murder in the boondocks

[MAC]

Three Arrested In Upshur County Killing (http://kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1801257)

Three Upshur County men were arrested and charged with murder Tuesday.

Upshur County Sheriff Anthony Betterton said 24-Jason Baughman, 28-year old Jeremy Narramore, and 33-year old Scott Narramore killed 32-year-old Joe Nickelberg early Monday. The Narramores are brothers.

Authorities were turned onto the body by a rancher checking on some cattle Monday near Cherokee Trace road. He called after finding the body of an adult man intact. When deputies arrived, the head had been cut off and the body burned. Authorities were able to track the men down by a car seen near where the body was found. After interviewing the suspects, authorities were able to find the decapitated head. The three men were arrested Tuesday morning at a home in Gilmer.

Authorities say they have confessed to the murder. They each have a bond of $1 million.
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in a nice contrast to one of my recent rants about living in a murder capitol here goes an example of my point

we DO have murders out here
usually they are messy nasty things like this
and the killers are almost always found immediately (although occasionally they do not get caught and occasionally their trials last for decades)

oh, one more thing

despite all the in-bred hill-billy incest, rape and wife-beating, thes emurders are almost ALWAYS drug related

why?
everyone's on drugs

used to be everyone smoked pot and eventually popped osmething, but this area was used soley for cooking meth and not for distribution...but thanks to the influx of people from the cities we now PURCHASE almost as much drugs locally as we used to produce.

[Cruise Director]

Growing up in a farming community, I used to thik that it was the best environment to raise kids. Sure, we got in trouble, but it was good, clean trouble that all kids should get in to.

Today, with the spawn of the internet and satellite dishes, the kids in the boonies today get a taste of what urban life is. They look at their own lives, which seem rather dull and boring by comparison and want to reach out and touch what they see on MTV. Since they can't travel to the city, they bring what parts of the city they can to the farm. Mix that with the general ignorance of drugs and a tendancy to "mind one's own business" and you have a recipe for disaster. These people can set up drug labs in the middle of nowhere and noone is the wiser to it.

[Billyman]

Errr, Mac, you're throwing "we" around pretty loosely.

Something you wanna tell us?

It's a bad dirty business man, get out why you can.

I’m here for support.

[MAC]

I dated a beautiful girl for one month when I was in the 8th grade.
Her daddy was the biggest meth cooker in this part of the state, he has spent more of his life in jail than on the street. Last year her house got blown down by a tornado. I met them on the road comeing home and talked to them. Her daddy was in the truck with them. So I stood and comforted an ex gf and her drug dealer father If you stay very long out here it's "we" good or bad.

but cruise makes a point I have to argue with.
now, country kids (see: redneck spawn) have ALWAYS been into drinking and even drugs. But it's fairly low key and you certainly don't find alot of addicts because they can't get away with walking down the street stoned all the time. So the mentality that goes along with dealing with that part of the drug trade WASN'T here until about 10 years ago when the city folks BOOMED into the area and started demanding everything they'd left behind. Restaurants, dry cleaners, gas stations, banks, insurance agents, etc. They have formed cities without city limits and their kids and alternative-life styles have focused alot of money and acceptance on a new type of drug attitide.

It's not accepted, it's expected. You WILL do drugs. And the only ppl who will give a shit are religious freaks and cops.

that's what they think anyway....

The adult locals (see: rednecks) haven't changed much, except the guys who used to get drunk and do dumb things now get high and do dumb things. Prescription painkillers are the drugs of choice and easily accessible. Every old woman with a Dr has a cabinet full and if she doesn't sell them herself, her grandkids do. Middle aged women are ALL on prescription pain meds and anti-depressants and they ALL have extra prescriptions which they hand out like candy to their friends. The way girls in highschool used to trade aspirin and midol they now trade vicadin and prozac. I don't think it has much to do, directly, with MTV or the urban lifestyle to these kids, it has to do with acceptance and expectations.

Just a note:
Among the non-redneck population of kids a noticable % have even broken down the smoking/drinking gateway theory (which I subscribe to). They consider themselves health conscious, would never smoke pot or cigarettes and keep drinking respectably low but they'd pop a viagra or valium in a heartbeat.

However most do everything from tequila to X to beer to crank to cigarettes to pot. In any and all combinations possible.

Thus ends the final lesson of why I don't date these 19 year old girls out here. They are all "on" something.

[ms. bing]

im on something.
and its really making my ass sore.
i've got to buy a real desk chair.