In the summer of ‘06 the gangsta wanna be who shot a guy in the head behind the Mc Donalds on Knoxville was on house arrest 6 houses away from our house. This upstanding citizen spent his house arrest selling drugs from a lawn chair in the middle of the sidewalk, getting visits from his other thug buddies and bringing a criminal element into our neighborhood. One of the final straws was when this fine citizen was running down the sidewalk (at least he wasn’t in the middle of the street!) shooting at a car that was trying to get away after screwing him in the drug deal. We banded together as a neighborhood and put pressure on the landlord, the family and the police to get this guy out of our neighborhood. After all this he was able to plea bargain and received a sentence of only 8 years! Another slap in the face was that he got time served for being on house arrest. So selling drugs and trying to bring down my neighborhood will help him get out of prison earlier. With his day for day “good” time now he will be out in 2 and a half years!

Since I currently have a raging case of PMS I think I will just start taking the law into my own hands. With my clean record and Kevin Lyons’ plea deals I am sure I’ll only get probation!