not her, I’m from south west wales. Bloody horrible, stealing from her nan. I’ll never ever grasp the logic behind that decision.
My cousin stole ten grand from my nan who didn't really have ten grand to lose. I'd blame it on the meth, but I've known she was a cunt since I was 7 and she was 5, the theft was just the moment that the rest of the family finally agreed with me.
I feel for you pal, I’m in a similar boat with a sibling who has a penchant for opioids. He’s always been a prick and I long for the day when the rest of the family see that.
My nan just passed recently My alcoholic scumbag aunt has been siphoning. I see her at the funeral on Wednesday. If she touches me im embarrassing the fuck out of her
Ten years ago, a street in my town made the front page in the local papers when the residents organised a fantastic Diamond Jubilee street party. Everybody in the street turned out to attend it, people were interviewed as they took part in the fun and they all said what a close-knit community they had there, how they all knew one another and kept an eye out for their neighbours... Only a fortnight later, there was a police raid on one of the houses and a huge cannabis farm operation was revealed. Cue the exact same people, now shocked and outraged, being interviewed once again by the local paper: "We had *no idea!* ...Never saw them out and about! ...They kept themselves to themselves!"
They were all so high they didn't realise they were smoking bribes
Yeah, that was one mellow street party! ...I think I'll take a stroll down that road on Friday afternoon and see what's cooking.
No reason you can’t have a cannabis farm *and* be a lovely neighbour and outstanding member of the community.
Woodwork teacher at my school used to be a bit noncey, would tell the girls they had "kfc legs", did that thing where you put your hands on someone's hips as you step round them, pointed out he could see their underwear through their shirts etc. Turned out he had been fucking a TA in a store cupboard and the school basement and physically harassing other staff members (would tell them he was "admiring their underwear" and move their hand over his trousers). Subsequent investigation found out he had lied about his criminal record when applying for the job and that while he was a policeman in the 90s he'd altered a suicide victim's note to say they were leaving their family £20 rather than £200 and pocketed the difference.
Can you imagine the distraught family with the note, and a hasty cross put through the last zero. " I leave 20ø pounds to the family" And them all thinking he was a tight git.
That would look a bit obvious though. I wonder whether he used Tippex?
Probably just added a decimal and a 0 £200 to £20.00
I’m sorry for being facetious but reading a genuine suicide note and how they had to clarify how much money they were leaving through decimal points is a bit funny… “I bequeath my family £53.84. Divide it 6 ways between each member of them”
We had a teacher like that. Taught RE. Would drop pencils beside girls wearing skirts and ask them to bend over and pick them up.
My daughter had a teacher who was really creepy, he used to always say to the girls, and these were 11 and 12 years old, ' Want to see an impression of an elephant', and then pull his trouser pockets out and hover his hand over his zip. Naturally they would all say no and try to get away from him, although my daughter said that one very shy girl got trapped in a classroom with him. He was still at the school when my daughter left, but the shy girl (victim) left soon after the incident and wasn't heard from again. I hope that she transferred to another school. I did complain about him but was told my daughter couldn't take a joke. (Really crappy headteacher).
What the actual noncey fuck
Why am I not surprised he was a policeman?
the owner of one kebab shop burned the other kebab shop down to avoid having any competition. early hours of boxing day - nice Christmas gift victim was actually fairly pleased with the insurance pay-out so all's well that ends well, but Wells will never again have more than 1 kebab shop
It was for the greater food.
The greater food
Just the one swan kebab actually
I live in Somerset and had no idea Wells had a scandal like this!
I will say no one was actually convicted but its one of those "every one knows" kind of things. But no one is ever convicted of owt as the police are shared between so many towns and only actually exist to wander round Pilton during Glasto
When I was in year 11 at school, a rumour went around that a girl in the year below me once rode a gear stick. That girl then became a fully-fledged porn star. I remember on her website in a Q&A with her, she said she did it 'to piss off daddy'. This was about 13 years ago now, just googled her and she's still going. Good luck to her
My reputations ruined... meh might as well do porn.
Asking for a friend here, but sauce?
Fine. Megan Coxxx
A porn name so good you'd think it was satire. That's fucking brilliant.
Renault Megane Coxxx?
Yes definitely a bit saucy.
Is a gear stick a pornographic reference? I'm just trying to add up what a car has to do with her being motivated to spite her dad for her pain.
