yeah....
thats my station where i work...
its been all oover all the knoxville stations and other places.....
and this is why it sounded weird to me....
updated story...........
no machete....
https://wlos.com/news/local/hikers-a...making-threats
Last edited by Traffic Jam; 04-22-2019 at 18:35.
Well, Chet Atkins did call his guitar a "yakety axe".
This sounds like a lot of peevish paranoia to me, what ever happened to "mind your own business" and "forgive and forget"?
I've never seen such judgmental, intolerant and overly jaundiced hair trigger reactions as exists especially around the AT. Unless you fit into the "good" stereotypes that get left alone, you could easily be wrongly branded and stigmatized by people and reported. Life is full of thousands of types of people, why are people so quick to judge and report stuff?
Last edited by greenmtnboy; 04-23-2019 at 10:23.
I agree that people can be unfairly judged. Including how you are currently judging me.
As the OP, I felt I was non-judgmentally passing on interesting information. Information that was originally published in a (normally) credible news source... which has been done thousands of times on WB. Specifically, I kept thinking about the group of people who were held at gun point at a shelter a few years back. And given that I normally backpack alone, it is info that I would want to have.
BTW, I have already requested this thread to be deleted.
Oh wait...I did judge a little when I saw the dog dragging his lead behind him. I thought, dang, that can’t be comfortable for the dog.
So, inquiring minds want to know how he got reported to have threatened people with a shovel and a machete...
But yet when the police talked to him they came away and said he didn't do anything.
People can get spooked. Years ago I met a fellow with a machete on the Wonderland Trail, with gear that was not the usual. The other people at the campsite were really freaked out, although he had said or done nothing at all threatening. Had a short chat with him that raised no red flags. He lacked a permit, and was escorted up a long climb to the trail head by a ranger. I wonder what story the other hikers told afterwards.
"It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how." ---Dr. Seuss
It's easy to mistake a cathole trowel for a shovel.... and machetes are commonly mistaken for guitars. TSA has a heck of a time with that.
Jailed with charges. Guy with little money needs a lawyer, hopefully he has a family member that will come to his aid. The guy was on a schedule 6 drug. https://discoveryplace.info/legal/drug-laws-tennessee/ That may be pot. What happens to the dog? He is a sick person needing help more than a dangerous criminal. I guess we can all sleep more soundly knowing dangerous people like "sovereign" is no longer a free man.