Schoolboard member resigns after a string of dead animals appears in her driveway
When the vitriolic emails began arriving in her inbox this summer, Carolyn Waibel hardly flinched.
Unpleasant feedback has become "par for the course" for locally-elected school board officials in recent months, and members of the St. Charles School Board in St. Charles, Illinois, found they were not exempt from receiving such displays of anger.
The Illinois mother said she endured social media attacks, comparisons to Hitler, the publishing of her personal information, and even vandalism at her home in the form of a tampered-with AC unit and multiple dead rodents left on her property, all while continuing to serve the community, she said.
Waibel initially thought the two dead chipmunks, dead rat, and dead mouse, which all appeared in her driveway in the span of one week, might have been victims of a particularly vicious cat. But when she readjusted her home security camera in hopes of catching the culprit, the rodents stopped appearing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-school-board-member-said-000055045.html
Hold on, this is good...
As she had previously done with the online harassment and AC vandalism, Waibel reported the trespassing to local police. But according to Waibel, she was told the incidents would be difficult to prosecute because her status as an elected official left her open to such action.
Hey, remember when a woman was prosecuted for laughing at Jeff Sessions?
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