Tom is a 25+ year resident of Germantown and the surrounding community. He currently lives in Hubertus with his wife and two small kids on a hobby farm near Bark Lake. Tom's blog will likely not save the world, but hopefully, you'll get some enjoyment from his ramblings.
I guess I’m being somewhat stereotypical when I say this, but I have a conception that people who live in Sheboygan eat bratwurst all the time. Right? Monday night it’s grilled brats for dinner. Tuesday night it’s bratwurst fettuccine. Wednesday morning it’s brat patties and eggs for breakfast. Thursday night…well, you get my point. So this leads me to my question of, “Hey Sheboygan, what’s in those brats you’re eating?” What do I mean by that? Well, there’s not a week that goes by that some sort of weird or wacky news story comes out of Sheboygan. Does anyone here know what I’m talking about? Reflecting on the past year, I can immediately recall numerous stories out of Sheboygan about stabbings, shootings, indecent exposure cases, drug busts, child enticement cases, kidnappings, etc.
Just in the past month, there have been several notable stories out of Sheboygan. One had to do with the 40-year-old woman who abducted and robbed her own mother. Another story had to do with police officers opening fire on a pit bull as it charged them. Fortunately for the pit bull, they missed. Another story, just this past week, had to do with some guy being charged with a felony for “discharging a bodily fluid at a public safety officer” after he spit on a cop. C’mon, these just aren’t normal run-of-the-mill news stories here.
And don’t get me started on all the drug stories that come out of Sheboygan. Last week, there was the guy that got caught hiding 8 grams of crack cocaine in his underwear. I guess that would be a case of “crack in his crack”, huh? Then there’s the guy that had 30 pounds of marijuana shipped from his buddy in California to his house in Sheboygan. Only problem was, his buddy sent it to the wrong address, which led to the Sheboygan guy getting busted. Whoa Dude, wrong address, hey? That must have been some killer reefer you’re buddy was sending you! And then there’s my favorite from just two weeks ago. A guy was being pulled over for a routine traffic stop when police saw him throw something from his window. Turns out it was a cigarette pack containing over an ounce of cocaine. The guy then tried to run from the police, and they ended up zapping him with a Taser gun to subdue him. Sounds pretty normal as far as drug stops go, doesn’t it? Oh, but wait. Did I mention that the police then found a live chicken in the trunk of the guy’s car? The guy claimed he had gotten the live chicken from “a local fast food restaurant”. The guy was arrested, and the chicken was taken to the humane society. Hmmm. Seriously, I can’t make that sort of stuff up.
The interesting thing is, I’ve been to Sheboygan numerous times in the past few years for work and recreation, and it seems like a pretty normal town to me. I know several co-workers and friends that live there, and they’re all normal as well. I really don’t mean to pick on people from Sheboygan, or make light of the seriousness of many of the things we hear from there. But really, you don’t hear these types of stories coming out of Menomonee Falls, Port Washington, Cedarburg, Germantown or Kenosha do you?
Maybe it’s all the drugs up there causing the problems? Maybe there’s something in the lake water driving people crazy? Or maybe, just maybe, there really is something wrong with all those Sheboygan brats that get eaten up there? I’ll have mine with kraut please.
G’Night G’Town!
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ~Will Rogers
