Tag Archives: tennessee highway patrol
Bright & Early: Going Batty Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We knew the Sounds were having a bad season, but we didn’t realize it was on track to be the worst one in franchise history. With just 14 games left in the season, they’re going to have to pull off 10 wins if they want to dodge that milestone. We’ve always been [...]
Happy Hour: Strut Your Stuff
Elvis’ infamous peacock jumpsuit with the “plunging neckline” was auctioned off online for $300K, solidly beating the Elvis auction record of $295K for one of his cars. [WTVF]
The Tennessee Highway Patrol handed out 1000 “buckle bears” and coloring books to troopers that they can give to kids at the scene of car wrecks. The bears [...]
Happy Hour: Terrestrial Matters
Your Thursday laugh, especially for the speed demons among us: Channel 2 snagged this video of a Tennessee Highway Patrolman doling out a speeding ticket to another cop. [WKRN]
The Health Department is saying that the 10th Tennessean is being treated for salmonella poisoning, and they’re blaming it all on tomatoes Texas jalepenos Mexico now. [WSMV]
President [...]
Happy Hour: Buckle Up
A careless construction crew struck an underground transformer and it exploded this morning. A similar incident happened in 1999 – you’d think that they would have learned the first time. [WSMV]
From now through 11:59pm on Sunday, be extra careful on the roads. Tennessee Highway Patrol and Metro Nashville Police will be busy with sobriety and [...]
Happy Hour: Doing The Electric Slide
U.S. Representative Jim Cooper is under investigation by the FBI for illegally accessing the website of the largest electric cooperative in the country. His spokesman calls the investigation “laughable,” but we think it’s safe to say that no one’s laughing about electricity these days. [Tennessean]
The Tennessee Highway Patrol kicked off their 100 Days of Summer [...]
Weeded: TBI Interrupts Your Pot Supply
Drug busts seem to be all the rage these days, but even we can’t wrap our minds around this one: The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation uncovered a huge marijuana operation in East Tennessee today when they spotted a campsite that housed somewhere around 357,500 baby marijuana plants near the North Carolina border in Cocke County. [...]
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