I'm from small town VT just across the river, and while that hasn't been my personal experience I absolutely have known people who have had that experience. Small town USA is unbelievably messed up, but everyone likes to act like its only in the cities. Felt like half my town was Section 8, and an actual full 10th of the population was from the county jail on furlough. Since I've left, violent crime/murder rate has gone up a lot and heavy drug use is rampant.
I'm sorry dude.
What Wikipedia fails to mention is the true reason for why Italy stopped following "passar battaglia". Many scholars believed it was due to international pressure to follow the more common "en passant" when in fact it was largely due to more efficient production and subsequent adoption of bricks in Italy, thereby enabling games involving "passar battaglia" to conclude with a bricked pipi. Previously, the dearth of bricks allowed "passar battaglia" to occur without bricking the players pipi.
As Italians didn't like having their pipis bricked, they adopted "en passant" and dropped "passar battaglia".