The Maine culture is odd. I moved to Maine 12 years ago, and I have not entirely figured out how these people think.
In 2010 down in Kennebunk a Zumba dance instructor was busted servicing customers in her dance studio. She had rigged hidden video cameras to film all of her clients.
The local media acted like it was the biggest crime they had seen in a century. Other police detectives were brought in from surrounding townships and state resources were brought in. From the circus the media put on, you would have thought they were talking about a serial killing cannibal.
The 'investigation' dragged on for 2 years, every week there was some new break in the investigation. The media frenzy seemed to fuel the police investigation. The talking heads were insistent that she was the leader of a prostitution ring, but they were never able to find any mention of any other females.
Every customer that she had was tracked down and brought all of them into court. Over 100 customers were charged, only those who pleaded guilty were convicted. All of them had their names and faces published for public ridicule.
When it was all over, they charged her last, with a misdemeanor violation and awarded her with 10-months in jail. The town spent over $200k on the investigation to stop this misdemeanor 'crime'.
I worked as a cop before I retired. This would have been nothing but a $100 fine anywhere else and would have generated no more than a single newspaper article. But in Maine they allowed the media to run completely out of control with it. The local culture here is mystifying.
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