I'm goin' to Knoxville...

So... I'm reading Fark and I see a story that I click on about a guy who won't give his freshly washed Mustang to a carjacker. Okaaay.
After that story, I read one from the same paper about a Good Samaritan who saved a cops life. Pretty cool.

Then, the one I read next, just confirms I'm going to hell... or Knoxville.

It's about this woman who's ex-idiot, I mean husband, killed himself and their infant by jumping into a river and drowning them both. This woman is so grateful for what the volunteer rescue squad did, even going so far as to specify this one guy who broke his eardrum and had hypothermia from the search, that she's taking in a bunch of stuff to sell at a yardsale to raise $25,000 for them to have sonar equipment they had to borrow from another squad while searching for her baby.

I think she rocks and so do the members of the rescue squad.

However....

I think the last part coulda been worded just a lil'bit better.

Here are the last three paragraphes, cut and pasted, so I don't frig it up....

When Will died, his mother asked people to donate to the Rescue Squad instead of sending flowers. $6,000 came in from all over the country, but the equipment Kristie wants to buy for her heroes will cost $25,000. It is specialized sonar equipment that the team had to borrow from another department when they searched for Will. Kristie is determined to make up the difference in cost, even though she also hopes the squad never has to use the sonar.

"I hope the equipment has to sit in a corner and draw dust," she says. "I hope no one has to go through this, but I do want them to have it. And I want it to be in honor of William."

The Knoxville Volunteer Rescue Squad is having an open house Saturday, May 15. Any community member can stop by their headquarters on Chilhowee Drive and check out their equipment.

My first thought?
Gee, I guess it's better they waited til now to have that open house, instead of when the incident happened, which was wintertime. That equipment woulda been so much harder to see....

I am sooooo going to hell now.
(Like I wasn't before?)

Later.

Posted by: Stevie at 10:17 PM

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