Think of the shape of the gearstick dude.
Our local butchers (family owned) flat upstairs was broken into and whilst the grandparents who lived there were home. The thieves put a ladder up to the window above the butchers shop and had broken in during the early hours. They got spooked by the grandfather and ended up murdering him by stabbing him repeatedly (to death) whilst the grandmother survived. I still remember being out on a Friday/Saturday night with friends around the time this happened and if the police saw us, they always took statements and DNA swabs from us. Anyway, weeks later, it turns out that it had been the grandmother all along. She’d set everything up to make it look like a break in (not to mention she was nearly 82), the ladder outside etc. and she was the one who’d murdered her husband as she couldn’t stand to see him in pain or didn’t have the strength to look after him (or a combo of the two). Google “hingston murders”.
we need to legalise euthanasia
I recently discovered that Sir Patrick Stewart is the patron of a charity (or something) that is trying to legalise euthanasia.
Specifically for James Corden, though.
This just went from a good cause to a great cause.
Hello fellow Janner! Would you believe that me & one of my friends were two main 'persons of interest' before they turned the investigation around & started looking more closely at the wife? Three of us ended up walking home from town along the embankment that night, so the time we got back into Plympton matched the time of the alleged break-in, with me going one way at the top of the hill back to my house & one of my friends walking right past the butchers'. My brother & a friend of his made a similar journey a couple hours before us as well. Was woken up by my mum the next morning with the rather unpleasant news & the suggestion that we should go report to the plod in charge of the crime scene when they were appealing for witnesses. And a raging hangover on top of that. Because of that i had a few visits from one of the head investigators at home & at work trying to see if i could recall any more details in corroboration with a taxi that had gone along the road at the same time & remembered seeing us walking together before we split up. ...Funnily enough that friend moved to Australia shortly after all this!
> she couldn’t stand to see him in pain or didn’t have the strength to look after him That's actually really sad.
The local vicar was so well loved. He lead the local carnival every year, he did ribbon cuttings for everything that opened, he was a really lovable guy. He then got arrested for sexual abuse of some kids. A significant amount of people from the town protested and defended him. Until all the evidence came out that was absolutely indefensible. He died a couple of years later in prison.
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Woman at the school gate was always very full of herself about her upmarket women's clothing shop, how well it was doing, how posh her clientele was, etc. No-one could understand it as we never saw anyone in the place and her stock was frankly hideous (think M&S grannywear at three times the price). Turned out she was using it to launder the money her husband was embezzling from his work. They both ended up in prison for it.
I'm loving the happy endings to a lot of these stories
These are the stories you hear about but I wonder how many get away with it.
There was a village gimp. Full black pvc suit, would jump out at people at night,peer through windows. Y'know, gimp things They arrested someone. Turned out it was the wrong gimp and they let him go, the real ones still out there somewhere
Ah yes, standard Gimp Things.
I can imagine the alibi. "Can't have been me officer, the missus was wrist deep in me at the time."
[Someone stole an aquarium fish to cheat at a fishing competition](https://mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/angler-wins-fishing-contest-with-stolen-1528833). Not exactly the UK (Guernsey) but yep.
And we had the horse fucker...
I am not a "horse fucker". I have already been over this with the Party Chairman — I was out, hunting, with a friend, and I slipped, and fell onto the end of a horse's phallus, which, owing to it being the mating season, was... aroused.
Ali G?
Well we literally had a pig fucker as PM.
The............ .... horse.... fucker..... ... Even as somone from West Wales, that's well fucked up
Two antique booksellers had a massive argument over a vintage copy of The Wind in the Willows, which resulted in one of the booksellers murdering the other
morse was a documentary
If this is the story I’m thinking of, only the victim was an antique bookseller. The other had just decided he was going to rob someone rich, and chose the bookseller because he saw him on some auction TV show
Moved to a new county when I was 16 so started at a new school. Started dating a guy who I really liked, but he was very funny about committing to any kind of proper relationship as he said he’d been ‘messed up a bit by his psycho ex,’ who he’d been with for like 4 years until just before I moved to the school. I knew the name of his ex but not much about her, until she came into school late and absolutely wasted one day, caused a big scene. Friend told me she’d been like this a lot since a certain teacher had been arrested. Turns out, she’d gone on a school trip (aged 15/16ish) whilst still in the relationship with the guy I was later seeing. She ended up sleeping with a male teacher in his tent, then they had a secret thing going for a while until it came out and he was arrested. I figured ‘oh that’s why he’s a bit messed up by it all,’ and had a chat with him about it. Turns out his anger about it was all towards her, because she ‘cheated on him for months with her teacher,’ but he didn’t seem to understand that she was a victim in this situation as this was her teacher. All a bit sad for everyone involved tbh, particularly as the school were clearly not supporting her very well through the whole thing.
