Government at every level, in particular the local level, WILL run amok if nobody is watching. And in the little town of Lindsay, California it happened. The schemes of now besmirched and ousted Lindsay city manager Scott Townsend illustrates how bad things can get. After constructing a city block sized recreation facility and reworking resident water rates the man left. In his wake were stacks of documents that revealed much more, send the city into a downward financial spiral that has left them almost destitute ever since.