Russell Williams, equal parts serial killer, panty thief, and commander of CFB Trenton, is on trial. The following pictures were on the front page of the paper this morning: The contrast between the two is hilarious, and yet, it's not altogether unexpected that these high-achieving Type A personalities would have such tendencies. Focus: Ever discovered someone in a respected position who had a very embarassing personal life?
Likewise... ALT FOCUS: Is there something about your personal life that, if people who you worked with/knew you on a professional level discovered it, would be a major surprise for them?
Focus When I was in High School we had a spanish teacher who was really popular. When he wasnt teaching, he would regale us tales of his travels abroad: hiking through Austria, rummaging around the markets in Morroco, etc. We all thought he was Indiana Jones in his private life. Then one day he didnt show up to teach class. We thought he must have been sick or something, but after about 2 weeks of having substitute teachers, our principle came to speak to us and told us our teacher would not be returning. According to the newspaper articles that came out shortly after, he had been arrested for hiring a male transvestite prostitute and paying him $40 for "two sexual favors." How did he get caught? Well our teacher got really drunk and really high and the prostitute stole his car. He called the police when he came-to and was arrested along with his hooker. Indiana Jones he was not.
I'm on a national industry body board. They were gobsmacked when they found out I had tattoos, let alone anything else I get up to. Well, except the guy next to me who's got a full sleeve. They freaked when they heard that (most of the board are older, reserved business guys). If they found out I have a buttload of weapons in my house and a developing passion for rope bondage, I think I might get my marching orders.
A Judge I had appeared before ended up getting arrested for kiddie porn, including two trips to Thailand to secure underage males for sexual gratification. Another attorney I worked with had actually clerked for the guy many years previously. We were all shocked as he was a respected Judge, and often presided over matters dealing with minors.
Focus: My high school biology teacher was a playboy bunny in her far flung youth. I remember being really startled by it and sad I couldn't track down the issue. Alt-Focus: As mentioned elsewhere, I LARP a lot. Which is something I'd prefer most of my fellow attorneys not to know. During law school I remember seeing someone in the halls that looked familiar and finally I realized that I had seen them at LARP events, so she's the exception. As is a judge I know.
Alt focus: In my new career (actuary, possibly the nerdiest profession around) people are astounded that I can drink more than 2 beers without vomiting and hold regular conversations with females. I actually embraced it at my last job and told everyone that I was taking a week off to LARP in Ohio. I went down a couple rungs on the cool ladder when I came back.
In a town down the road from my hometown, a good looking female ex-mayor got caught by her husband fellating an underage kid...the husband was the high school principal, and the kid was their daughters boyfriend. It was pretty messed up, I am still kind of surprised that it didn't make any sort of national news.
I actually heard about that one. Why does Viggo Mortensen come to mind when I look at those pictures?
In 8th grade, I found out that one of my teachers used to go out drinking with my aunt. Apparently she was really good at playing the drinking game where you put a quarter between your butt cheeks and waddle across the room to a shot glass and drop it in. At 14, this was an amazing discovery because she was so striahgt-laced and strict as a teacher.
I don't wanna go all Bunny on this thread, but let's remember that this guy isn't a humourous freakshow; that underwear he's wearing was stolen during home invasions, and he went on to rape two women and brutally rape and murder (and film the whole thing) two others. When you read the transcripts of his crimes, it comes off like a melodramatic horror movie that would make you roll your eyes if you bought tickets. The guy should be stood against a wall and shot. What I did find funny was a story that happened in my very own province. Stories surfaced last month about a family court judge who had some...er, unusual sexual habits. And an asshole of a husband, as it turns out. Apparently when she was still a practicing lawyer, her husband (also a lawyer) worked at the same firm. He tried to get one of his clients - a black man going through a divorce - to have sex with his wife (the judge). The client was taken aback; his own lawyer was showing him naked photos of his (the lawyer's) wife, soliciting sex and passing on websites where he had posted naked pictures of his wife in various stages of BDSM acts. It turns out the judge never knew her husband was soliciting people to sleep with her, and she never knew he'd posted pictures of her on the internet. Well...that's what she says. The best part is that this woman presides in the family court. How in the hell is anyone going to take her seriously when, in the back of their mind, they know that she's into BDSM and that her husband likes to try and get random black guys to fuck her?
It's a valid point. This thread has a great and hilarious focus, but a terribly saddening intro (not your fault ghetto). As I make a paycheck working in the education of young children, I'm slightly biased; however, I think anyone who does anything remotely close to what this guy did, should suffer the worst of the worst cruel and unusual punishment. And then die. In a painful and tediously slow manner. Wikipedia link for Russell Williams, in case you don't know what's going on. Working in administration, and with the majority of my communication/instructions coming via e-mail, I've seen quite a few absolutely hilarious and inappropriate things get accidentally copied to me. About half of my "friends" on facebook were also co-workers, and they frequently forgot that if they update something or post a picture, I'm going to see it. If it's detrimental to their job, as much as I may like them, I'm going to have to do my job and call them on it. That's the main reason I deleted my facebook. I don't want to know about that personal shit, and I'd rather just remain in denial about what you do or say behind my back.
When I was in my first semester of college, several former fire cadets came forward and said that they had been molested by the chief of the county fire department. This was a man who built up the department and won many awards for leadership and was known nationally known for his fire expertise. My cousin is a firefighter and was at the firehouse when the chief was arrested at gunpoint by the FBI.
You're doing it wrong. In unrelated news, one of my freshman physics TA's was in a porn movie filmed at a frat house. One of my bodides had him in first year and showed us the movie. I had the TA in second semester, and when I saw him, thought "Man, I recognize that guy, but I don't remember where from..." Then I remembered where from.
FOCUS: I am an upstanding, straight laced, hardworking normal worker. I have however masturbated at every single job I've had, multiple times. I'm sure I've racked up at least 2 or 3 weeks of paid fwapping time over the years.
My best friend a 2nd Lieutenant in the Canuck Armed Forces. When he returns from the rampaging moose emergency up river we'll have to have a talk about his sexual habits. Levity aside, that guy is straight out of Dexter, and not oh-cool-it's-that-perky-dude-from-3rd-rock-...-oh-y'know-that-show-with-that-guy-from-Inception-in-it-?-No-not-leo-dicaprio-the-other-guy... but the holy-shit-this-is-like-that-creepy-murder-movie-with-Brad-Pitt-and-Laurence-Fishburne-Oh-maybe-not-Morpheus-uhh-that-black-guy-from-Shawshank-uh-Morgan-Freeman! Alt Focus: The people at my hospital have no idea how hungover I am when I come in. On Wednesdays.
Is he in the infantry? Because, from my experiences, it's not unusual for an infanteer to say of another infanteer, "Yeah, we tag-teamed a few bitches together back in the day." Words to live by.