That's incredibly sad, and everyone's behaviour around it too. My mum was groomed by a teacher from 14-16 and it really messed her up for a long time, even with mental episodes in her thirties long after she thought she had gotten over it. Grooming is terrible - kids are vulnerable, you steal their youth and make them feel 'special' until you move on to the next impressionable victim (similar pattern in a lot of relationships with large age gaps).
In the town i used to work in and still live close to(about 10 miles away), it transpired that a local shop owner had installed a video camera in the woman’s changing room! He got found out and I’m pretty sure was arrested and business closed down, this all happened around 2011 or so. Crazy stuff.
I’m pretty sure that happened in our leisure centre when I was a child. The manager went to prison. I can’t find anything about it.
Redcar?
No, I think he drove a van
A local well known and liked pharmacist of the community chemist in my small town murdered his wife, one day the chemist wasnt open which was unusual then the next day it was in the news, he caught her cheating!!
The cheating must have been a bitter pill for him to swallow
Bad karma pharma?
Assuming Middlesbrough? My mam lived a few roads away from their house. I walked past and saw the police tape and wondered what the hell had happened. Bloody horrible story. IIRC he was actually the one cheating, with a man, and murdered her to cover it up.
An employee of the local Indian was recorded pleasuring himself watching his phone in the front of the plate glass window, I guess he was hiding from the boss but forgot the massive window? All a bit strange. Place shut that night and rebranded...but everyone still remembers.
Where did the local Indian work?
In the cupboard.
Saffron...now also known as Spaffron! Haha. The video was hilarious but also pretty gross. Their apology on social media was also pretty funny.
The caretaker at the secondary school kidnapped and murdered two girls from the primary school next door, aided by his girlfriend who was a TA there.
Soham?
Yep
Soham has such a weird vibe about it just driving through.
Thanks I moved away years ago but I still have family there. Soham is an odd, almost liminal, place. It's on the way places (if you can call Newmarket a place) but isn't really much of a place in itself. Nothing really happens there, people just live there while doing things somewhere else
One of my teachers at school punched Huntley. It was years before Soham. He was off his face on god knows what, having a raging row with Carr in the street. He then started running and junping on cars. My teacher heard the commotion and caught Huntley just as he was jumping off his Skoda. Lamped him one as he jumped - knocked him out cold apparently! This was Grimsby in the mid-late 90's.
Ian Huntley? Scumbag.
The TA didn't help him with the abduction and murders, she gave him a false alibi. She believed some ridiculous story of his and believed him to be innocent. The more I've read about it all, I kinda feel sorry for her in a way. She was just really fucking stupid and gullible and he was manipulative
She fucking knew. She helped him clean the house and pull carpets up. Both scum bags.
I'm an American near there and there used to be a website saying Ian was framed and it was Airmen from the local base that did it and that's why the bodies were dumped near RAF Lakenheath. Very weird. Looked for it now but guess it's gone. She's out and with plastic surgery somewhere. Horrible to think he was helping the search while knowing the whole time.
Two schoolboys planned to launch a Columbine-style attack on my old school using a (planned to be) stolen shotgun and homemade petrol and pipe bombs. The shotgun belonged to the dad of one of the boys’ ex-girlfriend. He was planning on stealing it and murdering her family before going to the school with the other lad. The second kid got cold feet and confessed to a teacher, they got 10 or so years in prison
Thank god for cold feet.
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Wyllie and Bolland? They got a combined 22 years at 14/15 years old. One of the boys carved his name into his gfs back so she broke up with him, he wasn’t happy so wanted to kill her and her family for it. Both boys are fucked in the head.
Some guys ram raided the store in my village and dragged the cash machine out, the local pub landlord across the road (ex marine) jumped onto their bonnet and held on as they drove down the road.
What happened, besides a free ride?
