Sightseers interfering with work

Sunday, March 23, 2008

A motorist ignores a 'road closed' sign.
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The Tennessee Highway Patrol was called on Saturday to help local authorities keep sightseers away from the flooded areas in western Dyer County.

"I know it's interesting," said Dyer County Levee District chief Jimmy Moody. "But they don't want to get in the midst of these trucks and rocks and work."

The Dyer County Sheriff's Department since Friday has received reports of motorists driving through the high water and on closed roads, trucks "mudding" along the Little Levee, driving on the levee itself and onlookers parking on the waterline. A Dyer County Highway Department "Road Closed" sign placed at the Great River Road and Highway 103 near Tennemo was vandalized and torn apart.

A vandalized 'road closed' sign.
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The sheriff's office on Friday received a report of a truck near the Bunge plant on Boothspoint Road had been swept away in the water. The report was later found to be in error, but Dyer County Emergency Management Agency Director James Medling cautioned people.

"Folks need to be smart," he said. "Don't put yourself in unnecessary situations that could become dangerous."

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WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE TO VANDALIZE THE SIGNS THAT ARE PUT THERE TO KEEP PEOPLE SAFE. LET SOMEONE GET HURT OR KILLED AND SEE HOW YOU FEEL KNOWING THAT YOU WAS THE IDIOT THAT TOOK THE SIGNS DOWN. WHAT PLEASURE DO YOU GET OUT OF DOING THIS??????

-- Posted by BABYGIRL1977 on Sun, Mar 23, 2008, at 9:18 AM

You know you are a red neck living in a small town when you visit the local levee to sightsee.

-- Posted by hmmmmm on Wed, Sep 2, 2009, at 3:11 AM