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When my friend got married he planned on staying married for ever. He made great money and she wanted for nothing she didn't get including giving up his boat and nothing was enough for her. She did mention that she wished he could be around more and he said he did to but there was no way he could not make a living and put food on the table. He didn't divorce her. She divorced him. Now he has a complete new outlook on marriage. He says it's for married people. He is getting ready to buy a new Peterbilt next month. He will be trading in his 2010 on a 2018. He said when he trades trucks the 2010 will have been to the moon and back and have 480,000+ miles on it. He is contracted with Land Star freight Company. They give him a load going to California and when he unloads In California He goes and picks up another load they have waiting for him out there to bring back east. He hauls two big Ford vans west and brings a load of Hot Tubs back east. He began driving for his Uncle at age 18 and at age 20 bought his first rig of his own. He just turned 36 years old and is debt free. When he buys his new Peterbilt he will write a check for it. His contract with Land Star ends in 10 years and in 10 years he plans on retiring and going fishing. I asked him about how confortable he felt with leaving his cabin in the woods with the truck and boat and just an alarm system and he said he also has a childhood friend he went to school with staying at the Cabin as added protection and an AR15. His friend is disabled and Steven kind of looks out for him and visa versa. Stevens Nephew makes sure there is plenty of food there for Cecil and checks in on him often. Well, I'm sure folks are tired of reading such a long post but I am bored today so typing helps me with that. Hope ya'll understand................

I have a friend that drives truck for a living. He owns the Peterbilt and flat bed trailer and make big bucks cause he takes the loads most drivers dont want. He spend a lot of time in California and lives in east Tennessee. He bought a big beautiful home on 10 acres of land and paid it off in 7 years. so at age 30 his house and his rig were both paid for. He loves to fish and owned an older model bass boat but was in great shape. Then in a whirl wind courtship he was married. It was not going to last and everyone could see it but him. 4 years into it things began to go south. He gave her anything she wanted new car, money to go shopping a beautiful home to live in and she new he was a road driver when she met him but she didn't know he enjoyed fishing until he would come in off the road and spend time doing things with her and then he would go fishing. She finally put it on the line. It's either me of that damn boat. In order to keep her happy he sells the boat and even gives her the money he got from it. She use the money to pay a divorce lawyer to divorce him. He was packing his bag to go back on the road when they served him with the papers. She told him she would be out of his house by the time he got back home so he called his nephew and his wife and ask them to come and stay at the house while she was packing to leave. When he got back in town, he put the house up for sale and it sold quick. Next time he got home he bought 5 acres of land and had a 1 bedroom Log Cabin with the bedroom being a master bed room for a king size bed. There is a garage beside the Cabin that is 30X30 and in the garage is a New Red FX Skeeter Bass Boat and beside it is a new Red Chevy truck to take it to the lake. There is a sign over the front door of the cabin that reads. You can lay here but you can't stay here!! He did everything with his house money and had change left over. He just turned 36 and loving life........LOL

"Failure to grasp the situation"

If they come from Outer Space according to many historians, Earth was visited by aliens long before man was here so why would they be illegal if they were here first??

Growing up was fun!!! Growing old SUCKS.....................

Welcome to Middle Tennessee from a neighbor just down the road from you in Gallatin Tennessee................

I think that has been happenng already Dave. There are police departments that take pride in their officers and train them to be the best they can be and then there are police departments that just hire warm bodies to have more presence of officers on the streets and have almost zero training. Those are the ones that alway seem to be making the nightly news. My Grandson went to work in one of those and he quit them in 2 weeks because of the way that particular department was operated. He got in a situation where he needed backup and it took almost 30 minutes for back up to show up. By the time it arrived he had handled the situation and when he got back the office he questioned why it took so long for back up to arrive. They informed him that if he needed back up maybe he was not qualified to be a cop. He turned in his badge right then and said maybe they needed a new policy and better training. He went to another department in another county and got a full training program at the Metro Police Academy before he was put on the street and when an officer radioed for back up it was there with in a matter of minutes. All cars close by responded imediately. So yea Dave you are correct about each department being different. Any police department that offers on the job training is not someplace I would prefer to work..........JMHO