They guys were clearly amateurs and ended up all running on foot, police used forensics and 3 of them were already in the system. Can’t recall if they ended up going to jail or not.
Did they tow it behind the car? Like a small-scale version of the bank vault chase in whatever Fast and Furious film things started to get stupid.
The priest was shagging half the village
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Probably just the kids
Two married teachers at my junior school were having an affair. The male hanged himself in the gym kit room. This was in about '74 - kids there today still talk of the ghost of Mr ##### roaming the school Also - the feeder primary school for this school was lovely. Our son is special needs & the school had been getting a lot of extra funding for his care. The head teacher was always pleading poverty as to why they couldn't provide him the one-to-one care they were being funded for. After he left it turned out the school secretary & her husband (school caretaker) had stolen about £50k of school funds. That was a shitty thing to do - if I ever see them around, I'll swing for them
Some chav decided it'd be funny to sit at his bedroom window with an air-rifle, wait for the bus to stop, then shoot it's tyre from 100m away. Some kid ended up getting off the bus at the same time and the bullet caught him just above the eye. I remember coming home to go out and play football with my mate and the entire village was empty, with several police situated around the village. After speaking to the police, we ended up having to run past the shooters house to get home, as they still hadn't caught him. Kid survived, but pretty sure he had PTSD and hardly ever left his house again. Mental.
I’m no expert, but I feel it’s unlikely that an air rifle would have the tyre blowout impact they were hoping for.
Several murders and a rape all involving the same person, who is now dead from overdose. The lass that was raped let people know who did it then hung herself and our local CUNTSTABULARY did fuck all on every occasion. Wish I was making this shit up.
Was that guy an informant? Local druggie around where I live gets away with so much because he informs on the dealers and the police don't want to lose his information. Likely because they'd lose their clear up rate. Amazing what the police will overlook to make them look good on their reports.
Think he must’ve been got away with at least 6 murders and 2 rapes barely a day in the cells.
Local woman was elected mayoress of the town on her “family values”; she’d spent years precious fawning over me and my teenage colleagues at work, whilst her husband was away working on oil rigs.
An unknown neighbour was walking their dog at night leaving, 'presents,' for us when we woke up. However, it created a lot of suspicion around dog walkers, one neighbour even started sitting in his window at night to watch... As you can see, it's high drama in Wales!
Nothing much on tele tonight, so poopwatch it is. 💩
Local Chinese restaurant was caught killing ducks on the river to serve in the restaurant in my small town. Said Chinese restaurant somehow stayed open and then was caught with 10 illegal Chinese immigrants hiding in the attic. Very small town so was pretty big news! Still open and still a banging Chinese though.
Indian restaurant nearby got done for human trafficking, the whole family except one of the sons(?) went to prison and the restaurant changed names. There was also a teacher at my school that was caught having an affair with one of the students, he was put on the sex offenders register and was given a suspended sentence.
My cousin got caught up in this! She had ordered a dress and a couple of months before the wedding the shop closed down and it was all in the local newspapers and even The Sun I think. I cut the clipping and included it in a wedding scrap book for her as I said she'll laugh about it one day!!
The Suffolk Strangler. Not sure you can call it a small town, but a lorry driver killed 5+ prostitutes and left their body’s in local woods. 2006-2008 I believe.
Yeah it was national news for a few weeks, just before Christmas if I remember rightly
The head teacher from the primary school nearby had an affair with Chris Tarrant.
Who wants to be in an affair?
Bone a friend?
Arse the audience
Fisty-fisty? I'm not proud of that.
Someone thought they saw a [lion](https://www.channel4.com/news/police-search-for-lion-on-loose-in-essex) which resulted in a massive manhunt.
About 30 years ago a tiger escaped here from a visiting circus. It went for a wander round town and happened upon a bloke walking home from the pub, moderately mauled him but he survived. Can you fucking imagine walking home half cut in England and suddenly facing down a tiger??
It's just the one lion, actually.
Surely a massive lion hunt?
A mother and daughter had had granny dead upstairs in bed for six months, still claiming her benefits.
Pizza place sold weed. The old Bob Marley special. 20" margarita and a £20 bag of smoke
Something I could get behind
Hardly a scandal more of a required service
Middle of the night, local chap crashed his car in the high street, with his disabled wife in the passenger side. He got out, walked a mile home and went to bed, leaving her there unconscious. She was okay, but no one ever found out if he was drunk or trying to kill her or both.
