MADISONVILLE, Ky. (WFIE) - A man and woman have been arrested after police say they found drugs in their baby’s stroller with the child inside.
Madisonville Police Department says on Friday, May 24 they received a complaint about two “suspicious subjects” who were walking down W. Center Street with a baby stroller.
A bit like J.D. Vance, I was born and raised in rural Appalachia back in the 1950s. At least then there were some small industries, coal, and lumber that kept the place running. As my hometown slid into the 60s and 70s (and I had escaped), factories closed and coal and lumber became more regulated and employed fewer and fewer people. From afar, I heard the stories of listless, unemployed people drifting from recreational moonshine on weekends to more persistent use of drugs of all kinds.
My nephew became a lawyer and worked in my former hometown, and all he did was defend drug cases. It was pointless...most of his clients went to jail, and rightfully so. A recent visit back to my old hometown -- meeting my brother at a McDonald's and then for a high school reunion and then driving down Main Street for one last look -- revealed the empty storefronts and empty lives of people who remained there.
The above story is emblematic of a terrible phenomenon in Appalachia.
A slap in the wrist and they will be released...
ReplyDeleteThey like drugs? String 'em upside down and give 'em both fentanyl enemas
ReplyDeleteA bit like J.D. Vance, I was born and raised in rural Appalachia back in the 1950s. At least then there were some small industries, coal, and lumber that kept the place running. As my hometown slid into the 60s and 70s (and I had escaped), factories closed and coal and lumber became more regulated and employed fewer and fewer people. From afar, I heard the stories of listless, unemployed people drifting from recreational moonshine on weekends to more persistent use of drugs of all kinds.
ReplyDeleteMy nephew became a lawyer and worked in my former hometown, and all he did was defend drug cases. It was pointless...most of his clients went to jail, and rightfully so. A recent visit back to my old hometown -- meeting my brother at a McDonald's and then for a high school reunion and then driving down Main Street for one last look -- revealed the empty storefronts and empty lives of people who remained there.
The above story is emblematic of a terrible phenomenon in Appalachia.
Are we related?
DeleteI know Eastern Kentucky has been hit particularly hard. It was bad when we lived there in the ‘80s. I know it’s got worse since.
DeleteFuck. I'm having all I can do to keep YESTERDAY'S breakfast down.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing worse than a junky is a muslim.
I'd put alkis in there as well
DeleteThey look like a couple of tubes of Wood Chipper lube.
ReplyDeleteWhich ones the women asking for a friend.
ReplyDeleteBoth look like web feet mf's
I don't know how many arguments I've gotten into when someone says that drug addiction is a disease.
ReplyDeleteMust have been a late night with lots of substances to get that thing pregnant
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