Well, AntaresJB might have heard about this one, since it happened in the next town over :p, but I doubt it unless the *Williamsport Sun-Gazette put it in a “Knuckleheads in the News” section.
Two fine upstanding guys from our school were arrested for kidnapping. Actually, they weren’t trying to do anything illegal at all. They just decided, mid-school-year, to take a road trip to California, along with one of the guys’ girlfriends. Unfortunately, they forgot to do something fairly important–tell the girl’s parents. Even more unfortunately, the girl was underage. Her parents correctly surmised that these two knuckleheads were up to something, and called the police. The feds caught up to the three in Colorado.
How did I hear about this? One of them was in custody and was allowed to make one phone call. So he decided to call…yep, our sociology teacher. The teacher got pulled out of our class to try to talk some sense into this guy. He told us the whole story when he got back.
There was the girl who stabbed another girl in the neck. During fourth period I believe.
There were about 4 guys who were arrested, again during school hours for robbing the Mickey Ds down the street from the school.
Since then I’d guess there were 60 or so arrested for selling weed and or crack. I know there is at least two rapists. I’m not sure about property crimes, but it wouldn’t surprise me if car-jackers/theives were well represented.
At least 10 or so of my classmates have been killed. Those are the ones I know about. It’s probable that there are way more than that.
I graduated from Oakland Tech right at the beginning of the crack explosion. My 20th reunion is in two or three years. I have no intention of going. Do I get an award for most depressing?
While I was at high school this new guy came and promptly got expelled pretty rapidly. He was always a bit odd. Anyway, fast forward about 5 years and he’s now in jail, a convicted murderer. He stabbed someone with a big kitchen knife in the middle of a supermarket car park because the person wouldn’t give him a light.
A guy I know who went to my primary school has had a few convictions of a sexual nature as well. Apparently he likes school uniforms and the wearers of them a little too much.
I went to school with lots of felons. Some were convicted before we graduated. The most notable is that I went to high school with Will Busenberg, whose murder of his roommate forms the basis for this book.
Will and I were actually friendly with each other, although not close. The odd thing is that he fits the stereotype of a serial killer you see in all the movies: quiet, loner, even disposition, thin. He was a good artist, although now that I think about it, his drawings seemed to trend toward the macabre. And although he seemed very nice and had a steady – even sweet – disposition, we always used to joke about how he had crazy eyes.
You know how in cartoons, when one character is hypnotizing someone else, and to show that, their eyes will start spinning? That’s the vibe that Will’s eyes gave off all the time. Like you were being hypnotized.
(Jes emailed me about this, but I’ll just clear it up here) No, I don’t go to Penn State, so this is a completely different guy, and therefore it is extrememly eerie that there are two IT/music guys who got busted for kiddie porn at PA state schools.
But, yes, several of my school chums made the Big House.
• One ex-roommie, ex-close friend went up to a Federal pen for interstate transportation of stolen guns in a stolen car. That’s just skimming the surface on that boy.
• One h.s. “friend” decided that armed robberies of dry cleaners was a cool trick - in his gold pickup truck he did two with a shotgun and was surprised to find the police waiting at the third in the same evening.
• The drug busts are legion, beginning in high school. I can’t begin to list them all. One who was a fairly close friend got nailed with a machine gun and several pounds of pot at 17. Another (remember, pot was a 2-life felony in Texas in the '60s) went away for a year, came back a very different guy (at 19) and got popped again. I’ve never heard any thing more about him. He was, in the original, a nice guy.
One of my college roommies, to my dismay, dealt. I naively assumed he’d stopped when I asked him to, after I’d figured it out. Nope, and he got our house raided. So he picked up a felony coke dealing conviction for that, but since he already worked for the IRS he was able to continue that career without further clearances until he sold a baggie of pot to his (unknown to him) already busted supervisor, on federal property. Federal pen time for a baggie of pot. Dumbass.
• One of my ex-GF’s friends got busted soliciting gay sex in a restroom at the Galleria. A thread here linked a look-up site for sex offenders, and I looked him up. What I found was a high school friend with a kiddy-sex conviction.
There’s more, I’m sure. But this thread is starting to bum me out, so I’m departing.
I went to high school with two girls who are listed in the Iowa Sex Offender registry (you can look it up on line too, if you’re really curious).
The former guidance counselor at my high school lost his job over two incidents involving fondling of female students in his office (During the trial, he testified that it’s perfectly acceptable for high school counselors to hug and kiss students in some situations. :rolleyes: )
But if you’re talking about STUPID felons…
There’s also the 4 guys (1 in my class, 3 a year behind me) who’ve done time in prison for one stunt. As the story goes, one of them got mad at some random guy at a party for apprently hitting on his (ex?) girlfriend. So this guy does what any red-blodded male would do: gets his three buddies, who take up hiding in random guy’s garage about a week later while random guy is at work. Random guy returns home, and these 4 guys proceed to beat him with 2x4’s until he’s literally within an inch of his life (IIRC he spent almost 2 months in the hospital). The stupidest part of this whole situation? They beat up the wrong guy. They guy they beat up never went to the party that spawned the entire incident.
My husband’s history or math teacher in high school ( forget the grade) ended up, somehow, getting arrested for drug trafficking, and is, last anyone heard, doing time in a SE Asian prison.
I my 8th grade english class there was a guy who would brag about having to go to court for an "incident’. A short time later he moved to another town.
Several years later he is on the news for raping and stomping to death an 8 year old girl then hiding the body in the woods. Before he was arrested he helped the police look for the missing girl and babysat her siblings.
It turns out that the “incident” that he was bragging about was the molestation of two four year olds.
He was found hanging from a towel in his cell seven years ago.
