TIL of the Native American "Shame Pole", a totem pole erected to embarrass people for not payment of debts or ridicule misdeeds. In 2007 one such pole was erected in Alaska depicting the CEO of Exxon to highlight an unpaid debt of $5m owed from the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

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Submitted September 11, 2017 at 12:30PM by wee_froggy http://ift.tt/2gX1UDU