WTW: Got Meth?
January 4th, 2006 at 8:51 am by Preston Taylor Holmes
My beloved state of Tennessee is always on the cutting edge. We brought you Elvis. We brought you David Keith (who played Elvis in a horrible movie that I never watched). We were the first to bring you an isoceles-trapezoid-shaped state. Now we’ve redefined the cutting edge by creating an official state Crystal Meth registry. If that’s not an official white-trash database, I don’t know what is. More from the LA Times:
The website, called the Methamphetamine Offender Registry, allows Internet users to enter a name or a county, and instantly displays convictions that occurred after March 30.
The state began operating the site last week. It is the first time the state has widely publicized the identity of drug offenders, said Jennifer Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
“The whole idea is for people to know if their neighbors are involved in methamphetamine production,” Johnson said. Methamphetamine labs, she said, “were becoming a public threat to the extent that you couldn’t even feel safe in your own neighborhood.”
In 1995, Montana expanded its public sex-offender registry to include other kinds of violent offenders, including “meth cooks,” but there are no other existing models for Tennessee’s registry, said Blake Harrison of the National Conference of State Legislators.
So if you’re in Tennessee and you want to find out which one of your neighbors is cookin’ up some Meth, log on and check it out. Don’t bother looking for me, though, I quit manufacturing Meth a couple of years ago. Couldn’t afford the cold medicine anymore.
Another tip – if you really want to put together a kick-ass party, bring in some of these honeys, invite some of these guys, then find your nearest Meth dealer and you’ve got the makings of a legendary shindig that will make history, baby.
Here are your White Trash Wednesday bloggers….
January 4th, 2006 at 9:01 am
What disturbs me is the eBay links on each “offenders” link. What’s that about?
January 4th, 2006 at 9:20 am
My St. Paul police prostitution photo was the most hot-linked of all time. They had to take it down cuz it was eating up all the bandwith.
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