Up in Smoke

I will relate two stories from the Nashville area in today's post. The first concerns the arrest in Mississippi of Dr. Bruce Levy, Nashville, Tennessee's coroner, who also performs autopsies on a contract basis for the state of Tennessee and state of Mississippi. Dr. Levy allegedly received marijuana in a Magnolia state hotel room. It is sad to see someone on whom law enforcement has relied, a person with evident professional accomplishment, and on whose word people have been imprisoned, squander it all and bring into doubt much of what he said when he testified on the stand. The other report runs into the realm of the bizarre and tragic. In one of the communities that surround Nashville- Gallatin, a bank was robbed yesterday, with one of the armed perpetrators dressed as a leprechaun. A car chase ensued between the robbers and police with shots being exchanged before the gunmen fled on foot. What could have been a humorous story ended in horror as the police were forced to kill the robbers as they tried to affect their escape through a field. There are no earth-shaking political revelations in this post, just meanderings about how one poor decision can tarnish or even end one's life.