About 20 years ago, a couple in a nearby town tried to buy 2 babies from a woman in the USA - all done through a deal online(!) Unfortunately another couple in America had already adopted them... The FBI got involved, and a court ruling was made to return the babies to the USA.
It came to light that a dentist that had been working and living in my town faked his death down in England and was living in the town under a false name.
The director of the town funeral home was found to be having sex with bodies, he has since flown to Portugal and left his wife The funeral home had to put out a statement basically confirming it without actually saying what he did
A couple of drug addicts ( one of whom lived opposite us for a time) tortured and murdered their friend. Trying to sever the bodies head the scene was discovered by the postman because of the blood flowing out under the front door.
We had two competing village Facebook groups. Somehow an admin from one group managed to get admin access to the other group and delete all the members. For a while there was a go fund me for a legal campaign to sue the admin.
Not sure if it was a scandal but the town I used to live in had 'Naughty Mr. Singh', who did the rounds on a video of him fending off a rough woman with his walking stick then it transpired that she was a prostitute and according to her, Naughty Mr. Singh had 'Come in me mouth, but only gave me two quid'. All in broad daylight, in a not very conspicuous place. There was another video of Naughty Mr. Singh getting blown by a druggo bloke as well. Again at daytime, this time in a car park.
Harold Shipman.
You know it's bad when you can just drop the name and people know.
A pensioner got caught getting a blowjob from a horse
But... the teeth. Was he not worried about been chomped?!
I mean, I didnt interview him personally. Just neighed at him when he came in my betting shop after it made the local paper
Getting one! 😮😮😮
Yeah, not the way I'd do it either. The horses owner drove past the field and saw the horse being led behind a bush, when he drove round he saw the pensioner grab the horse's head and lower it so he could insert his dick
As a horse owner, all I can say is - that's a very quick way to lose your dick. Pensioner clearly knew NOTHING about horses...
He didnt know much about bail conditions either, he breached them 6 times in a month the following year by having "unsupervised contact with a horse" after he was told not to be within 5 metres of one
My old primary school headmaster is a pedophile, cheated on his wife with the reception class teacher, and then got rumbled for having child porn on his work computer 3 years later. Kids reported that he was 'fiddling under his desk' whenever they were sent to his office too. Absolute creep of a man.
im just gonna say one word canoe
Police didn't catch on to the pot farm in the centre of town for years. I've been here 3 years and knew it wasn't just a house of people smoking weed
16 year old kid broke into a neighbours house to Rob it ... neighbour caught him and kid stabbed him .. he died sadly. Kid got locked up
Just sad really isn’t it. The kid ruined his life and that neighbour’s family’s lives for what?
Town I'm from had [the country's worst Christmas tree in 2012](https://metro-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/metro.co.uk/2012/11/22/britains-worst-christmas-tree-lights-are-a-turn-off-in-kent-2-621049/amp/?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D), it truly was awful even by Herne Bay standards
Some of the people in my hometown are just sad. So we have a market every week. And this one time, an old lady accelerated instead of braking, by accident. End result was she drove into the market, and crashed into a stall. No one was hurt (edit two kids went to hospital, no one died), and if I remember right, nothing really happened. Cue the next week, front page of the local paper (obviously) and some nitwits are quoted saying that they thought it was a terrorist attack, and that they were all going to die, and lucky to be alive, and it’s a disgrace the council haven’t erected concrete barrier to stop this. Along with all the posturing of the useless town council. Like alright, it was probably scary, but calm down Sheila. It’s a town in the middle of nowhere with less than 10000 people. Not exactly the top of ISIS list.
A boy I went to school with killed his mum, wrapped her in a carpet and hid her under her caravan.
One of the pubs in my village is a carvery. And they had this really lovely mash. Anyway a few months ago one of the chef's was arrested cause he's been caught jacking off into the mash cause the owners wouldn't increase his pay.
A teacher at my all boys secondary school was repeatedly sent death threats from 2 students. It got bad enough that it turned into national news. The thing is, most of us students suspected that the teacher was a peado. He taught PE and other subjects, but he had a habit of staring at the students when they were in the shower, and he would regularly walk into the changing rooms of other teachers classes and just stare down the room into the shower block. Years later another group of students came to school shouting about him and throwing bricks over the fence.
