I was shopping in this store minutes after they had the guy trapped in the bathroom.
The guy streaked through the store completely naked...even stopped and sat down in a lawn chair. It's ok though, they figured out after an investigation, the man was simply intoxicated.
As long as he was intoxicated, I guess it's OK.
Well ya...duh!
Note to self..."before streaking in a busy grocery store...get drunk first".
JRL
In the courthouse in Condon, Tuesday. Sign on men's room wall, "Please don't spit your chew into the urinal, there is a waste basket to your left, Thank You". Wonder what people expect when they remove spittoons and ashtrays from where they are needed? Guess life goes on, and everyday, more are telling us how it is going to do that.
jud
Oh my gosh, is that really you that drives the #42 Juan Montoya? %)~
Jud, I thought of you the other day when I saw a car driving south on Interstate 5 with a "Shamrock Shooting Club, Heppner, Or." sticker on the back window. Is that a 4H group in town?
By the way, I'll admit you have me beat in the small town category.
JRL
I think anytime someone streaks, there is alcohol involved. 100% of the time. no sober guy is running around with his junk bouncing hither and yon.
hither and yon.
Dang...it's been a long time since I heard that sayin'
you're welcome. 😉
In my case the angry half inch would just go a little this way a little that, oh well.
I bet you could buy that lawn chair pretty cheap.
Some of you might remember Wyatt Sexton, who was briefly the FSU starting QB. He left the team after cops found him half naked in the middle of a downtown Tallahassee street doing push-ups while claiming to be both God and the Son of God. He was arrested again last week after a hit and run. The guy he hit jump into his truck bed and rode home with him. When the cops showed up, Wyatt told the cops he wasn't fleeing the accident, he just wanted to run home to get a couple of beers. That probably would have gotten him off if he was still the starting QB.
you made me laugh out loud, seriously, Dan! that's good stuff. thanks.
Very Serious Small Town Justice
Everyone in Skidmore, MO knows who killed town bully, Ken Rex McElroy
25 years after the controversial murder, townspeople speak of torment and regret, but won't identify killers!
Best-selling book is updated.
Sheds new light on the McElroy murder, and speaks volumes about the cloud that hangs over this tiny Missouri town.
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[Skidmore, MO - Jan. 4, 2007] In the summer of 1981 the townspeople of Skidmore, Missouri had finally had enough. They were tired of living in fear when local farmer Kenneth Rex McElroy came to town. The bully had terrorized the community and all of northwest Missouri for more then twenty years. McElroy took what he wanted, when he wanted it, and no one dared oppose him.
McElroy robbed, cattle-rustled, raped, burned and assaulted almost at will. Local cops were scared of him. The law couldn’t convict McElroy because no one would testify against him. Was this bully ever to be punished? Who would stop him?
After a town meeting on July 10, 1981, 45 of the town's men decided to take action. McElroy and his wife Trena left a local bar and got into their pick-up truck. As the crowd gathered around his vehicle, McElroy smiled and lit a cigarette, as if to mock them. Two men grabbed guns from their trucks, and suddenly 3-4 shots rang out, and McElroy slumped dead over his steering wheel. His siege of terror was finally over. Despite all of the eyewitnesses, and three grand jury investigations and a nine-month investigation by state police and the FBI, the murder of Ken Rex McElroy remains unsolved to this day.
Everyone in the tiny Missouri town of 410 knows who pulled the trigger, but like the witnesses who would not testify against McElroy, they remain silent about the identity of the killers. The murder of Ken Rex McElroy remains the most infamous cold case on record.
The story of McElroy's reign of terror, the killing, and the cover-up was first told by Denver lawyer Harry N. MacLean in his best-selling book, IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, published by HarperCollins in 1989. When he arrived in Skidmore no one would speak to him. Some suspected he was an undercover cop. Others thought he was just another nosy journalist. His tires were slashed, he had a shotgun shoved in his face, and he was bitten by dogs. Finally a well-respected farmer took him into his home, and the veil of distrust began to lift. Over the following 3 1/2 years MacLean became a trusted member of the Skidmore community. He is the only outsider to this day who has interviewed the witnesses and other principles to the 1981 murder.
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT won an Edgar Award for Best True Crime and went on to become a NY Times bestseller, selling more than two million copies. The Skidmore story was also made into a feature film in 1992. Brian Dennehey stunned audiences in the lead role of McElroy. Marcia Gay Hardin played his wife Trena, with Cloris Leachman, Chris Cooper and John Anderson starring in supporting roles.
25th Anniversary Edition...
As the 25th anniversary of the McElroy murder approached, Harry MacLean decided to go back to Skidmore, MO. It was time for him to visit his old friends and re-interview witnesses and the town folk, gather new evidence about the case, and update his 1989 bestseller.
In a revised and updated edition of his book (68 pages longer than the original) MacLean reveals for the first time information about the identity of the killers, which he gleaned from access to never-before released state police and FBI investigative files. His new book contains previously undisclosed information about the killing and provides detailed information about the witnesses and killers.
MacLean learned how the murder has haunted and tormented the God-fearing people of Skidmore. Though many of them regret their actions, no one will come forward to expose or speak out against the killers. In their minds the killers are heroes.
Very Serious Small Town Justice
> Everyone in Skidmore, MO knows who killed town bully, Ken Rex McElroy
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> 25 years after the controversial murder, townspeople speak of torment and regret, but won't identify killers!
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> Best-selling book is updated.
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> Sheds new light on the McElroy murder, and speaks volumes about the cloud that hangs over this tiny Missouri town.
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Sounds like he just needed killing.
Very Serious Small Town Justice
Perry, it's posts like this one that make me think we really aren't that different after all. 🙂
Very Serious Small Town Justice
I remember this story as it unfolded. The guy was incredibly mean to everyone at all times. Imagine being able to get an entire little town to keep their collective mouths shut for more than a day, let alone 25+ years.
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It should have been done years before it was done.
Small town folks are sometimes too slow to anger.
I went to HS with a person who probably should have been planted 30 years ago, but wasn't. I heard he finally calmed down some. Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Anytime.
Don't think so GunMan. Many Irish here, St. Patrick's day is a big day with parade and many other events. There is a big Shamrock in the street which gets freshened up once a year. I have seen the car with the sign, but don't know the reason for it or the people driving it, I live about 20 miles out of Heppner and spend my off time at the ranch, not in town.
jud
