Never let a crisis go to waste.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Security changes are coming to Beale Street after this weekend’s triple shooting outside of a club, officials say.
If you hit Beale this weekend, wanding with hand-held metal detectors will be happening from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m.
At the moment, those detectors are used beginning at 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, and ending when the crowd reaches a certain level.
Young said wanding was in use earlier in the night Saturday, but had ended before the shooting happened at 2:15 a.m. Sunday.
They will also collect a $5 security fee starting at 9 p.m., but are still determining how late they will be collecting the fee.
Downtown Memphis official: Beale Street to extend late-night security, add fee (wreg.com)
My understanding is that the fee used to happen but was taken down. I get the feeling these new “enhanced security measures” are more about income than security. The missus and I went to Beale street 30 years ago and had a swell time which ended in BB King’s, good food, great music and I almost got a tattoo (In my defense, bourbon was involved but the noise of the machines and the “needlework” sobered me up). It sounds now like it is more an approximation the chaos of Miami Beach than Blues Land.
I still want to go to downtown Nashville and see what kind of zoo it has become since the last time I was there.
“There is no one video summarizing Blue Cities….wait “
THE CURRENT STATE OF SEATTLE: Car in flames while man exposes himself peeing on the sidewalk. pic.twitter.com/KDAD1NfbRV
— Katie Daviscourt?? (@KatieDaviscourt) April 14, 2022
I think I read somewhere years ago the following quote: “They are so open-minded; you can see their brains falling to the ground” or words to the effect.
Pedo Joe: The lights are on, but nobody is home.
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After Biden finished his speech, he turned around and tried to shake hands with thin air and then wandered around looking confused pic.twitter.com/ZN00TLdUUo
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) April 14, 2022
This guy is finally gonna lose it one day in front of the cameras…or have a mysterious Soviet-Style heart attack in the middle of the night, never to be seen upright again.
Sometimes you have to admit it.
I once was also gifted with a glorious head of hair and kept it long. But the baldness gene that runs in the family showed up, and I thought having a hair style that looked like a stapled hula skirt around my head, was not very nice looking. High and tight after that.
Nature is cruel. Don’t add go the misery by looking like a 20 year old bar mop.
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