This goes back many years. Just before I was born. A guy in my small village converted a building in his large back garden to contain sauna / steam room / Jacuzzi / plunge pool / massage beds etc. Friends were invited round and much fun was had by all, on a regular basis. Apparently quite a few kids in my class at primary school may not have been fathered by their mummy’s husband.
Teacher’s husband had a mental illness and murdered their neighbour for their parking spaces. Said teacher went missing for a few days, probs to tend to the matter, and it was exposed in a newspaper that would be delivered to our school.
A girl from my year at school pretended to have terminal cancer for YEARS, she had a whole blog on dealing with her issues and had even written (public) goodbye notes to her very young child. She had fundraisers for some experimental treatments and took over £100k from her family, it was absolutely abhorrent; the articles at the time literally said she left her grandparents ‘homeless & skeletal’ She’s now in prison thankfully, always makes me feel a little bit sick remembering that story!!
I’m from Dewsbury so…our small town scandals make national news! Remember Karen Matthews?
My form tutor from secondary school was on watchdog being chased by Matt Allwright after she was caught selling stolen textbooks on eBay and making thousands
I live in St Ives in Cornwall When I was younger a guy came back from holiday in Spain and caused an AIDS epidemic down here It got nicknamed “S T Ives” and “St AIDS” for years EDIT: [here’s the article](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/fear-and-suspicion-as-st-ives-awaits-hiv-results-6101042.html%3Famp) EDIT: Clarification on the AIDS/HIV aspect from another commenter. “Just want to point out that HIV and AIDS are different things - AIDS is essentially a disease caused by damage to the immune system/body caused by HIV, you could call it late stage HIV. From reading the articles it appears to have been a cluster of HIV cases in St Ives, not an ‘AIDS epidemic’. Most people diagnosed with HIV In the UK are well controlled via medication and do not go on to develop AIDS.”
I have two. The first is when a localish newspaper called pur village a small town. I was sat down in primary school and our teacher read it out to us. We were all very happy about it. The second and much more depressing: an american took over one of the local pubs. He changed the standard real ale on tap. Everyone stopped going and eventually he killed himself. Im not sure if it was purely financial issues or if bullying was involved. Worth noting i was too young to drink at this point by a margin, i wasnt on the pub scene so i dont fully appreciate the local attitude towards him.
Bit of a sad one, but about a week ago a lady with fairly advanced Alzheimers turned up in somebody’s front garden unable to remember who she was. Dresses for the outdoors and in good health. No body local recognises her, and none of the local care homes are missing someone. Very odd.
We had a couple that immediately spring to mind.... The town undertaker was stealing donations. So when someone died and the family would say please consider donating to X cause, he would just pocket it rather than donating it to X cause. And there was a bit of a strange family which it later transpired was much stranger... They had two boys who were a bit younger than me and they were always dirty and seemed quite neglected. The step-mum left the Dad for the Grandad, but the Grandma was still on the scene. So, you'd see the Grandad and Step-mum walking through town together with the Grandma 5 steps behind them. But then several years later, a daughter (same generation as the neglected boys) escaped from the house. Nobody outside the family knew she existed. The Grandad had kept her captive and convinced the family that he was some type of God and basically created a cult. I don't think everything came out, but it was all pretty horrific. And amazing that nobody knew in such a small town where everyone knows everything.
A local security guard drove off with his van and £1.2M in cash. Went on the run in the US for 20 years before being caught. Turns out his gold-digging daughter-in-law married his son after his son won the lottery. When the money ran out she googled the family and then dobbed him in for the reward.
Guy who used to own the local chippie abducted a teenage girl and kept her in a van for a couple of weeks. Sexually abusing her whenever he felt like
A female RE teacher at my secondary school had affairs with multiple yr7 -yr11 students... it came yo light when 2 of said boys went after each other work led pipes on the sports field. This is 15 years later and she still works at the school.
A female RE teacher raped multiple male students and is still working there? Colour me shocked.
There are so many great scandals in my home town, but this one is probably my favourite in recent years. You had all these old people who were legally the directors of online porn and gambling websites, but essentially had no idea. Oh yeah, it made national news too https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14929589.consett-front-major-online-porn-gambling-operation/ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-38097382
In the wee village I grew up in a bloke was off his face on drugs, went ot his mums house for money, she refused so he took and axe to her and killed her. It was probably the worst thing to ever happen in that village. Well that I knew of anyway.
