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Weed be gone
Warning:
If you’re going to grow copious amounts of marijuana, don’t do it
across the street from an elementary school. Also, try not to piss off
anyone who’s likely to rat you out. Unfortunately for Ari S. Williams,
this advice comes after Metro police received an anonymous tip
leading them to a large-scale grow operation in the suspect’s Hillsboro
Village home, located across the street from Eakin Elementary School.
Undercover officers searched the residence at 2505 Fairfax Ave. and
found the mother lode of marijuana, including 228 plants, an intricate
indoor lighting system and seven pounds of pot ready to be sold.
Although there’s no indication the 36-year-old suspect was peddling his
product to kiddies, he faces enhanced charges for his unfortunate
proximity to hundreds of children. Because Williams was not home at the
time of the raid, he was not immediately arrested, although on Monday
police said, “Detectives have received word that he intends to
surrender.”
Walker, Nashville Ranger
Just when we thought things couldn’t get much worse on The Tennessean’s
website, what with the kitten slideshows and hordes of moms talking
about junior’s loose stool, comes blogger Jack Walker in the “Community
Opinions” section. It’s fine by us if Walker wants to share his insight
on vaginal yeast infections (a riveting post, we assure you). But last
week’s piece about the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl on a
Rutherford County school bus is where we draw the line. Walker didn’t
find any injustice in the report of a student enduring a 15-minute
sexual assault on her ride home—or that videotape shows that no one
stopped the 18-year-old suspect, even though the girl repeatedly cried
for help. Murfreesboro police called the video footage of the incident,
which shows the boy trapping the girl inside her seat and rubbing his
hands all over her body and putting his hands down her pants, shocking
and disturbing. But Walker says the real “SHAME” (his emphasis) is how
the boy has been treated after the incident. He rants about how the
media protected the victim’s identity yet reported the boy’s name. And
he’s peeved that the boy was arrested and kicked out of school and that
the incident was categorized as rape. But the clincher comes in the
comments section, where Walker asks, “Still what did the girl say to
the boy that led him to think he could act that way?” The real question
is why Walker has so much beef with a girl who says she was raped on a
school bus—and why The Tennessean didn’t yank Walker’s post.
Party pooper
State
Rep. Dolores Gresham has a little to learn before becoming an effective
legislator. Lobbying a House subcommittee for her resolution to strip
abortion rights from the state constitution, she referred to being
“pro-life or pro-death.” That’s the way to win friends. Before that,
the Somerville Republican caused a flap by refusing to let pro-life
Democrat Rep. Nathan Vaughn sign on as a sponsor. In fact, according to
Vaughn, when he tried to sign the resolution, Gresham snatched it right
out of his hand. That gave Democrats new ammo for their claims that
Republicans were bringing up the issue only as an election-year stunt.
On a party-line vote, the subcommittee killed Gresham’s resolution,
which had been approved by the Senate.
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