TN woman fires on family of 7 turning around in her driveway

[philip964]

My liberal friends are have another field day about this one.

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[bdickens]

Something tells me there's more to the story....

[Cedar Park Dad]

Maybe. Could be
1. She's actually making drugs or moonshine on site.
2. She's crazy.

[Keith B]

Maybe. Could be
1. She's actually making drugs or moonshine on site.
2. She's crazy.

Ding ding ding! Winner winner chicken dinner!

[rbwhatever1]

Crazy old Bat. I'm glad no one was hurt. She may need a good dose of Grand Children or a puppy to get her through those Golden Years.

[jmra]

Crazy old Bat. I'm glad no one was hurt. She may need a good dose of Grand Children or a puppy to get her through those Golden Years.

We tried the puppy idea with my grandfather a number of years ago. A few months later he shot the dog because he claimed it killed a chicken. Puppies don't fix crazy.

[rbwhatever1]

Ha! I guess not. Crazy is crazy. Hope I never end up there! Of course some of my liberal friends think I'm insane....

[iAmSam]

Something tells me there's more to the story....

Has anybody else looked at Bays Mountain Road on a map? Especially a map with satellite overlay like Google maps? It doesn't look like the kind of road somebody travels very far without a reason to be there. I'm not making excuses for the shooter but agree with bdickens that there's probably more to the story.

[Jumping Frog]

Something tells me there's more to the story....

Has anybody else looked at Bays Mountain Road on a map? Especially a map with satellite overlay like Google maps? It doesn't look like the kind of road somebody travels very far without a reason to be there. I'm not making excuses for the shooter but agree with bdickens that there's probably more to the story.

I understand the point you are making. It is a dead-end small rural road 1.3 miles long with about 20 houses on it in the mountains. No other roads for miles around.

Some of the driveways are 1000-2000 feet long.

If I was a 72-old woman alone at night and a car pulled up to my house that far off the track of an isolated rural road, I could understand her fear.

[Dadtodabone]

I spent 8 years in the Tri-Cities TN/VA on contract. You do NOT cruise up somebody's holler, where you don't belong, and turn around. Folks are making all kinds of things you don't want to know about.

[Vol Texan]

I spent 8 years in the Tri-Cities TN/VA on contract. You do NOT cruise up somebody's holler, where you don't belong, and turn around. Folks are making all kinds of things you don't want to know about.

Now THAT is a true statement. I grew up in the Tri-Cities, spent four years with the local sheriff's department, and hiked many miles of the Appalachian trail all around those parts in my younger days. There are places you just don't go without an invitation.

Where I grew up, if you ever went into a bar without a gun or a knife, they'd loan you one so you didn't feel out of place.

This incident happened near Rogersville, however. I know the area well - it's only a few miles away from where I used to spend my summers @ the local scout camp. As we used to say, "Them people down there ain't right."

[Cedar Park Dad]

Something tells me there's more to the story....

Has anybody else looked at Bays Mountain Road on a map? Especially a map with satellite overlay like Google maps? It doesn't look like the kind of road somebody travels very far without a reason to be there. I'm not making excuses for the shooter but agree with bdickens that there's probably more to the story.

I understand the point you are making. It is a dead-end small rural road 1.3 miles long with about 20 houses on it in the mountains. No other roads for miles around.

Some of the driveways are 1000-2000 feet long.

If I was a 72-old woman alone at night and a car pulled up to my house that far off the track of an isolated rural road, I could understand her fear.

Really? You would attempt to kill anyone coming down your road?

[jmra]

Something tells me there's more to the story....

Has anybody else looked at Bays Mountain Road on a map? Especially a map with satellite overlay like Google maps? It doesn't look like the kind of road somebody travels very far without a reason to be there. I'm not making excuses for the shooter but agree with bdickens that there's probably more to the story.

I understand the point you are making. It is a dead-end small rural road 1.3 miles long with about 20 houses on it in the mountains. No other roads for miles around.

Some of the driveways are 1000-2000 feet long.

If I was a 72-old woman alone at night and a car pulled up to my house that far off the track of an isolated rural road, I could understand her fear.

Really? You would attempt to kill anyone coming down your road?

If I had a barn full of Moonshine, white lightning, mountain dew, hooch, or Tennessee white whiskey I just might.

[Cedar Park Dad]

Something tells me there's more to the story....

Has anybody else looked at Bays Mountain Road on a map? Especially a map with satellite overlay like Google maps? It doesn't look like the kind of road somebody travels very far without a reason to be there. I'm not making excuses for the shooter but agree with bdickens that there's probably more to the story.

I understand the point you are making. It is a dead-end small rural road 1.3 miles long with about 20 houses on it in the mountains. No other roads for miles around.

Some of the driveways are 1000-2000 feet long.

If I was a 72-old woman alone at night and a car pulled up to my house that far off the track of an isolated rural road, I could understand her fear.

Really? You would attempt to kill anyone coming down your road?

If I had a barn full of Moonshine, white lightning, mountain dew, hooch, or Tennessee white whiskey I just might.

Hence my earlier statement she was hiding something.
As such she should prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[K.Mooneyham]

Y'all just aren't putting yourselves in the right mindset. So, maybe she had folks running up and down her drive time and time again (probably teenagers), perhaps in big trucks maybe with mudder tires, ripping up the drive. She maybe called the sheriff on it a couple of times, who came and looked and took a statement, but of course the folks who did it were long gone and what could the sheriff really do. So, she tells herself something like "the next time somebody I don't know comes cruising down that drive, I'm going to fix them good, they'll think twice about tearing up my drive after that". And then events proceed as reported. I ain't saying I endorse her methodology, just that there didn't have to be anything particularly sinister about it for it to end up like that.