I own a car wash on a piece of dirt in west Nashville that will likely sell soon for 1.7 to 2 million..no I’m not rich it has a mortgage on it
Problem is it sits on an outparcel with a Lowe’s and WalMart as anchors
Other businesses too
Jim and Nicks bbq
Oil change
Bojangles
Bear in mind posh Belle Meade is a mile or so away and Hillwood West Meade with multi million dollar homes very close
Eric Church and Allen Jackson live very close too on River road
Yet this is Nashville which mimics Austin and Boulder and we have a huge hobo encampment behind Lowe’s by the banks of the Cumberland
It’s called the Trail
A few hundred meth heads and alkies and crazy folks live back there
They have broken into my back vacuum so much I just turned it off
Brazenly on camera
Lowe’s put up a fence but they go around it
W
Cops would help but city won’t do shite
I ate dinner with my daughter in Murfreesboro last week....
Leafy suburban small city about 35 miles southeast
We ate on the square and we’re going to walk around our Bedford Forrest courthouse one a union soldier tried to burn with prisoners in it in 1863....Forrest dispatched him promptly
Anyhow...bums were sleeping on all the benches all camped out with signs begging or already passed out
I think Lebanon and Dickson Andy other surrounding towns have this too
Franklin won’t let them squat there...the cops will pick them up and take them to a mission in Nashville
We desperately need to bring back institutions for crazy folks who wander our streets
Put drug addict and drunk street people in facilities and they will quit their crap
They want to be on the street
It’s a damn nuisance
And this from someone who routinely helps them
It’s a shame what is happening to our nicest cities and towns. Can’t Trump do something about it?
You’re right, but I believe it is accepted that there isn’t money to treat them; here in the Northeast the closing of facilities is widely blamed for the problem.