Downtown Memphis Blog

My girlfriend and I went to breakfast at blue plate this morning (Which was fantastic, as always), and upon leaving, I realized I’d forgotten a flash drive with data I needed for work, and needed to stop back by my apartment.

Just as I walk into my apartment door, my phone rings. It’s my girlfriend, in the car, saying “Bring the Flip Camera! Hurry!”. I did. I get outside to see one of the handful of legless crackheads passed out on the sidewalk. Being a relatively normal occurance, I was like “Meh, not worth it”.

Luckily, my girlfriend wanted to get some vids, and ran down there with my camera. She caught the following:

Just life as usual in downtown Memphis. A legless crackhead flailing about at 9am on a friday.

Before you call me a terrible person for laughing at this (Which I am, btw), that crackhead was a crackhead before losing his legs, and rather than sue the commercial vehicle company that hit him, he settled for a couple thousand bucks and had a $4k crack party. Regardless, the whole situation is at least as comical as it is sad.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC-TV) – Although he marched for civil rights in the 1960’s, Rev. William Owens of Memphis says he’s opposed to a proposed ordinance that would prohibit Shelby County employees from being discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

“We don’t want San Francisco, Shelby County,” he said.

Owens says he’s against giving gays equal employment rights.

“I don’t see where these people are being discriminated against. If so, it’s very isolated,” he said.

Owens and several other ministers plan to hold a news conference Tuesday outside the Shelby County Administration Building in Downtown Memphis.

Although he marched for civil rights, Owens said,”I did not march one inch, one foot, one yard for this type of legislation.”

Shelby County Commissioner Steve Mulroy says he expected the opposition. Mulroy is behind the potentially groundbreaking measure that would not only protect gay employees of the county, but also those who work for county contractors.

“If you’re against my ordinance, then what you’re saying is you believe people ought to be able to discriminate in employment on the basis of sexual orientation,” said Mulroy.”If you think that, you’re entitled to your opinion. But I think it’s profoundly misguided, and I think the tide of history is against you.”

Mulroy says his intent is for the county to protect the employment of gays in the same way African Americans, Hispanics and women are protected from discrimination.

“They want to be treated under the law like everybody else. And who can blame them?” said Mulroy.

Opponents say commissioners will be to blame if the measure passes, and they say they’ll voice their displeasure loudly come election time.

“We’re gonna do everything in our power to see they don’t have a seat on that commission the next time,” said Owens.

Mulroy says he hopes his colleagues on the Shelby County Commission don’t bow to the pressure.

Seriously, is this a bad joke?

I started to type a longwinded retort pointing out all the logical fallacies, but it’s really just too goddamn obvious. How disgusting. I won’t even lower myself enough to make a snide comment. I’m just fucking disgusted.

Story on WMC5

Edit: Ok, one snide comment. If this windbag had been faced with the exact same argument 50 years ago, he would be livid, and with very good reason. For him to somehow justify the systematic mistreatment of any group of people based on anything other than their individual merit is offensive. Thanks for setting the south back 50 years, while also managing to be a raging hypocrite, you fucking idiot fuck. As a heterosexual male with no first hand interest one way or another, this is the only story I’ve read in a very long time that’s made me physically fucking sick.

Congrats, you clueless bigot. It’s not often that someone can say something so fundamentally fucking retarded and actually appear to mean it. I’m impressed with your shining accomplishments in the field of stupidity. I hope everything bad in this world happens to you, and only to you.

Seriously? People need to be told not to kill their children?

It’s not for food, trust me.

I imagine this is what fail and AIDS looks like under a microscope. How utterly frightening.

I don’t care if it makes me a horrible person, I was laughing hysterically hearing a newscaster refer to dude as “Chicken” throughout the story.

Fox 13

Found in a rental car.

I forgot and left it at work, I’ll try to bring it home to rip it tomorrow.

I grabbed a Chicken Philly from Huey’s tonight for dinner, and nearly got raped by a crackhead.

Huey’s basically has three menu items to me, the hueyburger, the chicken philly, and the potato skins. Beef, chicken, or something a little lighter.

I felt like chicken tonight, so I picked up a chicken philly, 86 mayo, lettuce and tomato. I hate mayo, and while I like lettuce and tomato, they have no place on a “Philly”.

Anyway, I picked up my food, and ran into one of the neighborhood crackheads, Willy Lee. Willy is one of the “Good” crackheads, in that he’s willing to work, as opposed to being a professional bum, and he doesn’t try to intimidate people into giving him money. He cleans up some of the bars and takes out trash and such. I’ll try to find a picture of him when I can.

I usually throw Willy a dollar or so, just because he’s entertaining. Last time I saw him I had no cash on me, and told him I would get him next time.

Well I saw Willy, and being in a good mood, and feeling bad because it was fucking cold, I gave him a $5. This resulted in Willy’s gimp ass limping rapidly after me saying “Come here Sig!”, and me screaming “Don’t try to hug me you dirty fucker!”. After I jumped in my car he informed me I was “A bad motherfucker!”, and stopped traffic so I could pull out of my parking spot.

I hope he enjoyed his crack rock. I certainly enjoyed my chicken philly.

Collected on the internet, otherwise I would give credit…

I could go on forever, but I assume you get the point.

So my questions is: What in the hell fuck? I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and assume that skittles, cheetos, McD’s, etc didn’t go to their nearest ghetto, find the goofiest looking motherfucker present, and say, “Soup dawg! I herd u lyke being tacky, so here’s some money to donk out yo ride with our product!”. This is where my confusion sets in.

I’ve no choice but to assume that these people did this to their automobile without compensation or persuasion. What exactly would motivate a person contemplating a new paint job to say “Hmmm, can you do a cheetos motiff? That would fucking pwn!”

Can anyone shed any light on this? I just refuse to believe that any major corporation would see this is a sound marketing strategy. I fail to even begin to understand the thought process involved in doing this to your car on your own free will. Help me. I’ve always had a thirst for knowledge, and there are very few things I can’t work out if given the facts. This utterly baffles me.

If you can help, email me.

Mug shot from her recent arrest. I screengrabbed it from a news broadcast.

I’m scared.