Have you ever considered what it would be like to live here and not have police officers? I would hate to even think what it would be like!! The job is not bad but the few bad apples doing the job or not doing their job is the real issue. As far as the politicians making the laws. Just making the law does not automatically require that a police officer must enforce any law. They are allowed to use their own decretion when enforcing any laws and how they enforce them. As far as the 2nd Amendment goes it will take a really major change in the Supreme Court to get that done and just a couple years ago the court ruled the 2nd Amendment to be 100% Constitutional and it shall remain that way so I don't see that changing any time soon. So the law enforcement must by law follow the decision of the Supreme Court. That means the police won't be coming for your guns any time soon unless you do something stupid with them........JMHO.

I did some MP assignments while serving in Military and there was times I had to work or interact with Civilian Police Officers and for the most part they were good officers. Had a couple times that the Civilian Officers would push the envelope into a gray area and we had to put them in their place which didn't take much convincing since they didn't have the training we had. They would fall in line pretty quick.

Sorry to hear about your daughter and her drug situation. I have a grandson that has the same issue and I will tell you waht I told my son. Don't give up on them and keep trying to get help for her. My son has been going and getting him out of jail time after time and I told him to quit getting him out. Let him stay in jail till his court date and then go to court with him and ask the DA or Asst DA to have him put in a court ordered drug rehab center. Not the one that is voluntary but the manditory one that requires them to remain at the center. As long as he keeps getting him out it is not going to help him at all. I am going to his next court date and I will talk to the DA if my son won't. I know it is hard for my son to think about locking him up in a rehab facility but I will do it for him to take the burden off my son.

Netting shad for bait is still legal. They have casting nets people use these days to catch shad bait fish. Yellow Bellies are legal if caught in a casting net as they are not considered a game fish but are good eating for sure.

I am very sorry to hear of your friends passing and prayers will be going out for his son and family. I hate to hear it when a person has a monkey on their back and the Monkey wins.

I cannot and will never agree with your opinion on this if what you just posted here is how you really feel about Law Enforcement Officers! To group them all as bad is totally wrong at so many levels and tosay they are told to be this way by the politicians is even out of the realm of reality........JMHO

If you did it admit it. Arguing is only going to escalate what would be just warning into a full blow arrest..........JMHO

I will not say that things like this don't happen because they do. Everyday in some town someplace things like this happen and I do hope she does file a civil suit and I hope she wins and along with winning the suit I do hope she gets the public apology which I don't she will get. Those don't come as easy as money does in these cases. I agree that if you search the internet your going to find a lot of simlar cases. Some people pass it off as human error. I won't do that. I will call it a rookie move or an over zealous officer just looking to prove something and a person with that type of personality does not need to be a police officer. They are the officers that do give the good officers a bad reputation.

When the officer folllowed me into my driveway and turned his lights on I kind of knew he was wanting me to stop...LOL. I gave him room to get nto my driveway with his car before stopping. His first statement to me was "How are yo doing today sir?" My reply was "fine sir and yours? He asked me for my lcense, Registration and proof of insurance which I provided and he ask me why I was not wearing my seat belt and I said, I am and I opened my door so he could see my lap belt was clicked. He asked me why I had altered the seat belt and I handed him a letter I keep in the Jeep from my doctor explaining why it is altered and he read it and said to make sure I keep it in the Jeep. Then he told me why he pulled me over. My tags had expired in June and I never got a notice. I said "well they never sent me my notice and he said "yea, sometimes they miss some". He wrote me the ticket and he also told me what steps to take to get the ticket dismissed.I signed it and he thanked me and I thanked him and we told each other to have a nice rest of the day. I went and got tags the next day and then went directly to the court clerks office with proof of tags and they said I did not have to report for court and they stamped my ticket as dismissed. I signed it and he thanked me and I thanked him and we told each other to have a nice rest of the day.

I don't have any reason to believe your statement. I have several black friends that live here in Gallatin and they all get along fine with the police. We also have several black officers and I never hear of them being anything but professional when dealing with the public. I do realize that you live in or near Memphis and the atmosphere and enviroment is probably different, I don't know. I can only speak of my experiences with the officers here and in surroundng towns.

