Maniac Passed Over for Coaching Gig Sent Four Dead Skunks and a Dead Raccoon to Guy Who Got Job

One of the worst feelings in the world is when you're passed over for a job you wanted so bad you can taste it. You're qualified, you're eager, you're ready to go out and there and make your mark, but yet, someone else gets the gig, the glory, and the gravy. It makes you so mad, you just want to lash out and do something to the person that won the gig just to make yourself feel better, something like…

Mailing four dead skunks and a deceased raccoon to the successful applicant.

This was the unfortunate scheme Travis Tarrants, 40, of West Baden Springs, Indiana cooked up to enact revenge on the person who secured his dream job, teaching fourth grade and coaching basketball at Springs Valley School Corporation in French Lick.

As native son Woody Boyd taught us, and now everybody knows, "French Lick is the doofus capital of Indiana," and Tarrants is certainly a living example of the Hanover sage's pearl of wisdom. As we come to find out in a WISH/AP news report, "In an interview with investigators, the girlfriend of Tarrants said that he had trapped five to seven live skunks in late spring. She said she thought it was odd that he had kept them alive for several days."

Unfortunately, the rest of the saga is much less grossly enjoyable, and much more grossly criminal. Tarrants is also charged with making claims that the victim was engaged in a sexual relationship with an underage student, that he was sexually abusing his fiancee's daughter, and sending a letter purported to be from a 15-year-old student. It contained a picture of a man's genitals (we're going to go out on a limb and presume Tarrants very own Lil' Hoosier) and the male victim's telephone number.

Travis Tarrant will never coach basketball in French Lick, but he will forever be known as the Larry Bird of doing really horrible shit with skunks and a raccoon.