The Atlanta city jail is closing. The downtown jail. Closing because they can't pay for it not because they don't have enough people to lock up. They got lots of folks that need to be behind bars but I guess they will just have to go somewhere else. Anyway, Fulton County is apparently very excited by this news. So excited that they want to buy the jail. They have even more felons to put away, I guess. This is funny to me because another county just outside the perimeter don't even have enough money to keep paying for their police force. They just laid them all off and are hoping for the best. I'm sure that will work out just fine. Good thing the MARTA only goes to Buckhead.
Oh, and the MARTA, Atlanta's public transit is bankrupt.
A funeral home in one of the suburbs has been fined for keeping some bodies unrefrigerated for more than two months. The owner of the funeral home felt the punishment was too harsh. I mean, if he could stand the smell, where's the problem? It's your classic victimless crime. I remember a similar story from South Africa. A funeral home where they kept taking the bodies, promising to bury them or cremate them and instead they just stuck them in their back yard. Eventually, someone complained about the smell and the owners got charged or fined or something. And just like here, they seemed to not quite understand what they had done wrong. The bodies were piled very neatly.
Not far from here, still in north east Atlanta, body parts starting showing up. An arm in this park, a foot in an alley and so on. Eventually, they had a whole person and a murder investigation was under way. As far as I know they never got the guy, assuming it was a guy.
They have been fighting over water for some time here. Water from Lake Lanier, a big man-made reservoir north of the city. It seems the Army Core of Engineers dammed up the Chattahoochee River back in the 50s and made the lake. Now it is a major supply of greater Atlanta's water. The problem is that folks downstream in Alabama and Florida don't like us using all the water. The once mighty Chattahoochee ain't so mighty anymore and farmers and others who enjoy water are unhappy. They showed some farmers from Alabama on the news. They seemed ticked off, though I couldn't really understand what they were saying. Word articulation is much better when you have a full set of teeth. That's not fair or even true. What's the best thing to come out of Alabama? The I-20. Also unfair but possibly true. Anyway, It seems there was never an agreement to use Lake Lanier for drinking water so there's a fight brewing. Governor Sonny Perdue wants to take it all the way to Washington but he forgets that folks in DC don't really care about the south.
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