I have had the opportunity on a couple occassions in past couple month to talk with police officers from both Gallatin PD 2 weeks ago when I got pulled over for expired tags on my Jeep. The officer was very friendly and polite. Ask me for all my paperwork, license and Insurance and registration and then told me why he pulled me over. He went back to his car and wrote out the ticket. He told me what I needed to do to get the ticket dismissed. I signed the ticket. Handed it back to him. He thanked me and I thanked him. He knew I had a carry permit but it was never mentioned. I was getting ready to go fishing a month ago and was at a launch ramp when a Sheriffs car came in to parking lot and made a round and the officer stopped and ask me what Iwas going fishing for and I said Bass. I had my gun in open carry in clear site but we talked fishing and what baits I was going to use and about that time my partner arrived and the officer wished us luck on catching some fish and drove off. I don't understand how people say they can't get along with police officers. What I experienced with those two officers is pretty much what I have experienced my whole life while having a police encounter.

I knew you would like them if you like fish. The good thing about them is they are plentiful and when you find them schooled up you can catch a bunch of them quick. Sometimes you will find them mixed in with the bigger stripe and be able to catch some of them and have a mixed bag of fish to eat. From now through about mid November you should be able to find schools of them pretty easy in the creeks on points in shallow water as the water temps drop. Next time try rooster tails in White or Chartruese in the medium size.

I use to work for a small business and couldn't count the times I got called to the business at night because the night person set the Alarm for the business when leaving but failed to lock the front door and someone tripped the alarm and because I was the closest employee I got called by the boss and asked if I would please go lock the door and reset the alarm as the police would not leave until the business was secured. They had entered and did a search and cleared it before I got there. They left when I left.

I'm not making any excuses for her actions. The Grand Jury will charge her accordingly for sure based on the evidence which is going to be hard to explain most of it but there is no doubt she will be charged with something and it won't be good regardless of what it is ...........JMHO

I agree with you on the dumb part for standing lit up in hall light silhouette. My move would have been to back out of the door way and call for back up. She did have a cell phone because she called 911 to get the victum help. They were up high enough that if the guy was a burglar he was not going anywhere so wait for back up..........JMHO

I am beginning to see a pattern of the same story coming together. The officer came home after a long shift at work. Not paying attention she parked on the 4th floor garage when she normally parks on the 3rd floor. That was her first error. With apartments all looking the same nothing would have jumped right out to her thinking that she was not on the correct floor after a long hard shift. When she reached what she thought was her apartment and attempted to insert the prong key device into the door before going it it pushed the door open. This is where things begin to go bad. Instead of backing away from the apartment and calling for back up with would be or should be manditory she entered a dark apartment alone and removed her gun from it's holster when she saw a silhouette moving around in the dark. (Officers statement) She gave verbal commands that she was a police officer and got no reply. Saw movement and fire 2 rounds striking the man with 1 of them. Turning on the light she realized she was not in her apartment and called for 911 emergency and said shots fired. Now there are a couple things to consider from this so far. The man was in a dark apartment with an unlocked door? How many people enter their dark apartment don't turn on a light first thing and don't close and lock the door behind them this day in time? I don't know if that will ever be explained. Why when the officer Identified herself as a police officer did the man not immediately respond back with anything to the officer? She said that she gave several verbal commands and got no response. Why did he not answer back?? A reply back would have saved his life. That is another question that will probably never be answered. The hall lights where on so there is little doubt he could not see her silhouette and identify that she was infact an officer in uniform. That is another question that will probably never get an answer. There are many questions that will never be answered and because of a few bad decisions on both people involved a man lost his life. The officer for not being more alert to her surroundings was the first mistake and from then on the bad decisions from both just snowballed.I think the grand jury will come up with the right decision in the end................JMHO

I used Rooster Tails with my boys because they would have went through night crawlers like water through a strainer. When we would get in a big school they would catch a fish on every cast and they got tired of catching before the fish quit biting.

Their good to eat Greg. Yellow bellies are a smaller version of stripe. When you catch 1 or 2 you can probably catch a hundred or more as they are schooling fish and fun to catch. Back when my boys were little I would take them out in the boat, tie each of them on a rooster tail and find a school of them yellow bellies and they would catch fish till they were tired of catchng fish and we would aways bring home a mess for a fish fry.