• Two Murfreesboro police officers had an exciting afternoon when they were called out to “arrest” a 7-foot boa that’s being blamed for the untimely disappearance of a pet cat. Better yet is the fact that some other poor officer has to watch the darn thing at the station until the someone comes forward and claims it. What a weekend. [Nashville Is Talking]
• As we’ve been reporting, the state buyouts aren’t going quite as well as planned. Without enough people accepting them before the August 5th deadline, the state could begin slicing jobs in January. [Tennessean]
• Shelbyville’s resident Somali expert and future Pulitzer winner Brian Mosely has dutifully alerted the community to the utter blasphemy going down at the Tyson plant: They’re canceling Labor Day and giving people Eid off instead, which is a pretty big Muslim holiday. Because they have so many of them Muslims there. [Times-Gazette]
• A weird rash of tire-slashing has been happening downtown on the touristy part of Broadway, between First and Fifth Aves. None of the cars have been broken into. [WSMV]

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