Floods are typically natural disasters, but in the case of the Missouri flood of 1993, police felt it was a man-made disaster and arrested a man who is now 25 years into his life sentence.
James Scott was arrested in 1993 at only 24 years old for his suspected involvement in the Flood of 1993 that resulted in a huge gas station fire.
Twenty-five years later, Scott still claims he is innocent and it was just one of those “wrong place, wrong time” things.
According to Scott, about an hour before the levee broke he did move between four and five sand bags on one end, but it was far from where the levee actually ended up breaking.
Another man was picked up for his involvement in the break after he hit the levee with his boat, but he plead out and only had to serve five years.
Scott is currently the only man in Missouri serving time for and convicted of causing a catastrophe and won’t be getting a parole hearing for another five years.
We’re not really sure what lesson you should get from this other than maybe you shouldn’t play with things meant to keep floodwaters back? Yeah, let’s roll with that one.
You think you’re stronger than thousands of gallons of water moving through one of the largest rivers in United States? Think again or you could end up serving life…
Source: Fox 2 Now (St. Louis)
