Before Tiger King, before even tigers at all, Joe Exotic was a teenage police chief... in a town with no running water. Back in 1982, a 19-year-old Joe was going by the surname Schreibvogel and had graduated from Pilot Point High School.
He decided upon a career in law enforcement and was quickly named the police chief of Eastvale, a town of just 700 people and with unreliable running water, reports Dallas Morning News.
The Denton County town was situated near Lewisville Lake and in 1984 it was declared effectively bankrupt so that federal aid could be accessed.
At the time, Joe wrote a letter explaining the difficulties his police force were facing. He pointed out: "Items that are attached to vehicles keep falling off, and they have
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