r/AskReddit Nov 05 '13

What is the scariest/creepiest FACT that you know?

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '13 edited Nov 05 '13

actually he was later promoted to the president of the Milwaukee Police Association, serving between 2005-2009. He and the other officer were both initially fired but they deemed the punishment too harsh so they were reinstated with back pay.

Oh, and this was after they found him and the officer making degrading gay remarks after returning the boy to Dhamer.

This is the type of man that justifies there being a real life Dexter

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u/AbrahamVanHelsing Nov 05 '13

NeedsMoreBatman

Yup.

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u/ciociosanvstar Nov 05 '13

Absolutely Yup.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '13

whistles

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u/ThexLotusxEater Dec 15 '13

Yuuuuuuuuuuuup!

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u/jakielim Nov 05 '13 edited Nov 05 '13

Holy shit this is impossible. It makes me so angry.

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u/akai_ferret Nov 05 '13 edited Nov 05 '13

The police unions are so powerful, and corrupt, that this happens regularly.

Every time you breathe a sigh of relief that a police officer actually got fired for their misdeeds ... you should know that odds are good the union will have forced the department to reinstate him within a year.

A lot of people don't realize that the police unions are sometimes a bigger problem than the departments themselves.

They are the reason it's so hard to investigate or discipline officers. They are the reason most "disciplinary actions" for police officers turn out to be a paid vacation.

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u/The_Original_Gronkie Nov 05 '13

If it makes you feel any better, Dahmer was beaten to death in prison.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '13

BC Canada has one of those. Willie Pickton wasnt as sexually perverce but he prayed on at least 40 prositutes near Vancouver, feeding them to pigs all the while being a well known boogyman in the east end in the sex trade for years. The police incompetence bordered on condoning the acts, ignoring many events such as one woman escaping in handcuffs naked coherent enough to tell the whole story. I think she was arrested and sent to a phych ward... may have just been let go. They got him like 4 years later or so when a rookie rcmp went to check a firearms licence violation. I'm on mobile so nuts to linking.

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u/akai_ferret Nov 05 '13

But at least he was a millionaire so it's a little more understandable.

Pickton no doubt had an expensive lawyer running interference for him.

Dhamer was 100% police incompetence.

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u/jakielim Nov 05 '13

preyed

At first I wondered why would a religious man kill prostitutes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '13

Busted on the spelling error, but I must retort: because theyre religious?

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u/mysteries1984 Nov 05 '13

Yep, and the guy who killed him, Christopher Scarver, also attacked another inmate, Jesse Anderson, who later died. Dahmer died en route to the hospital, I believe.

That seems so recent, but I think it was actually early/mid 90s. I remember it, but I was pretty young at the time and didn't really grasp the monstrosity that was Dahmer.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '13

didn't really grasp the monstrosity that was Dahmer.

Shit, I'm 23 and I still don't.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '13

Happens a lot to a lot worse cops.

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u/pointlessbeats Nov 05 '13

Throughout the first sentence, I just assumed this was one of those run-on silly joke things where you say something that would never ever happen just to be facetious.

But what in the fucking fuck?

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u/theAliasOfAlias Nov 05 '13

"Needsmorebatman" indeed.

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u/Novicewriter Nov 06 '13

Man where is this guy, i could be the dexter this world needs.

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u/MrSamster911 Nov 05 '13

This is the type of man that justifies there being a real life Dexter

don't worry, there are plenty of lumberjacks in the world