JERICHO, ARKANSAS, THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING FOR NEWSWATCHERS has just played its weekly episode. While Firegeezer sleeps, STATter911 trolls the newswires for the overnight reports and Dave discovered the latest from what he calls the replacement show for The Guiding Light that recently went off the air.
Jericho, you will recall, is the small town near Memphis where the police dept. was so corrupt that a judge dismissed every traffic ticket they wrote for the entire month of August. Things came to a head when one of the cops pulled out his pistol inside the courtroom and shot the town’s fire chief in the back because he was one of the people contesting his ticket. (To catch up on this story, enter Jericho in the search box on the right sidebar to read our previous articles.) To add insult to injury, the prosecuter ignored the policeman’s criminal behavior and issued a criminal charge against the fire chief who didn’t do anything.
Now, over the weekend the beleaguered mayor has dismissed the fire chief from his job before he has even recovered from his gunshot wounds. Because of her outrageous behavior, all 18 members of the VFD have walked away from the firehouse and locked the door. Now the town, whose police dept. has already been disbanded, has no fire protection, either.
WPTY-TV Ch. 24 has a good report and an interview with the (former) fire chief in this video:
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