It's one of those weird small town stories. The wife drowned in a lake, not sure if Farbotnik might have some thing to do with it, but he does seem like he might be the sort to talk too much, and convolute things. The throwing things stuff just seems like normal parent/kid interaction if you grew up in an earlier time. He was mad at his daughter and threw a hairbrush at her when they were arguing and a few other small things and one of the girl's friends called the law on him.
Weird stuff, but not really too weird.
He`s always in the news up here in Northern N.Y.,always battling some cause against the town he lives in.
Used to get my computer repaired there quite often and while he was always nice to me,he was very disrespectful to his wife right in front of customers........she did the majority of the work in the shop and had the kids there with her while he often left to get into some weird political stuff.
He would tell us what was going on in the town and why he was against things...............can`t remember exactly what they were now,I just wanted my PC fixed but Google will reveal more.
Kind of an attention whore,and very fast talking and hyperactive guy.
I asked him if he was related to John Farbotnik,he went upstairs got some old mags with his father on the covers,and told me his father was involved in some way with organized crime up in Canada.
Truly a strange person.