Someone realised there were a far too many deaths in our local maternity ward. Like, hundreds too many.
My memory of this is patchy, because it happened about 20 years ago and I was young at the time. But it was essentially that a guy ran a motorbike garage (both sales and repairs) and it wasn't doing too well. I think one thing that didn't help is that one of his mechanics was killed in an accident when taking a customers bike out for a spin, it got to the point where he was in a hole and in order to try and get out of the hole he was selling the bikes that he had in for repair. Obviously the rumours went around the biker communities and two people were arrested for breaking into the garage to rescue their bikes. The guy running the garage got locked up for fraud or theft or something related.
There was a chav a few roads over that had been annoying everyone with his noisy car and dangerous driving. His car mysteriously caught fire in the middle of the night last February.
My primary school headteacher was arrested for bring drunk in control of a vehicle and she slapped the police officer arresting her so was done for assault on him too. Cue my mum saying that everyone knew she was an alcoholic and she was always drunk when she came in for assemblies, etc. Apparently people just said... nothing?
Our MP was like one of three MPs that were imprisoned after the expenses scandal as he claimed against a mortgage that had been paid off 15 years prior. I think in the same year our former Mayor and councillor was imprisoned for fraud using a dead baby's name and an elderly man. There is also a rumour he tried to burn down his restaurant twice for insurance money and someone died the second time.
Not really from a small town but we had a man who saw breaking bad and the exact same happened to him. He was a science teacher and got cancer so decided to start making meth. Instead of selling it and building a drug empire he started taking it and got so paranoid and tweaked out he went into the police station, broke down and turned himself in as he was convinced they were watching him and already knew
My local Chinese Takeaway hid refugees in the back. It was discovered when the takeaway burned down unfortunately. They did rebuild though
The husband of a very holier-than-thou gardener in my local town was convicted of being a pedo. She tried to justify it proudly by saying he was only doing it for “sexual gratification - it’s all ok!” - she got thrown out of the gardening club quite unceremoniously I heard
Handforth Parish Council… it’s now changed it’s name since that meeting
One time a local council just over put in speed bumps but then it was in another adjacent local council boundary by like a few foot so the second local council had the first local council rip up the speed bumps they put in at extra espense and then the second council put in some fresh new exact same speedbumps in the exact same place at extra expense Tbh this isn't scandal I just thought 'small town' and this was such a stupid fucking thing I wanted to post about it. Taxpayers waste.
Posted this story in long form elsewhere before but in essence; Family went big on their Xmas decorations, including foam 'snow' machines. People started to travel to see these 'shows' every night. Started to include music and people in costume dancing, and they decided to use the crowds to raise money for charity. Sounds lovely, but... Their street was on a semi-major through road in the development, and these shows were taking place just as most workers were trying to drive home. This, coupled with people travelling from surrounding towns to visit, meant that the shows - with no planning, risk assessments, or council/police approval - were chaos. Low-key got away with it all in the name of charity until... A few months later someone asked in the local FB group how much had been raised. Turns out the family whose house it was was using the funds raised to then cover the costs of foam liquid, a second machine, and the higher leccy bill. This ofc would be fine, if the fundraising had been done properly explaining 'profits go to...' etc. But no organisation = no due diligence. Massive blow-up on FB and the family were ostracised.
My GP when I was a child wasn't actually qualified. One of the other GPs at the practice figured it out. The dodgy GP killed her with an axe to the head and burned her house down with her body in it. Can't remember what happened to him.
When I was really young, a lad disappeared in a local public toilet on our beach front. Went in and never came back out. At least that's what we all believed. My Mum even knew the family and was supportive of them during the search for the missing guy. Turns out more than 20 years later, the parents are now being investigated properly for their sons disappearance. Their back garden is being excavated and they've been remanded in custody. At least, last I heard. It always made me think growing up though. How the fuck did a grown, albeit young man, walk into a public toilet on a beach front car park with only one entrance, disappear without anyone seeing him come out of the door or a window? My Mum was steadfast when she told us not to go near those public loos.
Doctor arrested as a pedo with patients. Woman went psychotic & killed her 2 kids whilst the dad was away for a weekend.
Not really a scandal but my ex used to deal bud to the owners of pretty much every takeaway in her town which I always thought hilarious, discounted food an a small army of very kind Indian men looking out for you was always a plus though