I have a good chunk of family that live in the state of Wisconsin. There is a city near them called Sheboygan. It is a small city of no real significance, aside from the fact that the most insane stories come out of there. And not only are they insane, but they are numerous. Some examples of the crazy:

Sheboygan Woman Strips Outside Bar To Give Birth Not Pregnant
An irate woman who stripped outside a Sheboygan bar claiming she was about to give birth was in fact not pregnant, authorities said in a criminal complaint filed Monday.

Sheboygan man charged after wielding spears during standoff
A 22-year-old Sheboygan man was charged today after police ended a four-hour standoff by shooting him with a beanbag round as the man wielded a knife and bamboo spears, officials said.

Sheboygan Falls man gets 6 months jail for beating boys over frog
A 27-year-old Sheboygan Falls man will serve six months in jail after beating two boys who allowed his pet frog to temporarily escape.

Police conduct 6-hour standoff with empty house
What appeared to be an armed standoff turned out to be nothing of the sort on April 27, though that didn’t become clear until after police spent six hours surrounding an empty house with more than a dozen officers, firing tear gas canisters through the windows and addressing it with a loudspeaker.

Read more here and here

So any crazy stories from your neck of the woods?

I grew up in Florida,

need I go on?

edit: here's one from the sunshine state

QUOTE: "The incident: A man was given a speeding ticket.

The appropriate response: Paying it. Or contesting it if you don't think you deserve it.

The actual response: He dialed 911 and reported a fake murder in progress in the hopes of distracting the issuing officer.

Earlier this week, a West Melbourne, Florida man named Julius Lopowitz was pulled over for speeding.

As the officer who pulled him over was writing his ticket, 911 dispatchers received a call to report a possible murder in progress.

"There is a murder that's going to happen, I swear," the caller said. "On Wingate and Hollywood. Definitely someone going to get shot. Please, please, Wingate and Hollywood. Please."

He then hung up the phone.

As every available officer was being dispatched to the intersection of Wingate and Hollywood, the man called back.

This time he said, "I swear, there's going to be a murder any second. There's a man and a gun. Please."

When he hung up this time, 911 dispatchers looked in their records for the caller's name. As he'd called 911 before, they had his name on record. The name was Julius Lopowitz.

The dispatcher said Julius' name over the police radio, and the officer who'd pulled Jules over recognized it as the name he was writing on a speeding ticket.

“It almost worked,” Police Lt. Rich Cordeau told local news station WBTV. “The officer was trying to wrap up quickly to respond.”

Police believe that Julius made the fake calls when the officer's back was turned to write the ticket.

Julius is now facing a felony charge that carries a five-year maximum prison term. Which is quite a bit worse than a $200 speeding ticket, so fuck knows what he'll pull to try and get out of that one."

http://www.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan

Haha, you have some crackers there :)

Edit : deleted my post as it spoiled the light hearted nature of the thread

I live in Missouri just south of St. Louis. We have rioting and protests going on. You might have seen it on the national news recently. Fun.

Must be a fun town

jeez Cpt and QC

you guys took us from zany antics to terrible tragedies :\


Ferguson is shaping up to be the icing on the dystopian cake we seem to be inheriting

Almost got shot by police last Saturday, because of soccer

(rubber pellets, not real bullets...but I needed an interesting headline)

So I was on my way home from shopping sometimes after 10 PM when suddenly a group of masked soccer fans came running into my direction. I live near the local soccer stadium so encountering soccer fans on their way home is not unusual on a Saturday evening after a game. The fact that they were running from something and the loud bangs should have tipped me off that something wasn't quite right. Then I saw a demolished public bus which was surrounded by broken glass and teargas and police and general chaos. I complained to one of those anarchist clowns that it is annoying for me to walk into such a mess every time I am on my way home on a game day. His lame excuse was "It's not every time" but the conversation (pointless anyway) didn't get much further than that because suddenly a horde of policemen came running right into our direction, full riot gear and armed with rubber pellet guns and tear gas launchers and shields and whatnot. I heard the policemen shout "Shoot! Shoot!" and decided I shouldn't stick around any longer because it was dark and there is no way for the police to see who is a vandalizing soccer fan and who is just a normal person on their way home. Not all the troublemakers wore masks and there were groups of non-violent soccer fans here and there, basically everything was one confused mess. It's really hard for the police to maintain in control of the situation, the main problem is keeping the fans of the rivaling city's soccer teams apart. The demolished bus was carrying fans from the rival city and fans from my city were apparently attacking the bus, totally retarded but this kinda stuff happens every time...only this time it escalated way too far and I got way too close for comfort.
I had walked right into the worst part at the worst time but fortunately I know the neighborhood very well so I slowly walked off into a side alley one block away, careful not to run and certainly not in the same direction as the vandals. Fortunately the police had to slow down their attack rush so they could form a close line, that gave me enough time to get away from the action.
The risk of injury was real, the whole street was littered with countless rubber pellets the next day. You'd have to be very unlucky to get critically injured by those rubber pellets but you could lose an eye and get other serious injuries so it's no fun. Teargas and water throwers were used as well, fortunately I didn't walk directly into any of that but I heard later that there were various battles in several spots exactly on my route between the train station and my home. Fortunately I was on foot and not driving a car, no chance of getting through this crap in a vehicle.

On one hand I'd like the police to be equipped with flame throwers so they can permanently get rid of those troublemaker soccer fans but as I said keeping order is almost impossible when violent fans are mixed up with normal fans and innocent bystanders.

5 police offers were injured that night, I really don't envy them for their difficult job.

HAHAHAHA classic.

"We don't rape the elderly every day!"

We definitely have our own unique shitstorms of stupidity here in 'murica but, at least it can be said that our football is less frequently responsible for such systemic pandemonium, by far. I am glad you survived intact.

Europeans like to make fun about the USA, apparently oblivious to and/or in denial about the kind of degeneration going on in Western Europe. And it's not just soccer!

I'd like to send all those hooligans and deviants to a real war zone, or at least to a 3rd world country with massive real problems. If they find it too boring here in their safe and mellow home country, they are in need of some drastic therapy.
We used to do this in past centuries for reasons of poverty and due to overpopulation, simply send the useless surplus of aggressive young men into foreign services (doesn't matter where to, just far away) and hope they A) don't come back or B) learn how to appreciate and respect peace and order.

Honestly, I think you guys need MORE sports, seriously! We have a team for E V E R Y T H I N G here in the states, so many that we actually have sports apathy. We have so many teams that it's terribly difficult to keep up with all of them let alone go berserk over any one of them. Exponentially so when you consider what little loyalty exists in our franchises, patrons are oft inclined to take more interest in an individual player rather than where at team hails from. Heck, even the teams themselves have no reverence for whence they originated and are available as a commodity to be purchased when the price is right. Then consider that america developed neigh homogeneously when compared to the thousands of years regional history in europe. We essentially have five relatively indistinguishable cultural regions; northeast, south, midwest, (and splitting hairs) southwest and northwest. Most americans could give two shits which one you're from just so long as you're not a color dissimilar to their own or in another income bracket.

What it all really boils down to is that americans are too lazy and unorganized for hooliganism.